BearGun @ BearGun @ttrpg.network

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I wonder if that's where the mass effect devs got the inspiration for the mass relay design

yea i don't have a problem with people with issues having non-harmful outlets for their urges, even though i might consider those outlets distasteful.

Yea that's been the main issue, not enough resources spent to get the immigrants to actually learn swedish and truly become part of society. Instead you get whole areas filled with people who don't know the language and distrust the government and civil systems, which breeds a whole host of problems.

Yea the Chinese are definitely the only ones who've thought of heaven granting the right to rule.

Yeah no thanks, a PC that can only run one program at a time? that's just a console but worse lol. almost entirely useless as a computer.

I thought they would pull on the hairs but fair enough, can't argue with experience

Wearing stockings on furred legs seems like it would be wildly uncomfortable

That's about on par with what I'd expect from Danes tbqhwyf

1. Those are some nice claims, got any sources for them?
2. If your claims are true, it would be a quite kind depiction of stereotypical jews for the times. Dwarves were a very hardy and highly skilled people, who were quite generous with their craft. Almost the only bad traits they had were because of the incredibly powerful magic rings Sauron gave them, which were designed corrupt them and make them his slaves. They almost fully resisted that corruption, just becoming greedy and isolationist instead.
3. The story transpires in a world where there are actually good gods that help people and an evil god (Morgoth, and later demigod-ish Sauron) that is trying to corrupt and rule the world. I don't think the decline of Men is a metaphor for growing secularism (Tolkien was famously a BIG hater of metaphor and allegory as story telling devices) as much as it is a direct consequence of their in-universe growing secularism and the same happening earlier in the world.
4. "Eastern/Southern men given to evil on brown people" What do you mean? The Eastern/Southern men are the brown people. The reality of it is that the story is one of war, and we're seeing it told from people on one side of the war. That means we're gonna get mainly negative views on the other side. Even so, the first time we see a Man of Harad in the books, the first thought we're given from one of the characters is Sam thinking this about him:

He was glad that he could not see the dead face. He wondered what the man’s name was and where he came from; and if he was really evil of heart, or what lies or threats had led him on the long march from his home; and if he would not really rather have stayed there in peace.”

This is to me a nod towards the Men of Harad (at least, likely all the easterlings) not actually being evil but only being decieved by Sauron (the Deciever).

In general, Tolkien was born in 1892. He likely wasn't a paragon of equality, but i also don't think he portrays any kind of racism or xenophobia if you look past the very surface level of his writings.

To be completely fair they lived in a world where there actually were real differences between the races. In our world racism is silly because there aren't any actually relevant differences between the races, but the differences between elves, men, and dwarves are very real in middle earth. Not enough to pull everyone over a comb (to use a swedish proverb), but at least there's some substance to it.

One does not necessarily exclude the other. Just because they called one group psychos does not mean they don't feel the same for the other group.

What you want to do is create an arc between the stick and the line, and not have it transfer to you. A dry stick would do this quite well, since it would be at ground voltage and as such would provoke a short arc without electrocuting yourself. The fence also probably doesn't have all that much power, likely can't deliver more than a few amps, so it would be quite safe even.

Hey you did also have Tolkien. Not gonna say everything's forgiven, but he pulls a lot of weight.

We used to be "neutral" (even though even then the argument was threadbare at best), but then we went and joined NATO. Can hardly call us neutral now. Even outside of that though, neutrality should not mean you can't call out countries/organisations for doing horrendous shit like war crimes and genocide.

We've publicly condemned Russia for the invasion of Ukraine (among other things) and i think China for something else (was it about Taiwan or Hong Kong or something? I don't recall). There's no real reason not to do the same with Israel outside of not wanting to anger the US.

there's this little human thing called emotions that you might have missed, and some people are real bad at controlling them. the reasons behind that can be varied, but often they have a stake in the game (as in they've bet on it or similar).

Same. God i hate this government.

Why the fuck did we (Sweden) abstain? What the fuck? Sometimes I hate my government man. This is such a fucking obvious vote.

Being better than war crime is not commendable if you're still at terrorism. Just because they've done horrible shit before doesn't mean slightly less horrendous shit should be remarked upon and punished.

We're all going to hell

It's part of the Americas, and more specifically South America, but just America typically refers to the US.