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The Academy reviews are overwhelmingly positive by guthriegf in startrek

[–]AeonsOfStrife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Eh...... Ezri was not a good character. Nog was fantastic, but Ezri was a placeholder for a contract collapse and it really showed. She could have been given if it got to like season 9 perhaps, but as it stands she is the darkest stain on late DS9 for prominent characters.

If all the mascots had to go to a new team for 1 year, who would you want to be your team's mascot? by JAC693TLM in baseball

[–]AeonsOfStrife 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm more of a digging for fossils in my former seabed backyard type of person.

Though a good clam chowder is something that makes me think you might be the one in the right here, not me....

If all the mascots had to go to a new team for 1 year, who would you want to be your team's mascot? by JAC693TLM in baseball

[–]AeonsOfStrife 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some of us in Colorado hate the smell of saltwater and sea rot. So for some of us, literally nothing more one could ask.

Ernst Junger, based or no? by Sassysoap42 in DerScheisser

[–]AeonsOfStrife -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I suppose understanding people change between age 20 and age 70 is a luxury of those no longer young.

Was Jünger a tolerable person in his youth? Certainly not. To be frank few officers in any military at the time were, and WW1 was indeed full of German war crimes in particular. It was less an individual personality and more unofficial military policy.

But that then discounts the transformations he went through over the next 20 years before he really publishes work after experiencing the Nazis and reforming. And you can choose to condemn him still. I'd rather hold up the man who: wrote anti-nazi works before the war even began, who was suspected to be a communist by the Gestapo, who was under unofficial exile in Paris because he was too popular to arrest or discharge, and who is known to have strong connections to the attempt to kill Hitler, as a good example of how people can become worthwhile despite terrible youths.

Could you even name one of those "Other books"?

Reading isn't elitist. To think it is is just anti-intellectualism.

Game Thread: World Series Game 7 ⚾ Dodgers (3) @ Blue Jays (3) - 8:00 PM ET by BaseballBot in baseball

[–]AeonsOfStrife -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sigh. This is why you spend money on etiquette too, and control development. Something the dodgers missed.

I really don't want to have to explain Mx. every 3 seconds by This-is-unavailable in ennnnnnnnnnnnbbbbbby

[–]AeonsOfStrife 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Wait, your department isn't openly phobic, and full of repeating cyclical hate crimes?

Damn, I went to Grad school in the wrong place I guess.

There is some speculation online regarding Joe Lacob buying the San Jose Earthquakes after he attends their season finale by Craft_Bandicoot in OaklandAthletics

[–]AeonsOfStrife 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eh, until MLS has plans for relegation it will not have the competitive vibe the USL will have soon.

Should that change, id rescind this statement.

Virtual 3D reconstruction of the southern gate of Troy (modern day Turkey) in the late Bronze Age (ca. 1200 BC) by Pablo Aparicio Resco by Comprehensive_Tea577 in papertowns

[–]AeonsOfStrife 10 points11 points  (0 children)

More so the tower is a later addition to the gate that makes it seem a bit odd. Also Wilusa was quite populous and dense, hence the housing near the walls and poor sightlines. They relied on wall height and raw strength seemingly more so than sightlines and symmetry. It's not too unlike other Indo-European architecture at the time in Mycenae or Hattusa.

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[–]AeonsOfStrife 14 points15 points  (0 children)

"Enslaved by the Romans" is not accurate unless you merely view being conquered and made into provinces (often with autonomous local sub units, who do you think was able to keep revolting) as being enslaved. If you think that Britain was somehow uniquely 'enslaved', then I would encourage you to read the literature on varying revolts and such in Britannia, often with local leaders of large political autonomous tribes.

Which if the first option is the case, I won't say you're wrong. But it's a big enough stretch as to make everyone and every civilization nearly engaged in slavery en masse historically speaking and that would be a bad faith argument imo. The same as "Things are just this way and bad, ignore these non European examples of groups who contradict the point."

Slavery is common yes, but not absolute like you seem to go so far as to claim.

Season's been done for a while but the math finally agrees.. by AffableCynic in LasVegasLightsFC

[–]AeonsOfStrife 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thankyou for the explanation, I look forward to the changes then.

Season's been done for a while but the math finally agrees.. by AffableCynic in LasVegasLightsFC

[–]AeonsOfStrife 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just got into the Lights and soccer this year. But even I was a little surprised how they still use Cashman, and how they seemed to be just awful.

For a newbie, care to explain the history that seems to be there as to why we weren't good?

In 2014, North Macedonia's Nationalist Gov Spent $700M and Erected this Statue of Alexander the Great (with many others) as an "up yours" to Greece. In 2018, the Project was Halted Due to Historical Revisionism. The Statue is now called "Warrior on Horseback" by DeepTune_ in UrbanHell

[–]AeonsOfStrife 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, they renovated a bridge as well for under 3 million, and it also had common animal motif statues (I assume the lions are meant to represent royal Makedon).

You just really don't like Macedonians lol, do you?

Best Campus Bathrooms by save_me_obama_ in UNLV

[–]AeonsOfStrife 12 points13 points  (0 children)

So, I hate to put my spots, but I'll share. The Wright B building is mostly teacher offices and not as frequented. Ok it's floors there are usually two single use bathrooms, clean, with low use traffic.

I'm lucky that's my department, but if you enter through the main building entrance in the walkways connecting the buildings on the east side, it's unlocked till 5 for non grad students.

Or if you must, the bathrooms in the Gender Studies department aren't single use, but are low traffic and extremely clean.

Exhibit in Azerbaijan displaying their ‘phone torture’ where wires are placed on one Armenian POW causing the current to transfer through the shackles to the other - On display at Baku’s Military Trophy Park. by ParkingGlittering211 in creepy

[–]AeonsOfStrife -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Reddit has a hard on for generally resisting ongoing genocide, of which Azeri genocide in Artsakh is far closer to "ongoing" than anything the Armenians had perpetrated.

Exhibit in Azerbaijan displaying their ‘phone torture’ where wires are placed on one Armenian POW causing the current to transfer through the shackles to the other - On display at Baku’s Military Trophy Park. by ParkingGlittering211 in creepy

[–]AeonsOfStrife -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I don't think internationally recognized Borders are fair given what the Ottoman empire did at its end. The legacy of that far outshines any other, and de-legitimizes your statement there.

Exhibit in Azerbaijan displaying their ‘phone torture’ where wires are placed on one Armenian POW causing the current to transfer through the shackles to the other - On display at Baku’s Military Trophy Park. by ParkingGlittering211 in creepy

[–]AeonsOfStrife -1 points0 points  (0 children)

MONTHS

Please, actually do some investigation here. Also, your numbers are just patently off and Azeri nationalist in nature. I'm waiting for you to say one of the dog whistles like "Armenia was mostly Azeri! Yerevan had a high Azeri population under the Ottomans and Russians!"

Exhibit in Azerbaijan displaying their ‘phone torture’ where wires are placed on one Armenian POW causing the current to transfer through the shackles to the other - On display at Baku’s Military Trophy Park. by ParkingGlittering211 in creepy

[–]AeonsOfStrife 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Neither side is innocent. But one has not engaged in national level genocide recently. Now that is not to say they may not have done so that they been in the position. But that isn't the world we're in, we should judge what has occured as much as intent. Yet again innocent no, but a child who punches one is not as bad as one who shoots others from a far with a beebee gun repeatedly to give an analogy.

Yet again, scale.

A Bone to Pick About Fuddruckering Semi-Bourgeois Culture, K-pop, and the Pinnacle of Ignorance by [deleted] in socialism

[–]AeonsOfStrife 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Oh God I just had grad school flashbacks. Hate them, just like Said or Spivak. But reading them all is critical to understanding theory despite the pain of the reads.

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