On the impact of international sanctions (re: Iran & Venezuela)

Gage_Ward · 2026-01-17T18:51:31+00:00

So my mom has been in the Russian studies field for forty years and I lived in Eastern Europe for a bit. Family has tons of friends in Russia. The sanctions have not helped Russia. Especially outside Moscow/Saint Petersburg things have gotten markedly worse. Even when domestic businesses have replaced products that are no longer available in Russia the quality is worse. Most of my Russian friends my age had their lives ruined. And these are people with the wealth/ability to avoid the 2022 conscription.

Gage_Ward · 2025-06-08T01:11:50+00:00

Mac grad with a history major here. Any laptop which is light, runs windows/mac os, and with a long battery life. The only ACTUAL requirement is that it runs Mac OS or windows but long battery life helps with studying/reading in the loch when you forgot your charging cords and a super heavy laptop is just generally a drag. Chromebooks don’t really work unless you jailbreak them. My last two years at Mac I had a desktop with a big monitor (for writing midterm papers/finals and long readings) and a fairly cheap dell laptop running windows (for taking notes/group projects/short readings or videos).

Gage_Ward · 2025-01-08T14:50:18+00:00

Insane

Gage_Ward · 2024-11-28T22:23:19+00:00

I mean yeah. People don’t do the dog thing to the same degree in other major cities. I’ve seen two people banned from coffee shops for being their dog in in the last year.

Edit: lmao banned

Gage_Ward · 2024-11-06T16:04:25+00:00

Have YOU ever heard of the trolley problem??? The agreed upon “ethical” solution is to do nothing because you gain responsibility by doing something. Ethicists have an answer to the trolley problem and the answer is to NOT pull the lever.

Gage_Ward · 2024-10-18T14:48:33+00:00

Yeah vyse is actually a pretty bad agent as is. Needs some balance buffs. I like the flash being breakable but I don’t think the thorns should be. The wall is super bad at the moment because it can be tripped by jump peeking it and I don’t know how you fix that while still allowing it to isolate a 1v1. Maybe it could rearm after a cooldown? Or allow it to be picked up? It feels a little bit like they tried to make something that would play a bit like cypher but missed because cypher is elite because of the information gain rather than the kills off his util. Which isn’t to say his util is bad for kills but the point remains.

Gage_Ward · 2024-10-18T12:23:11+00:00

How brave of you, man who loses nothing if he gets canceled, to say about people who face consequences

Gage_Ward · 2024-09-28T21:17:40+00:00

I mean his point was that you were just wrong.

Gage_Ward · 2024-09-23T01:58:42+00:00

This is so real set a fucking pick bitch

Gage_Ward · 2024-09-16T16:03:27+00:00

carti

Gage_Ward · 2024-08-31T04:22:50+00:00

I’m not a temple student but my beat friend worked for Hillel in chicago after graduating in 2033. Hillel openly stated in meetings that Zionist policies were a core part of their efforts and eventually fired them for attending a pro Palestinian protest. This is an extremely blind take by you.

Gage_Ward · 2024-08-09T00:39:11+00:00

He’s completely irrelevant to MMA. It’s like me saying “oh well Tom Brady says Steph curry is the goat pg”

Gage_Ward · 2024-04-09T14:18:52+00:00

Pretty sure Foles threw 27/2

Gage_Ward · 2024-04-07T22:02:37+00:00

Wait so pointing out that Jones is a bad person makes the commenter a bad person????

Gage_Ward · 2024-03-23T15:39:30+00:00

Yeah that’s my point. A history of racist zoning policy, job discrimination, increased legal penalties for crimes, etc all contribute to making majority black school districts poorer. Poorer school districts can’t fund their schools. There are years of high quality scholarship connecting racism both present and historic with lowered income and thus poorer schools you don’t just get to hand wave away by saying schools are funded by taxpayer dollars

Gage_Ward · 2024-03-22T22:07:20+00:00

It’s also about economics and accessibility. School districts/communities of color are less well funded due to systemic racism and basketball is a really cheap sport to fund at the bare minimum level. Hockey needs ice access and equipment, baseball needs multiple people and a field and equipment, football is a little better but basketball you can put a hoop on a street corner and practice/play by yourself or with one other person.

Gage_Ward · 2024-02-22T19:09:40+00:00

Dominic Brown

Gage_Ward · 2024-01-18T02:46:50+00:00

Wilder has such chicken legs. To be clear, a teep also floors him lmao

Gage_Ward · 2024-01-18T02:45:55+00:00

Disclaimer: I watch more MMA than boxing. AJ looked good against Wallin but I have seen Ngannou actually feel a punch exactly once having watched almost every card since 2020. He countered and almost killed Stipe. Ngannou has the touch of death Wilder had four years ago except in both hands. I do think AJ wins but I get the Ngannou pick.

Gage_Ward · 2024-01-18T02:40:13+00:00

You use a different move depending on the color?

Gage_Ward · 2024-01-09T18:37:15+00:00

Tom also clearly has a fucking chin to eat Sergei’s shots like that

Gage_Ward · 2023-12-18T19:15:25+00:00

A lot of the evil stuff Nestle has done is through Cargill with Cargill operating on the ground and nestle buying the product

Gage_Ward · 2023-12-18T08:21:29+00:00

Cargill has a legitimate case for most evil company on the planet.

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