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The problem with a guy like Trump is he has no policy, nor does he represent anyone but his own interests. He'll change opinion faster than an A/C current if he thinks it benefits him personally. Which is also why it's hard to quote him sometimes, because he'll champion both sides depending on the audience. As long as they declare their undying love for him... I.e. trying to attribute a particular policy (for or against) to Trump is an exercise in futility.

As indicated, I'm inclined to take their reporting from the Tel Aviv area at face value

That’s sort of limits their trustworthiness to impacts in the city of Tel Aviv, doesn’t it? Not knowing those media, I would be surprised if they didn’t get most of their information as third hand information, handed down from the people affected to the official Israeli channels and finally the curated version to said media. I would wait 12-24 months for independent media to have fact checked the various claims. Heck, they could all be right, missile defense being no good and the Iranian missiles slaughtering cows and grasshoppers on farmland edit: fixed various typos graciously brought to you by my phone

That's a question I can't answer from top of my head It's quite complicated actually. Some of them are the original states, arranged to show a constellation on the southern hemisphere and the number of "edges/spikes" also means something and the large lonely star symbolizes the commonwealth Edit: kindly provided by google... edit2: The stars on the sky

It was a busy Monday night for me today, doing the citizenship ceremony at Brisbane City Hall. Lots of pomp, music, military brass, political elite and various other representatives. Music by the Royal Australian Navy, an Aboriginal Group and a sizeable girls choir... and I really just wanted to go home, chafing in my shirt! I really hate wearing shirts! I stuck with the program, the speeches, the ceremony, the pledges, the singing of a new national anthem (for me) and ended up getting my new citizenship certificate as a reward for two years of paperwork Now I can add Australian Citizen too on my CV The girl choir also gave a decent rendition of this old hit!

Ah yes, the urban legend of "trickle down economics". Santa is real too, really! At best it's incompetence, at worst a malicious lie https://www.uts.edu.au/news/business-law/trickle-down-economics-was-idiotic-idea https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2019-08-19/column-trickle-down-is-a-lie https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/07/it-s-time-to-demolish-the-myth-of-trickle-down-economics/

Gorth doing a little happy dance... so Studio Madhouse knows how to count to two after all (not really a surprise, but official confirmation is always nice, even if the actual release is likely a couple of years away)

This... I don't look at the numbers or scores, but I do look for patterns if there are issues that seems to be repeated. Like sound never working or game always causing BSOD or whateverf. A few dozen unhappy gamers ranting because they don't like a game wont deter me from at least check out a game more in-depth, but if it's consistent that particular "features" gets slammed uniformly, they there is probably something about it

What if I just call them nuts!

It’s almost impossible to differentiate between maga cultists and interwar German brown shirts and Italian black shirts. Their main concern isn’t building a better future but to have a go (sometimes violently) at what they fear and what they hate. People who live high enough up on Mazlows(sp?) pyramid cant necessarily empathise with such people

Nothing unique to the anime where Nier/Yoko Taro is involved edit: the story is spread over the Drakengard games, Final Fantasy the MMO, live stage theatre pieces, novellas and the two Nier games In short, god hates humans and unleashed a curse to wipe them out. It follows humanity through all their attempts to fight it off end eventually leads to their extinction, leaving behind only post apocalyptic ruins and the Yorha project (the androids programmed to fight for humanity)

I know it's satire, but dang it's funny!

The Australian take on the US election...

Make of that what you want… Sounds like a slight doctrine change (like a version of the Truman doctrine) https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yjej0rvw0o

Don't worry. She's a human. They added a "helmet" that gives your character elf ears (using the characters skin tone for colour). Can be used by all 5 races (looks a bit funny on the Charr) My "dark elf" is just a bit of creative use of the colour palettes and dyes as well as the pointy ear head gear.

Playing around a bit with character ideas in Guild Wars 2... the new expansion gave the players "player housing". Never mind that you can decorate it, but it's permanent daylight, so nice when taking character screenshots (rather than having to hunt locations depending on the time of the ingame day) A claymore wielding "highlander". Insert Queen's Princes of the Universe sound track A dark elf assassin, wielding two daggers and two pointy ears... A hammer wielding berserker. No skull is too thick. I'll try to take a few shots from the new expansion maps during the week. They really are gorgeous. Soundtrack is nice too

Behold, The Hand of Gorth! Never mind my hand, I was shopping and needed some coconut milk. Then i saw the "organic" part and all the brainwashing from the past suddenly overwhelmed me. Organic milk, from free range cows... bacon from free range pigs... eggs from free range chickens and now this... somehow I just continued the line of text on the tin can inside my head - Milk from free range coconuts Yeah, the power of marketing

Declare those who didn't vote for you heretics and prosecute them?

I think I threatened at some point to show a few pictures of some very old Citadel miniatures from my collection... Dark Elves from back when Games Workshop called them Dark Elves in Warhammer Fantasy. A unit of Corsairs and a Sorceress. The corsairs never got their banner painted The sorceress was literally a cover girl. A plastic sprue in a plastic bag, taped with sticky tape to the front page of the White Dwarf magazine introducing the new race to the world of Warhammer (an ad for the new army book, first edition Dark Elves) Disclaimer, all the miniatures on the pictures are from the 80's and very early 90's, painted with the tools available at the time. No fancy "tech paints" A selection of Imperial Guard troopers (Astra Militarum? Who the **** is the Astra Militarum???). A few Valhallan mortar troopers, some Attilan rough riders, ratling (approved homo sapiens subspecies, exempt from purge) and some character models. Tach priest, Eversor Assassin, commissars and a lieutenant from the old Necromunda Imperial Guard regiment (a tank from same regiment hiding somewhere in the picture)... Edit: I think next up, it will be the undead shelfs turn to get dusted off. Also got some Necromunda gangers and Epic Ork armies

The local grocery stores and super markets sell shrink packed rubber mats. Looks like rubber mats, feels like rubber mats, tastes like rubber mats (don't ask). Problem is, they sell those rubber mats pretending they are "naan bread" Decided to try my hand at making my own for my curry chicken... cut a few corners by buying a herb mix to add to flour, yeast and Greek yogurt. The first few were for the rubbish bin, badly burnt, but eventually I got the hang of it. Making them deliberately "small", because I'm a single house hold and the leftovers have to fit in a container in the fridge The gross looking stuff in the large pot is just the curry, having added tamarind puree and coconut milk, but not stirred it yet (watching the naan bread on the pan like a hawk, needs flipping every 30 seconds to avoid burning) The end result was decent enough thought

Heck, John Lennon got murdered for less

You are indeed a brave man... I lasted for all of 20 seconds before hitting the stop button Different people obviously have different tastes. Must be lots of other people out there who dig it Back to browsing cats in Springfield memes on the internet...

Always take leaks with a crate of salt, but a well known leaker ("122") claims Frieren 2 is already in production... amongst other things

Maybe abnormal number of limbs happens in Springfield? edit I know nothing of Springfield, only remember the name from watching a few episodes of The Simpsons