Clan Zorah

Always nice to see you, it's good for me to be challenged on my views. I assume France is facing the same hard winter the rest of us are, so I hope you, and everyone, can weather it well. Warmest October in history, so not really so far. "Really bizarre" in the sense of appealing to the p...

No red tsunami, except in Florida. Races are much tighter than the polls predicted for the House, which is really bizarre , while the Senate seems more likely to be swung to the GOP. The same places that had incredible problems counting votes last time are having problems this time, so lawsuits are...

Of course it did. Abortionists and abortifacients have always been around.[ Alright, it did not exist in a safe way when the Constitution was written. What are we "progressing" towards exactly? There is no progress, it's social change to fit the subjective, relativistic desires of the mas...

Abortion was not mentioned in the Constitution, by intent, The "intent" being that it did not exist when the Constitution was written. Somehow, you managed the incredible effort to add new articles to your constitution to fit social progress, like banning slavery or allowing women to vote...

Well, good luck to the USA for their upcoming Second Civil War! Might not happen in the next few years, but with the latest enlightened decisions of the SCOTUS, I am fairly certain I will see the U being challenged during my lifetime, if only because you can't have a united country with half the Sta...

Edit: Or more simply, their focus is on the culture that produces young men who want to massacre children and the means of stopping him once he's begun to act, more than the tools he used to do so. The culture that does produce them, and does not stop them, is not to be trusted to take away any of ...

https://twitter.com/cmasonphoto/status/1528468889767665664 Here's a moral litmus test for you all: Is it wrong for a man in his mid-20's to groom a 16 year old, with her parent's assistance, into his wife when she turns 18? Does it matter that in their culture, it might be subjectively normal? Woul...

Yeah let's use the golden mean fallacy here. Clearly Russia and the US are equally to blame in what is happening to Ukraine, and pretending otherwise is only being a gung-ho hawk. Are you appealing to a higher moral standard than minimizing war/suffering? Well, no. But in that case, one side is act...

I might be mistaken - I am a bit completionist so I tend to have high morality scores from various sidequests - but I think in LE a few morality checks have been made easier. I recall that some were quite tough if you did not play full Paragon or full Renegade - Zaeed or Morinth come to mind. This t...

Yeah let's use the golden mean fallacy here. Clearly Russia and the US are equally to blame in what is happening to Ukraine, and pretending otherwise is only being a gung-ho hawk. What reason would Sweden, a country whose territorial waters are being visited almost constantly by Russian submarines, ...

I'd make a macabre joke about "clumps of cells," blood of martyrs, and hyper-individualism, but I honestly don't have the comedy in me right now. Needless to say, as polls have shown most Americans have only a vague symbolic understanding of the Roe ruling, it'll take a little while befor...

Vol wrote:On that note, since it appears Roe V Wade is going to be overturned, probably, and abortion will become a matter of state policy instead of federal/judicial, we can look at it with different lens.

Sure.

Apparently Le Pen has a solid chance of beat Macron, nearly even as of the last polling. The weird bit is that the right-wing support is strongest amount French youth, and least among the elderly. Which is novel. If you're around, Sine, please give us context on how that happened. The elderly in Fr...

Re: all that stuff about the EU, France, Germany or Scandinavia. To put it simply: for the longest time (up until 2000), France was the leader of the EU back when there were 15 countries, due to a combination of military power and projection ability (unlike Germany), relative economic health, and ac...

The article said she herself was a black woman and was responding to a notification the system gave about his account. I think at a bare minimum it would be necessary to know what that notification actually said before pillorying her. And I doubt a black woman is an unrepentant antiblack racist. It...

This is sort of nitpicking but upon reading that, it's not terribly clear what else they could have done other than read people's minds or give him extra benefit of the doubt for no reason except he was black. The bank told the police he was robbing it. They didn't use unnecessary force. They didn'...

It's appearing the US has been helping fund bioweapon facilities in Ukraine. Old Soviet ones, that for the last 17 years, we've been helping "convert" into "biodefense labs." I've noticed the stories about these labs use very carefully chosen verbiage, as well as Snopes saying i...

The USA are going to hand planes to Poland, which will hand planes to Ukraine (but planes Ukrainians know how to pilot). I am curious to see what wording Russia will use to complain about it, and how NATO/the US will answer. Because at this point, everyone is living in a parallel reality, and there ...

I don't particularly care about the topic of the stock market, but Jon Stewart (that one) did an AMA on reddit today on that topic after he did a segment on it on his new show. I think his POV is fairly interesting especially given the current states of American politics. As in, it's pretty obvious ...

Mobius_118 wrote:Wagner Group, Putin's private mercenary company, seems to have been wiped.

So there are actual nazis being killed in this War after all! Putin spoke the truth it seems.

Well, I'll be honest, Putin is doing everything in his power to make me believe that we would be better off waging a war right now. I know that it's hypocritical because there are armed conflicts on the planet already and this one only seems to matter more because it's closer to home, but I am havin...

And there's a nuclear plant on fire following Russian bombing (or, I assume, sabotage, if you watch TV in Russia). The largest in Europe, in fact.

This is fine.

Apparently Putin would be okay with conquering a smoking crater of a country.

Great power is a fuzzy relative term but its baseline definition is something like "a state pretty much all other states cannot afford to ignore." I'd say states that unambiguously fit this definition today are USA, China, Russia, Japan, & Germany and *maybe* the UK and France. Simply...

The thing is, the closer you live from a very agressive, hostile, imperialistic country, the more prepared you will be to resist an invasion. France has lived in peace for 75 years without its borders even being threatened, so obviously, you won't find a large part of the population ready to just gr...

I have been watching the "Dictator's handbook" series on ARTE, the French-German TV channel. There are 6 episodes, I've seen four so far (not in the right order) - Kim Il-Sung, Idi Amin Dada, Francisco Franco, Manuel Noriega. It was released on Youtube the day Russia attacked Ukraine. I st...

[i]"A controversial new study has claimed that fossils of Tyrannosaurus rex represent not one, but three separate species. With new names meaning king, queen and emperor, the carnivorous dinosaurs would have ruled North America over 66 million years ago. Other palaeontologists, however, are no...

Will add big WoT later (I want to play Cyberpunk), but one little thing I have seen pointed out that is a very pertinent point. It took us 2 weeks to take Baghdad and that was considered an insanely fast campaign. It's early days yet. Oh definitely. Thought the clear difference then and now is that...

Here the link for english translation. https://mil.in.ua/en/news/brave-new-world-of-putin-an-article-by-the-propaganda-publication-ria-novosti-which-was-to-be-published-after-the-occupation-of-ukraine/ Yes, it's for Kremlin propaganda outlet, but horrid part is this it fits perfect for the elective...

@ mammal predatory grass types Leafeon I voluntarily excluded the Eevees because it's pretty hard to pinpoint which mammals they're actually based on - a quick research mentioned cats, dogs, foxes and rabbits. So 3/4 carnivores, 1/4 that isn't. Leafeon, Glaceon and Sylveon also have color palettes ...

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A failure of modern liberals (in this sense as opposed to conservatives) to think of the West in civilizational terms and instead think in globalist terms eschewing borders, ignoring real irreconcilable cultural differences, and steamrolling desire for localized cultural and economic autonomy is a ...

@Raga: NATO is antithetical to liberal-democracy. Same as the UN, EU, WEF, WTO, any acronym jumble that has power across borders. Funny you include the EU but omit the USA. Pretty sure I have no more cultural differences with, say, the average Swede, than you can find between the average person in ...

The books are basically Geralt and Yennefer with the emotional maturity of young adults. In The Witcher 3, they are much closer to stable adults. They both improve over time. Also yeah, romancing Triss only makes sense if you did not read the books. And even then, I would almost say Geralt had a str...

If Putin needs 15 years to recover after the sanctions for his little trip in Ukraine, that's 15 years he won't spend deciding he'd like to see Warsaw or Riga. A bit sad that we are already talking about long-term consequences for Russia as if Ukraine has lost already. But if it can avoid an horrend...

Re: the gas thing, sure, after all it's your underground you're demolishing and we can't immediately ditch fossil fuel anyway. Not a long term solution though. And I also agree with the cyberattacks. I fully understand the necessity to keep the moral high ground by not, I don't know, helping dictato...

The Biden administration working hard to make even us Europeans regret Trump it seems. I really doubt Putin would have pulled a move like this with Trump in charge, not because Trump was more convincing or frightening - although he was less predictable - but because it was very good for business for...

They have absolutely started doing something along these lines now with DNA because genome sequencing has gotten exponentially cheaper and faster in recent years. There are no truly static bits of DNA (to my understanding, Sine could probably explain it better) because of recombination where geneti...

That's probably because the rules of evolutionary biology do not exist to satisfy a human intellect. And the lack of predictive power has to do with the fact that the evolutionary force at the basis of them all, mutation, is random, and we have no computer powerful enough to predict what biological ...

The most famous "watching evolution in action" experiment I usually see cited is this one . Obviously, bacteria are not a perfect example of what you are talking about because they are notoriously able to borrow and change DNA with lots of other types of bacteria and they reproduce asexua...

The problem I had with it, as much as I understood, was that it would only extend to invalidating Darwin himself, and no one else who didn't share his presuppositions. That and Darwinism was supplanted by Neo-Darwinism, the theory has evolved beyond the man's initial errors and ignorance, that's ho...

Since we are on the topic of FFXIV, what put me off trying to continue the story more than 10 hours into the start of the game (aside from the grind of doing MMO "collect ten bear asses" quests, which is such a bloody turn-off for me nowadays), was the very awkward way my character was ha...

Curious how an MMORPG could do that tho. SWTOR made an attempt at heavily story focused content, though had to reduce the complexity as the years went on. But I've heard FFXIV is almost like a single player story at times too, and obviously more popular. It is basically a solo game in which you som...

I am now done with Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker's main story. It is officially in a quality tier that only Mass Effect 2 and The Witcher 3 have ever reached. One scene legitimately made me cry in front of my screen, and I think it only happened to me before when Geralt reunited with Ciri in TW3. The...

I got all caught up on YJ after I came out of my turkey-induced slumber from Thanksgiving and I've had time to think on it. Disappointment is an understatement for this season as far as I'm concerned. Just really weak and lazy and ham-fisted storytelling all around. This show is capable of being so...

Speaking of MMOs and writing, I've been spending my (non-working) time of the last four days on FF14 Endwalker - admittedly, some time has been spent in queue to log in because holy crap there's a lot of people online. I'm about halfway through the story - just hit level 86 quests, while they range ...

That's my point, the education system became centralized, but nobody wants your churches to be. If the local community can sustain them with freely given donations, then why should the government have any hand in that? This idea that every bit of land and organization has to be focused on economic ...

So Young Justice is finally giving some plot focus on Cassandra and Lady Shiva. Cool. Love both characters, and their family dynamic is ripe for some juicy story material and narrative conflict. But they're already doing some things I'm not liking. For starters, Shiva cut out Cass' vocal cords so s...

If King Louis' men should descend, and demand you pay property tax and whatever other applicable taxes there are, that seems purely destructive to me. Your job was to provide education, and in turn the people gave you what you needed. Why should government take something from that symbiotic relatio...

I know I already fan-girled all over Arcane last week, but I gotta do it again. What an incredible, amazing show. That it came out of absolutely nowhere (for a non-LOL fan) also is incredible. This show should set the standard which all future animated shows aspire to, but I think, just like with T...

From what I know about political systems, there is a major issue in the US political system that indeed leads to what you describe unless you have a party with a very large majority - which is less and less likely to happen in the future due to how polarized the country is. On one hand, you vote for...

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