Skua

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Skua,

I don't think this is really a good assessment. Plenty of movies then looked terrible and plenty now look amazing. The recent Dune films look absolutely phenomenal. It's a matter of how the films use the technology available, whether that means miniatures with camera tricks or it means completely CG stuff

Skua,

It makes a fair bit of sense for someome that already speaks English to want to claim asylum in an English-speaking country, and a lot of people already speak at least some English. They've got a far better chance of being able to make a life for themselves if they can already converse with everyone.

Seinfeld slams woke student audiences: “Back when I dated high school girls, they found me hilarious!” (www.thebeaverton.com)

HOLLYWOOD – With his Netflix comedy film Unfrosted debuting to abysmal reviews, 70-year-old comedian Jerry Seinfeld blames the failure on “extreme left, and PC college campus audiences”, unlike in his heyday, when the teenage girls he dated were fans of his comedy.

Skua,

I'm technically not on lemmy but I will enthusiastically throw my vote behind the TBBT-is-shit cause

To be honest though it's still just a shit TV show. There are plenty of those around. It's not woth giving them much thought

Skua,

The first Japanese embassy to America even landed in San Francisco in 1860

Skua,

Gazprom went from a profit of 1.2 trillion roubles in 2022 to a loss of 630 billion in 2023, so I'd say that the current effots are already paying off too. If the EU can do more, fantastic

Skua,

Having used all three types a fair bit, holy shit yes a good induction hob is leagues above the old electric coil ones

Skua,

Not quite candy but I think it's close enough to count here: Co-op's own brand salt & vinegar kettle crisps. They're so vinegary it hurts. It's wonderful.

Skua,

I will give you a heads up that if you buy vinegar powder (acetic acid, basically) in an attempt to make your own, be very careful. I made salt & vinegar popcorn once, but the seasoning was too loose on the surface of the popcorn and if i breathed in at all while eating I got a hefty dose of burning lungs

Skua,

I will have to preface this with the fact that I have not read any of his books, but former British politician Rory Stewart is one of the people that comes to my mind when reading your description. I don't think that he comes to the right policy positions, of course, but whenever I listen to him he does seem to at least have a degree of empathy for all people. He seems to at least generally see the problem even if I think that his solution wouldn't work. He has an effective way with words in interviews and his writing is generally very well reviewed too.

Skua,

I'm not sure that makes him not right wing, surely that just means he wasn't the kind of right wing that succeeded in the political landscape of the UK in the past 20ish years? His voting record is generally in favour of less regulation (outside of a few issues), lower taxes, military intervention, isolation from the EU. He's pro-environmentalist, but that hasn't always been an exclusively left-wing thing. Similarly, anarchists and Marxist-Leninists are both left wing, even if they wouldn't necessarily get along well in a single political party together

Skua,

Fair enough. The whip is a reasonable point to bring up, though I would suggest that if it bothered him that much he wouldn't have stayed in the party for ten years. After all, he had switched parties beforehand. I get where you're coming from though.

Skua,

No

Skua,

Seems like average Boris stuff, unfortunately. Particularly unfortunate since he was Prime Minister for a while.

Skua,

A few reasons.

  • Using any of them in war is far too likely to lead to escalation. Someome on the receiving end of it doesn't necessarily know what they've been attacked with, and seeing that the other side is using chemical weapons will retaliate with their own more serious ones. Civilians are unlikely to bring their own nerve gas to protests, so this isn't a concern in civilian contexts.

  • Killing your enemy is usually necessary in war, but torturing them isn't. As such, using weapons that are only intended to cause pain is just wanton cruelty rather than simply a means to the ends of winning the war. Police theoretically don't want to be killing or permanently disabling people, so again this isn't applicable to civilian contexts.

  • They are wildly uncontrollable. The carveouts for civilian use of tear gas and the like in the Geneva conventions require them to disperse quickly because of this.

It's not unfounded. To be clear I don't think that police should be allowed to use such weapons, but there are reasons that it's considered more serious in warfare.

Skua,

You seen their estates? They're the half corporation

Skua,

To a degree, but recent years have definitely shown the flaws of the EU model as it currently is. I do have some faith that the EU can and will reform itself to overcome those problems, as it is still a very young entity in the grand scheme of things and is generally quite effective legislatively. Things like Brexit and Hungary's obstructionism show that it is currently far too easy for governments within the EU to scapegoat it for local problems, and the Syrian migrant crisis really tested the unity of it.

Skua,

Handwrite the URL of this post and put it through their letterbox

Skua,

I'm a bit confused about what it's for. Are they intending on expanding anything from the original series? If not, what does it offer over the original?

To be clear here I'm not saying it's bad. I have no idea. I haven't watched it and don't care all that much for the original either (which, to clarify again, does not mean I think the original is bad, it was just never special to me personally). I just don't understand the intention.

Skua,

I fucking hate how we measure long distances in miles, but short ones in metres, but human heights in feet, and buy cooking ingredients in grams but measure them in ounces, and human weights are in fucking stone, and liquids are in litres unless its milk or beer which are in pints, and...

Skua,

Apparently some interpretations paint war as specifically being civil war. So if you're an early Christian, war is when you're fighting your neighbours and conquest is when Rome arrived. That was about 150 years before Revelation is thought to have been written, so I'd expect plenty of stories of it had survived

Skua,

An extension https://i.imgur.com/PFt3LTj.png

Skua,

Well the bombs explode after he drops them, so I think he can quite safely say he has destroyed those bombs

Skua,

It may well be that you loving spicy food is protecting you. I imagine the exit hole can develop a tolerance in just the same way that the entrance hole can

Skua,

It's worth remembering that WW2 was an existential threat to the Soviet Union and most of the people living in it. This war isn't. See how the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan turned out.

And, of course, Ukraine was also part of the Soviet Union. Russians weren't the only ones fighting the Nazis on the Eastern Front

Skua,

Probably would have been fine, honestly. There is at least one known example of not just humans, but neanderthals successfully treating a broken arm over 100,000 years ago. So apparently we had that particular bit of medicine down long before even pottery or shoes

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