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He and his wife are a bunch of weirdos, he is into some spiritual stuff. But even if they weren't, half the people here are not vaccinated. As to why he personally doesn't want to I can't say, I don't know him. He probably had the virus and was asymptomatic, so he doesn't get anything from it. As I said a little under 50% are vaccinated, as to following general advice, from what I saw more do then don't.

Happy birthday KP! Welcome to the years where you start asking yourself what you have done with your life. 😄 Joking aside, I wish you all the best.

I'd never waste my time protesting.

Not that I'm defending Djokovic and his weird lifestyle, but as far as I know he is pro choice and has not been advocating for people to not get vaccinated. As for what is happening right now, the biggest blame here can be laid on Australia. If you set the rules then stick to them and not do a 180 as soon as people get pissed off. They have even imprisoned another tennis player for deportation who already played a match in the tournament... Wonder what will happen with the other players who got in on the same visa. Also I'm laughing at France schadenfreude-ing from this whole situation. They are really pissed off about that submarine deal...

We are talking about any country "helping" another country.

The west will protect dictators when it suits and serves their interests. Montenegro has a dictator in power for 30 years now, for reference longer than even the Belorussian president.

What does that mean...

Watching other people play on the map, it looked very interesting. Guess it's a different pair of shoes when you play it yourself.

Yeah, the only reason I know is because I watched a streamer, who in turn got told by chat. Though he didn't encounter any issues that I noticed on those maps.

Wait, did you know how the walls work? Was it just buggy?

The trick is to

I did get your point. I was just poking some fun.

@majestic Of all the songs you picked that one... 😶 It's a popular song I guess and it won eurovision, but man am I sick of it by now. Here is something much better.

Happy new year!

I really disliked Don't Look Up, it just wasn't funny or interesting. I guess it was more for the US audience.

Yes, it's even told in the video I linked, but they still fulfilled the role they were designed for, it's just that the enemy it was meant to combat never came to be. Just like the sr-71 was not very useful for any actual reconnaissance of mainland Russia and was made obsolete by satellites. I get what you are saying, I'm not trying to strawman. What I'm trying to say is that they were good enough for what they were made to do. It's also a testament to their design that in spite of Soviet manufacturing capabilities they were able to that much. Some of the migs records still stand. The biggest mark against the mig-25 is that it's one of the ugliest plane the Soviets made. 😄

No, no I just caught my mistake there. I guess the hypersonic is the current trend now, so I just derped. Could they not just plate the missiles with what the space shuttles used, it's not like it needs to be reusable. As for the planes, I think they will go the way of the drones, where it will simply be quantity over quality.

I meant supersonic...

My point being not that China is not shady, it certainly is as much as any of the superpowers are, but that corporate and military espionage is simply an integral part of any powerful country, it's how they remain so.

The mig-25 was made to counter hypersonic bombers that the US never made. I mean the US outright stole the technology for a supersonic plane from the British. It's a great myth that China is the biggest thief of tech in the world, the US was caught numerous times stealing tech, from it's own allies even, they just have better PR. Where do you think the Titanium the Blackbirds were made off came from? edit: I forgot about operation Paperclip. edit2: Supersonic not hypersonic.

A Silent Voice is on a whole other level. It's a very different tone and story. If you have never seen it I can't recommend it enough. I hope you give it a shot.

Calling the MiG-25 crap is a bit of a stretch... It's biggest flaw was that it was tailor made to combat a non-existent threat. That's kind of like calling the SR-71 crap.

Interesting read https://warontherocks.com/2019/12/why-russian-military-expenditure-is-much-higher-than-commonly-understood-as-is-chinas/