"believes that JFK shot himself due to quantum mechanics."
That was a great episode of Red Dwarf!
Find attached an example of such an assassination. It is a YouTube short, and ... well, short.
https://youtube.com/shorts/SM_HP4Ov9Qw?si=teg81IBd3CVz2Di4
Commodus was the son of Marcus Aurelus, who was one of the most highly regarded emperors of ancient Rome. He probably would have bene assassinated sooner, but the following fight over succession was a complete cluster fuck. Everyone saw it coming.
Kings have privileges and real power. They also have responsibilities. See the parable of the Sword of Damocles.
Hey guy. I know that things can look bad, but you can't lose hope!
Just think of that Italian woman who was hitch hiking around the middle east in a wedding dress to promote tolerance and world peace!
I think I can find an article on it.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7344381.stm
(Spoiler: Italian Hitchhiker Artist was raped and murdered in Turkey. See the link)
I would put it to you that actual rape requires social interaction.
I suggest that Wikipedia is infested with people who desperately want to be rapists and predators, but can't get their shit together.
The king is responsible to the barons. If the barons band together then the whole country (probably except the capital) is against the king.
The king is permitted to rule, as long as his rule is beneficial to the barons and the people.
Yes, the king can appoint barons. It is a big deal. It usually means deposing an existing baron and giving away their responsibilities / estates.
It is implicit in the role of monarch that if the king is shitty that they are deposed, removed or murdered because an actual popular resolution is fantastically destructive. See the French revolution.
I am pretty tired of nationalism being conflated with fascism.
You can buy children for very reasonable prices! In rural parts of the Dominican republic you can buy them for less than the cost of the airfare.
The adoption process would be a little more difficult and complex, but parenthood is not without sacrifices.
In 1626, Peter Minuit’s acquisition of Manhattan for trade goods valued at 60 guilders—equivalent to roughly $1,150 today—has become one of the most enduring and debated legends in New York City’s history.
I don't think that the natives thought that they were selling the island in perpetuity. I think they were being nice and offering the Duch a place to live for a while. But it makes a good story.
The TTRPG writers community was (as far as I can tell) the first to fall to the woke mind virus.
It was shortly before the Fantasy / SF publishing industry.
I used to post on RPG.net as my major forum. It would have been 2006 or 2008 or something.
RPG publications are a niche of a niche market. The industry is very incestuous. Industry leaders were already going that way before the takeover; specifically White Wolf, which had a lot of women writers and appealed very strongly to women.
People very much get hired by relationships and reputation. At some point it reached critical mass.
I would argue that the Rules Cyclopedia (published in 1991) is the best version of the rules.
I would further argue that you should play something else. I can think of three fantasy RPGs that are much better, and many more if you don't limit things to the high magic fantasy genre.
Quest Reward: The Island of Manhattan.
So here is the important thing about the discrediting of Ivermectin.
USA law has provisions for approving experimental drugs for use as long as there is no existing, approved drug that is suitable.
For the clot-shot to be fast tracked through the testing and approval process there could be no other suitable or effective treatment.
Normally when a new virus appears (which happens occasionally) then hospitals and clinics around the world run trials of existing drugs. This is ethical, because these drugs are shown to be safe. Even if the drugs do nothing, they will not hurt the patient.
Chances are something will work. Viruses have common ancestors and mechanisms of infection.
A treatment protocol will be devised, and best practice will be shared amongst hospitals.
Hospitals and clinics are pretty good at this. They have been doing it since the 1940s, and if the international medical community is left alone, they can develop effective treatment protocols in a few months. This is what happened for SARS and MERS, both of which are a corona virus.
For Covid 19 any clinic that was investigating a treatment protocol was smeared through the press, even to the point of doctors being brought before the medical board and disbarred.
Clinics were still developing cheap, effective treatment protocols, but they had to do it in secret.
Australia, which has a very effective medical research community was literally forbidden (at a hospital level) from doing anything but following the Pfizer protocols, using Pfizer products.
There was a literal international conspiracy to prevent inexpensive, effective treatments from being developed and used so that Pfizer etc could sell a dangerous, experimental gene therapy treatment as a vaccine.
This could never have happened without the coordinated, complicit participation of the international press at all levels. Everything from the most respected peer reviewed journals to shitty radio talk shows. They all helped roll out a treatment that was worse than useless, while doctors were clearly violating the Hippocratic oath to give the shots.
And the whole thing will be memory holed.
To be fair, Jesus did flip those tables in the temple and scourge the money lenders.
He had a pretty fim view of graft and corruption perverting our public institutions like the temple.
I don't disagree with you. Welfare has been fantastically destructive, especially to the sections of the community it is supposed to help. They are stuck in the welfare trap and are going on to experience intergenerational poverty and fatherlessness.
That said, the opponents to removing the welfare payments are going to scream: "Think of the children! Why do you hate poor women and children? Why do you hate black single mothers!"
In the past, this tactic has been fantastically effective on normies.
A fairly immediate consequence of turning off welfare payment will be taking a bunch of kids from their mothers.
There are a whole subset of strong, independent women (especially in the 13 % demographic) with no job and no job skills. When their kids start to starve, they need to be put in state care.
We can argue why this happened and what kind of state care is best, but right now these kids are literal hostages to continuing welfare payments.
Demolition Panda's Dynamite Crispy Chicken Wings
Ingredients 1 kg (2.2 lbs) chicken wings
1 Tbsp BAKING POWDER
2 Tbsp Spicy Pork Dry Rub
1 tsp coarse salt (plus more to taste)
1 Tbsp butter (melted)
1/3 cup hot wing sauce (e.g. Buffalo Wing Sauce)
Instructions Preheat oven to 230 C (450F) Dry chicken with a paper towel really well. Place the wings in a large bowl. Use poultry sheers or a cleaver to cut off the wing tips and separate the wings into drumettes and winglets. Mix your favorite spicy pork dry rub with BAKING POWDER. Sprinkle baking powder / dry rub mix over the wings. Toss until all wings are evenly covered in dry rub and baking powder. Line a large baking sheet with baking paper. Lay the chicken wings on the lined baking sheet, leaving space between the wings. Place the baking sheet in the oven. Turn the heat down to 220 C (425F) and set the mode to convection. Bake for 30-40 minutes, until the wings are nicely browned. Let the wings rest for 5 minutes. Finish by putting the wings into your air fryer for 3 minutes. Prepare the Buffalo wing sauce by combining the butter and the Frank's hot sauce in a small bowl. I add bourbon BBQ sauce to the Frank's to balance the acid with the sweet and smoky flavor of the BBQ sauce, but you do you. Season the wings with salt. Toss wings with the Buffalo sauce or serve with the sauce on the side.
And that is fine. But it is important for cities to make collective decisions when it comes to infrastructure.
Economically, wealth is generated in cities, because that is where the factories and services are.
You can live a rural life, but you will be a minority and you will miss opportunities to do so.
When it comes to transportation, I would much rather live in Tokyo than LA.
Right now most Americans don't trust big government projects and they don't trust the government to run services like trains. That just means you don't get trains. Privatizing the rail service doesn't work either. The UK tried that, and as a result they have the most expensive train tickets in the world.
Cars and roads are not scalable. You may love your car, but there becomes a maximum city density that they don't work as transport anymore.
Tokyo could not be the size and density it is if everyone had a car.
The longer a city leaves it to install acceptable public transport the more money it will cost when they do and the longer it will take to build.
But I get it. "I'm okay. I'm okay. Fuck you Jack."
Guy, intelligence isn't the only viable survival strategy.
Jellyfish are doing just great, thanks.
Environmental pressure could just as easily select for, say, athletic ability rather than cognitive ability.
It is a relative score on an arbitrary scale.
This is the sort of tyranny that should have politicians' blood running down the streets, ...
Oh yeah? We'll just wait for the citizens of the UK to find their guns shall we? Any moment now they will be able to mount an armed resistance.
Any. Moment. Now.
/s
But sometimes he is more of a massive faggot than others.
Do you really credit that people thought they could become a genuine Scottish lord by owning a single square meter of forest?
Seriously?
You know, a list of people who were genuinely stupid enough to believe that and paid money to that end would be worth quite a bit. Just think of all of the possibilities.
Bring back the biff!
Woke: The belief that:
Society is divided into oppressor and oppressed class along the lines of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality, etc. Via ...
Hegemonic power; That is the dominant group's control of ideas, stories, etc.; The Narrative
As the privileged people are blind to the effects of Hegemonic Power we must defer to the Lived Experience of the Marginalized. To ...
Dismantle unjust system.