In 1996, when I was but a wee lad, my school had a head teacher. He was a very happy looking fellow, even if he did have the ability to transform into a hardass motherfucker if you stepped out of line. I remember him telling us how great Warhammer was for his son, who just a few years older than we were. He told us it would make us smart and creative.
One year, he was suddenly replaced by the deputy head, and we never saw him again.
The new head was a woman whose face a permanent scowl, tall, skinny, mannish, a boney face and sallow complexion, with short dykey hair. Thoroughly unlikeable. A real physiognomy case.
I never heard specifics about why the original head had been ousted, other than that it was supposedly something to do with Jesus. Even as a child, this struck me as odd, because the only mentions he ever made of god were the non-denominational Christian songs we sung in the hall, such as 'All Things Bright and Beautiful' (which I of course sang as 'All Things Dull and Ugly) - and this singing did not stop under the new leadership, so it obviously wasn't that.
That year, the new head had us taping old newspaper pages into makeshift clothing - specifically female clothing - for a 'fashion show'. A child drag show, essentially.
I bet he got fired after refusing to teach faggot indoctrination to prepubescent children and trying to use his religious beliefs as his argument for why he couldn't do it.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2022/03/04/russian-tech-giant-yandex-says-might-default-a76752
Yandex are apparently banned from NYSE. There are countless other articles like this one on countless other sites, about countless other companies.
Beyond the stupidity of giving Russia nothing to lose, is ANYONE considering the fallout this, at all? Like how Trudeau inadvertently triggered a run on the banks when he froze truckers' assets, How do we think asian corporations are going to respond to the knowledge that, should their country sufficiently piss off the west's ruling corpocracy, they will get fucked over in ANY and ALL business they have with the west?
This is madness. There isn't a rational thought in anyone's head at this point. The west is destroying international faith in its economic infrastructure.
It's suicide.
Google shows all of the usual suspects all publishing the same article in 24 hours.
Press coverage for a Doom wad is rare, but not unheard of. Usually, it's attention reserved for something that seriously overhauls the game, impresses people, and becomes wildly popular in the community. Even then, it's rarely reported on by more than one or two outlets.
So what about this one?
https://forum.zdoom.org/search.php?keywords=thatcher&sid=d33efb25bf0c6e8eead44bd39ce00904
Completely unknown to the Doom community. Not a peep on either of two largest Doom community forums. The only post about it on Doomworld is people reacting to the media blitz.
The popularity of this doom wad - which is a very standard wad that doesn't do anything radical or impressive, is completely and utterly manufactured. Its creator (who, unlike any other author of a doom wad, bizarrely calls himself the 'director') has very obviously been in contact with journalists who have clearly lapped this up and eagerly promoted it for political reasons.
Agenda driven bollocks.
Hime Hajime got banned over a cleavage window in her avatar's sweater - something no meat-streamer has had to deal with. It seems that Twitch thinks anime titty bad, real titty okay.
Non-archived link because I'm lazy and the BBC is funded by the loicense anyway.
His attempt to surrender global leadership and replace it with a more inward-looking, fortress-like mentality. I don't think it succeeded, but the question is how profound has the damage to America's international reputation been - and that remains to be seen.
War is peace.
There's plenty more stupidity in the article, but that was the bit stood out to me as just being fundamentally wicked.
