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Walsingham

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  1. Shadowrun Returns is on sale for the price of a beer. Should I buy the game, or a beer?
  2. I'm sorry, you shouldn't read my posts under the assumption that all of them are crafted to fit in with my overarching anti-EU, pinko leftard, conspiracy theorist master plan. Only a vast majority. It seems to be a long-standing point of contention between you and me, and it's somewhat tangential to this thread. It goes back to other discussion where you argued that some international justice is better than no international justice, and that an actually impartial international justice system is unrealistic because the enforcer will never be impartial. My position was that "some" international justice is in fact no justice at all if some parties are both apparently immune and running the show while others seem to be consistently targeted, regardless. As a result of the perceived unfairness and the fundamental injustice that this represents, it's not surprising that some feel disenfranchised and rise to challenge the legitimacy of the system as a whole, often violently. Universality and consistency are two of the pillars of justice. But justice matters little when you can get away with whatever, because force, applied or threatened, and not reason, is the ultimate problem solver in human affairs throughout history. "International law" is little more than a way to play the Great Game while paying lip service to Enlightened ideas. But what goes around comes around. Hah! Well, fair enough. I think the most one can get out of any reasonable discussion is dig down to the axiomatic foundations. After that point it's 'axioms all the way down'. You've paid me a compliment by remembering my earlier perspective. If I may expand on it without suggesting it's "stronger" than yours, I would observe that I'm a practical decision maker. And to me pursuing a policy of purely abstract justice - assuming it is impossible - is vastly inferior to pursuing a policy of delivering benevolent outcomes to as many as possible. I'd rather feed seven people with seven loaves than divide the seven loaves among seven thousand, and everyone dies of hunger.
  3. This guy's copying my technique. So the route to cleavage is to be an aggressive invasive species, that is essentially a rat.
  4. I can see that consistency is important. 213374u. But I'm afraid I've lost track of your main point.
  5. The finest calamari rings ever.
  6. No it won't.
  7. My brain says young lady, but these damn sensor readings indicate "Yucca plant" *tap tap tap*
  8. I would argue it's analogous with The Trouble with Lichen, when humanity faces becoming much longer lived. One would hope it would induce a far greater sense of responsibility, and willingness to engage with complex problems. I suspect it would do the opposite. Although I would point out that reincarnation cannot solve the death of one's entire species. This might at last attract the attention it merits.
  9. Sucks. Chitlins be some doggone tasty goodness. I wouldn't mind trying chitlins, if someone else has gone to the trouble of making them edible. But there's no way outside of an apocalypse that I'd bother making them myself. And even then it would be less time consuming and smelly to imprison other survivors and make them do it.
  10. I tried time stamping them too. Doesn't work. What DOES work is posting the video, telling people what time to skip to, and trusting them not to be total selfwits.
  11. I think I had a dream last night about finding a cryptographic message encoded as points on a punch card written in the abdominal lining of a capybara using what looked like tumours. At least I hope it was a dream. If I just made that up while awake I've got problems.
  12. Ewoks are not adorable. They are introduced to us as miniature bears, who trap other larger sentients and take them back to their stinking s***hole of a village before burning the flesh from their bones and gorging on their internal organs. They are also clearly trained bike thieves and terrorists. Making them smaller does not instantly make it all OK! You fancy taking a dip in this pool of piranhas, Hurlshot? IT'S OK THE PIRANHAS ARE ONLY SIX INCHES LONG!!!!! GET YOUR FACE RIGHT IN THERE AND GIVE THEM A KISS! However, I am dead inside. It's just a coincidence.
  13. Not fully recovered after the lurgi. Keep losing my voice by about 1500 each day. So I've taken the day off and I'm going to see the doctor, find out if there's anythin1g to be done.
  14. Mandrills are totally awesome.
  15. I'm the first (usually) to say that standards at the BBC are falling. I don't know if it's 24 hour news or what it is. But it is just intellectually lazy to throw up your hands and put them on a par with what passes for news in Russia at the moment. Where do you think 'oby' is getting the whole schtick from? I'm not asking you to believe the BBC all the time. That would be foolish. I'm asking you to stop taking the coordinated misinformation being put out about Russia as if it were remotely credible.
  16. Up at 0450, trains not running, still up.
  17. Spoiler much?
  18. I feel as if Amish people are building a barn in my head.
  19. What constitutes a good apple? For me golden delicious are tops. Cox's Pippins. For everything.
  20. Modern recruitment posters need more barechested ladies.
  21. Perhaps we are. I notice that unlike our lizardjew comrade I have had my posts deleted without notice. No warnings, or moderation. Just deleted.
  22. LOL. Again, just curious. Does it feel all warm and snuggly to condemn Western media outlets? I ask, openly, and for the record: what simple, measurable, quality is it that you think the BBC (for example) is bad at, which any Russian media outlet scores higher on? Seriously. One single measure. Years in post? Foreign countries covered? Or is there some mystic Slav quality which makes short tenure, abbreviated horizon workers magically better?
  23. In your case, certainly. Lacking any concept of mathematics, or expected value. WTB coherence. Well, no. That's right. Because people on the internet, much like people you see in the street, who maybe look a bit funny. Up to something I'd say. Definitely conspiring.
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