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Lithuania went to Iraq, and Afghanistan, and set up CIA black sites for your convenience, Ukraine gave up its nukes, all moral compromises we made that, of course, people are at liberty to coldly condemn us for as fools for - we were! But you'd think that this means Eastern Europe earned /something/
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The thing that shocked me tonight, that has shocked me over the last several years, is the rolling and increasing normalisation of the idea that even transactional, contractual relationships dont matter. Former ostblok countries that aligned with the US did not do so for free. We went to fuckin Iraq
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The guy who has been very in the whole "what if the us government stops processing payments" thing said official government guidance is that it's pronounced doggy
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Small correction: "Komm Sußer Tod" does technically mean "come, sweet death" – but as something you can "whistle," it's most certainly referring to the iconic song from End of Evangelion.
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What in the fucking world.
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When I first started working at one particular university, a person gave me a tour of the datacentre storage infrastructure and showed me her preferred way of identifying live services - by looking into the fibre optic cable.
Cue a lot of work for me creating a laser safety culture.
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The four genders are Ireland Scotland Jamaica and America
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"what about the perspective of straight women in this model" what are they doing with one of those, they're not supposed to be subjects
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Weyyy
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Bright colourations are conventionally masculine for most birds, obviously he's a faux king
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I feel increasingly beautiful because I associate hotness with grace, motion, weathering, long years of suffering, deep lust for revenge, experienced swordsmanship, number of cutpurses and pirates under their command, a whole 1200 pages to make their point, the fabled hoard of Monte Cristo, no wife,