NeoTiamat

Fraction of a percent. You are absolutely dooming here.

This is a good question to address, actually.

There's often an intuitive assumption that when a country runs out of money, its war effort will grind to a halt. That's how households and (sometimes) companies work.

But those assumptions are really frequently frustrated - countries can push on.

19th century Siberia is one of those really interesting frontier / contact zones that doesn't get enough attention.

We usually try and frame it a little more diplomatically.... but....

This whole article was kind of disturbing. Like, even accounting for a measure of narrative hyperbole, someone really ought to have pulled the plug on this experiment earlier.

I believe in the classics.

....go on

One of the few times you hope they show up to a professional interview with eleven piercings and half a pound of black eyeliner.

Perfectly normal teacher-student relationship.

That honestly describes a lot of Stephen King stories, I think.

Actual section numbering in a brief I'm reading:
I.
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1. 2. 3. 4.
1. 2.
B. C.
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A very consistent thing is that all of these Dark Radical Thinkers is that they're just saying "okay, but what if cishet white guys really *are* just better? Huh? Ever think of that?"

It's so deeply tedious.

This is the best lede I've seen in a tech story in...years? There should be an award just for ledes.

'claude can now research like a phd student!'

bullshit, pour a bottle of department reception red and 6 pints into that motherfucker and it ain't gonna go home and finish its chapter for tomorrow morning

Same, Phil. Same.

Digital gouache painting Constable Earstripe from T.Kingfisher‘s Saint of Steel Series. He is a gnole (essentially, badgerfolk), and is bipedal and clad in leather armour and carrying a spear.

Constable Earstripe. I’m currently reading the „Saint of Steel“ series by T. Kingfisher. It has romance, hilarity, absurdity, horror, and badgerfolk, a.k.a. gnoles!
I’m also working on a gouache brushset for Procreate, which this was made with. =)

Plush anthropomorphic wombat, Digger-of-Unnecessarily-Convoluted-Tunnels, made of light gray fur fabric with black tufty ears and black felt claws on hands and feet. she is wearing a sleeveless top open in the front and carrying a pickaxe made of Sculpey and balsa wood.

toy pickaxe with a gray Sculpey head and a round balsa wood shaft

Finally made a pickaxe for the plush Digger that I had made awhile back. Balsa wood and Sculpey.

From the webcomic by @tkingfisher.com

Iiiinteresting.

Yeah, I was reasonably tuned into the fandom and you heard about, say, Gaiman's dubious marital loyalties, but I just never heard the scientology stuff mentioned.

There's a reason we think this is a suitable book for fifteen years olds to cut their teeth on.

Off the top of my head, it's basically Suetonius and people copying Suetonius? I'm very much not a classicist, I just know the evidentiary base for anything pre-Gutenberg is razor thin.

This is all making me feel much better about the fit of my clothing. Which is still dreadful, to be clear, just not this dreadful.

I'm honestly amazed that this information never really came up in discussions of the man prior to this.

The really amazing thing is that they didn't even set out to produce a masterpiece. It was supposed to be just one more propaganda flick on the eve of the war.

But the writing! The acting! I swoon.

One of the genuinely bizarre things about the Trump years is that we got to see which conservatives actually believed what they said, and who was just going along.

And like, Cato actually does believe in things. Mostly bad things, but not always!

The Dardanelles! Obsession of two centuries of Russian leaders.

Fair enough, though I don't really think the US led world order is all that terrible - or rather, in the Churchillian sense, it's a terrible system but every alternative, historical or current, is worse.

In any case, regardless of the ultimate responsibility for the starvation, I think ameliorating the suffering is a moral good.

If you shot someone, you should bandage them. It would have been better not to shoot them at all, but once shot, first aid is better than no first aid.

More grimly, one might say that intermittent starvation is the default state of humanity. Life without famines is a very recent phenomenon limited to only parts of the world.

The question thus isn't "why are people now starving", it's why haven't these areas pulled out of the starvation cycle.

To treat your question seriously, the US has *some* role, but is far from the only actor here - one can also well blame 19th c European colonialism, the bungling of post decolonization governments, and the actions of the Second World during the Cold war as well.

I never really considered that my "feeding starving children is good" stance was apparently controversial.