Heard an interview a while ago with a founder of Just Stop Oil who clearly said he doesn't care whether they even stop climate change (around 40:00-43:00).
What does Vincent van Gogh have to do with the current state of the petrol industry?
It's famous, so attacking it gets attention.
"Trump, I think that dictator is an imperialist! His Siberia is colonised, his Chechnya is colonised, and I'm pretty sure that Belarus is colonised!"
"A dictator who has lots of colonies is less likely to invade countries than a dictator whose colony supplies are low"
States are fairly arbitrary divisions of land and I don't think they need representation separate from the representation their people have.
Never heard of it. It's difficult to know how much of the difference is the actual occurrence and how much is the reporting of it.
And that becomes a vicious circle as more children are driven to school, making it more dangerous to walk, so more are driven...
That's more complicated than it sounds. An export strengthening the currency is a significant part of Dutch Disease.
Don't all countries have this problem?
Ranked choice for presidency, proportional for congress (and the senate if that's worth having exist at all).
How do you stop a majority of the electoral college from completely trouncing the concerns of the other states?
It's in the last line of their comment:
But I also get worried that sometimes communies attack their closest allies for being imperfect harder than enemies actively working against their interests.
I bet no one remembers even a quarter of this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump
The heedless shitposting for those who don't remember: https://www.npr.org/2022/11/18/1137474748/trump-tweeted-an-image-from-a-spy-satellite-declassified-document-shows
They give scraps and empty promises until you're no longer useful to them.
The left: We don't stand a chance with all our petty infighting
The right:
Yes, that is exactly what I was saying.
Vague memory, but on looking it up, it's even worse
The only one of these that is remotely acceptable, to me, is Tilda Swindon, because they explicitly detached themselves from the character to avoid getting shat on by the CCP for casting a Tibetan and from Americans for casting a Chinese person.
That makes it worse tbh
With spells trivialising many challenges, what non-combat encounters work well in tier 3-4?
When making a character, do you prefer to start with the mechanics, backstory or aesthetics first?