At this point Putin’s goal is pure personal survival. He needs to not lose the war because that would make him look weak, which is very dangerous for a dictator. To keep himself alive and in power he is willing to throw any amount of Russian soldiers into the meat grinder.
All South Korean male citizens are required to perform 18-21 months of military service.
While this is true, the fact that war would be a bad idea doesn’t necessarily mean it won’t happen. People make bad decisions all the time.
If politicians want people to have more children, maybe they could do something to make having kids less ruinously-expensive.
There is no red line. Netanyahu could literally kill and eat a Palestinian baby on live TV and nothing would change.
it does seem excessively lurid to suggest, without direct evidence, that they have been raped in captivity for the past several months
But you’re just going to do it anyway?
The worst thing about the campus protests is that there are no universities left in Gaza.
Note the framing: it’s the PROTESTS that are creating the rifts, not the support for genocide. Everything would be fine if the plebians sat down and shut up.
Lol, no one’s putting a gun to people’s heads to make them act bigoted. If your response to being accused of racism is “Oh, yeah? I’ll show you racism!” then you’re just showing your true colors.
Good thing Ukraine isn’t fighting the USSR, then.
I’m trying to get into Daggerfall. I probably wouldn’t have got past character creation without a guide, and I died an embarrassing number of times in the intro dungeon, but once I got to town and figured out how to pick up quests things started to come together. We’ll see how far I get.
Hegemony: Wars of Ancient Greece
I played it years ago when it came out and it’s still really good. It’s an indie grand strategy game with low production values but a game play loop I find very satisfying. The fact that it’s played on a realistic map of ancient Greece adds a lot of flavor and I love how the geography actually has important implications for strategy.
Giving a for-profit corporation direct access to your brain sounds like a great idea with no downsides whatsoever. I love the thought of worrying about my brain implant having a glitch or facing planned obsolescence.
Edit: OH God I actually read the article and this thing connects to exterior devices. Imagine your brain literally being hacked.
To be specific, this is a pilot program, with the full launch coming later.
Nothing to see here, folks, just Elon Musk, business genius at work.
Technically the vegan thing is possible if someone figures out a way to make lab-grown meat work. Definitely more realistic than a non-violent Nazi.
Oh, yes, please do. Just put that bullet in the skull of Twitter’s zombified corpse and end its suffering forever.
I guess it makes sense that Dropbox in particular would be cool about this.
No it isn’t. The Democrats haven’t had their convention yet.