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Time to start over with a shorter thread title... Continued from old thread

Threads, threads never end! Just kidding. This one did. New thread here

The effectiveness of homework as a learning tool ranks up there with tax breaks for the top 1% being good for the economy when it comes to urban legends. I wish somebody had told my teachers that https://evidenceforlearning.org.au/the-toolkits/the-teaching-and-learning-toolkit/all-approaches/homework-primary/

Might have something to do with Putin's "or else!" threats, if Finland and Sweden thinks about joining Nato?

Who exactly are those "Russian apologists" you keep going on and on (and on and on and on...) about? If you want to insult somebody, call them by name.

I suspect Putin has a tighter grip on the local media than Nicholas had Edit: The Romanovs were not exactly popular with the people in the first place. Iirc, he (the Czar) needed victories very badly after the disastrous Far East war with Japan as the peasants had started to get very restless already, 10 years before WWI.

Wow... Mask of the Betrayer was long time ago /nostalgia

That sounds a bit similar to how things turned out in WWII... Russia (well, the USSR) performing disastrously against an enemy (Germany) with superior training, motivation and doctrines to eventually ramp up mobilization and "swamp" the enemy with large numbers (and better officers in charge too after a few years of warfare). Casualties were still horrendous, but it mattered less for a population in the grip of nationalist ecstasy.

Just you wait… Kofod has a secret pact with Lavrov regarding the partition of Sweden. Scania will come home again

Mostly low brow paperback stuff these days (Warhammer/40k novels) I haven’t read those for a couple of years, so some catching up to do, as the lore keeps evolving Ghoulslayer and Gitslayer to see what Gotrek is up to these days (the old world ended and sadly Felix too) Lords of Silence about the daily life of Deathguard legionnaires and leading into the preparation for Mortarion’s assault on the 500 worlds of Ultramar

I don't have a stake in this... so just curious. How did the original ruling (Roe/Wade) justify this being covered by the constitution rather than elected governments?

I was too lazy to find the BBC link... lets call it even?

Well, that's from the same guy who just stated that Adolf Hitler was a Jew (causing much anger in the state of Israel), in order to justify labeling Zelensky (who is Jewish) a Nazi /rolleyes

Come again when you can try for yourself what Tali's sweat tastes like...

Couldn't have said it better myself (as explained on the youtube page, a "season" is the time between two elections)

I know Anzac day was almost a week ago, but better late than never

No fair, I was in bed and asleep when it premiered (I even had it bookmarked)

Thinking back to the 80's (when the cold war was hot), I mostly remember Czechoslovakia as the source of Skoda and Ice Hockey players

It's not even the largest huntsman around... 'Charlotte' (the one pictured) is only 20cm big. They can get up to a leg span of 30cm. Largest huntsman I ever had scuttling over my living room floor was around 15cm.

Welcome to Australia...

You can't really argue with that logic...

Not sure about that. Maybe among the common Russians, but a few of Putins closest oligarch friends are Jews (and have Israeli dual citizenship), like Abrahamovic. I would suspect Islamophobia is a thing though, considering Navalny used to campaign on an ideology (besides some extreme nationalist views) of kill all Muslims on sight including life sized posters (and Youtube videos, which has since been taken down) with him in combat fatigues waving a pistol at a middle eastern looking character and slogans to the effect of kill them now. He did later change strategy in his bid for power, trying to appeal to the west, but still, if Islamophobia was a platform that brought him to prominence domestically, I assume it is a thing. The Chechen war probably did help fuel such sentiments too.

I think it's a sound theory at least. Mind you, not being a citizen (yet), it doesn't apply to me (yet). So easy to say yay or nay. One thing to say about i though, no matter how awful the cretin in Canberra is, you can only blame the stupidity of your fellow countrymen (unless you were stupid enough yourself to vote for him). Never mind that political campaigning down here is somewhat marred by the lopsided media coverage (courtesy of Murdoch media's not quite monopoly, but very significant market dominance). Only place in the world I remember that was worse off was Italy during the Berlusconi years. Better public debate and more variety in available media during elections is also required for the idea of mandatory voting to work, or you end up no better than China. I.e. a de facto single party state and the outcome of elections being more of an approval rating than a choice. Edit: Quite, not Quote

$20 ($15 USD). So no, it's not going to force you to mortgage your home away and you wont get a criminal record for not voting. It does seem to work though, with 90%+ participation of the eligible part of the population. Could also have something to do with ease of access to voting.

The Death Korps of Krieg. Silly name and rather obviously inspired by WWI... a short animation. Warning, graphic violence (and blood)