"Yellow Peril" in the guise of a mysterious Mandarin overlord was such a common thing in detective fiction at the time that the rule "No Chinaman must figure in the story" was Law #5 in Ronald Knox' 10 Commandments of Detective Fiction.
The Chiefs better have a good backup plan for when Walker gets a season ending injury in week 3.
It's all about who owns it, not who uses it.
What about the Stupid Asshole Theory? We have so many of them running the world's countries right now.
Well Japan really thought that they and Germany would smash the British Empire together. Japan would take SE Asia and India, Germany would take Egypt and the Middle East, and they'd meet somewhere in the middle.
And then Germany invaded Russia and Japan was like "wait, what?"
GIGO Generators
3 types of Tumpers:
Principled: They're America First, isolationism, no immigration, no wars.
Conditional: They'll profit under his policies.
Devout: They'll follow him no matter what.
The first two groups will abandon him if their principles/conditionals are not met. The third group will not.
Even influencers who were once in the tank for him are abandoning him after this most recent heel turn. They are unreliable, his pool of extreme loyalists is shrinking. He can't pick a Rep due to the slim majority, no governor wants to abandon their state, so solid red state Senator it is.
He's scraping the bottom of the barrel here. No technocrat can work with him, no one with integrity will work for him, and everyone else said "NO" when told to do crimes.
That leaves only grifters, scammers, and charlatans -- those willing to kiss the ring and do crimes. The nadir of competence.
MIC needs a big war every generation to promote officers, upgrade/test weapons, improve troop readiness/tactics.
Otherwise systems age out, weapons decay, army atrophies, readiness degrades.
MIC is an ouroboros of war. It exists in continuous operation to meet the needs of its continued existence.
Will it still be about learning to fight and shagging the coach's daughter? ......and also his billet mom?
That's what happens when you put a dude who's been in debt for the vast majority of his adult life in charge of the country.
Pace yourself. Quality over quantity. Get a good idea going -- a theme or an explanation of things (I love showing the evolution of genres over time), collect tracks that represent that theme or style. Then execute.
Wait til I show you what I've been working on.
Well, they THINK they have good intentions. But it's hard to tell when they don't really know how anything works.
Why would anyone place bets on this happening? What is there to collect afterward? From who?
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Why would anyone place bets on this happening? What is there to collect afterward? From who?
Hey if it's good enough for Shakespeare. #ExitPursuedByABear
They've been wankers for a long time, innit?
I mean it's what I do every winter.
The Germans have a word for everything.
The one I learned today is "verschlimmbessern". It means to make random changes to something trying to improve it, until it is no longer fit for its original purpose. Or to use the compound word usage: "To make betterworse".
Applies to Trump Administration.
I read this earlier and I keep thinking: What if the owner stays/works from home and doesn't leave the place for weeks at a time? Did the burglars ever think of that?
Trust The Process.
GIGO Generators
Clearly you don't understand science, in all its mad-cackling fervor.
Seriously, what was Tommy thinking? Jason was fine and forgotten and cold in the ground, but NOOOOO -- that wasn't good enough for Tommy. He just had to dig him up and resurrect him, just to kill him again.
Because politics is sports teams to them. It's not about the ideas, or reason or logic or sensible solutions to things.
It's about who's proposing them. Their team is good, your team is bad, the issues are irrelevant.
Are we getting up too late in the summer and too early in the winter? No, it is Daylight Savings that is wrong!
Oh boy, kids are just going to love walking to school in the dark in November on rainy streets full of anxious caffeinated motorists trying to avoid being late for work.
There is also a more practical reason why you can't just war crimes your way to victory: Every innocent person you kill turns everyone they know/love into a potential terrorist.
You cannot compel a populace to behave by force.
Cybertruck was in the game Hard Drivin
