I'm not sure it's logistically feasible even if they really wanted to at this point.
This video is less than 10 mins, and uses pretty rounded off numbers, but it's very illustrative of the magnitude of guns in america. Even going beyond any other problems that enforcement would have like non compliant sheriffs and organized resistance.
They have called hillary clinton, joe biden, and kamala harris woke and socialists. They will do that to literally anyone. As long as the dem candidates are bad policy communicators those labels will stick and be perceived as negative.
Eggs aren't a large part of my current diet, mostly because I am not cooking in the morning often right now, but there was a time when they were very cost effective. Where I was living about a decade ago they were about $1.70 per dozen, and I ate probably a little over a dozen a week. If I was still in that mode; seeing a dozen eggs for $9 would definitely stop me buying them, throw my meal planning into a bit of chaos and tick me off.
If I recall correctly the ones on the plastic coil can be put back on the coil. I definitely misremembered how nail guns work, it's probably been a decade since I used one with any regularity, and I have made a handful of compressed air blowguns.
It definitely could have happened, its just a moderately high effort joke. With the right class and building on shared buy in over a semester or more its not that wild that someone would come up with the idea to do something like this. After all even if it is fake someone came up with the idea just as a written joke.
I love Kim Stanley Robinson, but yeah, he is definitely handwaving past a lot of the feasibility and hard work involved in many of the solutions presented. He is just a writer throwing out ideas more than working thru the struggles of implementing and getting adoption of those ideas.
Oh. The Yalta Myth, I should've guessed. A contender for the founding enemy within type myth for the modern American far right.
What do you think they should have done instead? Immediately gone to war with the Soviets? Congrats! WW3 is much worse than the cold war.
The Soviets already held nearly the entirety of Poland by the time of the Yalta conference. The rest of the allies probably couldn't have done anything to prevent that level of Soviet imperialism, even militarily. See: operation unthinkable, the korean war, the chinese civil war
I think the place they are getting the bit about patience from is specifically dragon quest. Where the devs intentionally positioned it in opposition to other games of the time that required you to get good so to speak.
I read an interview a few years ago, I think with Yuji Horii about the design in dragon quest being set up specifically so that by sinking time in you would eventually overpower everything and progress, even if you never improved at the game mechanics. I couldn't easily find it again when I looked to link it but maybe I will be able to later today.
I'm not sure what your point is? Assad wasn't really stopping that, given that it seems turkey backed some militias that were able to mop him up in like a week with a surprise offensive.
Turkey has already been waging war against rojava for years now, and has been perpetrating a genocide against the kurds more broadly for decades. Their situation has always been dire, but its not over for them.
All the lefties I know were excited about rojava/ aanes. I've never met a lefty in real life that was pro assad, not saying they don't exist, but like: fuck em, assad sucked.
I'm not sure it's logistically feasible even if they really wanted to at this point.
This video is less than 10 mins, and uses pretty rounded off numbers, but it's very illustrative of the magnitude of guns in america. Even going beyond any other problems that enforcement would have like non compliant sheriffs and organized resistance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfaWQd4njB0