I’ll need to read up on afghanistan war but for ww1 i’d say that russia lost because it had a revolution co-occuring and it was already a collapsing country

Hey now hey now. We’re at the end of history. It died with my inner child.

But since you insist, let me amend my statement to simply say russia “war of attritions” better than anyone else.

This is a basic history concept is it not? Combined with WW2 fact

Russia - whether it wants to or not - always ends up fighting wars in a slow meat grinder way, but because of uts superior pooulation it wins every ‘War of attrittion’ against another european power.

Germany on the eastern front did manage to push into russia but, as per usual, the cold and the lack of infrastructure (settlements more spaced out than in core Europe) causes immense suffering for them - eventually they are driven back. Many casualties, of course.

So i say that because i’m baffked why someone would know the top statement and need to be corrected with the bottom one. People should learn both together - the WW2 fact - and with it, the historical truth that Russia wins every war of attrition.

I have no problem with the "don’t get pregnant"s. I do have a problem with the “Quick Get Pregnant!!” It’s essential both to treat people kindly and also to prevent them making irreversible, resource-extensive mistakes.

Pro tip: don’t march on a capital in the 21st century, take a flight there.

I was sad when Yevgeny Prigozhin (leader of Wagner Group) was killed off, because if his coup was successful we could have seen less bloodshed and a sooner close of the war.

Lmao, very good point! I’ve been naming them in shorthand terms because of fears it was being read by someone else, and i wanted to be secretive

I think that might be a regional nickname for it - it does indeed form salts which are loosened from the inside of the brick/concrete (both have salts in) by water, and then transported to the outside by the same water.

Coldplay studied this, learned from their mistakes and then mastered the art of claiming to be a christian band while simultaneously claiming to not be a christian band

Hell yes i’ve heard of Evanesence:

So true. I first started actually using Google calendar when my uni timetable was added, and got into the habit of looking at it too much because of anxiety. I definitely do the same thing with emails because I never get email notifications unfortunately.

One of my favourite tools now though. You can set up a schedule for people to book meetings with you or generate links corresponding to social meets, helping people to remember them and plan their day around the meeting. It’s actually pretty good because I can suggest multiple things I might want to do that day and have them overlap, then finally choose one.

I guess it must be a talking point that the CCP or it’s supporters use to justify their activity in tibet - “we’re just spreading technology. You don’t want us to be there? Then you must be luddite regressives who HATE the Tibetans”

I can’t tell if it’s genocide denialism but that tweeter is obviously being damn rude to a whole continent of people

Kids be messing with the buttons

Right? I would consider reporting, i.e putting a bit of yourself and putting your real opinions/demeanour into the role, to be a real job - but what these people do is just act as mouthpieces for the regime. Everything from their appearance too, to what they say, to how they say it (above tweet is a great example) is suppose to re-inforce the beliefs of our regime. Regime is the right word, btw - it simply means organised power.

They would know all about lazy spoiled kids i’m sure

“Statisticians are the dentists of mathematics” like, they do a very specialised job that a generalist would struggle to perform correctly without their level of specialised training, where performing their duties inadequately or forgoiing their services can completely disrupt the function of various area of life/business?

Why would cities care about national or international companies? I’m confused.

[This is OP on a different account + device] Good question, I didn’t make it clear. So what I was thinking is, where I live,

1. The city council has large control over the economy, choosing where businesses can put up their store and monitoring which businesses take up office space in the city.

2. There’s definitely some MLM presence (my local subreddit provided examples and often has people saying “don’t work for this scam!”)

3. So… Does the city council just not care? Or are they perhaps less interventionist than I thought?

4. Lastly, with just how many there are, from the vibe I’m getting from people online complaining about them, surely some of them end up doing business for the city council. So the council ends up getting ripped off or having jobs done to a poor standard.

Thanks for your comment!

Ironically I’m probably not going to choose my favourite games because those are usually just very simple story based games, and can be just as enjoyable to read as a book instead.

The games which instead give the most fun-value and replayability:

1. Balatro (my go-to “I’m bored and don’t know what to do with myself” game.)
2. Stardew Valley. Super good, something is so satisfying in the art, animations and little gameplay loops. I replayed it to death earlier this year and now I’ll try not to think about it again until that time next year.
3. “The Sims Medieval” is one I keep on coming back to, so I’ll definitely add that.
4. Shattered Pixel Dungeon (don’t think this counts as a mod.) Super good replayability, I’ve been playing it intermittently for about 11 years now.
5. Anno 117. Gotta have some strategy games - I’m kind of boring in that I only do anno and not more complicated stuff like city skylines.
6. Fields of Mistria is a new farming sim that I have high hopes for.
7. Pentiment has a lot of replayability despite only being a linear story game.

That gives me enough time to add 8. Minecraft, which I don’t play anymore but it’s a great boredom buster, and 9. Life and Suffering of Sir Brante and 10. Life and Suffering of Prince Jerian - afforementioned visual novel stories which are also fine to enjoy in book form.

This guy knows ball