Malazan Book of the Fallen and all associated works! Bonus points if I can forget the plot and remember all non-spoiler lore. My one complaint with those is going to the wiki to refresh my memory on something and going down a rabbit hole.
Movies and TV too.
Yes, those tankies are twisted, bring unable to support communism without making excuses for a brutal dictator.
So surely you must appreciate someone capable of criticizing that brutal dictator without smearing communism in the process, right?
Why would you see a conversation about a brutal dictator and jump in to talk about how he was a communist? Don’t you think it might be people like you that encourage tankies to reflexively disagree with any criticism of Stalin?
If you can’t have a conversation about Stalin’s crimes without someone erroneously bringing communism into it maybe that’s why frustrated communists often defend the indefensible.
Well, have a nice day then. I genuinely hope you find something you do care about today.
And yet, here this person is, not incorrectly using Stalin to say communism is bad. He is criticizing Stalin on his merits, or lack thereof, and not using one person to disparage communism.
You are one tying Stalin’s crimes to communism.
Then why bring communism into a critique of a dictator concerning his methods of control?
But he wasn’t criticizing communism, or advocating for capitalism. He was criticizing a dictator and saying he prefers democracy.
Unless you think communism can’t exist outside of a brutal dictatorship.
If someone ever finds themselves in a situation where they feel the need to say that they don’t see themselves as a racist…
Depends what you mean by work. Before I finally quit for good, I had several attempts that failed. If I could drive for more than 30 seconds without passing a place where I could get smokes in less than a minute, I’m pretty sure one of the earlier attempts would have stuck. I sure as hell wouldn’t have engaged in any black market activity to get them.
I’m not in favor of restricting other people’s choices due to my lack of willpower, so I’m not in favor of bans. But if your definition of working is a very large percentage drop in smokers, it might work despite adding tobacco to the black market.
It would certainly be a lot harder to get pack-a-day addicted. It would probably be a more occasional indulgence for those that did get them.
From our perspective, sure. But we wouldn’t know if it was stopped and started running again, or if it was reverted to a previous state.
WTF? Do I have to allow shit in my car and phone to start tracking me to provide evidence in my favor when some ai decides it has “tracked” me? The only reason this lady got out of it without getting a lawyer and going to court is she allowed all the bullshit in her phone and car that I block. And if she didn’t have it, what would have happened in court?
Not surprised, I just clicked on the first inflation calculator that came up. I think it was the BLS CPI calculator.
And I only did it in dollars from December of '21 until now. Converting back to shillings, either in '21 or Dickensian times, before bringing it forward to today could result in a big difference due to the charging exchange rate between the pound and the dollar.
That was from December of '21. It would be $15.69 now.
Hmmm, yes, what a coincidence.
It is though. Our eyes just aren’t good at seeing desaturated orange.
The fuck you on about?
The Wikipedia article starts with two paragraphs accurately defining the term, then in the third paragraph above the drop-downs mentions the criticisms. Then two drop-down sections, Solutions and Criticisms, are almost entirely given over to all the ways various people have refuted this.
What do you want, a big flashing red banner at the top that says “This Concept is Bullshit”? I don’t think you understand how Wikipedia works.
The percentage of people that would be just as happy with their neighbour having less as they would be with themselves having more is shocking and depressing. It’s all about comparisons. Crabs in a bucket.
Brown Sugar
A lot of that album was pretty subversive but hidden behind upbeat rock. The olds didn’t realize what the kids were listening to because they just heard pop rock.
If I played a set against Serena there is a decent chance I get one point.
She will hit 12 aces/unreturnable serves and 12 return winners. That’s going to happen. But during that she could double fault or miss one return. She’s not going to be trying that hard, playing me definitely isn’t going to put her “in the zone.” And my serves will be so weak and pathetic compared to what she’s used to that she’ll have to generate more pace for those winners than she normally would. I like my chances of one going long or wide.
Now, if the question is “could you hit a winner against Serena,” lol fuck no.
My grandparents house built just after ww2 had, what was for a long time, a standard two car garage. Enough room for two land yachts from the 70s, lawn care implements and various other stuff and you could still open the car doors all the way and walk around. My parents’ house built in the 70s was the same. It’s more recent construction in built up areas where they are shrinking. They’ve been getting smaller as developers try to cram more liveable sqft on smaller amounts of land.
HOAs maybe? Mine would lose their shit if people started having these things “visible over the porch wall.”
Edit: Article says it’s for regulations about putting power back into the grid.