Any army before 1900 that had our current rate of sickness and disease would absolutely annihilate their opponents, even if completely restricted to the technology available at the time.

surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

sometimes I get the feeling that my understanding of the tastes and preferences of the people I haven't been in contact with have shifted significantly enough that even if you ignore all the obvious points of friction I would probably say some outdated shit and they'd get mad at me

The problem with "vote with your wallet" is that this practice is predicated on requiring money to do so. And it turns out, in a "vote with your wallet" system, the people with the money get to vote, and the more money you have, the more value your vote has.

I wanna wake up not sad and exhausted

yeah dudes get real uncomfy when you tell them "the birth rate crisis" is because children are getting SAed less

Bin Laden shot himself before any of the soldiers sent after him could and that's why they all claim they shot him personally In addition to all the evangelical reasons Israel and its continual bombing of occupied Palestine are a jobs program for the American munitions manufacturing sector

Oh huh the other SRW dlc stuff got announced. I bet I would've been really excited about this lineup like 4-5 months ago. Man....

when the live action Gundam movie drops everyone will complain about that instead of fighting GQUX and the universe will know peace. it’s literally just like celestial being

Hey man, we cool? I just noticed that when I look at you the reticle turns red.

She spoke like she’d been arguing with life too long and life wasn’t listening. She had history, and not the kind they frame. That made sense. She was sixteen, which was a whole two years older than me.

It'd been a month long on trouble and short on everything else. I hoped no one would lure us into any labyrinths.

"It's just for porn. We'll only scan your face if you wanna consume porn. Don't you want the children to be safe? Please, won't you think of the children? They might see a boob online. The absolute horror. Won't somebody please think of the children?!?"

kamome shirahama went bonkers mode for this one

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You can dislike a design and say its tacky or not fitting but if you're calling bikinis gooner shit you're an idiot get that language out of your god damn mouth

Agnes Digital just wants you to let her watch #ウマ娘 #CuriMusume #Umamusume

congratulations on your transition botan 💜 !!!

>unarmed pleasure vessel inexplicably capable of running a blockade What did he know?

I think about this all the time

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

im sorry but like genuinely what military action has the uk been involved in recently that would make Military Veteran Support a reasonable focus for a queer oeganization. im assuming the actual answer is some war on terror bullshit but like. huh?????????????

what fucking vets???? from the falklands?????

what the fuck is going on here man

I appreciate this also including regulations on YouTube shorts and AI chatbots, things that are /actually/ dangerous to both children and adults. Couldn't get me to argue in favour of age verification but 'have you considered just regulating these in general' never hurts

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Juneau century of total exhaustion

You really can tell that juneau genuinely believes she deserves to live.

Honestly I really don't know how long it'll take to escape 'I wish I didn't bury myself alive for basically no reason'

Nice Ice cream

guide to reading the news for the next six months: 1. the strait of hormuz is closed 2. israel is still bombing or occupying something 3. if there is news of a ceasefire, go to step 2 4. if there is news of the strait being open, go to step 1

New genre of invisible reply: reply from someone who doesn't have me blocked that I actually /can/ see, but only if I view it directly via their profile

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

Growing Strong and Healthy

while we measure women's skulls and organs as a surveillance practice CNN broke a story on how 60 million men worldwide are attending an online "rape academy" just a week after a paper was released showing that 91% of men anonymously admitted to trying to coerce women into sex

Ever notice how many meme formats are just ("ironic") anti-intellectualism that assumes complexity and nuance are flaws to be corrected or avoided

realistically what happens with the "otaku boy who really likes shoujo animanga hangs out with 2 super smart and fashionable girls" premise like that one anime is it becomes 2.5-3 super smart and fashionable girls after 1-2 years

I have never seen this movie in my life

Couldn't be concieved on the northernlion supercruise because it was cancelled gf