Cyber Empires (PC), Shadowrun (Genesis), Betrayal at Krondor (PC).

I don’t want anyone to have access to nuclear weapons, since you asked.

But the reality is that some countries, including Israel and the United States, already have them. These two countries are currently engaged in military and terroristic activity in multiple international venues. So if that’s the rules that the big boys are playing with, and then someone else comes along and considers whether they might want to join the party too, your question is I think irresponsible. What you should have been asking is, what is likely to keep the Iranian people safer, nukes or no nukes?

In Palestine and Israel and Iran, it’s fine to look at the governments and say how bad they are, and you may well be right, or maybe not, I don’t know. But we can look at the people whose lives are being destroyed or permanently ended and wish that those numbers went down. If the administrations are full of evil jerks and they stay in power but the death count drops, that’s still a good thing.

They knew it would happen. I don’t believe for a second anyone didn’t see this happening.

Your argument is a straw man, isn’t it? Of course people can say “you voted for it, you deserve it, what the fuck were you thinking” and also say “come join the protest next week if you actually found your sense of human decency”. That is all perfectly consistent.

When informed adults whine about what they predictably lost based on their own bad decisions, of course their complaints will fall on deaf ears. But if they want to take action to make things better, nobody will get in their way.

They’re lying. They weren’t tricked. Trump openly and repeatedly showed how he felt about immigrants of all kinds. Everyone knew it, everyone knows it, everyone will always know it.

What actually happened is that these people decided to focus on other things. They told themselves a story about how bad the Democrats are, perhaps, which isn’t that hard because there are so many dirty politicians in Washington.

Also, even immigrants can be racist. It’s easy enough for someone to think that the other group of “bad” minorities will be targeted, not their own, because they too want someone to spit on. The same thing is true for many poor white MAGA voters too, right? Trump’s policies are devastating for rural America, but if you’d rather have hate than healthcare, you’re getting what you voted for.

It’s not we that have become evil. I think it’s imperative that people properly consider who is doing the evil shit.

Many years ago I was visiting some country in Central America, and they were not angry that I was American even though the American government had done horrible things to their country, because they knew that I had no control over what those crazy motherfuckers did.

And that doesn’t mean that everyone is powerless, that we shouldn’t try to make a difference. That’s a different conversation.

When you say most countries, which countries are you talking about?

And if you’re wondering where the US goes for help, I’m not sure what you mean, but there have been a variety of peacekeeping missions and wars over the past few decades where other countries worked alongside the United States. Whether you think those military operations were justified is a different question, but if you’re looking for which countries worked together, you can easily find out by browsing Wikipedia for 20 minutes.

I love the blind comment by the guy. He says people are sick of drama about what’s happening inside the DNC. Obviously almost nobody in the country gives one flying fuck about that. We all care what the DNC does, not have they have little power disputes.

To be more precise, we care that the DNC doesn’t give a damn for the average American, and they’ve shown no signs of improving for the last 20+ years.

That’s what they’re banking on, but we know that eventually they will f*** it up and lose everyone.

Probably the pipes get ugly if the plumber is trying to install 11s and 22s. Probably they will have a different idea.

Right, and on the other hand they are risking state prison.

If they are acting illegally, they could in theory face state charges for assault and battery. In theory. Because they have no arrest powers. Maybe. Right? That’s the tricky point.

So they would have to be super confident to not find out the scope of their authority.

The article is also full of bullshit and it gets basic history wrong. The agreement was never made, but to the extent it exists anyway, it was never supposed to be about a monopoly that’s destroying shit. Once upon a time, not even very long ago, there were competing search engines.

I know tech writers want to write stories that sound fancy, but if they don’t know the facts and the history then they need to find someone to proofread their work more carefully.

And maybe that’s okay, isn’t it?

Protests turn into riots when the police wanted to, exactly then, and very rarely before that point.

We can blame the officials. Don’t let the heckler’s veto work. It’s murder of course, but it’s also bullying. And capitulation only makes it worse next time. They’ll always have lunatics with guns.

Why? That question always has multiple answers. Are you asking for a historical timeline? That might be the true story, but it also might not feel compelling.

Above all else, remember that Reddit feels many sources of pressure. They want money and users, but they also need to limit spam, and they don’t wanna piss off the rich stock holders, either.

qpdf is handy for merging PDFs. Command line but quick to learn for most usage.

I don’t think we can accept your argument, because in point in fact Hong Kong was an independent country. Certainly trying to disagree but now we’re getting into a definition question, but if that’s going to stop us from applying the proposed principle, then we can do that in every situation.

Well no, it’s not, because they have multiple monopolies. So we should blame them and blame government for not stopping them.