What an odd choice… I know you’re referring to the USS Maine and invasion of Cuba, but that was not the start.

When things go the way they’re headed, remember the words of T.E. Lawrence, war with an empire is all flank and no front.

Maybe reading the book written by the guy who started this mess can help us end it.

We don’t need to be animals. No need to force these delusional souls to live in a cave.

Let them build their own houses. But yes no electricity for them.

After all, if they’re pinning for the 1820s they can have it all. Including the mercury enemas to treat every single illness.

But no slaves. Because the North kicked the traitorous South’s ass.

One big protest can easily be shut down. Split this into dozens of protests at different intersections and the cops will be hopelessly outnumbered at every location.

When in doubt, always remember that most people aren’t actually good at their jobs, especially when shit goes wrong.

Cops are hired based on their ability to follow orders, and specifically not for their ability to solve problems.

Also, the little shit shooter was kicked out of his highschool gun club for being a terrible shot.

Any other inconsistencies come from people trying to cover their asses after the fact.

Mark Rober already did that.

Tankies, the original meaning was to refer to those who cheered when Stalin sent tanks in to crush the Hungarian communist party because they wanted independence from the Soviet Union. The term was revived when China literally crushed a student protest using tanks.

Any country riddled with landmines. They’re the only ones that need it.

War crimes if you force enemy soldiers to do it. Technically forcing enemy soldiers to do anything at all is a war crime.

Not war crimes if it’s community service ordered by a judge due to conviction for crimes committed by the subject.

Fun fact, Condorcet is the inventor of RCV, and threw it out because it almost never produces the Condorcet winner.

I’m an opponent of RCV for none of those reasons.

No, I hate it because it’s deeply flawed and provides zero of the benefits that proponents claim it does.

Rather than help third parties, it actually hurts them.

The inventor of the system, created it as an example of a bad voting system. This was in 1790.

There’s far more ballot spoilage when compared to any other system.

It doesn’t eliminate the spoiler effect, just kicks it down the ballot a bit,

It’s confusing to count, which has led to the wrong candidate being sworn in.

It requires centralized counting, which is a single point of failure or attack.

And finally there are better, simpler systems that actually do the things that RCV proponents claim RCV

It’s a fun game, and the movement system was not actually that hard to learn.

But the upper level players are all doing animation interrupts to put out crazy combos for much faster movement and attacks.

A beginner will learn these interrupts just by playing an hour or so, but chaining them? That takes skill and dedication beyond the norm.

I do remember winning the occasional match, but it was rare. Overall it was a fun game.

GunZ is still around? I played that game back in the day. I remember the skill curve being somewhat vertical…

If you want to be sad, read up on the Residential Schools.

1948 was 50 years before the last of those hellholes closed.

And yes, Canada has semi-officially recognized it as a cultural genocide. With actual genocide recognition passed by the House of Commons in 2022.

Trump didn’t force Netanyahu into a ceasefire, that’s a blatant lie.

The two announced a ceasefire and then, never actually ceased firing. So yeah, I’ll agree that a fake ceasefire was never a possibility under Biden, because he would never have gone along with it.

Also, the reports are still saying that Harris was not a fan of Biden’s policy on Israel. So yes, the worse option is so much fuck worse than the alternative. The worse option is speedrunning the genocide, trying for a new record of innocents killed in the shortest timeframe.

(d) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-53220713

(e) https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-56454609

There are far more, but those two are already enough to prove the point.

Trump has imposed sanctions on the ICC, the International Criminal Court, because they ruled against Israel.

This has actively harmed the ICC in their mission.

USAID was feeding Gaza, Trump has ordered the food to rot in storage rather than disburse it.

And there are dozens of other things that Trump has gleefully done to specifically hurt Palestinians.

While the lesser evil was bad, the greater evil is so much worse.

There are a few small scale chocolate companies that actively avoid child labor.

And then there’s Nestle on the opposite side of that spectrum. Not just child labor, but child slavery.

They talk a good game about eliminating child labor, but always seem to look the other way in their supply chain.

Chameleons don’t actually change color the way people think they do.

First off, the natural state of a chameleon is green, which blends in to the forest fairly well. Their color change is a mating tactic, and so favors bright and vibrant colors.

A chameleon changing colors isn’t hiding, they’re horny.

Or angry. Or scared, or well, any strong emotion. Basically a chameleon is a living mood ring.

Now, if you want true instant camouflage, that’s an octopus. They can not only change colors, but their own surface texture. In their case, they get the info about what to look like from their numerous suckers alone their legs.

That list is super helpful. So many games to avoid. Although, I was somewhat surprised by the number of Denuvo removed I’ve gotten through Humble.