I mean this is pretty much unprecedented in Israeli history. Everyone within rocket distance of Gaza has safe rooms in their homes and they're used to running for cover when the rocket sirens go off, but a massed ground attach? Unprecedented.
Edit: Stats I'm seeing are that there were at least 2.6 million tourists to Israel in 2022. This includes Jews as well as Christian and Muslim pilgrims, secular visitors, etc. In a normal year, it's a safe place to visit.
I think all of your points are correct, but #3 really reasonates. If you're not married, you have few IRL friends, and you hang out with a bunch of kids all day, it is possible to treat them as friends rather than as students. This is a mistake for many reasons. It certainly at leasst USED to be a firable offense!
Perhaps it's also why the "groomer" label has stuck so quickly and easily. The teachers doing this shit ARE grooming in exactly the same way sick fuck likes Sandusky groomed poor kids with love bombing so that he could rape them in the Penn State showers.
She* actually, should have said that. Just some dumb kid, basically, and she argued earnestly for how this shit helps kids, helps teachers, etc. (And of course she is straight and basic as fuck.)
Ironically, based 40+ lesbian went after her and told her to stfu basically.
I want this show to crash and burn hard, just like I want shitty NuTrek to crash and burn hard, because I loved what came before, and both NuWheel of Time and NuTrek shit on their legacy.
BUT... we lost.
For most people today, "Lord of the Rings" refers to the movies, not the books.
For most people today, Daniel Radcliffe will always be Harry Potter and Emma Watson will always be Hermione.
There are now people who when they think of Trek think of Discovery and JJ Abrams. There are people who think of Foundation and think of whatever the fuck that AppleTV abomination is.
Wheel of Time is forever tainted by the no-talent shits who wrote this crap.
The moral of the story is, never, ever, lose creative control of your content. GRRM kept a tight leash on the TV show until it passed his books and went off the rails.
This never would have happened if RJ was still around. He pondered actors, characters, etc., many times, and it's 100% clear that his vision for movie or TV series is nothing like what these ingrates have created.
Hollywood never "got" fantasy and science fiction. Hollywood can do action and it can do shitty dramas with a veneer of fantasy or science fiction, but it takes a strong individual auteur (Peter Jackson, Kubrick, David Lynch) to break the mold.
For whatever reason, Hollywood keeps picking the exact same type of useless effeminate girly men to write Star Trek...Star Wars...Foundation...Wheel of Time...etc. Fans respond negatively, directors freak out and attact fans, and the cycle of insanity continues.
#blackpill.
By the way, the most hated characters in every poll I saw in the last 25+ years were Faile, Egwene, and Gawyn...
Hah, really? I never minded Faile that much, but that may be in part because Perrin was my favorite.
Elaine was the one who drove me crazy.
Hear, hear. In college there was a mandatory dance for a group I was part of. I did the stuff I had to do and spent the rest of the party in the coat room reading a brand new Robert Jordan book. Great party!
Is it finally the Year of Spoony?!
Ok, I haven't played very much BG2EE, so I fully accept that may be the case. I remember back in the day, jacking up the search nodes to something crazy, like from 2000 to 20,000 or something like that.
My impression of BG:EE was that the pathing was improved, but I also can't say that I compared original to EE.
False, the dumb trans was inthe Beamdog original, “Siege of Dragonspear.” I have not played that one.
BG2:EE does have an added optional gay romance, and several new characters (including at least one who was generally well received.)
BG:EE and BG2:EE are technically excellent enhanced editions, though they took a long time to get there. Graphical enhancements, modding enhancements, thousands of fixed bugs, zoom, enhanced pathfinding, modern OS (tablet/console/desktop/etc) compatibility, etc. Totally fidelity to the original in these aspects.
The plot and character additions to BG:EE and BG2:EE were both both pretty poor, imho, but they’re also 100% avoidable and in no way affect the base game.
Yeah, when I started EOD during my first week (before I was on TDY), the SPOs all joined our group to work on our SOPs for the PDB (nt).
17 is a child? Who can't decide what to do with their body?
Correct. Are you suggesting 17 year olds should be allowed to become zippertits or cut off their dicks? Are you saying that it's cool if highschool teachers sleep with their students?
I disagree. 17 year olds are still children, and highschool teachers should never sleep with their students or have any sexual relationship with students.
I disagree with pretty much everything you wrote. "Experience" and "attention." Well, if you're not a virgin, definitionally you've got some experience, and attention is more common than fucking. Since there's not really any great ways to quantify "attention," virginity is one of the better proxies that we have.
The most important part of my post was that it's horseshit that "every girls over 18 has a double digit body count." That's just laughable crybaby-feels-bad-for-himself bullshit.
You need a certain amount of experience, not just in sex but in courtship, romance, and the entire process, to develop a properly functioning brain
I'll have to think about this. I don't think I've ever heard the claim before that if you don't date as an adolescent (brain still developing) your brain will not function properly. That doesn't seem right to me.
That's why in your argument , buying a hooker instantly fixes all incels instantly. As they cease to be virgins so boom problem solved. But we both know that isn't the case.
Nope, I never said anything remotely about that. I said that the vast majority of both women and men, by age 25, are no longer virgins and therefore have sexual experience. I don't make ANY causal link between sex and brain development or hookers "fixing" incels. I think you're betraying what strikes many people as "off" about the incel mindset--core to the incel belief is that if one gets fucked, you're fixed. If guys/girls would pay attention to you, you would be fixed. Etc. I don't believe that.
She's not wrong that teachers should not sleep with students in highschool.
That's patooie. Statistically speaking, most men AND women lose their virginity during the ages at which they are in (or would be in) highschool or college. The vast majority have lost virginity by 25, and after that, it's pretty stable.
I am not aware of data showing that "every girls over 18 has a double digit body count" or anything even close to that. Can you back that up?
For me, some years ago, I knew plenty of dudes (myself included) who couldn't get any during college...couldn't even go on dates...yet who managed to do just fine after graduating, getting a job, etc.
I do agree that things are much, much harder for males with lower levels of education and lower income earners, but still not as crazy as you say.
I think our society sucks, but you're wrong.
Some reading and data:
https://datepsychology.com/are-27-of-young-men-really-virgins-and-why/
https://www.livescience.com/13072-sex-stats-virgins-rise.html
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2017/201706_NSFG.htm
Similiarly, politicians care about one thing--growth. Growth makes their jobs easy. If your population is growing, your tax base is growing, your income is growing, you don't have to make many hard choices. It's a game of kick the can down the road.
But growth for the sake of growth is a self-defeating action. While politicians care about AGGREGATE growth, what we as individuals care about is per capita growth.
While the wealthy benefit from cheap labor, the lower end of the labor pool suffers, greatly.
This is a very weak argument. No, child porn is not free speech, much like how killing your neighbor is not free speech either.
Children cannot consent to sexual activities. With all the bullshit about 20 year olds changing their mind about consent after the fact, grown women talking about being "groomed," etc., we must not lose fact of this simple fact. Children. Cannot. Consent.
Free speech is only free if it is free. Compelled speech is not free speech.
This Edgar J. Steele? Seems like a winner to me.
The "OG" Armenian Genocide was the Ottoman Turks systematically killing Armenians across much of their historic homeland and other areas the Armenian peoples had lived.
For instance, even today, Jerusalem's old city is divided into four quarters. The Jewish Quarter, Muslim Quarter, Christian Quarter, and ... the Armenian Quarter. Armenians lived all over the Middle East, Egypt, North Africa, Caucuses, etc.
Turkish Nationalists killed a shitload of them.
Today, after Soviet times, the country of Armenia and Azerbaijian (Turks) were split from each other. There is a chunk of Azerbaijan separated from the main part by Armenia. There also WAS a segment of Armenian control within Azerbaijian.
The Azerbaijanis conquered it and now the Armenians are fleeing (or being forced out).
Sad.
Antonio, I don't think you get it.
My enemy is indicted--guilty, throw away the key.
My friend is indicted, tried, found guilty--it's bullshit, the system is against him, he's innocent.
(I mean, either can be true, but as a general rule, this is how people pretty much operate...)
A bit misleading. The percentage that identifies as gay/lesbian is small and pretty consistent across all the IDs until you get to Jewish/Buddhist/Agnostic/Atheist etc. Identifying as Buddhist/Agnostic/Atheist whatever is kind of college rebellion typical bullshit.
I'm going to try to dig into the data a bit, it come from FIRE (a great organization) free speech surveys.
As always, "Other" / "Bi" / "Something else" is for basic bitches who want to pretend they are not basic bitches. "Ew, straight, that's for karens. I'm special and bi even though I only fuck guys."
Only specifically commenting about BG:EE. IMHO, it's worth playing the enhanced edition at this point. It took Beamdog a long time to get it right, but it's quite fun on a tablet too.
You can completely ignore the new characters if you want.
The one I really miss is Warcraft III. The enhanced edition is just such dogshit.
So yeah, that's a daily for me. Hilarious meme.
Then out spake brave Horatius,
The Captain of the gate:
‘To every man upon this earth
Death cometh soon or late.
And how can man die better
Than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers,
And the temples of his Gods
What happened to or with Wendig? I thought I hadn’t heard his name lately…
There are a few opinions that will get you silently downvoted here. Notably, anything that that might remotely be construed as pro-Jewish or pro-Israel; and anything that doesn't fully buy into MGTOW/Incel narrative.
It's mostly silent downvotes, but who cares anyway.