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Gorgon
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There is a lot going on at the same time at different sites but ;
What's radical about demanding that a university divest from the arms industry, or that it publish a list of it's potential conflicts of interests.
the same should be true of investments with a connection to slave labor, or fundamentally undemocratic ones. The protestors, well at least 50% of them, are paying customers.
Institutions of higher learning are supposed to be committed to democratic ideals, there is a long history that at least. Without an ethics clause attached to their investments, the rot and corruption will set in, as we have seen evidence of already.
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Wait until you get to diamond city.
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how can you stand the 3 minute load times.
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Biden's approval of his handling of the Gaza conflict among the 18-25 demographic is at 22% or thereabouts, which is completely terrible.
They won't forget being dismissed as antisemitic on little to no evidence, or that that they were dubbed "outside agitators" when this was not true.
They are absolutely going to hold a grudge against the Democratic party that Trump can exploit. Trump is no different on Israel, he is even plausibly worse, but Trump is an enemy, he's not a friend who stabbed you in the back, that's always worse.
He tried to walk the tightrope by steadily walking up his critique of Israel, but it was so obviously dishonest that he managed to lose ground with both the pro Israelis and the pro Palestineans. You can't be all things to all people.
Also, way to piss away the clout he got from pushing student debt relief. That should have been a huge winner for him with anyone in a similar situation.
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I thought this was a good recap if anyone feels as if they were jumping in on season 23 of the walking dead
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The government wants me to send them my poop in the mail.
I was selected for colon cancer screening it seems. there's a little plastic container thingie and an envelope with several hazmat seals.
I'm speechless.
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On 3/16/2024 at 1:07 AM, Sarex said:
It was pretty similar in the book too, if anything they showed more of the battles in the movie.
A movie doesn't run on the same clock as a book though. It seemed comical the way the fremen won the battle and ran straight into the emperors ships and flew off on the great Jihad all in the space of a few minuites.
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I watched season 1 of Frieren over the last two days. not bad.
Very anime ending
We have to go into the demon kings territory, and to prepare..... we go to mage school and take an exam. because of course we do.
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On 2/28/2024 at 8:41 PM, HoonDing said:
They lost me when they turned Sardaukar into completely pansies.
Yeah they were built up like crazy and then they were just knocked aside like they were nothing. It's a symptom of the same thing I think, clearly the final confrontation with the emperor and the Harkonen should have been the main mountain to climb, but for some reason the wanted to be done with it in 15 minutes.
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I went to see Dune 2, and I thought it nearly perfect. My main gripe is that it needed an epilogue, instead it powered through for pacing reasons, and it felt too rushed. Like what seemed like barely a minute after the fremen have won, they run straight into the emperors ships and fly off on a crusade. It was comical, especially since the rest of the movie wasn't afraid to take a minute. I mean you have Criss Walken as the emperor, and you barely give him a minute of screen time.
Other than that it was a giant step up from part 1.
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On 3/2/2024 at 11:22 AM, LadyCrimson said:
I've heard good reviews - and even without those I'd still be at least curious. I mean, I love that old mini-series, but if they pulled it off and made a great modern-era version of novel, that'd be great, too. Sadly I don't have Hulu or FX.
I rotate streaming services and grab a month about once every quarter. There is no enough decent programming on to justify a month on month subscription to anything imho.
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They spent nearly 500 mil on cyberpunk ?
that is pretty mind boggling.
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the Shogun remake. The original had Toshiro Mifune, which is hard to beat, it it's ... good. It's actually pretty good. It's like a better than average samurai movie.
Big fight scene at the end of episode 2 and I was disappointed to see CGI splatter. Would rather have squibs for that Shogun assassin look.
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anybody into Swedish porn ?
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What did he do this time
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It's commander Shephards cabin. I actually think it's pretty doable as appartment interior. the floor elevation would take some doing though, probably not worth the effort.
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It's a pretty one sided affair isn't it. The only thing he said I agree with, is that the peace itself would have been worth infinitely more than the struggle, it takes two to tango though.
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it's 70 euro on steam. that's a bit optimistic.
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I too struggled to care about any of the characters. The whole thing is just a bit too "cute" somehow. Chapter 2 was good though.
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Godzilla minus one.
A relief to watch something that doesn't suffer from the tempo problems that plauge most newer American movies. That said, it was a pretty average.
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On 12/8/2023 at 6:10 PM, LadyCrimson said:
I heard there was a new Kojima game upcoming. Some kind of horror where “It is a game, don’t get me wrong, but it’s at the same time a movie and at the same time a new form of media.”
"..."Udo Kier. One of Lars von Trier's regulars.
Here he is, as "little brother" a spirit born into our realm in the shape of a man sized baby.
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the witnesses are both tiptoeing around a beartrap, that's why they appear so suspiciously non comitant. They want to maintain their ability to judge these things for themselves.
The game is to say nothing of substance while appearing to answer. These "gocha" moments are the whole point. It's a setup from the moment you take your seat.
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The All Things Political Topic - A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt
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Well, Israel is engaging in war crimes in its war with Hamas according to basically everyone without a vested interest. It is already illegal to invest in Russia for the same reason. Israel gets a pass because the security cooperation and financial ties between it and the US as well as the unfathomable amount of influence it holds in internal US politics.
European leaders back Biden's play because of the hundreds of billions of dollars of aid for Ukraine, and because if they don't, they will be dealing with Trump for the next four years. These relations are all transactional, none of them are ethical.
If the international criminal court means anything, it will have to issue arrest warrants on both Hamas and senior Israeli leaders, given the facts.
With all this, it is entirely appropriate and moral to attempt to undermine the US-Israeli relationship, or at least to say that they don't want their university to have a stake in the continuation of violations against human rights.