“Their only motivation to stop fighting is if you take their land” is quite possibly the stupidest thing anyone’s ever said. I have a hard time believing someone actually thinks a person becomes motivated to give up when you take their home from them and make sure they have nothing left to lose. Like… I really can’t fathom what is going through this persons mind if they actually believe this.
Isn’t the Chinese army in fact subordinate to (or a branch of) the CCP though? I mean, it’s a one-part system, so it doesn’t make much of a difference, but I seem to remember that the army is in fact formally controlled by the party, not the government.
PS. Note: I’m not at all sure, just drawing off an old, possibly incorrect, memory.
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Best I can do is three fiddy :/
Accidental means you didn’t have consent.
Dude… at this point you’re just looking for something to be triggered by. If I open the kitchen door and it hits my SO standing on the other side, that’s not domestic violence, it’s an accident. If my hand gets caught in her hair while we’re messing around that’s not non-consensual hair pulling and sexual assault, it’s an accident.
When accidents happen, you apologise, accept the apology, and keep having fun together.
I’ve found myself sitting alone in my car in an abandoned parking lot just listening to some music and wondering what I’m doing with my life. The strange thing is that, by all objective measures, I have a really good life. I have an SO that I love more than anything in the world, and which is fantastic to me, I have parents and siblings that I have great relationships to, I have a job that I really enjoy, and I have good friends. Despite all that, I sometimes get this need to just “disappear” for a little while and isolate myself while listening to sad music. I don’t really enjoy it either, it’s more like some kind of cathartic feeling, like theres some kind of sadness in me that occasionally just wells up and needs to be given some space. It’s quite rare (maybe once a year or something on that order), but it does happen. It’s actually really nice to see that this is something relatable - I’ve never really spoken to anybody about it.
I haven’t really been keeping up with the particle physics community, what is the “next big thing” they’re looking for? In lieu of a single “next big thing” that would be comparable to the Higgs boson, what kind of things are they really looking for at the LHC these days?
The fact that the account is 9 years old (from long before he was famous) points to a potential for this being his real account.
NO!
i^2 == -1 =/> i == √-1
The root is NOT the inverse of the square, and assuming it is will lead you to nonsensical conclusions and banishment to the shadow realm. I reject your imagination and substitute my own… or, I would, but I’m not really up for imagining something funny on the fly right now.
Awake people can preemptively consent to being woken up however they like. Source: I have actively requested and enjoyed being woken up like this.
Not an edit: I REALLY hate it when other people try to tell me what I can and cannot consent to, so this personally grinds my gears.
Same reason a walk feels a lot shorter if you’ve done it many times. A 30 min walk to work feels a lot shorter when you know the route by heart than the first time you walked it, because there’s far fewer new things to process.
I agree that “RTFM” can be insensitive, and even mean. However, the place it comes from is genuine. It’s nobodies job to tell you exactly what page to look at. If you’ve dug through the docs and still can’t find your answer, make it explicit that you’ve searched the manual, and perhaps be explicit about parts you don’t quite understand.
The whole “RTFM” thing was born from people asking for help when they obviously hadn’t made a proper try themselves first.
They go through the same hole as the mouth in the end, though.
Yes, but they’re distinct openings, which means we’re not topologically equivalent to a doughnut when you take them into account. Topological equivalence implies that you can transform one object into another without changing the number of openings. Classic example is a doughnut and a coffee mug (the handle of a coffee mug is the opening). A human would be equivalent to a doughnut with two holes poked through the side into the middle.
Two more out the nose
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Any political party has a variety of “factions” that have different opinions on different topics. The kind of system you’re seeing here is what happens when these “factions” have a lower bar for splitting out and forming their own party. In practice, this means that instead of having a binary or ternary split in the parliament, you get a smoother transition between the extremes, so it’s much easier to find parties that will collaborate.
If you have only two or three parties, the distance between them will typically be so large that they can’t really collaborate on anything. However, when you have 6-8 parties, you’ll typically be able to find a group of 3-4 parties that are able to form a majority compromise on any given issue. Collaboration becomes more fluid (instead of constant “us vs. them”), compromises become easier, and voters get to express a more nuanced opinion at the polls (not just “left vs. right”, but “I want left-wing tax policies, combined with this specific environmental profile, and these specific stances on education”).
This only becomes dysfunctional if the parties/politicians are unable to collaborate and compromise effectively. However, countries with a parliament like the one you see here will typically foster politicians that are able to collaborate and compromise. You won’t survive as a politician in this kind of parliament if you’re a hardliner that refuses to budge on anything.
It’s completely fair to ask a favour of an old friend, I’ve both asked and been asked of favours from people I haven’t spoken to in years. However, I think you should be upfront about it, and not act like you’re trying to get in touch for other reasons. Something like “Hey, it’s been a while, but I just came across XYZ and wondered if you could give me a hand?” is completely fine IMO.