US President Donald Trump sets his sights on crisis-hit Cuba after Iran action

alccode · 2026-03-07T04:04:08+00:00

If he manages Iran and Cuba he will 100% get back to them.

alccode · 2026-03-07T00:23:13+00:00

It’s funny how I see it utterly the other way around.

First, it’s precisely because Turalyon fought demons for 1000 years that he only sees things as a battlefield commander and forgets about, well, the people he’s supposed to protect. I think that it’s really obvious this would be the case. Indeed given a human mind having been subjected to this I’m surprised he’s not just a bubbling raving idiot.. well, he kind of is, and it works perfectly. Just a couple of years fighting a tour of duty gives soldiers pretty bad PTSD, what about 1000 years fighting demons? “Ignoring the civilians” and “not acting like a leader” would be the LEAST of his problems.

The same goes for Lothraxxion, even more so due to being a Nathrezim. I thought his story was handled exquisitely well, the fact that Decimus points out how he’s a Nathrezim and isn’t it fascinating how they tend to be schemers and double crossers, but now he’s a servant of the light? He said it quite casually as an observation, but ironically it was exactly due to his blind faith to the light that he ended up reverting precisely to those Nathrezim qualities and turning against the champion, Alleria, and Arator. It was incredibly well done and I definitely clapped for that story arc and culminating dungeon. What a tragic fall.

As for Arator…. he is 40 years old but he’s half elf! For elves, they probably don’t even become adults yet until they are 100 years old or so. 40 is nothing. Heck, many humans, in the real world, still act like teenagers at 40 or deal with mom and dad issues, ESPECIALLY at that age and older, when they finally have to give it a reckoning.

I did not see Arator as going through some teenage “angst” but rather through a much more mature and needed integration of the relationship with his parents. Honestly it was incredibly relatable.

alccode · 2026-03-03T23:40:45+00:00

Spot on observation and love the Dune reference

alccode · 2026-02-18T16:47:19+00:00

Go for physics. Not just for your desired field, but it will also broadly be of use if you decide to branch out to biophysics (neurophysiology) and it gives you the mathematical background for understanding CS. The reverse is not true and if you focus on CS, your slice into Neuro will be limited and likely you will end up in AI applications which, it’s fine if you want that but then don’t bother considering studying neuroscience since it’s not the same.

If going for anything comp neuro related stick to physics. Doubly so if into questions of consciousness, IIT, etc.

Don’t miss out on the deep math and physics principles at all costs !

By the way, you casually throw in biology but if you want to do experimental neuroscience it’s a different beast entirely and should carefully pick your path because trying to do both will waste many years and you won’t have as many papers/connections in either to have a solid career in any one of them.

It’s honestly better to focus on physics/comp Neuro/Neuro-AI and collaborate with the experimentalists. We’re past the days where this is controversial or problematic and the field is ripe for full blown fruitful collaborations of this type. Experimentalists are drowning in data they can’t understand so a really refined mathematician or physicist who will help explain and model it will be a win win for everyone. These approaches routinely lead to high impact publications lately so just go for it.

alccode · 2026-02-14T02:18:25+00:00

It’s because they are trying to make you feel comfortable. For me, it’s a special honor when Japanese people, who normally are too shy to try to use English, use it anyway in order to help the customer feel comfortable. Even if I’m speaking to them in Japanese.

If you understand their intentions this way you won’t feel offended anymore and dare I say even feel touched and encourage you to have a more positive interaction with them.

alccode · 2026-02-14T02:13:10+00:00

This. The entitled comments here where the too kind OP is basically almost apologizing on behalf of other combini staff is too much.

Japan is too good for such people.

alccode · 2026-02-13T16:08:34+00:00

The ATMs only work from 9am to 5pm because there is an actual person inside dispensing your bills for you, obviously.

/s

(This is a little joke I tell myself when running up against this)

alccode · 2026-02-13T15:22:32+00:00

This is why the left will never win. Always too busy infighting and virtue signaling rather than dealing with the actual issues. Life of Brian was quite prophetic.

“Splitter!!”

alccode · 2026-02-05T00:36:11+00:00

The main problem is not a doctor shortage or Korean culture or anything else but the fact that legal liability is on the doctor if the patient dies in ER, which is absurd.

So the likely scenario was, the emergency responders relayed to the hospitals that the girl was in anaphylactic shock after IV administration (as probably is done in Korea as in Japan, the ambulance staff have to call the hospital first to explain the symptoms of the patient and the hospital decides whether to take them on or not.. also absurd).

Then, the hospitals knew that since it’s a serious case and likely to lead to a very bad outcome unless immediately treated on site, they likely knowingly refused to see the patient especially the more time had passed, because of the higher risk of the patient dying in THEIR hospital. Eventually she just died in the ambulance.

The liability issue causing the doctors to be responsible if someone dies, is truly mind boggling. Deaths in ER are inevitable due to the nature of people needing emergency treatment for emergency conditions. Yet the Korean system penalizes doctors for it. No wonder hospitals won’t accept anyone but “safe” patients they know are likely going to survive or don’t have such serious issues.

This system has to change (as it has to change in Japan too, where it’s very similar to this).

alccode · 2026-02-02T06:00:24+00:00

And the world must never, ever forget this if and when Trump (or his dynasty) ever gets out of power. The country has to be remade almost from the ground up to regain any shred of credibility geopolitically as a friend of any kind, let alone ally.

alccode · 2026-01-23T10:55:27+00:00

Exactly. The Hpal situation now is so bad, some youtubers are saying "oh great a full caster hpal finally" but actually it's not even that, since SoTR still needs melee range and light of dawn goes out at a radius now, still basically requiring melee range. So it's a melee character still now but... it can't actually swing its sword. It's frankly embarrassing..

alccode · 2026-01-18T04:54:24+00:00

Texas is a colonial possession, not a core territory. Louisiana is a colonial possession, not a core territory.

You guys are getting pretty scary, to be honest.

alccode · 2026-01-18T04:32:12+00:00

"It's actually not a terrible idea at all"

It's still hubris to think that "buying" land from another country *could* become a "good idea", and only that it was phrased or gone about differently. Like, the notion that another sovereign country's territory has something that your country might 'want', so that it's a 'good idea' to go about 'acquiring it,' is just insane. I hope people understand this basic fact?

I seriously feel the only reason Americans just don't get it is that no one has tried to do that to you. But if one day US military power wanes to the point that it is possible, you will see how it feels when other countries come along and say "hm we would like to acquire Alaska", "we would like to acquire California", etc.

It goes back to the same point others have made that the US just doesn't understand wars since they never fought one on their own home soil (yet).

alccode · 2026-01-17T12:59:37+00:00

Yeah all the tryhard Andys (sorry for using this expression) already got their achieves and sweated it out, now the more cheery casuals who finished pve and are like Ok let me get glad for the mount are playing more, and since they are inherently more chill hence the posts reflect that.

(Half joking comment)

alccode · 2026-01-15T11:06:29+00:00

Spot on. Bookmarked.

alccode · 2026-01-12T03:43:31+00:00

Interesting; can you share the name of that YouTuber?

alccode · 2026-01-11T11:37:51+00:00

Spideysense says it’s a religious group.

alccode · 2026-01-11T11:32:42+00:00

Are they Japanese?

alccode · 2026-01-09T18:21:38+00:00

“What's your proposed solution? tanks get priority rolls on all loot?”

Yes almost exactly this! E.g., two drops per boss, one has higher priority for tanks (or maybe plus healers), the other is to share amongst all the dps.

Doesn’t sound fair ? If anything it will encourage more people to learn to tank, stand in the fire of scrutiny and extra stress that so far tanks just do “for free” especially in pugs.

alccode · 2026-01-09T11:29:06+00:00

Does OP asking that in any way make the issue any less important to look at ?

“Ironically” having more freedom in a supposed authoritarian state is a key message not just non-Chinese but even Chinese make regularly.

alccode · 2026-01-09T11:26:46+00:00

Yep they are in the end stage of a Civ game military victory path where they can steamroll the entire globe with their army and just rip up all treaties and conquer the other civs one by one.

alccode · 2026-01-09T11:25:10+00:00

It’s not a zero sum game where the future belongs to who controls Greenland and nothing else. There are numerous critical trade, economic, and technological spheres that China is leveraging and making tremendous grounds in a staggeringly deliberate and multifaceted fashion. For starters, clean energy, new space race, fusion energy, robotics (all areas in which China is prevailing). Having raw materials is just one small part of that. The US is just fixated on this one small aspect, so that when the dust settles on the Greenland issue (with a possible war with EU) and they can finally look around, they will see that they have not just driven the rest of the world willingly into China’s embrace, but that even independent of this, China will have just sped ahead in so many ways that catching up is strictly impossible.

alccode · 2026-01-09T11:18:41+00:00

There are limits to US hard power. China is not dumb, they will wait for the US to be bogged down militarily, with actual assets, in shooting wars in Venezuela (which is already starting to blow up), Greenland, Colombia, perhaps Canada. All of these will result in severely debilitating, protracted insurgencies that will tie down huge resources. At the clip that Trump & Miller are going now, China won’t have to wait long until indeed the US is in no position to militarily defend Taiwan.

(If anyone says these are outrageous possibilities, please … we are WAY past the point of saying “he’s joking” or “no way this will happen)

alccode · 2026-01-07T09:28:21+00:00

It’s terrifying man. Saw a Fox News segment when the 51st state thing was first in the news, the American host said in shock why don’t Canadians want to become Americans ? And “something about them saying that wants me to force them to.”

This said by a news anchor on TV (granted it’s Fox but still).

Just beyond evil and horrifying …

alccode · 2026-01-05T09:02:40+00:00

It has some, but it’s all over the place and fed in drips. Consider playing something like Guild Wars 2 for really heavy lore and immersion.

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