If you know nothing about the conflict in Palestine, then sure.

Because they will do literally anything to avoid blaming the one man actually responsible for all of this.

In some weird monkeys paw situation or some shit, Trump has somehow just been able to skate through a literal life of crime, and it’s like everyone has just collectively decided that it’s fine when it’s this one specific guy… I know it’s not, but it really almost feels supernatural. Probably more like blackmail on people.

It’s just remarkable either way. He gets some strange additional benefit(s) of the doubt that nobody in the history of the office would ever get in a million lifetimes for the most idiotic shit. Like really? THIS guy? Out of all the guys to bestow this shit on…?

I cannot wait for the day that this man perishes. It will be the one fucking thing he can’t skate away from. Like his piece of shit mentor Roy Cohn. Death always comes eventually. Hopefully he doesn’t nuke the planet first.

Hidden Fortress

Makes it even more annoying when some insane fascist shit happens IRL and people are like “omg it’s just like what Palpatine did” or whatever.

Like no dude, it’s like what fucking Adolf Hitler did

You mean the dude who stole his bits from Dom Jolly (Trigger Happy TV)?

She got 100% fully naked in The Wolf of Wall Street fyi

Wouldn’t red states economies collapse

Yes, and they’d presumably lash out against the “blue haired woke liberals” in neighboring states. They’d be a raid-based society by the end of year one.

They would become violent almost immediately

I had to do a double take at the date on that link. Unreal, yet totally believable unfortunately.

Hmmm this does seem correct based on the amount of Europa Universalis that I have played.

You do see arrows like that, and they are very very real.

He could have just as easily stood in front of a train or something.

100% would not have killed a T-800

He’s had Alfred and Lucius whip up a machine that creates a literal trolley with an alternate track with a dozen Gothamites tied to it every time he has a moral dilemma about killing someone.

In the case of Ras al Ghul he doesn’t even have to pull the lever, the people are saved by the very same inaction that crashed the monorail he was on inshallah

Holy shit that movie came out 21 years ago? Fuuuuuuck I’m old

The natives in North America had no word for ownership prior to the arrival of the Europeans, and therefore they had no concept of ownership. And it took a long time and being scammed again and again to grasp it once the word was added to their vocabulary (very much by force). A little bit easier to understand imo, since it’s not a word that they had and lost, per se. but one they never had.

I think it’s possible for words to lose meaning enough (and possibly with intention) to alter the way people think, but it takes generations.

I’m not sure making “literally” simultaneously mean both “literally” and “figuratively,” helps when we’re talking about every conversation in English everywhere. On such a scale, surely it can only do harm to the general acceptance of our shared reality.

It’s not that far off from Newspeak. Though instead of “the party will tell you what’s real and what’s not,” it’s, “go ahead and figure out what’s real. Oh you’re asking us if you’re correct? Oh that’s cute. Good luck.”

The Sudetenland may be contested, but it’s that impressively sized, arrow shaped piece of land there that I’m worried about. How did they get so far behind lines??

Have you played GoW? That’s like Kratos’ entire thing

Welcome to being a fucking adult. It sucks.

So now we know for certain they did something very specific to reduce the price of eggs (because that’s the example people were using).

So what exactly did they do?

Big gap there between 4 and 400 grams. Yikes.

Side note, it turns out that the paranoia goes away when you’re in a state that doesn’t give a shit

NO FUCKING SHIT

definitely industrial-scale automation systems. Mostly PLCs, but also SCADA for monitoring. Lots of 20-30 year-old tech. Those networks have no reason to be connected to the internet.

You’re talking a massive nation with more systems like this than you could ever imagine. Probably more than all of Europe combined.

They are in every state of repair and disrepair that you could imagine, and many have been receiving government funding for at least at decade now (def more, but I can only speak to the last ten years or so) to replace these systems, including SCADA and PLCs.

So you have a patchwork of countless systems, in every level of tech modernity that you can imagine.

The newer systems usually have an internal network of sorts, and they might have a portal for someone outside the network to log in to remotely monitor.

The problem seems to be that these idiots kept the default credentials, etc.

But to answer you’re question, they’re not all 20-30 years old, and network connectivity (without being open to the outside internet, obviously), is a very useful feature when replacing those old systems with newer ones.

That’s why.