Semjaza @ Semjaza @lemmynsfw.com

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Oh, I figured they counted as a huge loss of civil liberties.

US gained the rights to legally murder its own citizens without due process under Obama.

Also loads of giving corporations and capital rights, and rolling back protective anti-investment gambling under Democrat administrations, which ate up the rights of non-capital.

In contrast, bulbasaur is weak to all the birds and bugs that are so common in the early game.

To make it more difficult, Bulbasaur is the only one of the three starters to not learn a STAB move as their first move after the debuff at 5.

Squirtle gets bubble, ember for Charmander. Leech seed for Bulbasaur. And while leech seed has uses late game when you're tanky, it is mostly useless against wild pokémon.

That is to say, both Charmander and Bulbasaur have a lot of trouble early game until you get a diverse team. But Squirtle will just stomp through it all (especially in original Gen1 when Special was imba, combined with its natural high defence state).

He had one, but he fired her and looks to be too stubborn and sure of his own competence to hire another one (or maybe too proud to admit that she was right and useful after firing her for petty reasons).

If there're family in the PRC, they could certainly be on the hook if you're spotted at events Beijing deems sensitive (things to do with Taiwan, Xinjiang, Tibet, the '89 Massacres, 66-77, etc.)

I'd also reckon that your family grew up either with direct experience of, or in the spectre of, the Cultural Revolution. The psychic damage of that can not be understated.

It' s also that the social contract in China is very different to that of the US and Anglophone/European culture countries.

There are valid, logical, reasons for your family's point of view. But it is also a viewpoint that is willing to tolerate a bad society in order for an adequate life personally.

Mainland PRC has no entries after 2016 for the UN site.

The London Prison studies one has an estimate for 2018, and says based off of UN data.

On 百度 I get mixed figures, from 3900 and another states At least 700 a year, but I also think it's talking more globally.

Doesn't seem to be public government statistics, like the UK or EU gov data sites, which would be nice to check things out and show to the rabid anti-China folks.

That's the UN data for Hong Kong, but it was easy enough to find the page for the PRC, excluding Hong Kong and Macao. The figures still line up well enough (noting, as the other page does that it exclude statistics about people interred in the "vocational training schools"), although the UN doesn't have figures post 2016.

UN page doesn't seem to have execution rates either, which would also impact incarceration rates.

Not to say that the US isn't atrocious and also terrible on all those metrics, and plumbing new lows with each successive presidency. I was just kinda hoping for some more official PRC reported figures.

I've been looking for Chinese prison-crime-etc. data. Do you have a link?

It being in Mandarin isn't a problem.

Make it a question with a third ma.

So "ma ma ma?" (妈麻吗?)

It seems mostly centre left, with a strong added helping of either liberterianism/anti-authoritiatianism or tankie, that's certainly true.

You're right, that there are smug keyboard warrior types, like those who were delighted that Thailand or Vietnam sentenced that female millionaire to death while letting the men involved off. I took umbrage with them. It wasn't revolutionary, it was sexism and maintaining the status quo.

You have the right idea with investing, too - if its something one wants to do. Provided you can keep earning enough to not need to sell unplanned. Follow the market, but don't let panic take over. Good luck with it all.

Apart from Luigi, who is mulching/has muclh4d b/millionnaires recently? I must have missed that news item.

Hope your crypto investments work out better this time. Maybe lean on the stocks a little more.

P. S. I think that there's a wide continuum of posters. It's not all one guy with one ideology and 100,000 accounts.

Aye, any Israeli who isn't actively opposing the settlements in the West Bank is unambiguously in the wrong. And I wish that wasn't a controversial statement.

You're right in that Rabin's assassination wasn't the change in itself (that such Israeli extremists had continued to exist shows that that violent current in Israel had continued and been bubbling away), but it makes a good mark of a turning point and the loss of really any chance for reconciliation in at least our lifetimes.

Over Jason and the Argonauts, or Tale of Perseus?

I guess they're less famous, and maybe I'm just being nit-picky. I'd rather just put them all as one level below ur-journey tale.

I'm very happy to be wrong.

Could you give me some examples? as I think that the strokes are just so broad it's more archetypal journey story than Odyssey in particular to me.

The Nakba was a tragedy, and Ben has his role in that along with all the other high ups in the various paramilitary forces. The IDF didn't exist then, though it does trace its routes back to those paramilitary groups.

That Ben G worked to limit their power once the nation was formed is a mark against him being a fascist to me, and he didn't go as hard on violent struggle as the meaning of life as full fasc-fascism does.

Violent, racist, and did bad things yes (and genocidal to boot!). I don't think that auto-makes fascist.

As for what was being done pre-Six Day War I'm going to guess pogroms, murders, and forced sterilisation. So I'll go back up and add genocidal to it. Doesn't make him fascist though, unless we're making it a synonym for genocidist.

My use of the "Mulch the rich crowd" as people who will, at least (or perhaps at most) express the desire to grind up billionaires, or maybe millionaires into more useful biomass, such as mulch for their vegetable garden or community allotment.

You used it seemingly as a term for "people with lots of money and investments" thus able not only to not sell to keep up with cost of living increases, but also buy up things sold by those who needed to liquidate assets to keep themselves afloat.

Now, they may not be mutually exclusive circles - but the overlap would be neither informative nor relevant to the point.

For instance if someone is talking about birds and mentions a quality of vertebrates, and you come in with "and vertebrates can breathe underwater!" because fish are vertebrates and you are very clever.

Shockingly, nations aren't monoliths.

Football was the name the players used.

Soccer was the name used by people looking down on them and legislating against them.

Give Israel some credit, Ben Gurion wasn't a fascist, despite his problems - but also you could understand where he was coming from.

It's really from the 70s on when Israel moved from problematic and apatheidy into the full on genocidal regime we see today.

The watershed moment, not surprisingly, being the assassination of Rabin.

The Passion of the Christ?

Because that's a story form that gets used and used all over again, or at least is able to be seen in many a story.

Illiad and Odyssey are big, but I don't think copied so much these days.

Lives of the Ceasers, even though less fiction had a huge impact on European story telling and narratives that lasts to this day.

Journey to the West was written about 1400 (unless I'm missing some very key information), so not even one millennia of copycats, yet.