Yeah, and also Russian/Chinese oligarch regimes. What’s your point?

The Guards’ statement included a reference to another ship, which it said was hit by projectiles - usually a reference to drones - on Wednesday morning.

I was wondering that, from the pictures of at least the Thai Cargo ship the damage looks to be too minor to be from Anti-ship Missiles. Looks like Iran is holding back those for more meaty targets like US warships and the geography makes it hard to catch all those before they get to be a real threat. Just one of those slipping through can cause massive damage.

Well was it a Noor, Qader, Ghadir, Ra’ad, Nasr-1, Kowsar, Zafar, Khajir Fats, Hormuz 2, maybe an old expect they had lying around.

(I was just going to make the joke and name 2 or 3 Anti Ship Missiles, then looked it up and was amazed just how many different ASM systems Iran has in their arsenal, that list isn’t even half of the models listed.)

That’s such a clever trick - to make that whole thing about who pressed the button on that specific missile instead of having a debate about how starting the war created the circumstances that made the pressing of the button possible in the first place.

“I stand for my beliefs,” Spud said after the two were separated. “I’m going to peacefully stand here and support my beliefs. I support ICE and law enforcement,” Spud said.

“You can go peacefully f–k yourself!” the student who punched Spud yells.

What a legend.

“That’s against school code. No swearing in the school,” Spud responds.

And what a weasel.

Fr, if earl grey doesn’t count I’m lost

He was very self critical so he refused to publish most of his work, but he was still published and acknowledged during his lifetime although not with the world fame he has now, other famous German speaking authors mention and acknowledge his work during the 20s. Also he died very young, so most of his work was unfinished.

Some argue that, after he wrote “The judgement” in just 8 hours one night, a fiery explosion of creativity and geniality, he was often disillusioned with the slow and exhausting progress most of his other work made.

A lot of his work was unpublished and unfinished until his friend Max Brod published it posthumously against his wishes.

That he died penniless can be described as an exaggeration, he was very successful in his daytime job, although he was not fond of it. But he never managed to earn a living as a writer, so much is true.

Will absolutely do, after writing this comment I pulled out Metamorphosis and read the first couple pages again and it’s just so good. Like I said the societal observations are so sharp, I am German native and even more than a hundred years later it is still on point, everybody trying to bring a rational attitude in a otherwise completely absurd situation.

It reminds me a little of the German comedian Loriot, he also had a way of describing exactly that. There is a Loriot sketch where a man enters a bathroom in a hotel, to get a bath, just to find another man sitting in the bathtub. So he gets into the bathtub with him and they start to argue with each other about if they want to have water now and later about if the rubber ducky can also join in the tub, without ever really addressing that they are together in a bathtub. All the while they stay perfectly polite with each other, using each other’s full names and titles (Herr Müller-Lüdenscheid! I insist that you water the duck now! - Herr Doktor Knöbel, my duck won’t share the tub with you!). It is so absurd it brings me to tears laughing.

In my highschool German class we read Kafkas “Metamorphosis”, it gave me weird dreams for weeks.

In a literary sense it’s a masterpiece, simple yet intricate. The first sentence alone is genius :

“Als Gregor Samsa eines Morgens aus unruhigen Träumen erwachte, fand er sich in seinem Bett zu einem ungeheuren Ungeziefer verwandelt”

“As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect”.

No backstory, no explanation, the reader is left with the same confusion as the characters. Then the societal observations he weaves in are sharp yet puzzling.

I recommend it highly, but be prepared for strangeness and being left with an uneasy feeling.

Isn’t that even argued in the episode? Like Q wanted to humble Picard when he doesn’t want to accept him onto the Enterprise as a crew member and Picard criticizes his interference. Then Q says something like “You are not prepared for what awaits you”. Indicating that he has other motives than his usual tricksterdom.

Q has always had a certain curiosity for humanity and his actions are always layered but in this instance I think the layers are only.hiding his intent on helping humanity/Starfleet prepare for threats bigger.than anything they have ever encountered.

And later he says something like “If you can’t handle a bloody nose you should go home and hide under your bed” meaning something like “if you’re out here you have to be prepared to face threats and horrors unimaginable to man.”

Left photo they’re in the third frame from the top, right photo they’re in the second frame from the top, so correct, it has to be different incidents.

It also illustrates his hypocrisy pretty well. You won’t get deported as long as you’re useful to me.

So he hopes the world has forgotten what he said by then. 2 weeks is Trump’s tell - either he doesn’t want to commit, or he has no idea what’s going on, either way in two weeks he hopes everybody has moved on and forgotten.

Lol everything he has done in these lawsuits was for the sole purpose to hide his money.

5 different corporate representatives were sent and the court ruled every single testimony of those as non responsive to discovery. The last corporate rep to testify was a hired outside lawyer with no experience in civil law, no familiarity with Texas law and had no experience in financial matters. Why would you send someone as your corporate representative, who has no idea what’s going on, or any experience in relevant fields? To obscure the process of discovery and to hide the money.

And immediately admitting he was wrong about it not being torture.

Huh, maybe they are just some sort of fucked up cat.

Yeah, and we didn’t start the fire.

It’s Springsteen, not Billy Joel.

TLDR: Hard disagree on almost anything you just said

Well historically it is not a terrible system, it is very stable and tends to not self implode regularly like democracy does.

Yeah if you ignore for example wars of succession, because of incestuous family ties, arbitrary rule, repression and exploitation of its citizens, one could call it stable… Although the escalation and tyranny unfortunately are baked into the system.

if you look at monarchies historically they tried very very hard to avoid having rebellions in their hands and usually worked in the interest of the nation, as the interest of the nation was the interest of the monarch.

Have you ever read history books? Sure some rulers may have had that kind of view but theres also plenty of megalomaniacal, terribly violent and unjust rulers in those big ol books of history. And since it is an imposed rule of tyranny there’s really only violence to get rid of an unjust ruler, you know a neat thing about democracy? Violence is the last resort to getting rid of rulers because we can vote! Crazy right?

So if a democratic nation seems headed towards anti democratic rule, it would seem to me that a better goal would be to install a monarchy instead of a fascist.

In that case- what’s the fucking difference? Oh, to avoid an autocracy let’s install an autocracy with cherry flavor… Great?

I don’t know what depths we’re talking about here,

From the article:

The idea is relatively simple: hollow concrete spheres are installed at a depth of several hundred metres.