It's a big club, but you ain't in it
The sooner you internalize that, the sooner you will realize just how insidious is the enemy we are fighting
The entire point of us saying it is to point out their hypocrisy and shut them down.
We don't actually give a shit about "My body, My choice". The actual answer is "My Choice", period, and that's all. We don't have to give any reasons because we're not slaves, we're free men, so fuck off with you bullshit, you totalitarian dickheads.
The only reason we use their slogan is to make them shut up.
It's actually kinda hilarious to watch them fail to understand this.
Since when was "whining" considered gendered?
Dogs whine. I'll let you figure out her thought process from there.
I say that like I have some mysterious understanding of what she means, but I don't, I'm hoping you figure it out and can explain it to me because she's batshit.
that's a bingo
Chapter 1 is an introduction and jumps right into action. Chapter 2 then flashes way back and tells Johnnie's story of how he decided to join up in high school. Chapter 3 is where basic training starts, and the early training portion of the book continues through chapter 6, with a significant moment coming near the end of that chapter. 7-9 detail later training after the cadre has been formed and all the fluff has washed out. 10 & 11 detail Johnnie's first few drops that take place before Chapter 1 and you finally catch back up to real time by Chapter 12.
So if I were structuring a reading list with the intent of discussing the book, I would break it into those sections. Not coincidentally, each of those sections has a pretty specific lesson he tries to impart.
1&2 - Discuss the nature of war and the efficacy of violence as a tool. Touch on how young men are motivated.
3-6 - The importance of volunteerism, discipline, and the necessity of punishment as a training tool. Talk about how effective training is sometimes indistinguishable from torture and how that relates to volunteerism. Discuss how the world in which we live is not even close to a complete picture. Examine the concept of value and how and why it is applied.
7-9 - Discipline, Duty, and Responsibility. When you read it you will know what to talk about.
10-11 - Esprit de Corps and a return to the concept of value
12 - This is a long chapter that deserves its own discussion. In my view, the most important point it makes is, despite the entire book being very much a screed against Communism, that there is a way that you can implement a government so as to get close to the stated goal of Communism by creating a strict filtering mechanism for those who are to govern. Compare the failures of all the several types of governance in history to the structure posited by the book, and further compare that to the structure utilized by the Bugs (Hint: It's Communism and it works brilliantly for a very specific reason).
13 & 14 - Chapter 13 is essentially one giant action set-piece designed to bring all the lessons from the rest of the book together and is essentially Heinlein's proof of his prior theses. Discuss how all the lessons interact and how or why they can/cannot work in our society today. 14 is just a nice bow on the story.
This is a relatively short book, s you can easily combine some sections, but I would keep 1-2 as an intro for sure. You could then do 3-9 since that group of chapters is the "training" section of the book. You could also combine 10-14, although those are longer chapters and there is quite a bit of philosophical meat in there.
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress should be required reading for basically everyone, but especially for military and now Space Force.
It basically justifies the existence of a Space Force by itself. Sitting at the top of Earth's gravity well is the most powerful position in humanity.
You can read the first three chapters in about an hour unless you are a super slow reader. If you insist on splitting things up, go with the first two, not three, then do 3 through about 8 or 9.
Also be aware that Colonel DuBois is basically Heinlein putting his own ego into the book. Which is not a bad thing at all.
Fear of getting the virus and of losing freedoms
You are the ones who should be deathly afraid of trying to take my freedom over a cold
The problem with your argument is that you're at the wrong point in the process. Both of those children had equal opportunity when they were born. Along the way, their parents squandered those opportunities or took advantage of them.
The point of equality of opportunity isn't that everything is equal at all points in time, it's that, all other factors being equal, people have the same opportunities.
Most importantly, it's about the government not playing favorites in any way.
Equality of opportunity, i.e. being left alone to your own devices to succeed or fail on your own.
We have understood the difference between equality of opportunity (i.e. true equality) vs. equality of outcome (i.e. equity, communism, etc.) for thousands of years.
The first allows the cream to rise to the top and built the western world.
The second stifles excellence out of a desire for everyone to end up equal because no matter how hard you try, you can't make dumb lazy people successful, so the only way to force equality is to punish the successful.
I wasn't sure if that was a light on the wall or a light on the train shining on the wall/water. The video quality is too low.
That's what I thought, but if you look out the window it looks like the subway is still in motion
Yeah, I would prefer Satisfactory having enemies you had to fight off and you're right, the vanilla interface makes late game very tedious, but the modding community has pretty well solved that one.
I kind of expect that once all the content is in the game the devs will work on deciding which mods need to be incorporated. I can't imagine them leaving this game without any sort of copy/paste mechanism. Even if they do, though, PC players can mod it in and it makes larger and more complex factories much less tedious.
So much so that I agree with you in general. I don't think I could play it without a few specific mods that speed up building. Once you have laid out a 70x50 factory floor with a single click, you are never going to go back to doing it all individually.
It's great, but it wasn't for me. I just couldn't ever engage with the steampunk mechanics like transferring items one at a time from a conveyor belt with a claw. It just never clicked with me.
Satisfactory scratches my itch for an automation game.
You're always going to be buying that game at full price, he refuses to put it on sale.
That was the first clue I got that he was based.
It worked great for Hunie-Pop deciding to cater to late-teen men, not so much for most companies deciding to cater to Wokeness, though.
That's because porn always sells. Wokeness, not so much.
I mean, why wouldn't they? $300 a week is literally what you earn at minimum wage. Yeah, you can work harder and earn more, but if you're low skill, you might make what, $10/hr? So basically you work 40 hours a week to make an extra $100?
Fuck that, I'd sit on the couch too. Which is what all these governors (and anyone with a brain) has been saying for ages.
And it's fucking obvious, too. Just drive around. Every single low wage, low skill job opening is empty. All of them.
I just stopped to get some fast food on the way home from a weekend trip yesterday and it took 20 minutes at Taco Hell to get a half dozen burritos for my family. The cashier apologized for the wait and told me it was because they had an influx of brand new employees now that the unemployment ended.
In other words, economics didn't magically change just because there was a virus, just like we all said it hadn't, and socialism still fucking sucks.
Gary Oldman is a fucking chameleon.
Tom Hardy has impressed the shit out of me lately as well.
Whoever added the beard widened her face a bit too, so she doesn't look like this in the actual game
I'm gonna let you think about what you just said for a minute.
Where does the blond hair and blue eyes come in?
Yeah, man, we pretty much all know it's not real. That's not the point.
The point is that if someone claims the sky is falling but then tells you not to check to see if the sky is actually falling, then they're not actually concerned about it and are only concerned with manipulating you.
That's not what he's saying. He's saying that if it is in fact real, it is the greatest threat to humanity by a long shot.
So, in order to make sure it is in fact real, we should rigorously review every bit of data about it.
If you have a gun pointed at your head and some people are saying it's real while others say it's fake, it behooves you to be very sure which it is before you make any decisions regarding it.
Anyone trying to convince you not to double check the findings isn't actually concerned about the gun, they're concerned about their own agenda.
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