Malcador

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/republican-attorneys-general-issue-letter-to-target-about-pride-merchandise/ "The letter did not include any specific demands nor did it outline how they believe the campaign could violate child protection laws, but the attorneys general did suggest that Target might find it "more profitable to sell the type of Pride that enshrines the love of the United States."" Culture war nonsense continues

Wonder how much of a burden this really was on the companies anyway.

https://www.texastribune.org/2023/06/16/texas-heat-wave-water-break-construction-workers/ "Supporters of the law have said it will eliminate a patchwork of local ordinances across the state that bog down businesses. The law’s scope is broad but ordinances that establish minimum breaks in the workplace are one of the explicit targets. The law will nullify ordinances enacted by Austin in 2010 and Dallas in 2015 that established 10-minute breaks every four hours so that construction workers can drink water and protect themselves from the sun. It also prevents other cities from passing such rules in the future. San Antonio has been considering a similar ordinance." "bog down businesses" - figured it was something along those lines. Interesting attitude towards local government, too.

Yes, that's what HRW is speaking about and drawing everyone's ire. Sort of funny to watch really.

People here set off fireworks days after the event. Not sure why, I guess they have an expiry date or something ?

Ukraine didn't sign onto the CCM, so no big deal in that regard. Stupid HRW, don't they know the way the rule based order works.

Or just a good way to make NATO go on alert needlessly. But really, those troops would most likely be used on Belarusians before NATO.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/middleeast/israel-west-bank-jenin-raids-tuesday-intl-hnk/index.html Water and electricity being targeted is curious, for sure.

Nothing like a server process not working for 2 days and somehow no one notices. Either no one actually uses our product or they are all very forgiving.

Tried doing the capstone dungeon in D4 at 66, that resulted in failure. Some of the mechanics are really annoying as melee in the boss fights, just getting hit in the face by a spiraling magic attack, etc. The dungeon aspects where you're chased by a lightning damager or there are these shadow damage spots on the ground aren't all that fun to deal with either for me, not a huge deal but it makes the tedious farming more so, heh. Also went back to Sleeping Dogs for a bit, my Wei is being a great cop, randomly abducting people. It's funny to meet Triad bosses and everyone while wearing an HKPD SWAT uniform though,

Related to recruiting - https://www.wsj.com/articles/military-recruiting-crisis-veterans-dont-want-their-children-to-join-510e1a25 around paywall - https://archive.is/Gj6cW

Yes.

Ah ok, fair. Does the recruiter interact with her officially ? If so, US recruiting is impressive! In Canada the Forces here are underfunded so I assume they lack the ability to do that kind of stuff so is outside of my experience.

Finally got max renown in all zones in D4, only lvl 63 now. Gotta grind to unlock Torment now

What motivated you to attend the event in the first place ?

US military marketing is interesting

Alan Arkin

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/30/russia-has-approved-plan-blow-up-zaporizhzhia-nuclear-plant-claims-ukraine Hm, think they'll blow it up on July 4 ?

Wonder if the UK has a racism problem in the military. Well or maybe non-whites are too smart to go into the forces.

Pft, didn't say "Ya Hya Chouhada".

Depends on who comes up after him, may be competent, but overall that's not really going to matter much for Ukraine winning eventually. That said, I'm not sure the competence of Russian Generals is really being judged all that fairly by most.

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/28/russian-general-arrested-following-wagner-mutiny-mt-russian-a81685 Well, Gerasimov's job is safe, good news for Ukraine, I suppose