Formerly /u/Zagorath on the alien site.
Half of them are yank tanks. That checks out. The kind of arsehole who’d buy those cars is the same kind of arsehole that would drive drunk.
Oh yeah, maybe. I don’t really know how you’d measure that.
Sorry, by “standing in the way of” you mean “pushing for improvements to…and succeeding”? That “standing in the way”?
That’s absolute hilarity. More ridiculous than when Laborites criticise their actions regarding Rudd’s climate policy. Because at least that one appears to be a valid critique of the Greens if you don’t have all the details (like how Rudd’s policy would have no reduction in greenhouse emissions for 25 years). But this? Even with the most cursory of looks, the Greens did the right thing here.
It was explicitly created to be “TikTok, but on YouTube”. What would you expect?
Jamie being a unisex name, I dunno if “she’s amazing” is the typo or “he is a guest” is.
cheering for a dude hooking up with his aunt.
Which dude, exactly?
Only one example immediately springs to mind, but that hasn’t happened yet in the books. And the way it happened in the show, I’m not sure was executed very well, but I don’t think it was really portrayed as a case where we “cheer for a dude”. He barely seemed into it, definitely not as much as she was.
That’s just a list of successful coups I could find quickly on Wikipedia that were clearly backed by the CIA during the Cold War. There were other failed attempts, including multiple 1950s in Syria and Indonesia and, yes, Cuba. And other successful coups where the US was definitely involved but it’s not clear to me from a cursory look that it was via the CIA specifically, like 1971 Bolivia and 1976 Argentina. And there have obviously been CIA actions in the time since.
I think the key fact is that in almost no cases did the CIA singlehandedly do a coup. They supported people on the ground who already wanted to do a coup to make their attempted coup more likely to succeed, and to ensure that they’d be friendly to the US afterwards if they did succeed.
Wow, this lyric actually works better than the original, thanks to the near rhyme between walk and fuck.
Like many other admirer’s of Nabokov’s novel of a pedophile who pursues a 12-year-old girl, Rowling loves it for the writing style.
Oh ok, fair enough. Not an especially controversial take.
"There just isn’t enough time to discuss how a plot…becomes…a great and tragic love story
Oh…oh no…
This is how I feel about leftists who join ostensibly “centre-left” parties, in countries that don’t use FPTP.
Like the “Labor Left” wing of the Labor Party in Australia. Guys, you’d be doing so much better work in the Greens.
When I hear an American with the caught/cot merger say “caught”, it sounds way more similar to my (unmerged) “cot” than my “caught”
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Both blue and purple were quite North America–centric. Nova and Northwest would’ve been a good cue for purple and I might’ve eventually figured out British, but I’d never make the connection to Prince and Canadian provinces. Thankfully, US money is iconic enough that “pyramid”, “seal”, and “Washington” were enough to guess that there’s probably also an eagle on there.
Happy cake day!
Do you have ceiling fans? I honestly have rarely even wanted AC because ceiling fans do such a good job at keeping the place cool up to at least the low 30s, when I’m not headed up from doing exercise.
Oh neat, thanks. I wonder when that use fell out of favour.
The reason is that too be a Short it has to be vertical.
It’s become very expensive due to becoming a threatened species, but ebony used to be one of the most popular woods to make musical instruments out of, including clarinets, black piano keys (ivory was used for white keys), and strong instrument fingerboards.
Ebony and ivory used to also pair up in making black and white chess pieces.
These days it’s not illegal to use per se, but a lot of its harvesting is done illegally. You won’t find a lot of new ebony.
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Another fun one today!
I’m not sure what an “saw” is in this context, though.
YT Shorts are basically just TikTok crossposts anyway
Hey that’s not true! Some of them a small clips from longer main videos.
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