Fragilfox
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Fragilfox
@Fragilfox1
Born in Connecticut, living in New York state. Husband, Network Engineer, Wargame Designer, Weightlifter, Boxer. Deep Thinker.
New York Beigetreten Aralık 2022
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It looks like the Iran business is winding down so I think now would be a good time for Panicans to sit and reflect and think about their conduct over the last month or so, and really put some thought into how they're going to act in the future, and maybe whether or not "following the news" is really for them
Just Loki@LokiJulianus
“Iran is considering a short-term pause to shipments through the Strait of Hormuz to avoid testing a US blockade ...” (Bloomberg) It's over. Even the already-sanctioned, uninsured, falsely-flagged, ghost fleet vessels are tapping out.
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Platonic ideal of a DSA ‘public supermarket’ is huge giveaways to cronies, expensive unionized workforce, and then everything is just stolen off the shelves regardless.
Just another freak in the Freak Kingdom@Dimitri_Kissov
@feelsdesperate I'm betting the 'loss rate' will be epic and no one will lift a finger to stop it. The outside shoplifters may get some press, but the real losses will come from the inside. Watch Facebook Marketplace for deals soon after this opens
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@TheBrandonMorse Heh, this is totally not ripping off BIOSHOCK, nosirree.
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This game is dragging out the innate dad instinct of every male gamer and it's driving fatherless people into fits of rage.
PRAGMATA@PRAGMATAgame
Your name is...Diana #PRAGMATAMoonBytes - Part 15
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Look at the number of German contingents-- from the German states, of course, Germany the nation didn't exist yet-- used by Napoleon Bonaparte to conquer Spain and then garrison it against both insurgents and Coalition invasions, and you wonder if that didn't expend a few generations' worth of hostility ?
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Just realized that Spain and Germany have not really gone to direct war since the Habsburg succession.
Since then, even when they are on opposite sides, they don't really actually fight one another.
It's just been 300 years of "coworker you talk to a few times a month" energy.
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@Med1_D1v3r Allowing players to choose and build a grenade launcher load between, say, HE, Fire, Gas, Electric grenades is such an obvious upgrade that I must believe that it's on the way, perhaps with the not-too-distant SEAF warbond.
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Wanna remind you guys that in the first game when you upgraded the grenade launcher enough the grenades became incindiary.
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Enemy institutions.
If my kids want a book, they can run downstairs to our library, where everything has been carefully curated by someone who doesn’t hate them.
Abby Roth@classicallyabby
I believe that being able to bring your children to the library (where there are toys and activities available) is a litmus test for your parenting.
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And those core goods will never be available. Their shelves will always, always, lie empty.
Mostly Harmless Research Monkey@dangitdale66
Weird. Communism keeps not working.
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@SandyofCthulhu We mentioned David Drake earlier; he was involved with several boardgame and RPG companies who created game supplements based on his books.
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The excitement of getting Lovecraft to play Call of Cthulhu with me would probably give me a stroke.
Or should I play some other game with him?
MarkyX 🌹 MafiaBlitz.com@Marky_X_
Your favorite dead author came back to life and they want to know about this weird "board game thing" you like so much. Who is that author and first game you are playing with them ?
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Because it's never going to be a grocery store. It's a way to funnel $10M/year to his friends.
Michelle Tandler@michelletandler
How on earth can it cost $30 million and three years for the NYC government to build a grocery store in Harlem? There are *dozens* of grocery stores for sale, all over New York City, for less than $5M. Many are less than $1M. This seems like a scam. (or vanity project)
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The problem isn’t that there were arbitrary rules even, the problem is the justification for the rules were sold as for your benefit when they were for the teachers benefit.
She didn’t want you reading ahead not because it was important you are part of the class discussion but because she hadn’t read that week’s lesson plan yet. She didn’t want you to read above grade level not because you weren’t ready, but because those books are unfamiliar to her and she won’t be able to grade the report. Showing your work is important for gaining mastery, but once you’ve achieved mastery it’s just busy work, but that’s how the grading template tells her to grade your work.
If you were a smart kid in a school without the resources to keep you interested in school, you had to deal with authority figures giving you arbitrary rules that were against your interests in favor of hers. It’s not the end of the world or anything, but it was a frustration.
memetic_sisyphus@memeticsisyphus
It’s true, every halfway intelligent right winger I know irl had a massive conflict with at least one elementary teacher over things like: reading ahead, reading too difficult books, not showing enough work, etc etc. it’s the first time we experience the uncaring tyranny of state bureaucracy and it sucks.
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@CharlesVasey @Clint_Davey1 Not sure if I'd really call Sweden a military powerhouse for an entire century, either.
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@Clint_Davey1 "Both nations were military powerhouses in the 17th century." And then, suddenly, they weren't. The value of empire is glory divided by taxes said Lord Salisbury, I'd say for these two it was glory divided by casualties
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One of the biggest rivalries in history that you might not expect:
SPAIN 🇪🇦 versus SWEDEN 🇸🇪
Both nations were military powerhouses in the 17th century.
Spanish infantry in their famous Tercio formations dominated battlefields from Italy to Flanders to Germany. Dense, deep pike blocks with squares of musketeers on the corners. Roughly a 1:1 ratio of pikes to muskets and very hard to break.
Sweden under Gustav Adolphus had gone through a military revolution and had begun using more flexible, thinner formations with greater firepower. Swedish battalions had a roughly 2:1 ratio of muskets to pikes and fought 6 ranks deep (later 3 ranks deep). They also had integrated mobile light artillery - "leather guns".
Spain was united with the Holy Roman Empire through the Habsburg dynasty and was the champion of Catholicism in the Thirty Years War.
Sweden took up the leadership of the Protestant cause in the 1630's and marched down into Germany to challenge Habsburg-Imperial dominance.
The Swedes defeated tercio-style tactics at Breitenfeld (1631) - though this was mostly an Imperial German army and not Spanish.
When the Swedes met actual Spanish Tercios it was at Nordlingen (1634) and the Spanish won.
The Swedish tactical system may have been the way of the future, but the Tercio Viejos (Old Tercios) still had the upper hand on the battlefield.
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@TheColeBrew I think we get the trailer on Thursday and the WB next week. They wanted to avoid the Pirate game and the game that is TOTALLY not Bioshock this week, I think.
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Every time you see a headline like this and think “why the hell would you want 50,000 shark fins?” it always leads back to rich Chinese guys trying to get bigger boners
Breaking911@Breaking911
Officials seize 50,000 shark fins disguised as car parts at U.S. ports -KTLA
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@CharlesVasey @DrFrancisYoung They sell a Night Watch set through the Rijksmuseum but the shipping is so expensive that it would be cheaper to have them custom-crafted here in the Colonies. Not even Amazon can help he with them..
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@DrFrancisYoung They do a cracking Henry the Lion and the Empress Mathida
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I’ve now added a Playmobil Goethe to my collection, joining Playmobil Luther, Playmobil Napoleon, and Playmobil Cistercian monk of Eberbach Abbey
Dr Francis Young@DrFrancisYoung
I’d heard rumours that a Playmobil Cistercian monk was a thing that existed, and I can now confirm those rumours are TRUE. It’s not easy to get hold of tho - a special limited edition for Eberbach Abbey
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@AlysssaHazel In completely unrelated news, Netflix this morning released a trailer for their upcoming "Little House on the Prairie" series.
Netflix..
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I don't know how good it'll be, but-
This Mother's Day Weekend The Sheep Detective arrives. It's a PG Comedy Murder Mystery.
If you like Hugh Jackman, great. If you don't like him, the premise is he gets murdered.
Are family films making a comeback?
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The long, long list of excuses comes out now from the same people who also did not report about Weinstein, Epstein, and P. Diddy. The excuses are always the same.
Stephen L. Miller@redsteeze
I wanted to report Eric Swalwell sexually abusing staffers but I couldn't because it wasn't my beat? What? What the actual fuck.
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