Tbh I’m low-key waiting for someone to try taking a shot at one or more members of the Tribunal of Six. They’re so obviously standing in the way of progress in so many ways. They’re only appointed for life, after all. Someone’s going to take advantage of the darker side of that statement at some point. Roberts and his ilk should be scared.
lol I don’t mean to be insensitive but this is fully in-character for FIFA
Narrator:
their eyes were open the whole time
Garland:
such an action would be unconscionably divisive this close to a presidential election
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Jesus christ what the fuck is it with boomers/silents and Zionism? Like yeah, we know the Holocaust happened and it was horrific, but that doesn’t give Israel carte blanche to perpetrate a Holocaust of their own on Palestinians. Nor, for that matter, should it be used to fully equate the Israeli state with all Jewish people, everywhere, no matter what, which they seem to try to do fucking always.
Nah bro. He’s a cop. ACAB.
Man, how did Mobil Eye not just tack an “s” on the end? The pun is right there, and it’s frankly excellent and super topical to what they’re trying to do.
Oooh, good tip. Didn’t know about that feature.
I’d say the situation is a lot closer to the Spanish Civil War, tbh. A lot of countries sent expeditionary forces and volunteers to assist one side or the other, including Russia and Nazi Germany (who kinda used the conflict as a proving ground for the concept of combined arms doctrine we know as “blitzkrieg”).
Mmmm disagree - it was WAY earlier than that.
There’s a whole Wikipedia subsection on stuff the Russian Federation has been up to. It’s not small.
Oh, I know. I’m just handing them a shovel to make it easier for them to dig their own hole.
It’s really honestly baffling to me. The EU reaction to Trump trying to fuck up NATO integrity and cohesion in his first term was… essentially nothing but conversations and hopeful thinking, as far as I can tell.
I fucking detest Trump, but there is a kernel of truth in his statements about Europe more or less just riding on the US’s coattails in terms of the balance of military power, instead of trying to be a meaningful and (taken together) a peer power to the US. Moreover, if the balance of power and capability was closer between the US and the EU, the US would probably be a lot less likely to just categorically push the EU around.
The post-Soviet peace dividend era is well and truly over - in fact, it ended at least a decade ago (really, probably closer to two). It’s time for Europe to start acting like it.
Tbh they like to sow chaos as much as possible when it comes to geopolitical adversaries. Putin/the Kremlin also know that the conservative media sphere is often impervious to facts and logic, so who knows if the trumpians will even believe this.
Lmao I fucking hate both Trump and Putin, but it is absolutely hilarious that the latter threw the former under the bus so quickly
Explain
Frankly, Sinclair Broadcast Group needs to be shattered most urgently.
Well, it was more than that.
I actually did an interview at MS about a year after Win7 was released (was fresh out of college), and I asked a pretty pointed question about why the release quality seemed so… variable. The manager’s answer was that they had done entirely in-house QA for XP (we didn’t go into WinMe), outsourced the vast majority for Vista, and brought it entirely back in house for 7. He further mentioned they were taking a hybridized approach for 8. I remember questioning the decision, given the somewhat clear correlation between release quality and QA ownership, and got some business buzzword gobbledygook (which I took as “the real answer is so far above my pay grade that I can do absolutely fucking nothing about it”).
TL;DR: it was largely just profit-driven quality cuts done too aggressively, so they had to backstep and reinvest a couple times to normalize it for the user base.
It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it