It is the summer solstice, which is the longest day and shortest night.
Equinoxes are in spring and autumn, where the day and night are of equal length. Spring Equinox is a fertility festival; bunnies and eggs represent fecundity and new life respectively.
Autumn equinox is a harvest festival.
Winter Solstice is the shortest day and longest night in midwinter, and that is a festival to return light and life to the world.
It follows that the target audience do not know anything about submarines.
We can deduce the targets of this psi op from the context. It seems that normies are almost crushingly ignorant about basic physics.
We are in furious agreement.
Still, the Punisher is wonderful as both a thought experiment and as a parable. Even as an idea the Punisher frightens the living shit out of Socialists.
Frank would shrug and tell you that when God wants to turn up and do the job, then he'll help.
The character of the Punisher sharply underscores the difference between policing and warfare. Frank is a soldier, and he uses the skills and tactics of warfare to find and remove the enemy. Reform has failed and these are evil people and he is removing them.
In continuity Frank has literally been sent to hell for his murders. He came back and got on with his job. Damnation holds no fear for him. His actions are selfless.
I don't believe Frank is right. Society works because almost all individuals want to be good and follow the rules. The Justice system is flawed but history has shown that it is better than any other yet tried.
Yet all that breaks down if even a small minority decides they don't care to play by the rules. If even as much as 5% of society abandons law, then society will collapse. We can see that already happening in Chicago and Portland.
So now what?
That was the massive difference between the Punisher and Microchip.
The Punisher is a moral absolutist who doesn't believe reform is possible. Frank catalogs bad guys, makes a list, and then puts them in body bags.
Microchip is all about compromise. That is why he is working with an serial murder like Frank. Microchip armed and equipped Frank, gave him access to broad reaching intelligence sources and ... sometimes suggests targets for the Punisher; who sometimes might agree to kill them.
If Microchip wasn't working with the Punisher he would be working with CIA black bag operations or Mossad. He might even have found a gang to wipe out all of the others. Microchip knows that there is no such thing as an omelet without breaking eggs.
The were very different characters, and I really enjoyed the contrast.
Besides, sometimes Microchip was shown to be a cold blooded bastard too.
More to the point, "Smart Meters" can give a detailed record of power use, which can be analyzed to show power usage room by room. With access to a "smart power meter" and a database to for comparison, an enterprising soul can tell when you are in the living room watching TV and how many slices of toast you had for breakfast that morning.
It is inevitable that "smart" power meters will be used for incredibly detailed, ubiquitous surveillance.
Just wait until Australia votes in a literal "House of Lords" style body that must be consulted before any law is passed; Eye-watering salaries and only appointment available to blacks.
And as it will be in the constitution, it is never, ever going away. Literal appointed government positions to candidates from three percent of the country by race, able to block any legislation until they have given their "advice".
Because "restorative justice" or something.
This one is okay, but it needs a fried egg.
It is worse than "bleeding money", they are down to a cash reserve of 10.2 Billion. That is enough to run Disney for a little over a month.
If there was a problem with their banking loans (injunction etc) then Disney would be literally bankrupt next month.
Nah, mate.
Take your tongue on tour and eat in Australia.
You can leave out the pineapple if you want. I won't judge you. Beetroot is key to an authentic Aussie burger. It will flat-out change your life.
Lets not downplay why we are mad.
The gaming press works for the Gamers. The Gamers pay their bills. In the past it used to be by literally buying their magazines, but now it is by providing them with a target for their advertising. It is because the gaming press has an audience that they can exist.
The gaming press used to be Gamers. They were passionate about games and got into the the job to write about something they love.
During GamerGate we, the Gamers, discovered that game writers were not gamers, they literally hated us, and they were conspiring to ruthlessly manipulate us in backroom email lists.
It isn't that games journalists were not talking about games (they had been doing crap reporting for years) or that they sold out; they had done that before, see the Dorito Pope or Advertising $ for game reviews.
No, it was that it was revealed to the audience that the gaming press hated our fucking guts. They saw controlling what we Gamers think as the way to gate-keep an entire multi-billion dollar industry and skim money off the top. They despised us for not being leftoids, and they despised us even more for being vital to their own job.
The Swedish movie is good. Ove (appears) to hate everyone. A gay Middle-Eastern guy is brought round to his house by a friend. Gay dude has been kicked out of home and needs a place to stay.
The Swedish have been cool with gay people for more than 60 years. Ove won't turn his back on a young guy in a jam, even if they are very different.
It turns out that they both have more in common than they first thought. Ove apricates good cooking (his wife was a wonderful cook); Middle-Eastern guy has a family tradition of good food.
It wasn't a huge part of the movie. It was a turning point for Ove, the character, because he had to choose between being grumpy and hurting someone. Whatever Ove has done has never really hurt anyone. He is just angry to be without his wife, and he has pushed everyone away.
People should give the original Swedish movie a chance. It has a certain (low budget) charm as a character study. It is interesting to see this view of small town Swedish life.
Changes going forward to new vehicles off the production line were really inexpensive.
The issue was to fix cars that had already been finished required a recall. The factory recall was to put in a piece of polycarbonate between the bolts and the fuel tank.
The recall would require hours of work by a mechanic per car to install the additional plastic plate. Ford made some (fairly accurate) predictions as to how many fatal crashes there would be, and decided to settle every case instead.
It was cold blooded mathematics and a PR disaster when the documents were inevitably leaked.
Farm Worker: "Ah comrade inspector! You will be pleased! We have grown so many potatoes that if we put them into a pile they would reach the feet of god!"
Political Officer: "Comrade, watch your language! You know that we have cast off the shackles of religion! God is imaginary"
Farm Worker: "That is okay. So are the potatoes."
So, like a good commie, he sends political dissidents to the gulag? As a result the structure of politics and morality is unchallenged?
I mean ... he is true to type.
No, it is actually: "Immigrants do the jobs Americans won't pay for." Which is slightly different.
Campaign finance would be my #1 pick. How many millions in literal bribes did the "Clinton Foundation" take?
Etc etc.
You are the unicorn of well-greased mustelids. Enjoy it.
Now correct for gender within the demographic.
Johnny Cage is the ego that walks like a man.
He has technical skill and he works out hard. That shouldn't help much against literal superhuman soldiers or supernatural creatures who were born to fight.
Johnny's knows in himself that he is the best! "How could this cyborg killing machine beat me? I'm Johnny Cage!"
His ego is so huge, his attitude so bombastic that he has pushed himself past any kind of sane human limit!
I am not sure that relaxed, deadpan Karl Urban could pull that off.
Was your product the Gruntmaster 6000?
You are no match for my godspeed, henshitsu mono! Make your time!
The release calendar for the year is kept up to date at sites like https://myanimelist.net/
It isn't that hard to keep up to date on the genre and quality of an expected release.
Everything worth watching gets fan subs.
I am not going to tell you how to enjoy your hobby, but it is not a huge effort to check the buzz and watch a show on a streaming site. It is about as hard as watching Netflix.
It is gendercide.
FtM troons can stop the hormone therapy and still be fertile for the first ... five (?) years or so.
Lots of them detrans in that time. They are permanently changed, and probably will be unhappy forever, but they can still procreate.
Castration is forever.
I really admire Peter the Great and I like that St Petersburg still bears his mark. I'd love to walk through the streets and talk to the locals.
No one on earth tells stories like the Russian people. They have a grip on dark humor that no one else can match.
I have been told by a couple people that learning Russian is worth it, just for the literature.