What does China even stand to gain from this behavior? Like, what do they have against Finland or Scandinavia in general? Is this something to do with Ukraine?
For the morons out there: No, this does not mean high prices are good. It just means low prices can sometimes be bad if certain principles aren't in play. You're welcome.
On the one hand, I totally get being pissed off that a burgeoning global hegemon displaced your people to make room for a group of traumatized refugees in the hopes these refugees could be leveraged to establish a fortress of power projection for said hegemon to dominate a historically defiant region... and I get being pissed off that it worked a little too well to the point that now the fortress of refugees actually has nukes and holds a leash on the global hegemon that gave it all that power in the first place...
On the other hand, that was like 80 years ago and they gave you a chunk of land back and everyone just wants you to stop fighting and frankly you keep bombing them so of course they snipe your children in the streets, and slaughtering 2000 people on a holiday despite no serious escalation from the enemy side in recent memory didn't help the situation, so the overkill by Israel is understandable.
And yet again on the other hand, if Israel has the capacity to permanently decapitate Hezbollah with pagers, then clearly they don't need to level Gaza to get to Hamas leadership, so its clearly overkill and a humanitarian crisis and probably a war crime and they need to stop....
But on the OTHER HAND Iran did bomb them, and Hezbollah was planning an invasion, and... (trails off)
never said it did imply it. but I am correct.
We should just automate the shooting of death-row inmates in the back of the head. Execution should be meted out within a 3 year maximum period after conviction. There should be a dedicated post-conviction detective squad that reviews case material for each conviction for the duration of the 3 year window to make sure the case didn't miss anything. There should be an emergency review panel available to convene 6 months before the date of the execution, with the express purpose of reviewing any new findings, with the authority to stay the execution if new evidence has surfaced that warrants further investigation, with stays not being allowed to exceed one year.
Even if you were right, intuition doesn't preclude correctness.
This isn't the banger you think it is.
you can't be serious, can you? lol
The delusion in this thread is hilarious.
Also, yes we should kill inmates who commit certain crimes if they meet a certain burden of proof. The service done to society by killing off these fools far outweighs the costs incurred should a few innocent lives be taken in the process.
Yes. Also, pardoning your sex-crazed drug addict son is very Catholic. As is pathological lying (claiming to lose his son in Iraq when he actually died of a glioblastoma in 2015, or claiming to have formed the QUAD when in actuality it was Trump who formed it; the list goes on). Also, sniffing a young girl's hair on national television is very Catholic (this last one is actually semi-serious).
Joking aside, if you think Biden is acting out of any religious sincerity, you clearly don't understand much about politicians. They're all carpet baggers. They'll say whatever they have to say to get the Christian/Catholic or Jewish vote etc.
these subscription models don't work. What these morons don't count on is that everyone actually hates the technology deep down. We don't want it! But it gives us a dopamine hit. And when they stack on subscription prices and lock up content and shove ads down our throat... well, the dopamine stops hitting and just get pissed. So we leave.
yes video quality has dropped, video suggestion algorithms have become a weird uroboric/echo chamber even if you have dozens of subscriptions, and the YouTube shorts reel refuses to be trained (no matter what I do, if I dislike every video I don't want to see and like all the ones I do want to see and log off if it suggests too many bad videos in a row, it still feeds me an endless loop of unwanted brain rot after 5 or 6 scrolls). I hate YouTube.
At the same time, they've found a good way around the ad block situation which is to promote ads as thumbnails on your "for you" video main page. I don't know why they didn't just do that in the first place, because honestly I don't mind that. It's when they constantly interrupt my videos ever freaking minute and a half that I start to get pissed.
"waaaaa, bad man not say nice things! me have last word and blok mwahaha" violently masturbates
said the man who couldn't refute literally any of my points (and clearly didn't understand most of them in the first place)
I’m trying to pick a DSLR-compatible Canon telephoto lens for wildlife photography in low-light conditions (also, I like doing urban candid photography/street photography from distances, so that too). Naturally, this means high ISO and low f-stop. For some reason, all I can find are like f-4; is that normal? Also, what’s with all the “telephoto” lenses that max out at 200mm? Shouldn’t something like 400mm be better? I suppose I don’t want something too bulky, so 400mm is probably pushing it but idk… if you have experience in this, let me know what you think. I can only seem to find a handful of options, and most are for mirrorless cameras which sucks because I don’t want too many camera bodies so getting ANOTHER one for this purpose would really clutter my shelves as I don’t have any mirrorless Canon’s.
Anyways, budget is tight, nothing north of $1000, let me know what you think!
Edit: Posted in wildlife photo community, but it was dead (no posts since like 2 months ago) so figured I'd move it here.
I'm trying to pick a DSLR-compatible Canon telephoto lens for wildlife photography in low-light conditions (also, I like doing urban candid photography/street photography from distances, so that too). Naturally, this means high ISO and low f-stop. For some reason, all I can find are like f-4; is that normal? Also, what's with all the "telephoto" lenses that max out at 200mm? Shouldn't something like 400mm be better? I suppose I don't want something too bulky, so 400mm is probably pushing it but idk... if you have experience in this, let me know what you think. I can only seem to find a handful of options, and most are for mirrorless cameras which sucks because I don't want too many camera bodies so getting ANOTHER one for this purpose would really clutter my shelves as I don't have any mirrorless Canon's.
Anyways, budget is tight, nothing north of $1000, let me know what you think!
Ok so I watched this video and it actually did a really good job at explicating the context of the crusades in ways that a lot of school history readings didn’t for me. I've been notified that the channel is apparently a MAGA pipeline, and I don't necessarily endorse all views held in that channel, but I had to admit: it was refreshing seeing the Crusades explained through a rational, realist lens rather than just chalking it up to "evil bad man kill nice foreign people". And it got me wondering: does anybody here know any good books or book series on ancient European history - the Crusades, the Inquisitions, etc. - that don’t use objectivity as a facade for bashing Western culture? Like, books that use realism and rationality to explain the choices made and provide context into them? I'm looking for stuff as comprehensive as possible. I’m thinking something similar to Shelby Foote’s Civil War trilogy but with European history. Fairly detailed, objective, etc. Thanks in advance!