I get you, but I mean the grand alliance scheme to be including what ultimately became the Quadruple Alliance/Central Powers. The Kaiser’s bellicose disposition is noteworthy but doesn’t mean he wasn’t strategizing around the Entente any less.

The thing about World War 1 is that it was inevitable in the sense the grand alliance scheme demanded total conflict. The sphere of influence approach to peace and balancing powera militarily itself provoked worldwide conflict. Most of World War 1 was a detached elite refusing to recognize reality as they sent wave after wave of people into machinegun fire.

By the time you’re going back to the root of it all you find yourself stabbing Caesar along with the rest of the time travellers.

A group of fighters is actually not a half bad setup, but requires a group that enjoys a focus on combat tactics. I played a few bits of a no magic campaign before. We all started with shields and spears as a military unit and then were allowed to multiclass from there without penalty into another martial class.

It was all agreed upon beforehand though.

There’s a few centuries of the British Empire gaming that concept available for reference, but yes. The British consider the undeclared war that resulted in Singapore to be a success.

I knew a Brit that felt they should’ve kept it with violence, consequences be damned. So there was always the straight-up colonial option.

They also supported Brexit.

https://www.nytimes.com/1960/04/15/archives/income-of-5300-is-median-in-us-average-for-families-and-individuals.html

So around $2.5 an hour if we are assuming 40 hours.

I think some of these people cannot conceptualize a world where they aren’t in it.

I have always seen him as an absolute unapologetic grifter in it for the love of the game.

Asmongold fan by typo is a cursed reality of our time.

So the thing about Evangelion…

I have to use windows 11 and teams for all my work. Teams is being utilized as the central file management system.

The benefit these days is if something doesn’t work I can shrug and say ‘must be ai’ or ‘just windows 11 things’ and generally get tacot agreement.

The party caved on asking ICE to not wear masks.

Those characterizations often seem more retrospective about the weaponization of the movement. Especially with it being so extremely lopsided. As in, those who saw #MeToo as a political opportunity absolutely did. Since it wasn’t an inherently political (party) movement we all got to see it shoved through that lens.

So we Americans saw Democrats torch their own like Al Franken into resigning over a USO act while the GOP categorically defended their abusers. I am sure a similar dynamic played out across other political regimes as well.

And this is happening to someone who expressed criticism for Zionism? That never happens!

/s

Isn’t the whole thing with expats is that they explicitly keep their US citizenship? Most the self described expats I know are overseas military that married a local so my perspective may be skewed here.

How do you do fellow kids? Sixty-seven!

And vilerat was killed in Benghazi. We can chase these turtles down.

https://pulitzercenter.org/resource/how-we-investigated-epidemic-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-material-internet

https://www.engadget.com/ai/california-is-investigating-grok-over-ai-generated-csam-and-nonconsensual-deepfakes-202029635.html

There’s a whole media cycle on it from the last few months.

Seems a bit telling that they couldn’t imagine another term than ‘Indian’.