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It really wouldn't be the end of NATO. Greece and Turkey have had numerous spats while both NATO countries. An Article 5 resolution can be vetoed by any other NATO member. The US would assuredly do this.

A much more worrying possibility would be Denmark specifically withdrawing from or reducing cooperation with NATO. Forget Greenland, Denmark itself is in a very strategic location, considering its place in the Baltic.

Someone probably just got confused by the Ohio Hitlers.

Yes, named for the infamous Dr. Mengele, the German doctor who performed abominable experiments on prisoners during the Franco-Prussian War.

I think you mean the Mandala Effect.

You know what. Fuck it. Let's make the world more interesting. Let's legalize consensual cannibalism! We'll regulate it like assisted suicide, so there are safeguards in place to prevent exploitation and such. And you won't be able to pay someone (or their loved ones) in order to let you cannibalize them. But if everyone involved is of sound mind, if there's plenty of time to change your mind, and no one is getting paid or coerced? Have at it! I believe in freedom so much, that if you want to willingly let a cannibal kill and eat you, by God, that should be your right! Let us legalize consensual cannibalism!

Trump's base don't actually like the man on a personal level. Two of the biggest reasons people vote for him:

1. They're conservative Christians who would vote for Satan himself if it meant appointing more Republican judges.
2. They view him as a giant middle finger to the establishment, elites, and existing party leaders.

Note, Trump being old as fuck doesn't subtract from either of those core values.

My guess is it's an LAPD operator. The civilians stayed out of the restricted airspace. Some chud cop thinks the rules don't apply to him, so he flies a drone in an unauthorized zone. He manages to hit a firefighting plane. And the LAPD quickly sweeps the whole thing under the rug and blames it on a never-found civilian.

My money's on it being LAPD. A cop would have just the attitude needed to think the rules don't apply to them.

I'm just going to go ahead and assume it's a KKK reference.

And by that, I mean that Hollywood seems to place something related to lgbtq in nearly every show, and so “culture” here means tv/movies/games

LGBT people are something like 10-20% of the population. It would be insane for them to not be in a movie that has more than a handful of cast members. Why do you want your movies to show some weird unrealistic version of reality, one where queer people are just mysteriously absent? That's pretty fucked up.

I mean, sure, I could maybe see the argument for a period piece. Maybe it's not too realistic to have a bunch of out queer characters in a drama set in Elizabethan England. But in something modern? Again, one in ten to one in five people is queer to some degree or another. Statistically speaking, if you select a cast at random of anything other than a handful of people, you're going to have some queer people in that sample.

Why do you want your movies/games to be less diverse than reality? Do you really need to live out some straight fetishistic fantasy that badly?

The reason studios put LGBT content in movies and games is that a lot of people in the real world, aka their customers, are LGBT. If a studio rarely if ever did so, they would quickly and rightfully be labeled as "that bigoted studio that likes to pretend queer people don't exist."

Yes, you recognize the fact, but you haven't internalized its implications. You can only have a universal present in a universe of shared time. Ultimately, "the present" is something applicable to and that exists within the mind of a single observer.

One of the hallmarks of science is that different people can independently measure something and confirm its existence. If no two observers can ever agree on what constitutes "the present," then how can "the present" be said to exist at all? It's a fundamentally unscientific concept.

You're still imagining that there is some fixed universe playing out at constant time, and that we all just experience the echoes of this present in different orders. This isn't what relativity says. Clocks traveling near the speed of light don't just appear to slow down, they actually slow down.

Different regions of the universe don't even experience the same flow rate of time. Someone living on a mountaintop experiences time faster than someone at sea level. And yet you cling to this fantasy of their being some universal "present." You cannot have a universal present in a universe composed of different flow rates of time!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativity_of_simultaneity

The present does not exist. From the previous link:

It can be argued that special relativity eliminates the concept of absolute simultaneity and a universal present: according to the relativity of simultaneity, observers in different frames of reference can have different measurements of whether a given pair of events happened at the same time or at different times, with there being no physical basis for preferring one frame's judgments over those of another. However, there are events that may be non-simultaneous in all frames of reference: when one event is within the light cone of another—its causal past or causal future—then observers in all frames of reference show that one event preceded the other. The causal past and causal future are consistent within all frames of reference, but any other time is "elsewhere", and within it there is no present, past, or future. There is no physical basis for a set of events that represents the present.

Many philosophers have argued that relativity implies eternalism.[6] Philosopher of science Dean Rickles says that, "the consensus among philosophers seems to be that special and general relativity are incompatible with presentism.

If two observers will disagree on which events happened in "the present," then "the present" cannot exist as a real universal entity. "The present" only makes any physical sense in classical, pre-20th century Newtonian mechanics.

This is why the block universe or eternalism makes more sense.

And yet, you've concocted this fantasy that you call "the present," as if such a thing could exist in a relativistic universe...

You assume the past and present no longer exist. You have no proof of this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternalism_(philosophy_of_time)

He's one of the lesser known Snow White dwarfs. Explody.

Generally you pay a grid connection based on the type of connection you have. A giant factory has a much beefier grid connection than single family residence, so the big factory has a higher connection charge.

There are more things in Heaven and Hell then are dreamt of in your philosophy. This one specifically is from Hell.