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https://twitter.com/historyofarmani/status/1395720199735848960

Isn't Israel always the side that breaks the ceasefire agreement? For defense, of course. Like burning crops, and destroying wells.

https://twitter.com/lumberjakeass/status/1395405375709585416

You know, the most cursed thing I ever learned is that the noodles in instant noodle packets are precooked. This means it's possible to rehydrate them with anything that's a liquid at room temperature, and "cook" them with normal water. Yes, this means you can rehydrate instant noodles with vodka and eat it. For the love of all that is sane in this world, please do not do that, but now you know. You will always know.

Every time I eat instant noods, I'm always reminded of this cursed fact. Why has this fact been living in my head rent-free? It's not outright disturbing or not-sane, but it sure as hell gets a "Please don't bring that up." from my brain every time the fact-recaller recalls it.

First off, RUMen noodles. Rum, not vodka.

This is the most legit WTF I've come back to in a long time, well done.

Also, I'm heating up some ramen in some chicken broth now, because this revelation has uses outside of cursed internet horror.

Yeah, probably a better use for that information.

I am a dummy

We all are from time to time.

However, I also come here with a question: Are there any characters you'd like to see as agents? I'm a modder and while I am no good at making the visuals, I enjoy getting cool new game mechanics to work. (Typically, agents have a unique augment = passive perk, or a unique item = active ability)

Someone who is more effective the fewer agents you have. A lot of the gameplay seems based around getting up to the max number of agents as fast as possible (so you can have more actions, and keep more enemies pinned down), so someone who starts great then gets worse the more agents you have would be interesting.

Looks like biden is officially pressuring israel to ease down, which is what a president should do. Israel definitely has taken it too far really, and hamas has been set back multiple years so not a threat to israel anymore. Though it still to me is "status quo", iran funds hamas, US funds israel...like a shadow war? I guess could call it? Sounds like a good term to name it to me, but maybe not accurate.

They aren't a threat anymore? One of the major complaints from the people shooting civilians with fighter jets is that Hamas had rocks stockpiled.

We're still funding them, and preventing the UN from stepping in.

I assume this is like pressuring ICE to quit putting kids in cages: saying the right thing publicly, while spending extra money to make sure nothing changes. I assume there will also be more efforts from the US to keep journalists away like there was the concentration camps. We don't need people finding out what we're actually doing.

Is this controversial? The only people I see saying anything else are a niche of "future billionare if I just work hard at McDonalds" Americans, whereas pretty much everyone else thinks the idea of tips as a wage substitute is awful.

I've gotten a lot of people angry by saying rapist, bigots, and genociders are bad. Like you said, mostly Americans, but some otherwise civilized-seeming people as well.

Not paying people for work, because they're doing a "lesser" job? Lots of people here support that.

Quote from: Duuvian on May 16, 2021, 05:36:26 am

I apologize for not understanding; does your country achieve better interest rates than the EU? Will it receive less than it puts in or something? Are you against higher spending in general or specifically on this as a principle? IIRC Europe faced decisions the last recession and chose austerity, and in addition to the gains made by some political parties I mentioned above which seemed to be worrisome at the time to the Euro public, also took longer to climb out of the recession, though it has been many years and my memory likely deceives me in ways due to that as well as my general ignorances of the details of this proposal and European politics.

As with all things, people are worried that EU money comes with strings attached; for example majority of Italians would go apeshit at the EU if forced to accept austerity measures in exchange for bailout money

As they should. Austerity is always designed to benefit the people in power at the expense of the poor.

A lot of the issue is, Palestinians have been fighting against genocide and apartheid for 70 years. Few if any Palestinians living today remember any time that Israel wasn't warcriming them. When you're in a fight for survival, a peaceful version of status quo is just you being killed slower, and is unacceptable. They've agreed to peace before, and got nothing out of it. They've also learned that as long as the US and other right-wing regimes are on the UN security council, they will never be able to trust help from the UN. At this point, it would be literal suicide for them to accept they're being offered. Hamas isn't the solution, but neither is allowing Israel to continue killing them off and keeping them as a permanent underclass.

A lot of the issue is the UN Security Council, which is where nations who are more equal than others get to refuse to accept solutions that don't let them profit off the suffering of others. Removing it entirely so the UN is actually able to do what they're supposed to would help.