I will admit to knowing nothing about cutting, but from what little I do know, aren’t they too high up the arm? Almost every time I have ever heard of people cutting, it is their wrist, since there is a high chance of hitting a vein.
They also ran off Fritz Haber, one of the most renowned and genius tier chemist in history, and the man largely responsible for Germany doing as good as it did in WW1 by inventing chemical weapons and synthetic versions of many supplies they lost to the British blockade (on top of his previous inventions in fertilizer).
Turns out, when you run off your best and brightest by persecuting them for obtuse reasons, then make enemies of everyone around you, you will eventually lose as everyone joins team “Fuck that guy”.
But enough about the Russians and the Chinese.
And any AI restrained enough will be so lobotomized as to be useless for their purposes.
Are we also just going to ignore the fact that this is clearly done as a "Suck it DeSantis" move, but it will directly bring millions of dollars into the Florida economy?
That is starting to go away though, since TSMC is teaming up with some US companies to build new factories in the US itself (in Arizona, Ohio, and Texas).
There is also something to be said for the fact that Taiwan has openly said they will take a "If I cant have it, no one can" attitude to their chip factories. And China doesnt have the tech know-how to run those factories even if they managed to capture them intact.
Either way, I dont really fear China going after Taiwan. Because when they ran a wargame recently on the subject (which are designed from the ground up to favor REDFOR and hamper BLUEFOR, even if it means ignoring actual, real life physics), and it saw REDFOR get their ass spanked, which isnt how that is supposed to work. So I can only imagine how much worse it would actually be for them.
There were times that the Navy leadership flat out lied to the top military staff because they did not want to accept various reports from their commanders in the actual battles.
Then there is the famous example of how they thought they sank USS Enterprise like 4 different times. And they went into Midway convinced the US was down a carrier because Yorktown had been "destroyed" (it received the fast repair job in Navy history).
And of course, there is the even more infamous fact about the Japanese Navy and Japanese Army being just as much at war with each other as they were with the Americans. To the point that in many cases they would deliberately sabotage each other because they would rather have the Americans win if it meant their rival lost.
looks at Putin withholding Ammo from Wagner
Yeah....
Which is why I think people are reading too much into stuff. It has already been confirmed Nintendo crushed some of the attempts to make some stuff woke in the movie.
My first ever rig was Intel/Nvidea. I have already jumped ship to AMD for the CPU and have been better than Intel. So now I am about to go whole hog on the AMD with a new GPU here in another month or so (I will be getting the first half of my sign-on bonus for the new job).
Probably for the best, since from what I have seen AMD has been rather supportive of gamers and has done better at being a good company than Intel or Nvidea.
That Nvidea sounds cool. Unfortunately, this coming upgrade I am doing here in the near future, I am going with AMD. Since their current cards are competitive while being significantly cheaper.
Although, I guess we can take all of what Nvidea is doing as a sign that they can see AMD nipping at their heels, and they need to respond.
A lot of people did, because it was the Californians coming that made places like Colorado move more Blue. But from what I have seen of the recent data, apparently the Left-Wing Californians are either staying there, or if they are leaving they are going to other left-wing hubs like Portland or Seattle.
Same applies with the New York Expats, where the Left-Wing ones are going to places like Massachusetts or Vermont while the Right-Wingers are going to the Carolina's or Florida.
From what I have seen of this sort of stuff like cost of living, job availability, "quality of life", etc. Some have also pointed to the fact that there is data showing a lot of the new arrivals are in some cases more conservative than the locals (I know Florida and Texas found that data), so they say something like "Looks like we are just getting rid of all the Right Wing racist trash. Sounds like a good thing to me!"
Meanwhile, their states continue to die, and they just refuse to do anything because they dont think anything is wrong. Of course, this will result in a shift of political power away from them, so its all good in the end.
You don't know that. Just because old people are more likely to own homes now doesn't mean under-65 are not.
I think like many a stat, its going to depend wildly on where in the country you are. Like the stats I always see about how "no one is having children, getting married, etc" for all of the life events. Yet where I live out on the Great Plains, there are tons of children in my town (and yes, they were white. Since that is usually what people complain about), people are getting and staying married, people are getting good jobs, etc.
Also, on the note of the OP image: You can do all of that stuff on one income still like your grandparents did. You just have to have only one car, have a house about half the size of the average modern home (and of course, your children bunk it up instead of getting individual rooms), you cant have internet, you cant have a phone, you cant have anything more than basic cable for a TV, etc. The list goes on, but I think you get the hint. People complain about how a 1950's income doesnt work anymore, while wanting a 2020's lifestyle on a 1950's income.
Yeah, those are what I was referring to.
Fun fact: the practice still has influence in Modern Japan, and it is why every anime where there are girls in high school almost always has them practicing Kendo or archery (since they were the skills an Onna-Bugiesha was expected to know).
Like was said in the other post, a female Samurai could at least be somewhat believable, especially if they went for the angle of "wife of the samurai getting revenge on his killers". But I highly doubt that is what Ubi is planning on doing here.
Oh yeah, it seems like the best possible option and I think it could be cool.
The unfortunate thing is Ubi might not be into that, since they got salty about so many people picking the male character in Odyssey.
In theory, the wives of samurai were expected to know how to fight to serve as a “last line of defense” force for while their husbands were out waging war. And there were a handful who fought. But like always, it’s an interesting historical footnote rather than a common thing.
There were many geisha’s hired as assassins though.
Many of those voters are legal immigrants and want those immigration laws enforced.
Not only do they want them enforced. They want them enforced more hardcore than most Whites do. Your typical Right-Wing White person would probably just say "Have a wall, deport those in, and we are good."
There are a not insignificant amount of Hispanics who say "Have a wall, with automated kill turrets, minefields, and a moat that has sharks with frickin' laser beams! And if they are already in the country, yeet them back over the border with a catapult."
Merrick Garland is still there, and he is still persecuting critics of the regime.
As much as he can, yes. But his power is effectively limited to shaking his fist at the sky in rage because he actually doesnt have all that much power to do anything major. He can get away with the J6 stuff because of the optics propped up by the media, and even that they are losing ground on. Other than that, there is very little they can actually do, because the US is so decentralized in terms of power that states can just give the Feds the finger and keep doing their own thing. And there have already been a few cases of states arresting or driving out Federal agents attempting to enforce laws that are not popular locally (like the ATF agent that got arrested by an Ohio sheriff).
Of course the US is 'more free' than North Korea, but that it can be classified as 'free', in my view, is quite an absurdity.
Then it seems like your stand of 'free' is unattainable in reality. In practical terms, the US is still the closest that exist to a free country, even with the current shenanigans by the Feds. Because when people start trying to fuck with the system to make us more like Europe with a centralized government, the states can just say "naw" and as long as they actually fight it (spoiler: they are) then it will ruin all of their plans. And then as political power shifts due to that, like how power is currently shifting away from California and New York and toward Texas and Florida, that trend will continue. And while the old Powers like Biden may not acknowledge it, they will have no power so they will be left to just Ree in the corner. Much like how Boston and Philadelphia went from being the centers of American political power to places people barely even remember exist.
That literally happened. Security beat up a guy who was protesting the rape of his daughter, he was then arrested and prosecuted, he was smeared as a 'terrorist', and this was cited as 'terrorism' in that infamous letter.
Yes, that was Loudoun County, Virginia. The direct result of such a harsh reprisal was to have the entire county school board be taken over by people like the father, the father becoming a vocal advocate in local politics, and served as a significant issue that ultimately swung the election to a Republican state government that, while squishy on some issues, has been steady on this one.
Your defense is that you're a free country because they only tried very hard to destroy people for protesting the RAPE OF THEIR DAUGHTERS?
No, its that their attempt to do that not only failed, it resulted in a direct backlash that took away their power and gave it to the people pushing against them.
Again, the fact that something led to a backlash is not really proof that it's a free country.
The fact it lead to change is what makes it a free country. And we were able to do it with a vote, instead of having to shoot someone or overthrow a government. I guess if you want to get technical, we did overthrow it, just by largely peaceful means.
In the US, not only does this happen, but they will try to destroy you for protesting.
But that literally didnt happen. The direct result of the DOJ labeling parents protesting at school boards as "domestic terrorist" was states like Florida passing laws slapping down school districts for their woke bullshit (if they weren't directly taken over like Texas has done with the Houston schools), and a significant chunk of those parents taking over the school boards and instituting their will, getting rid of the handful of teachers that were causing problems.
The only places you still see that sort of "not a free country" "grooming children in schools" thing happening is in cities that are under absolute Left-Wing control, where they do it because they are wanting to virtue signal about how they are such great Leftist.
need proof on the "solitary" part, I have followed this story and never heard of anyone being in "solitary".
In the interest of fairness, while perhaps not the "solitary", there were several being kept in such bad conditions that they were transferred with several hundred other prisoners out of DC after the US Marshalls did an unannounced inspection of the jail and found the conditions "unacceptable."
You keep complaining about Democrats but pretending that it's all of the US acting that way. lol. Know who the enemy is.
It's not even a good one to use. Because getting parents angry as school boards branded terrorist resulted in...those very parents getting elected to the school boards and starting work to undo the Woke indoctrination of the schools they oversee. Because that tends to be the result of Democrats trying that in places they dont have under absolute control like Chicago or LA.
Blacks committed by far the largest portion of anti-trans hate crimes
Welp, it was nice knowing this man. He seemed like such a good guy before he was canceled for speaking verboten facts.
Honestly, the thing that made me the maddest about the Sequels was how they treated Kylo and Poe.
Yes, in the first movie, Kylo was an emotional brat who got beat by Rey the first time they fought. But because I was naïve still at the time and thought they knew what they were doing, I thought it was being set up that that was the point. And come Episode 8 they would have him getting dressed down by Snoke for his failure, have him bring up how he claims to be the heir of Vader and yet lost to a novice, and then have him start undergoing Dark Side training to be made into a threat the next time he faced Rey. Not only did that not happen, they kept nerfing him to appeal to the Shippers.
And Poe made what was objectively the correct call as a military commander, was abused by his commanding officer, and the movie treats it like he is the bad guy here. I spent the entire god damn movie utterly convinced "Hyperspace Tracking" was a myth and that Holdo was a traitor because she was doing everything you would expect a traitor to do. And I was gobsmacked when it turn out she was wrong and the movie was making it out like Poe was a brainlet for thinking what any reasonable human and soldier would think with an officer liker her.
Have I mentioned that Ep. 8 holds the unique "honor" of being the only movie that has ever retroactively ruined my enjoyment of another movie? Because at the time I actually really liked Ep. 7 and wrote off all of its issues as "They are just getting back in the game. Ep. 8 will fix some of this funk." Meanwhile....
I suppose. I have obviously never considered anything like that, and it would largely be useless to me as a side effect of my autism is that I have an absurdly high pain tolerance (for example, I went 10 years without knowing I had a broken foot). However, I will tend to bite things when I get stressed or am anxious, and that can include biting my fingers until they bleed.