Of course the big difference between the historical France/Germany rivaly and a possible future one is France having an independent nuclear weapons capability. Even the UK relies on the US for maintaining - and if rumours are true, being allowed to use - their nuclear weapons. If the EU were to collapse I could see a lot of smaller powers ally with France, under terms very favourable to France, if it meant an ironclad nuclear-response security alliance with France.
I would answer that by saying that the use of PHP under any circumstance deserves a flogging. But I’m a smartass.
I’ve always found it interesting how Kasdan goes silent for that part of the conversation. It feels like the behaviour of a man who wants no part of it, but knows that his career may be at risk if he speaks up.
If you know someone who’s just started watching One Piece, please ask them if they’re okay and if they need to talk to someone.
Yemen is in an astonishingly interesting historical position. Despite limited resources and the enmity of the American Empire, they’re waging incredibly successful economic warfare. If humanity survives waves hands at everything, Yemen’s actions right now ought to be required military reading for a very long time.
A proletarian dictatorship should not become a major arms trader.
If those arms are going to countries looking to defend themselves from imperialists, why not?
From a TV series called Archer. The man on the left is meeting the HR manager on the right over his, uh, inappropriate conduct with other people’s lunches.
Why is “pork” a slang term for a sex act, but “muffin” isn’t?
An anthology series set in the world of Conan the Barbarian. Each episode is the story has travelling warriors taking their ease by the fire at night. One of them tells a story. It won’t matter that the stories have no continuity or even need to have the same tone, just that they’re exciting tales of glory.
Making the end-of-season stinger I want could be expensive from a salary perspective, though. Imagine this.
The last episode of the first season. The warrior telling the story of the episode finishes. His audience gives nods of respect for the expert telling of an epic tale. The warrior turns to a hooded figure on his right who hasn’t said a word. The warrior says “Speak, friend. Have you any stories worthy of these men?”
And the hooded figure raises his head, and it’s Arnold Schwarzenegger smirking.
Last sunday I made an accessory to bondage play, with a sacrilege twist. It’s since been stress-tested and it’s holding together extremely well even for a prototype.
It started with an idea I got from a friend who’s into succubus-fantasy play. She said she’d had a fantasy of playing a succubus who seduces a humble priest. I asked what if the priest turns it around, and “exorcises” the succubus by forcing them to wear a huge cross while the priest dominates them?
I had some spare good-quality 25mm hardwood dowel and various metal attachment hardware kicking around. This was the concept, and once I laid them on the floor I knew instantly that I hit on a fun idea.
Assembly was very simple. A bit of work with my new favourite tool, wood glue and dowel pins, lots of rounds of sanding and staining with a body-safe stain, and fitting the metal hardware and it was done. Super easy.
At first I was planning to do solid black, but as I did the multiple rounds of sanding and staining, I found I really liked the weathered look.
Of course I wanted the design to be symmetrical, so that the cross could either be right-side-up or upside-down depending on the play mood. It’s roughly 30cm long excluding the metal hardware.
How about just telling them that you’ll be somewhere, and letting them know they’re invited if they want to join you?
Dance parties at 1/3rd G sounds awesome.
Because they’re so supportive of Palestinians, right?
That man looks exactly like I expected him to look.
So he’s the status-quo option?
Currently sitting in a lovely newly-opened Palestinian cafe in southern Ontario within a quick walk of my workplace. Can’t say which one due to doxxing potential. Death to capitalism of course but the owners are lovely people. And the ambiance is wonderful and the food and drinks are fantastic. This is going to be a new favourite place.
This place is getting busy. Love seeing that. Very mixed clientele too, also a good sign.
So thus far the entire conflict has been mostly India failing in breaking Pakistan’s air defenses.
India’s western equipment failing against Pakistan’s Chinese equipment, in other words.
If I were a Chinese arms trade official looking to sell air defence systems, I’d make my sales pitch a photo of a crashed Indian Rafale with the appropriately-localized caption “Any questions?”
why do bread tubers keep waxing poetic about USAID
“Please fund me, senpai!”
That phrase lives rent free in my head.