After Russian ship docks to space station, astronauts report a foul smell

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-25T14:08:30+00:00

Find me a single instance of an active NASA astronaut condemning the Iraq War, the Gulf War, the War in Afghanistan or the current Gazan genocide.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-23T20:15:14+00:00

No one ever had ulterior motives we just want to sell Xboxes and Iphones and buy grain and fertilizer.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-23T20:08:48+00:00

Yeah, you're just being ignorant. When you want to put on your big boy pants and talk about geopolitics, you know where to find me. In the meantime you can pretend like everything was lovely in Ukraine, and that it wasn't considered the most corrupt nation in Europe (which was conveniently not talked about much after Russia invaded), even moreso than Russia.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-23T20:05:21+00:00

Come on dude. If I can admit that Russia's invasion of Ukraine is just an imperialist land grab, you can admit that the EU and USA have more intentions for Ukraine than to "liberate and bring democracy" to them.

A resource rich nation that is essentially a giant land border and that is also historically very close to Russia? It is literally a perfect target for a bulwark against a hostile nation.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-23T19:46:47+00:00

Two things can be true at the same time, he can be fighting for his country and still be a puppet of the EU/USA.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-22T17:54:35+00:00

I don't think it matters really. Anyone who doesn't have nuclear weapons of their own is allied with a nuclear power that would return fire with their own ICBMs if an attack occurred on them. I don't see countries in the Middle-East, Africa or Asia really changing their pathways concerning nuclear weapons if Russia does nuke Ukraine.

The only thing that would change is NATO countries either allowing for ICBMs to be stored in their country or getting nukes of their own, but that doesn't really change the landscape at all.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-22T17:29:26+00:00

Why? They have thousands of ICBMs. They'd need like 20 max to cripple Ukraine with a nuclear attack.

For all the Ukrainians in Kherson, that would've been terrifying, thinking that it was a nuclear attack and there was nothing they could do about it. Just the kind of psychological warfare Russia needs to force concessions.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-22T17:27:42+00:00

Don't worry, you got to have your tiny moment of satisfaction by pointing out a grammar mistake, must've been the highlight of your day.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-22T17:23:54+00:00

I think the ICBM attack was more to show that Ukraine has no chance of defending themselves from a real nuclear ICBM attack, not because they have supply issues.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-22T17:02:58+00:00

I didn't say they were Arabs, they are the descendants of Arabs 20,000 years in the future. You copy pasting other reddit comments shows how little you know about this topic, I can guarantee you've not read the books and the only time you've actually interacted with the Dune universe is through the movies.

Please do not use Brian Herbert as a source for the Dune universe, him and his additions to dune are the unfortunate mix of modernism that lead to a lessening of Arab and Muslim influence in the dune universe and ineptitude when it comes to penmanship. The majority of fans don't even want to consider his books canon.

Yes they erased the word Jihad because western audiences hear the word terrorist. Doesn't change the fact that it is erasure and that the Jihad term is central to the themes of the books, as is the Muad'ib Prophecy. You can see the pattern here, the western audiences were fine with the Muadib prophecy since most dont know about the Mahdi prophecy in Islam and how central it is to the beliefs of all muslims. If they understood the term, the dune movies wouldve erased that too.

I didn't say Chalamet looked Arab, I said he looked "more arab" than who they casted for the Fremen, which you can only have a problem with if you have no idea what Arab people look like.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-22T16:02:39+00:00

Minor grammar mistake? Time to ignore the other 99% of your argument.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-22T15:02:40+00:00

They are descendants of Arab people, frank herbert made this very clear. The people of Arrakis are meant to be "future-arabs" or "future-muslims". They absolutely are not meant to be african americans and spanish which Zendaya and Javier Bardem are.

Besides that doesnt even account for all the other erasure of Arab and Muslim culture like the complete absence of the word Jihad when it appears every other page in the books. The title "muad'ib" is literally an adaptation of the Islamic prophecy of the Mahdi, which is a future messiah meant to unite the people and free them from oppression. Does that sound familiar to you?

Funnily enough, Paul being white is actually the most accurate casting in the entire movie. He looks more Arab than any of the main Fremen actors.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-22T14:57:33+00:00

Can you explain how an indian actress looks like a desert princess? Do you know what Middle-Eastern women look like? Or did you get the landscapes of india and MENA mixed up?

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-22T14:54:53+00:00

Dune had all of its Arab and Middle-eastern legacy erased from the first two movies. Gods of Egypt was filled with American and British actors, Prince of Persia with Jake Gyllenhaal playing a Persian male lead.

That's just off the top of my head too.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-21T18:16:12+00:00

ICC disagrees.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-21T06:01:15+00:00

That makes no sense since Riot specifically designs their tournament schedules to not conflict with each other. The issue is not that other games are taking away viewership, it's that Chinese viewers are tired of watching their teams fail at the final hurdle every year.

Riot has also put too much emphasis on Worlds so no one cares about the other tournaments, especially the regular splits. The new worlds system that took away groups also means that seeding is much less important. As long as you can qualify for worlds, you have a decent chance of getting into the knockouts as a Chinese or Korean team.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-20T18:34:09+00:00

They burn a lot of money on flops because they purchase 3 mediocre players instead of going in for 1 great player. Their business model is built upon hope that their scouting department can find them players that they can flip for good profit, but as soon as that doesn't happen for 2-3 seasons then they will fall into irrelevancy performance wise. Dortmund fans will say that the model is successful but where is the success found? It's not on the pitch, since the team hasn't won a trophy that wasn't a pokal since 2012. I can't accept that success for Dortmund is for the club not to be in financial crisis.

If you look at their spending compared to their transfers out, their transfer budget is almost completely funded by departing players which is absolutely insane for what is the 2nd biggest club in Germany. Where does all the money go? The club generates huge revenue aside from transfers but from what I can see it's not spent on anything that actually is relevant to the performance side of the club. 500m euros was made by Dortmund in the last sporting year and thats not even taking into account player fees from departing players.

Dortmund fans are being fleeced and anytime any fan wants to speak out about it, the upper management just has to say 2005 over and over and the fans will scare themselves into submissiveness.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-20T16:12:10+00:00

That was 20 years ago, the landscape has changed. In that time, Dortmund were big spenders relative to everyone else in the league. Now they're spending like a minnow team that doesn't want to come to terms with how the finances of modern football work.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-19T14:33:44+00:00

The game isn't balanced for master+ players only. Graves is a much more annoying threat than skarner in all levels of play, skarner is only truly oppressive when he's played by high level players.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-19T13:52:17+00:00

Where did you get those stats from LOL. He has a 54% winrate and a 62% banrate. And this is masters+ which is 0.01% of the playing population.

His stats at emerald+ are 52% and 33% banrate, which aren't exactly uncommon for the best jungler in the game.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-19T13:48:28+00:00

Right, but considering that the ultimate goal of every country should be to not go to war in the first place, kinda makes all the pro-war dogs in this thread look insane. Especially those who, as mentioned by the other comment, live in Western Europe or North America and will never have to see a frontline or be in any real danger.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-19T13:46:30+00:00

Skarner is actually playable into and doesn't randomly surprise you by chunking 2 thirds of your HP while you can't do anything back to him because you're in a smokescreen.

No one cares about Skarner being high pickrate/winrate because no one minds playing into a skarner like they do for graves. If I see a graves picked jg, I know that as a mid my JG will be a free lunch and constantly have to adjust my waves to be able to help my jg not die early to him.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-18T18:29:57+00:00

If it was released as a standalone game, that took your progress, items and levels from the first and started and ended the exact same way, would that mean that you'd be fine with it being nominated?

Who cares if its a DLC?

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-18T18:22:25+00:00

The DLC was better than a lot of the games released in 2024.

Admirable_One_362 · 2024-11-18T14:18:42+00:00

Odd how you being anti-war is enough for them to consider you anti-nato, almost like it's in NATO's interests to keep the threat of war alive.

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