The west likes to rewrite history, erasing the contributions of the Soviet Union’s massive human decency industry in defeating the nazis. Millions of Red Army soldiers died trying to hug it out with enemy forces, finally breaking the genocidal push at Stalingrad through the unstoppable tactic of appealing to shared humanity. The nazi soldiers, so astounded by the soviet commitment to peaceful coexistence with fascists, threw down their arms and collectively marched to work camps where their labor would be put to use rebuilding the societies they’d destroyed.

That dog taught me a lot about life and how to enjoy those perfect summer evenings. Anyway, here’s the worst Asian fusion mayonaise pilaf.

Political power grows from the edge of a $20 katana.

This is a stupid opinion you should keep to yourself.

Yeah, and pacifism is a totally effective defense against nato. It’s worked for so many countries whose leaders weren’t executed or raped to death.

Huh, today I learned they measure released nitrogen to estimate protein content and the tests can’t tell the difference between nitrogen released from melamine and nitrogen from milk protein. Once again so much food analysis is simplified as ‘burn it real hot and look at the smoke.’

At least many people responsible have been prevented from harming orphans again.

We’ve convened a panel and they’ll take 1-3 years to gather information about Balogun’s mental state and whether he acted with malicious intent during the event.

Cenk should stick to his lane normalizing transphobia and laundering imperialism.

It’s really exhausting. I’m so in need of social intimacy and safety but find it rarely breaks through that defensivesness and anxiety. I have people in my life who love me, but they also have hurt me and seem to always misunderstand me, and I’m so coiled and tense it just never seems to let up for long.

I’m pretty sure I experience rejection sensitive dysphoria. So even things that aren’t meant to be mean feel terribly cruel sometimes.

Native speaker, I scored 96, something like 75k. There were a few I didn’t know but figured out from their parts and the available choices. I missed 3 in grandmaster and one in the previous difficulty.

I’m curious how my score would average out over a few attempts.

There are definitely some deep cuts. Like really niche jargon and archaic words.

I’d also suggest that rate of production is a serious element. How fast and at what volume are they able to process the sludge back into a usable state? On the above linked website, their faq identifies at least three different processes and handling methods determined by the state of the sludge. So this isn’t a simple or even expedient process and will be limited by the specific technical and infrastructure demands of the method. If they can start producing a hundred thousand barrels a day from sludge, there remains a significant shortfall to in the refining supply chain which can’t operate efficiently or even at all at reduced thresholds.

The armchair propaganda and meme critic in me thinks this also conflates anti-imperial violence with imperial/settler-colonial violence and perhaps could better communicate the reality in some other way. Violence is necessary in struggles against violent oppression and resistance is not equivalent to ethnic cleansing, genocide, economic siege, or liberal coups.

Is this critical of the anemic ‘no kings’ protest movement or is it the idea that no kings could or ought to include opposition to the war with Iran in its agenda?

Want to take another swing at this? There’s always room for growth and self-criticism.

I’d say if you choose to make money loading the gun of a child murderer, you’re a child murderer.

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I was also amused.

I read a few of those books and watched the show. I always got the feeling there was commentary or criticism about marxism in Seldon’s psychohistory.

I’d love to see an f35 get downed by something other than weather, design flaws, and software bugs.

I’m far more interested in the use and benefit coming from ai developed in China than the finance inflated sci-fi hype of western firms.

Won’t someone think of the landlords!?