I don’t know what kind of spells these would be but I fear the wizard who knows them.
It really is terrifying and needs to fucking stop.
Many escalations have happened and died down in the past, so it may not get that far. I think worldwide opinion is turned against Israel, too, which may eventually help manifest better, peaceful outcomes. But it’s inhumanely horrid now, and continues to be. I wish I had more words of comfort to offer, I too would be constantly worried in your shoes. You have my empathy and my sympathy, comrade 
All true caveats, but they do clarify it’s just preliminary data suggesting that it works positively. Literally nobody who had time to respond to the second dose got infected.
Obviously an actual study of effectiveness is important and will have the real answers. But it comes in stages, and stage 1 is establishing that it’s safe to use and theoretically works, which they successfully did here per their aims. Mentions of effectiveness are just “at a glance it looks good” and that there’s currently no good reason to doubt the vaccine works as intended.
It’s quite insane. A couple years back I bought and played an indie space game that had beautiful graphics, weather effects, 'splosions, space stations, hundreds of star systems etc.
That game’s installed size? 260MB. 186MB on checking.
The full game could fit on a CD-ROM about five times over and it was still many hours of cool gameplay. This massive universe exploration game is smaller than 90% of the 2D procedurally generated games I own.
Looks like they still develop, and still offer demos which I think is awesome. And their game sizes look still super reasonable.
I’m not really sure how you achieve that kind of compression, I assume most textures are hand-written shaders or something rather than 4k .png files.
It was also with a massive group of people. Which makes an entire world of difference.
I just want a normal operating system where I double click an app to activate or install it, and it has full functionality no ifs and or buts
I say this as someone who has spent years as IT support for Windows, Mac and Linux computers respectively. There’s no such thing.
cause I want to spend two hours googling how to install non-Linux compatible software on Linux
I mean this is your problem. If you don’t want to mess about googling how to do stuff, then use software that’s built for the OS you’re using??? You’d have infinitely more issues the other way around, trying to run Linux software on Windows.
My assumption is you’re just used to closed Windows software. Linux has native binaries for any tasks you’d need to do, and even many (or most??) games nowadays, where you can install and run everything with a double click. Reject .exe files and embrace native binaries.
then, like, isn’t basically every Western leader a “war criminal”
Honestly, I think the best approach one can take in response to hypocritical liberals is yeah, Putin’s an asshole war criminal, but sadly the west and NATO are even asshole war criminaler.
I mean, that’s pretty bad. Only being able to use the API severely restricts the kinds of apps you can install, making a user controlling their own device significantly harder and massively strengthening the hold of the Play Store.
Ah, the two fundamental biases as described by Marx, democrat and republican.
Reactionaries gonna reactionary. The good takeaway is that most people don’t really seem to agree with the main parties anyway.
Genuinely not a bad idea to reduce their power
I personally think it’s mostly people who really have no consciousness about politics whatsoever.
I’m more baffled by the 25% of Tory voters preferring communism. I want to meet these people who support the conservatives but don’t actively want fascism??
That is actually hecking cool. Despite our shitty electoral politics, there are already a good number of people actually caring about socialism.
??? Nobody gets blown up going to NK. And tourists frequently enter by land.
“…for poor people only”, Ellison finishes. Let’s put cameras on the bourgeois class and see what behaviour results.
Given the party is one step away from explicitly labelling themselves as fascist, it’s not too much of a surprise.
TIL humanism is actually impossible because empathy isn’t real
Israel has the unfortunate advantage of being one large US military base. And instead of being just generally murderous occupiers like Americans in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, Israel’s approach is simply to kill everybody and turtle outwards.
I hope it’s unsustainable, but while they have relatively few losses in manpower and the West provides it with effectively unlimited support, I’m not so sure.