ShadySands Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Madeleine Albright at 84 Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoonDing Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Every time I read one of those truly wicked people has moved on the magma plains, I check and see Kissinger is still alive. 1 The ending of the words is ALMSIVI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 I'm no fan but I thought it was newsworthy. I told my wife and she said she wonders if there's a special place in hell for her. She's still upset about that. Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 I wouldn't usually defend either Albright or Clinton, but I also don't doubt that their faux pas had a lot more legs because they were women. Quasi ironically considering Albright's justification of the 'special place in hell' remark their biggest mis-steps in office almost certainly came from trying to say something overly... aggressively to 'compensate' for being women too, and instead coming across as being sociopathic and diplomatically, being counter productive. End of the day though, if Hillary didn't get fulsome support from Albright she wasn't going to get fulsome support from anyone- possibly even including Bill in that. Would have been better if it hadn't come across as, well, overly aggressive and mildly sociopathic plus ultimately counter productive fulsome support though. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadySands Posted March 23, 2022 Share Posted March 23, 2022 (edited) Steven Wilhite, because choosey Jods choose .gif Regarding Albright and the like, I think anyone involved in realpolitik at a high level is most assuredly a sociopath of some sort regardless of gender or anything else. Edited March 23, 2022 by ShadySands Programming error Free games updated 3/4/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bartimaeus Posted March 26, 2022 Share Posted March 26, 2022 Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins, currently unknown cause (they were apparently scheduled to perform an hour before his sudden death). 5 Quote How I have existed fills me with horror. For I have failed in everything - spelling, arithmetic, riding, tennis, golf; dancing, singing, acting; wife, mistress, whore, friend. Even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying'. I tried with all my heart. In my dreams, I am not crippled. In my dreams, I dance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raithe Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 Euroweekly News - Belgian Cyclist, Cedric Baekeland dies aged 28, of heart attack "Cuius testiculos habeas, habeas cardia et cerebellum." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted March 27, 2022 Share Posted March 27, 2022 44 minutes ago, Raithe said: Euroweekly News - Belgian Cyclist, Cedric Baekeland dies aged 28, of heart attack That's very sad. I am very concerned that it is due to the use of PED's. It still seems to be rampant in cycling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted March 31, 2022 Share Posted March 31, 2022 Scott Bennie https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2022-03-31-fallout-writer-scott-bennie-dies-aged-61 Scott Bennie, a writer and contributor to the original Fallout, has died aged 61. Bennie served as a designer, writer and producer of numerous games during his time at Interplay in the 1990s, including The Lord of the Rings, Starfleet Academy, plus Starfleet Command and its sequel. 6 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amentep Posted April 6, 2022 Author Share Posted April 6, 2022 Hong Kong star Jimmy Wang Yu (One-Armed Swordsman, Master of the Flying Guillotine, Killer Meteors) at 79. Apparently he'd been in ill health for a few years. 1 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gfted1 Posted April 6, 2022 Share Posted April 6, 2022 Estelle Harris "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanschu Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 On 3/27/2022 at 2:08 PM, Hurlsnot said: That's very sad. I am very concerned that it is due to the use of PED's. It still seems to be rampant in cycling. I had to double take your name sir! XD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hurlshort Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 4 hours ago, alanschu said: I had to double take your name sir! XD A bunch of us had fun changing them awhile back, but now I don't remember how we even did it, so it is stuck like this. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 On 3/23/2022 at 12:16 PM, Malcador said: A couple of points about this: a. She later apologized for this statement. b. The data was subsequently attributed to Iraqi propaganda, and was determined to be completely false. Changing views on child mortality and economic sanctions in Iraq: a history of lies, damned lies and statistics "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 (edited) 5 minutes ago, rjshae said: A couple of points about this: a. She later apologized for this statement. b. The data was subsequently attributed to Iraqi propaganda, and was determined to be completely false. Changing views on child mortality and economic sanctions in Iraq: a history of lies, damned lies and statistics Apologized for Rwanda as well, good thing all sins are forgiven, heh. Also the fact that the number is inaccurate doesn't matter that much - her reaction to the number is the thing to note. In any case, nothing all that shocking that a high official isn't all too concerned with people. Edited April 8, 2022 by Malcador 2 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarex Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 27 minutes ago, rjshae said: a. She later apologized for this statement. Are you serious? "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 19 minutes ago, Sarex said: Are you serious? Sort of https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/20/magazine/madeline-albright-interview.html 1 Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 3 hours ago, Hurlsnot said: A bunch of us had fun changing them awhile back, but now I don't remember how we even did it, so it is stuck like this. You go into account settings and it's with changing your email. I look forward to seeing Twirlshot soon. "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjshae Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 6 hours ago, Malcador said: Apologized for Rwanda as well, good thing all sins are forgiven, heh. Also the fact that the number is inaccurate doesn't matter that much - her reaction to the number is the thing to note. In any case, nothing all that shocking that a high official isn't all too concerned with people. Because she was diplomatically careful not to acknowledge the genocide until it had been confirmed? Yeah, sure. "It has just been discovered that research causes cancer in rats." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malcador Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 (edited) 18 minutes ago, rjshae said: Because she was diplomatically careful not to acknowledge the genocide until it had been confirmed? Yeah, sure. I guess question of ignorance being willful or not, but given her other actions at the time (granted as she says she was just an ambassador, to paraphrase) and the fact she apologized (as best as you can from a politician), there's something there. Certainly not the only one to wear blame for it and the idea that Somalia made the US wary of involving is pretty funny, especially when you look at what went wrong in Somalia. Edited April 8, 2022 by Malcador Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 Rwanda was more or less understandable, since the US was getting most of its information from the French who were backing the Hutus politically, and training their militia. Key take away: don't get all your information from an interested party or you may end up embarrassed; see also, outsourcing research on the 'moderate Syrian opposition' to, lol, Saudi Arabia and Turkey. (The million deaths from sanctions claim was always shaky as it came from demographics, and demographics inevitably includes people who, well, never actually lived (like most of the babies who 'died' in the infamous quote). But, demographic analyses are fine when they show what you want. The classic example being that demographic analysis of Churchill's Bengal Famine is Unscientific because you can end up with something extraordinary like 8-10 million deaths, because to quote Churchill "Indians breed like rabbits" while demographic analysis of Stalin's Famine is perfectly Scientific because you 'want' a high death toll for that, and you certainly don't want Churchill to look worse than Stalin!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ComradeYellow Posted April 8, 2022 Share Posted April 8, 2022 Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Kremlin court Jester, comic relief leader of the Russian Liberal Democratic Party (Not anywhere near the American definition of 'liberal'), dies at 75. One of his greatest hits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alanschu Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 I read up on him and uh yeah some seriously bonkers stances he had. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoraptor Posted April 9, 2022 Share Posted April 9, 2022 (edited) I was always amused by Zhironovsky's party being the Liberal Democratic party like he just picked it by random generator rather than to reflect any actual belief. Fun (?) fact, Zhiro contested the 'original' Russian Presidential election way back in 1991, coming 3rd. He only missed one election campaign since then (2004) Edited April 9, 2022 by Zoraptor 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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