Someone should make a participation trophy meme

That must feel soul sucking to build :(

I read Naomi Novik’s Temeraire series around the same time I read ROTE and really enjoyed them both.

Oh I see, thanks! The sentence structure was confusing me

“Israel’s policy is clear: no humanitarian aid will enter Gaza, and blocking this aid is one of the main pressure levers preventing Hamas from using it as a tool with the population.”

“It” is Gaza itself? Hamas shouldn’t “use” Gaza “as a tool with the population?”

Also killing journalists which used to be a big faux pas but now it’s apparently fine

Because this isn’t a war it’s an ethnic cleansing

International students from china literally subsidize tuition for american kids, especially at the less affluent schools. Plenty of retaliatory tools left in China’s toolbox.

In terms of both economic and military strength it feels like Trump expected everyone to go “Oh no we need them, guess we’ll have to take a worse deal” but instead they were like “We need stability and can’t trust the US to keep its contracts for the next several years at least, so we’ll have to source elsewhere.”

I like my Ahinsa shoes a lot, but they might be around the same price point as Vivo.

Or worse, they conclude everything was actually perfectly fine and noone did anything wrong despite the obvious victims. Obligatory meme

Sounds interesting! Might check it out.

The american government was designed to serve exactly the people it’s still serving (rich merchants and landowners). It’s working extremely well, they just lied to you about what it was designed to do.

Universities are already required to do ‘export controls’ checks and create access control plans for sensitive research data and tech. Wonder why they’re targeting these particular students (who’ve already been vetted).

I want to hike to Mordor