Mostly harmless
Great idea! Let’s also expel Italy with its fascist government, or France where the nazi woman got 40+% of the votes last time, or the Dutch and their largest faction in their parliament that happens to be far right. Shall I continue?
The English word ‘speaker’ has multiple meanings. In Hungarian, there is a different word for a speaker device that casts sound (hangszóró, “sound caster”) and Speaker of the House of Parliament (házelnök, “president of the house”).
Still, when googling one, you may get results for the other. 🤷
We promise it won’t happen again, but when it does happen again, it still won’t matter.
Rest assured that when it does, we will make every effort to promise once more that it won’t happen again.
I’m not familiar with the books, and the plot summary of their Wikipedia article does not mention nuclear propulsion whereas the article for the series does, so I went with that.
Unless what bothers you is the x followed by the apostrophe and the s, which I never know when to omit the s, so it is what it is.
It’s not uncommon in scifi. Netflix’s Three Body Problem also explores such a solution in quite some depth.
She’s an inanimate fucking object!
I was listening to a podcast on moral philosophy (wouldn’t you wanna be as cool as me??), and one suggestion that’s stuck with me was the morality of, trigger warning,
‘life like child sex robots’.
As in, would we as a society want to permit such things, knowing that they could potentially save humans from actual harm if they offer an outlet that scratches an itch? On the other hand, would they bring forth more harmful desires in a greater number of potential perpetrators, leading to even more harm?
Anyway, I’m glad it’s not my job to contemplate such disturbing topics.
Cannon fodder is a gender neutral job.
If you ever feel useless just remember somebody designed and implemented the share-to-facebook feature on porn sites.
An absolutely horrifying crime, and I’m not trying to make light of an awful tragedy, but some of these names sound like they were randomly generated from a Hollywood database that includes names like Scarlett Johansson, Eddie Redmayne, Daniel Radcliffe, Amanda Seyfried, etc.
Sequel server grinds my gears.
Ask them while you can.
All the more important to remind the genociders that they were the genocidee in living memory.
This is one of the very last Holocaust Memorial Days with some actual survivors still present. Those who were 16 when they were liberated are 95 now. Not many who were younger then actually survived, and not many who were older then are still alive now.
Dafuq are they popping fireworks about on July 4th amirite.
He didn’t learn from Navalny’s example. Clearly there has to be a stronger message to anyone who might come after this guy.
Having accidentally shot himself twice in the back of the head.
Learned from Putin.
It will be less of a spectacle for outside observers, as Chinese officials tend to be disappeared, not suicided. When they fall out of favour they don’t often fall out of windows straight after.
What a hot pile of garbled mess… I envy your confidence talking about things that you evidently have absolutely no idea about.