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Third World is an outdated term to refer to neutral countries in the cold war.

Unless there was a sudden dramatic shift in US geopolitical policy it would literally be impossible for it to be considered third world, as the very definition of third world as the definition inherently implies that the country in question is not allied with the US and the broader Western World.

Austria and Switzerland were third world, technically Yugoslavia was too. China became third world for a decent stretch after the sino-soviet split since the other half of the definition relies on not being allied with the Soviets in particular.

The use of third world as an insult for poor countries is a neo-colonial mindset that just takes for granted that anyone who isn't an outright ally of the west or of the Russians must just be too poor to be worth considering as anything but uneducated people in dirt houses living subsistence lifestyles and who's main interaction with an apparatus of state is occasionally seeing a humvee loaded up with the child soldiers of this warlord or that drive by.

It was still a distance shoot at that range, and apparently those are actually harder to hit than media marksmanship makes it seem

I would say when two opposing personified forces clash it becomes a man vs man fight.

IMO Man to Man covers peer against peer as well as literal fights between two normal human beings.

Fights between particular vampires in the Castlevania series would also be considered man to man even if they are very specifically not human, they are still people with thought process and human level decision making ability, so man vs man conflict still applies.

Questions of how a gun got past the metal detectors have me wondering if this was a Shinzo Abe scenario and someone hid a makeshift weapon or ghost gun somewhere that wouldn't get checked in the security checks before they got in

Edit: looks like I'm paying out to the betting pool, the idiot just hid on a roof outside where the feds were stationed.

If you're gonna be putting a number lock or anything of the sort on anything, make it a lock box to keep the key for the door in.

Focus on a secure key lock instead of trying to find a better alternative, the best you can do is a harder to pick key lock.

I believe that this is the last off ramp we have before it's Biden or it's Trump. The only reason this discussion is worth entertaining is because people who haven't hated Biden's guts from go are raising the concern now too, but since it's being had, we'd best have it now before the conference locks him in like it or not.

I think the criticisms of his fitness for office are dramatically overblown and stem from a general lack of public awareness that, even setting aside his reputation of being a gaffe machine long predating any concerns about his age, the man has a speech impediment and has to put concentration into communicating clearly that most people don't. There could be a full blown super computer operating in his head and we'd probably still see him flubbing about as often I believe.

That being said, what is a valid concern is that his inability to communicate clearly without direct attention on doing so has lost him enough morale that there is open talk even among his staff of the viability of a mutiny, and I'm not so sure he's still got time to definitively route the scheming before the convention. I'm thinking more and more he's gonna get challenged on the floor and the DNC will force a brokered convention to make Joe fight for the nomination if he wants it with the rising concerns.

This conversation isn't going away on its own. A decision has to be made and implemented thoroughly, and without any fucking about over it.

I mean they had a lot more than that if Tasting History has taught me anything.

Granted very little of it was anything like what we think of today in terms of your typical meal. Ketchup started as a fish sauce from SE Asia and the French some the fuck how figured out how to burn a mead so bad the whole thing is charred, and decided to label it high cuisine anyways.

Depends on who's working the terminal, nano vs vim difference

Normally I'd be suspicious of these kinds of megastructure projects but Vegas is the city that figured out how to get damn close to net zero water use from the Colorado so I'm willing to start off with the benefit of the doubt for the city leaders that ok'd this.

Maybe if the mcu transitions to anthology style showings instead of saga based story telling. People are tired with grand narratives that require you to have watched like 20 other movies to understand everything going on reliably.

If Deadpool shows up in a Spidey movie, there's enough cultural saturation for the Audience to just get that it's Deadpool, skip the lore baiting and get to the Merc With the Mouth crossing wits with the Quip Thwipper. We're not here for the chapter of a greek epic, we're here to see a fun superhero movie! DC is making noises like they've begun to sniff this idea out.

How does it just create a different owning class if they're all at war with eachother?

You're coming across as very "nothing but 'just do revolution bro' is real change!" right now ma dude.

If they've got favorite colors or colors that hold special meaning to them, prioritize gems with those colors over diamonds.

Even elaborate pieces will still be cheaper than an equivalent diamond ring because the prices are that overinflated for those things.

Also if they like purple, see if you can get the body of the ring in purple gold if it's in the budget, might not be as much of a cost conscious choice as seeking alternative gems but it'll look sick!

"Makes for better grip strength while I peg dudes."

I am shocked! Shocked that the Germans aren't running that shit on bureaucratic paperwork filing instead.

I thought Whatsapp was the big family communication hotness outside the US, are they able to use that?

It's different for everyone, but if someone gets in your head in a way that the first thing you think when you enjoy something is that you'd enjoy it even more if they were there to share it with you, to quote the big pizza pie, that's amore! Or rather, it's romantic feelings that are fertile ground for full blown love to grow from.

From there it's all about how your emotions feel to you.

I mean if the WiiU taught Nintendo anything it was probably not to rush the next big upgrade until you're positive it'll actually be a worthy following act.

That's actually not entirely true, although what is true is arguably even worse.

See money does keep buying you happiness....just in diminishing returns.

So basically, the ultra wealthy are drug addicts forever chasing the satisfaction they once knew when they got their first big hit having achieved an independent standard of living, but every dose is less and less effective even as they keep upping it, eventually they die strung out and paranoid of everyone around them.

I literally just made the owning class start a battle royale against each other and you want to argue nothing fundamentally changes? What are you worried it's gonna be a .io game and we're gonna end with a big fat superowner who ate everyone else?

Agreed, but just saying "you can only have this much money" will get fought tooth and nail, IMO the way to do it is through basing the rates in tax brackets on the percentage of wealth controlled by people in those brackets.

It's not a "hard" cap, but it does pit the rich against each other to have more than the other rich assholes while not having so much that they're all paying an above 100% tax rate.

Might not be as delicious as frying them for ourselves, but watching the rich eat each other will be far more entertaining, and is shown to be far more effective. Take it from the once Shah of the Sasanian Empire Kavad, if any one noble is getting too powerful, the best tools to use in bringing them down is other nobles jealous of their ascendency.