Russia is happy with a warmer world. Their land will become more temperate, they’ll get a shipping passage up north. And of course the oligarchy will get richer. Gazprom their state owned and run oil and gas companies is one of Russia’s main economic drivers.
To the curious what these mean: a phenylalanine(F) is changed to a leucine(L) and an arginine® is changed to a Threonine(T). These changes occur at the 456th and 346th amino acids in the protein (I’m assuming the “spike” protein). How these changes actually matter to viral infection and spread is mostly unknown but these variants are most prominent in people actually going to their doctor or the hospital (as no one else is likely to test anymore).
Hi, my name is Khan and I am the person behind Devabhumi. I am of Indian origin, and I have always been interested in non-European rpg settings. There is such a treasure trove of untapped stories, monsters, and legends in Indian Culture, which can provide fresh and unique content for your campaigns. Devabhumi is a high fantasy...
As a fellow brown dnd player I’m interested. I think it would help to have a snippet of lore though. I couldn’t find one at a glance, though your maps seem nice.
I’m also curious if you reworked equipment. Dnd considers pretty much all non-European equipment (weapons, shields, armor) to be “exotic” and is therefore barred from many standard classes. Obviously a dm could also rule on this but I’m curious.
tl;dr - Black man driving his dad’s BMW is detained for being suspicious because he doesn’t look like the sort of person who drives that car. He is subject to a rough arrest as his mother watches. Gatineau police insist there was no racial profiling.
Hard to tell how much Biden will lose. He’s definitely not liked but a lot of the “not going to vote because Palestinian genocide” is probably trolls (likely Russian/Chinese). Things would be worse for Israel and Ukraine under Trump and they know it. I’m more interested in whether Dems can be shifted further left to stop the genocide, help Ukraine more, and get some basic rights back.
Trumps’ base is still loyal but I think many non-extremists are just fucking tired of him and his ilk. His base is also old and more Rs than Ds died by not vaccinating.
More weapons and egging the IDF on, not giving even the aid they get now. No air drops, no “red line” for ground invasion and full eradication. Possible US military involvement. Not even verbal reprimands about hostage killing and war crimes. Strong pressure on other governments to support Israel “or else”.
Needing to support Israel was one of the first things the house GOP used to prevent aid for Ukraine, requiring them to be tied together. It is already horrendous but Trump and the GOP would take making it worse a challenge.
Murder on both sides, less murder on one side more murder on the other side. When those are the options I’ll pick less murder.
Israel lobbies both sides and owns more of the GOP than they do Dems. Look at the votes, look at what they say, look at their funding. The GOP uses support for Israel to antisemitism the same way as saying " I have a black friend" is to racism. Most Dem voters no longer support what Israel is doing, as originally retaliation against Hamas made sense. As that turned from anti-hamas with some collateral damage into a genocide support by Dems has continued to reduce. Most GOP voters still support Israel (according to various polls). Pro-Israel dems have also been primaried in a number of races (e.g. against members of “the squad” who are against the genocide). The GOP continues to support Israel “getting on with it” and the “settlers”. If it was just for show by the GOP it wouldn’t have needed to be added to the final aid bill that passed. The GOP and conservative/bought Dems did similar things back when Obama was president to prevent support for Palestinians.
And since the GOP doesn’t care about brown people there will be worse if Trump wins.
And then you’ll also have a Ukrainian genocide at the same time as Trump withdraws and vetos any support going there. So double less murder better than more murder.
I would also point to the recent Republican bill that stops Biden from preventing or slowing weapon shipments to Israel something he had used to prevent a ground invasion.
At a societal level young people arent getting the benefits of their work. We’re getting what is paid for. They’re paying those old guys pensions+benefits but their own has been cut to the marrow. Consumers pay isn’t going to them. And good fucking luck to any of them trying to start up against behemoths both local and national that can nip them in the bud before they become competitive.
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Hi, my name is Khan and I am the person behind Devabhumi. I am of Indian origin, and I have always been interested in non-European rpg settings. There is such a treasure trove of untapped stories, monsters, and legends in Indian Culture, which can provide fresh and unique content for your campaigns. Devabhumi is a high fantasy...
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tl;dr - Black man driving his dad’s BMW is detained for being suspicious because he doesn’t look like the sort of person who drives that car. He is subject to a rough arrest as his mother watches. Gatineau police insist there was no racial profiling.
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