If I can save for it I wanna take them on a bike tour around Amsterdam some day, basically a whole vacation of cruising the bike lanes like we found an IRL mariokart track
Met last year through online dating, met once when we were able to and sparks flew when I saw he eyes light up at me mentioning that the intersection outside my front door really should be a roundabout.
Never knew how sexy a politically active dryad could be until I was seeing one whenever we had the chance to meet up. She's legit like a forest spirit that shows up from congress with the fey courts and immediately wants to jump me and it's fucking amazing. 10/10, date the witchy ones if you know how to appreciate them, they will have you under a spell you'll never want to be freed from.
Maybe it's second honeymoon phase since we're getting to see each other for the first time in a few months after I caught a nasty bug, but the needed time apart has just reinforced to me that my life's better with her in it than it is when she's not, and if that's not a healthy foundation for something bigger to be built on, I haven't found what is yet.
I disagree only because the mad king theory makes too much sense to me, which would also explain why Tywin never declares hating Tyrion to others, because it would be an admission that the king he had been hand to had taken his wife from him (consent or no kinda immaterial if he wasn't gonna raise riot over it)
I mean considering the possibility that Christianity crimped at least some of its practices from the cult of Dionysus, might accidentally be exactly correct
"YOU THINK YOU FUCKERS ARE SAFE JUST BECAUSE YOU AIN'T ON OUR TURF RIGHT NOW? NAH, WE COMMIN' FOR YOU IN RUSSIA, WE COMMIN' FOR YOU IN SYRIA, WE COMIN' FOR Y'ALL'S RANCID ASSES IN GODDAMNED SUBSAHARAN AFRICA IF IT MEANS WE GET TO HUNT YOU FUCKERS DOWN!"
I'd imagine all but the densest motherfuckers on the face of the earth would see that the force standing between them and summary execution at best is calling the retreat and realize the value of being alive somewhere else vs dying on the patch of dirt you happened to feel the most attached to at that moment.
There's over a million viable alternatives to DNA as carriers of genetic data, so the odds are actually extremely low that something we could classify as saurian in convergent traits
And that's before you get into even more exotic theorizes forms of life like gas clouds in the interstellar void that appear to form helical patterns when current runs through them, silicon based life in extremophile environments, and possible micro-time lifeforms that can only exist in the interior of different kinds of neutron stars.
Also, the lifeform which got the closest to converging on the great ape body plan, which thus far is the most efficient to be observed for complex use of tools, is actually pre-mezozoic, a Permian proto-mammal labelled Suminia, it even had opposable thumbs, although it is theorized to have primarily moved on all fours, so the thumbs were probably for branch clinging instead of hammer swinging.
Ok at this point I feel like a significant chunk of these atrocities boil down to abject failure to instill discipline.
This isn't how a well trained soldier behaves, this is how some yahoo who got handed a rifle in a catastrophic failure of vetting and pointed at a crowd and told someone bad is in there behaves.
And I know for a fact that Israel's military has vetting standards even for conscripts, one of Netenyahu's cabinet members is noteworthy specifically because he was turned away from military service for being a stark raving mad lunatic who shouldn't be trusted with a loaded gun.
Love how ya just skipped right over the whole part where there's more empty units than there are unhoused people to fill them.
You literally just completely ignored the actual substance of what the landlords are doing that makes housing unattainable in an oversupplied market.
Building entirely new houses is a luxury for people who've lucked out big, we're talking about the supply of housing that already exists, which in numbers alone, should be providing an all time low of prices adjusted for inflation.
The "shortage" is an invented crisis to not acknowledge that we'd have no problems if we took a closer look at how much those landlord parasites actually need that fifth unit they also don't live in.
Yeah, a second house for traveling workers or seasonal migrants is fine, bit luxury but fine, but renting them out is where you're starting to be a dick.
You joke but I could honestly see that being a back pocket approval rating booster for her since draconian pursuit of prosecuting criminal activity is an easy lean in for her career experience.
Honestly what gets me about evac failures and abandonments is the Berlin Airlift.
We had the logistics to mount a months long rescue operation that could get everyone fleeing out decades before these rushed withdrawals.
Everyone in Saigon and Kabul could have been gotten out, fuck we could have mounted a rolling evac bringing collaborators behind lines and transporting them in a trickle so that the last folks out are in a relatively empty air schedule. Expanding and contracting sphere, keep everyone who's in it willingly behind the line so long as they willingly continue to move with it.
More of a appreciation for a dutch thing tbh
If I can save for it I wanna take them on a bike tour around Amsterdam some day, basically a whole vacation of cruising the bike lanes like we found an IRL mariokart track