125 pts · October 12, 2013
Similar to a lot of NATO deployments of foreign troops, a few troops aren't enough to fight back an invasion. That's not their purpose though. They are there as a show of support, and as a tripwire to deter aggression. If someone invades, they will have to kill Swedish, Danish, Finnish, French, German and Dutch troops to do it, however few they are. That is something that cannot be ignored, and the message of that deployment couldn't be more clear.
Keep telling yourself that you are powerless and that it takes other nations to invade a nuclear power to put an end to this regime.A lot has changed since 1945. You can't just decide to gang up and roll tanks into a nuclear-armed nation to violently overthrow their government.Germany had to be invaded by outside powers to get rid of fascism because there was not enough resistance. Because resistance came too late and too weak.
Take a rational look at Germany in 1887 vs today and you can't help but make note of a constant stream of progressive victories. There's been some setbacks like... you know; but those setbacks have always been erased and yada yada. Pretending like it doesn't matter what happens right now because in some vague future things will be better is absurd. How we get there matters. What happens along the way matters. History shows that it's not a guaranteed case of "line goes up".
If you country is at the bring of sliding into fascism and worse, this is what guns are for. They are not for shooting your neighbour, they are not for making a pretty collection out of them and they are especially not for shooting up schools. They are tools to fight oppression and the tyranny of evil men. The true consequences lie in your hands. If the social contract isn't honoured, it needs to be enforced. Protests were a compromise. If they are not respected, it's back to burning estates.
What is Russia going to attack Europe with, exactly? They are struggling and stalling in Ukraine. They had to pull everything away from any of the NATO borders AND from the far east in order to fuel the meatgrinder. There is nothing left to fight another war with. Please get at least a passing understanding of the current situation before you start making wild claims that aren't based in reality. Keeping your eyes open and applying critical thinking is important, blind fearmongering is not.
Saying that Europeans don't understand totalitarianism is just wild to me. "You don't understand, the Blackshirts or the Brownshirts were not like American cops, who can kill you..." We've been through this, there is a reason why police in (most of) Europe aren't private armies. And the solution is not to accept oppression and the degradation of the rule of law in silent submission. This is the time for the American people to show to the world what they are made off. We know what comes next.
Can't forget that he also sided with the Serbians and denies that the Serbians tried ethnic cleansing and genocide. Might not be the best to put a despicable human like Noam Chomsky on a pedestal. What's next, adoring Henry Kissinger? Fuck Noam Chomsky.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted, you are completely right with that. Unless you are willing to swallow horrendous losses, you can either not operate in those environments or buy a 5th generation jet. And the European next-gen projects just aren't there yet, and won't be at that stage in the next 5+ years. There is a serious gap in capabilities that no European alternative can fill, which is why they are all buying the F-35.
The guy who wrote the book "Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint for Survival" died while cave diving. It not the numbers you were asking for, but it is still something worth thinking about. Sometimes not even skill can prevent your death when cave diving.
They evacuated a lot of man and material from their bases last week, there have been satellite images of transport planes and them withdrawing their S-400 systems. Their bases are the port of Tartus and the airbase near Jableh. They seem to be in talks with HTS to strike a deal that would allow them to keep it. But the West currently makes their recognition of the new Syrian government dependent on them NOT allowing the Russians to keep their bases. Also Russia bombed HTS, so there's that.
No, this is from today according to various sources and confirmed by NASA FIRMS. It is, however, not a Russian depot but one of the former SAA. This post has some images and timestamps:https://x.com/nz_trav/status/1868523390195454370
Almost none of that is actually true. You can hand in your TV permit thingies online on their website or through email. A lot of government offices also have online services nowadays, which I personally use frequently. I haven't seen someone actually stamp something in over a decade. And I can't remember the last time I haven't been able to pay with a card, especially since covid. Sure, Paper for the Paper God is still an accurate meme, but not to this extent.
Not all of them do that. I have been renting for 20 years and not once has my rent increased while I was a tenant. My first student apartment was 295€ (40m²) and it stayed like that until I moved out in 2012. Been living in this one since then and it also stayed exactly the same at 470€ (80m²). First landlord was a large corporation, this one is a private landlord. I know that I was fortunate thus far but quite a few people I know haven't had their rent increased either. So it's not universal...
That's rich coming from someone who refuses to acknowledge that Serbia tried to commit not one, but two genocides, and actively spreads misinformation about the whole affair. Anyone who tries to peddle to Serbian nationalists on TV has no merit talking about learning lessons from history.
German here. So far, every time I have moved into a new apartment, it already had a kitchen pre-installed. Same with the bathroom and other large appliances including the fridge. Some rental units also include washing machines and dryers. OP seems to be a small exception to the rule. If you want a new kitchen, you can make a deal with your landlord to share the costs or something similar because a new kitchen increases the value of their property. Most will pay.
Since those are systems individual people can learn quickly and don't require supply or logistics chains to operate against a stronger foe.
Quick reminder that the US thought the war would be over quick and armed Ukraine for an insurgency first. Hence the MANPADS and Javelins.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1568880258631221249 They are not just leaving a few tanks behind. It's dozens upon dozens of military hardware.
Narrative flow should never rely on having to fudge dice. Proper preparation solves this problem
prevent player death during combat. And if a single roll outside combat decides about the life or death of a character, that is bad planning
Most players know when you fudge and it causes suspicion about any lucky or unlucky roll to creep in. There are other, better ways to 1/2
failure as a DM or your preperations. "Cheating" erodes trust between player and DM and shows them that actions not always have consequences
I heavily disagree with having to fudge a roll every now and then. If you have to fudge rolls for a campaign to not break, that is your 1/2
If you organize your life around bronze or iron age mythology, I will certainly judge you for it.
One of those is not like the others. You aren't responsible for age, sex or race. But you are responsible for your ideologies.
Similar to a lot of NATO deployments of foreign troops, a few troops aren't enough to fight back an invasion. That's not their purpose though. They are there as a show of support, and as a tripwire to deter aggression. If someone invades, they will have to kill Swedish, Danish, Finnish, French, German and Dutch troops to do it, however few they are. That is something that cannot be ignored, and the message of that deployment couldn't be more clear.
Keep telling yourself that you are powerless and that it takes other nations to invade a nuclear power to put an end to this regime.
A lot has changed since 1945. You can't just decide to gang up and roll tanks into a nuclear-armed nation to violently overthrow their government.
Germany had to be invaded by outside powers to get rid of fascism because there was not enough resistance. Because resistance came too late and too weak.
Take a rational look at Germany in 1887 vs today and you can't help but make note of a constant stream of progressive victories. There's been some setbacks like... you know; but those setbacks have always been erased and yada yada.
Pretending like it doesn't matter what happens right now because in some vague future things will be better is absurd. How we get there matters. What happens along the way matters. History shows that it's not a guaranteed case of "line goes up".
If you country is at the bring of sliding into fascism and worse, this is what guns are for. They are not for shooting your neighbour, they are not for making a pretty collection out of them and they are especially not for shooting up schools. They are tools to fight oppression and the tyranny of evil men. The true consequences lie in your hands. If the social contract isn't honoured, it needs to be enforced. Protests were a compromise. If they are not respected, it's back to burning estates.
What is Russia going to attack Europe with, exactly? They are struggling and stalling in Ukraine. They had to pull everything away from any of the NATO borders AND from the far east in order to fuel the meatgrinder. There is nothing left to fight another war with. Please get at least a passing understanding of the current situation before you start making wild claims that aren't based in reality. Keeping your eyes open and applying critical thinking is important, blind fearmongering is not.
Saying that Europeans don't understand totalitarianism is just wild to me. "You don't understand, the Blackshirts or the Brownshirts were not like American cops, who can kill you..." We've been through this, there is a reason why police in (most of) Europe aren't private armies. And the solution is not to accept oppression and the degradation of the rule of law in silent submission. This is the time for the American people to show to the world what they are made off. We know what comes next.
Can't forget that he also sided with the Serbians and denies that the Serbians tried ethnic cleansing and genocide. Might not be the best to put a despicable human like Noam Chomsky on a pedestal. What's next, adoring Henry Kissinger? Fuck Noam Chomsky.
Not sure why you are getting downvoted, you are completely right with that. Unless you are willing to swallow horrendous losses, you can either not operate in those environments or buy a 5th generation jet. And the European next-gen projects just aren't there yet, and won't be at that stage in the next 5+ years. There is a serious gap in capabilities that no European alternative can fill, which is why they are all buying the F-35.
The guy who wrote the book "Basic Cave Diving: A Blueprint for Survival" died while cave diving. It not the numbers you were asking for, but it is still something worth thinking about. Sometimes not even skill can prevent your death when cave diving.
They evacuated a lot of man and material from their bases last week, there have been satellite images of transport planes and them withdrawing their S-400 systems. Their bases are the port of Tartus and the airbase near Jableh. They seem to be in talks with HTS to strike a deal that would allow them to keep it. But the West currently makes their recognition of the new Syrian government dependent on them NOT allowing the Russians to keep their bases. Also Russia bombed HTS, so there's that.
No, this is from today according to various sources and confirmed by NASA FIRMS. It is, however, not a Russian depot but one of the former SAA. This post has some images and timestamps:
https://x.com/nz_trav/status/1868523390195454370
Almost none of that is actually true. You can hand in your TV permit thingies online on their website or through email. A lot of government offices also have online services nowadays, which I personally use frequently. I haven't seen someone actually stamp something in over a decade. And I can't remember the last time I haven't been able to pay with a card, especially since covid. Sure, Paper for the Paper God is still an accurate meme, but not to this extent.
Not all of them do that. I have been renting for 20 years and not once has my rent increased while I was a tenant. My first student apartment was 295€ (40m²) and it stayed like that until I moved out in 2012. Been living in this one since then and it also stayed exactly the same at 470€ (80m²). First landlord was a large corporation, this one is a private landlord. I know that I was fortunate thus far but quite a few people I know haven't had their rent increased either. So it's not universal...
That's rich coming from someone who refuses to acknowledge that Serbia tried to commit not one, but two genocides, and actively spreads misinformation about the whole affair. Anyone who tries to peddle to Serbian nationalists on TV has no merit talking about learning lessons from history.
German here. So far, every time I have moved into a new apartment, it already had a kitchen pre-installed. Same with the bathroom and other large appliances including the fridge. Some rental units also include washing machines and dryers. OP seems to be a small exception to the rule. If you want a new kitchen, you can make a deal with your landlord to share the costs or something similar because a new kitchen increases the value of their property. Most will pay.
Since those are systems individual people can learn quickly and don't require supply or logistics chains to operate against a stronger foe.
Quick reminder that the US thought the war would be over quick and armed Ukraine for an insurgency first. Hence the MANPADS and Javelins.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1568880258631221249 They are not just leaving a few tanks behind. It's dozens upon dozens of military hardware.
Narrative flow should never rely on having to fudge dice. Proper preparation solves this problem
prevent player death during combat. And if a single roll outside combat decides about the life or death of a character, that is bad planning
Most players know when you fudge and it causes suspicion about any lucky or unlucky roll to creep in. There are other, better ways to 1/2
failure as a DM or your preperations. "Cheating" erodes trust between player and DM and shows them that actions not always have consequences
I heavily disagree with having to fudge a roll every now and then. If you have to fudge rolls for a campaign to not break, that is your 1/2
If you organize your life around bronze or iron age mythology, I will certainly judge you for it.
One of those is not like the others. You aren't responsible for age, sex or race. But you are responsible for your ideologies.