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Cake day: September 8th, 2023

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  • Your will will be enforced until such a time comes where nobody really cares anymore and the trust you set up ran out of money. Probably around the time when there’s no one alive that met you personally. I’m sure a lot of Romans and Egyptians, emperors, empresses, kings and queens had wills too. Even the pharaos had their graves dug up and put in a museum for everyone to see. Just embrace it, you’ll be gone, off to a merry afterlife or the quiet obliviousness of non existence. Why worry so much about bones.


  • This game is dated but it is so good. It’s an RTS-RPG hybrid where you have a limited number of soldiers who gain experience and can permanently die. You get a few more along the campaign but you get attached to them and don’t wanna lose dialogue. So initially you start building your base and manning everything with your characters but late game It’s mostly automated tanks and turrets, to prevent death of characters.

    The turrents and tanks are modular. You have different guns, missiles, utility attachments and they can be armored or non armored and have different types of power systems. Solar, diesel and later on, a sort of nuclear. The tanks become useless if they run out of power. People can change job at will by changing clothes and can be soldiers (with snipers, machine guns or rocket launchers), mechanics, engineers or scientists.

    The story is pretty great. The US and USSR discover a new mineral that is power dense, non polluting and allows to build cool new things that manipulate time and space. Among these things is the ability to time travel. So they send soldiers back in time to the prehistoric time with the mission to move all the reserves to their respective homelands in the future, and then live out their lives and die. Both of them succeeded, in different timelines, and in both cases the loser sent soldiers back in time to prevent what the other did. This creates a war between two different timelines, the one where the US lost vs the one where the USSR lost in the past. You follow two campaigns one as the Americans who lost and one as the USSR soldiers who lost and they even have different names for the minerals. The Americans call it Siberite because in their timeline it was found in Siberia. The USSR soldiers call it Alaskite.

    In the end (spoilers) >!you can have the Americans win, the Soviets win or a third ending where the Americans and Soviets make a new country and use the new resource to usher in an age of utopia for humanity educating the early humans and jumpstarting civilization.!<


  • At some point someone will stop paying for the cemetery plot and that plot will go to somebody else, usually 50 years after the person is dead and all their direct relatives don’t care anymore. The old bones are buried deeper or cremated and the grave stones will be recycled. Corpses don’t become permanent owners of cemetery land. Maybe in some honorary great war cemetery as a recognition of the sacrifices, but not as a norm. They’re leased for the purposes of decomposition.

    Some families can buy mausoleums, which are like little houses on the cemetery, where they end up keeping all the bones of several people all piled up in jars after the bodies are decomposed, but these mausoleums have to be paid for by someone who is alive and at some point there are no descendants or the descendants are too poor to pay or don’t care to pay thousands of euros every so often for the plot and maintenance dues on dead people, so they are torn down and the bones put into the deeper parts of the cemetery with everyone else, where, depending on the soil, it takes between 30-50 years to decompose the bones, provided the cemetery is built on appropriate decomposing ground, but sometimes over 100 if the soil is not appropriate for a cemetery.


  • Any attack or occupation of a country member of the NATO treaty may trigger an article 5 declaration to which all NATO member countries are forced to answer or risk the breakdown of the NATO treaty alliance. Denmark is a NATO country. If Trump decides to pull an Israel, he risks a loss of military, geopolitical and trade allies, as well as a possible war and perhaps even the support of his constituency. If the US tried, it would be like chopping both of its legs and then one of the arms. The downspiral would be catastrophic.

    Fat chance the Trump wranglers would let it get that far. He’s a useful idiot but his powers aren’t unlimited and i like to believe the people who actually govern the US aren’t complete idiots. Greedy, inhumane, arrogant, ignorant, cruel and warmongering monsters, yes, but not complete idiots.





  • Honestly, they don’t really need to prove malicious intent. The stakeholders of the cable should hold the ship owner liable for the cost of repairs, holding the ship captive as collateral until such a time comes that the amount is paid. If the cost can’t be paid, then confiscate the ship and sell it to recoup the cost and as a deterrent measure.

    Whether or not they did it intentionally and why is a matter that should be left to intelligence agencies who will interrogate the crew and collect information about the ship to understand what’s going on and act accordingly.




  • Better do it with the army conducting training exercises nearby then. Appeasement doesn’t work with these kinds of people. They will strike and if conflict is inevitable, might as well push your enemy to meet you on your terms rather than when they’re ready.

    Of course i don’t mean striking first, certainly not in this situation. But carrying out defense within one’s borders isn’t exactly something the international community would see as a valid enough cause of provocation for a preemptive strike. Israel is losing support worldwide and cracks are starting to form in their economy.

    Imagine if Ukraine had properly built defenses when it was clear Russia was about to attack them, instead of starting to build them 6 months after Russia invaded, hoping they wouldn’t attack. The amount of manpower they would have saved. How many times must history teach the same lesson over and over again. How come we even have armies like the Lebanese army who wouldn’t even defend their own citizens from an invading foreign force just to appease. It just doesn’t seem right to me.




  • So yeah, there is no credibility for the ICC. Because of the actions of these countries, the ICC is now a theater court for theater cases. The whole world was watching and it was demonstrated that its use is merely a political tool for countries that aren’t part of a specific sphere of influence and not an impartial court of international law.

    What a shame and disgrace. We will ALL suffer the repercussions of the actions taking place today by countries such as France, the US and Germany.


  • Yes, those are US bootlickers stating their verbal support, but NATO cannot participate in Palestine because to deploy NATO forces article 5 must be invoked by a member country and it must be in response to an attack on said member country. That is the core principle of the treaty. It’s a self defense treaty, of which Israel is not a part of.

    If any country participates in the genocide of the Palestinian people, they do so of their own volition and not at the behest of NATO. Canada leaving NATO or NATO being dissolved would have no bearing whatsoever on the Israeli genocide. The shared NATO membership may foster relationships and cooperation on extra treaty operations, but these are not NATO operations. To be a NATO operation, it has to be an article 5 operation or some operation mandated by the UN, and while the latter has happened, it was highly controversial that it did, as it was beyond the scope of the NATO treaty.

    This protest demonstrates a fundamental misunderstanding of what NATO is or how it works and ultimately even if they got what they wanted, which they won’t, it wouldn’t have accomplished what they were aiming for. The fundamental difference between a NATO operation and an operation of NATO member countries not consecrated in the treaty, is that the former is required to remain in NATO and the latter is completely voluntary.


  • Yeah, same. In Europe, a large rift is starting to appear between the ruling political class and their constituency and they’re starting to notice and thread real carefully on the unwavering support for Israel.

    It used to be like, oh we defend Israeli right to exist and look at how Israel makes the desert bloom and now it’s like oh look it’s a difficult situation, it’s complicated and we must stand by the ICC. So at least we’re heading in the right direction.

    EU universities are withdrawing from Israel partnerships left and right while not overtly saying why, but Israelis know why. And the European education framework policy organs can’t really do much about it, as all participation is voluntary.




  • Wasn’t there a men movement like this ? MGTOW i believe.

    So MGTOW and 4B, a match made in heaven. Seems they’d get along well. Or not get along. I don’t know anymore.

    What does MGTOW mean?

    MGTOW is an acronym for “Men Going Their Own Way,” a term and movement that represents men who have chosen to prioritize their own lives and interests over traditional societal expectations, particularly in relation to relationships with women. Adherents of MGTOW advocate for male independence and self-determination, often distancing themselves from marriage, long-term relationships, and what they view as a society biased against men. The movement emphasizes personal freedom, self-sufficiency, and a rejection of traditional gender roles that they believe are unfairly burdensome to men.

    Remarkably similar.


  • Oh yeah, many times. I’ve had a guy run his hands through my hair and push a boner against me. I’ve had a teenage girl lick my bicep and giggle at me with her friends. I’ve had an older woman just grab my butt and pretend she didn’t do it. There was another guy who was just petting my shoulders and leg, discreetly through the crowd.

    It’s just those things like what are you gonna do as a guy ? Report it ? Hey mr officer, a teenage girl licked my arm and then her friends giggled at me, if you run you can still arrest them ? I’d just be laughed at. No point reporting it i guess. It’s just gross and annoying. I always chalked it up as problems of living in a big city.

    I’ve never been at risk of being raped though. I am pretty muscular. I can see how it would be scary to be and much, much worse.