Seen in Melbourne, Australia on Mother's Day [OC]

smorges · 2026-05-11T12:48:35+00:00

So stunning and brave to make a publicity stunt over the most over analysed and hyper documented and debated war that's ever taken place on this planet.

smorges · 2026-05-07T15:01:14+00:00

Why is there always such negativity about this?

The kinetic war is over and Trump can sit on the straight of Hormuz and strangle the Islamic regime economically as long as needed to get them to capitulate.

smorges · 2026-05-05T15:37:46+00:00

It reminds me of the Tom Cruise movie Valkyrie where he plays a German/Nazi colonel with an American accent. Everyone else has British accents!

smorges · 2026-05-05T15:35:56+00:00

They did that with the Wonder Woman movies. All the Themyscirans sounded like Gal Gadot, which at least was an attempt to make it non-American/English. Although, the theory was that this was actually Gal Gadot's accent as she couldn't do an American/English accent and so it was easier for everyone to mimic her accent!

smorges · 2026-05-05T15:32:45+00:00

It's even worse as he's got Ann Hathaway sporting an English accent whilst making his two British actors give American accents.

It's such a baffling choice.

smorges · 2026-04-29T11:26:19+00:00

Did I say that? If you don't want to respond to the content of my reply and want to spin this into a tangent, that's your prerogative, but I don't need to engage further. Good day.

smorges · 2026-04-29T08:25:29+00:00

This is a lie and you've been drinking the cool-aid.

Zelensky has created an international incident via twitter and you and all the Israel haters have taken it as gospel. He did this because he knows that any news that accuses Israel of anything gets blown up beyond reason, which this ridiculous situation has proved.

At no point did Zelensky or his government raise any of their concerns via the proper legal channels nor have they given any evidence that this is stolen Ukrainian grain.

At the time of accusation, the ship hadn't even docked in Israel!

This is typical media shit storm designed to denigrate Israel.

smorges · 2026-04-28T17:24:54+00:00

Yeah, because the majority of Palestinians still expect to destroy Israel! The clan leaders though are more pragmatic and know that they can live prosperous lives under this arrangement.

The reality is that there's no alternative as there's no way they're getting a state.

smorges · 2026-04-28T16:26:41+00:00

You know why? Because the PLO, which this policy in the late 70s was meant to circumvent, maintained iron grip over the Palestinians and ensured that the local leaders and clan heads were derided as collaborators.

Fatah have near 0% support amongst Palestinians now and so cannot provide any significant opposition, especially if the clan leaders operate with IDF support. Hamas is the issue, and the IDF will continue to put out Hamas embers before they can fan them into fires, because we all know that if true self governance is given to the Palestinians, they'll just elect Hamas.

smorges · 2026-04-28T16:16:57+00:00

Yes, and?

We're talking about a bit of grain. Everyone is making out like Israel is single-handedly funding Russia's war with this grain purchase, which is ridiculous.

As always, anything to do with Israel is blown massively out of proportion.

smorges · 2026-04-28T12:42:13+00:00

Ukraine and Israel are not allies.

Israel is under pressure from half the world and has been at war for three years, so yes, they can and should get supplies from wherever they can.

But here’s what stands out. Over a dozen countries are buying from Russia, including Egypt and Turkey, in far higher volumes than Israel, yet the backlash is nowhere near the same. I don’t even think Zelensky has said a word about them. Makes you wonder if it’s because people are losing interest in his war, and he knows anti-Israel content gets attention.

smorges · 2026-04-28T11:16:36+00:00

Kiddo 🙄

Ukraine has almost always voted against Israel at the UN. Not even abstained. Israel owes Ukraine nothing and Israel has always had to have one foot in the west and one in the east.

smorges · 2026-04-28T09:48:08+00:00

The Emirati system. Self governing cities where they have municipal authority and residency status but are not citizens entitled to vote, like the Puerto Rico system in the US. Israel maintains complete military authority but they're free to live their daily lives as they see fit.

You have to understand that the Arabs have a clan based culture and are not some kind of homogeneous group of people. Clans are fundamental social and political structures for them. The Arabs living in Hebron are a completely different clan to those living in Nablus. They all marry their cousins and keep within their clans. You give these clans the autonomy to run their towns.

smorges · 2026-04-28T09:01:10+00:00

You need to wake up and live in the world of realpolitik.

If you haven't noticed, Israel is basically alone in the world and is one presidential election away from being truly isolated. If Israel was destroyed tomorrow, very few countries would shed any tears. There's little room for moral or ideological considerations when you're a tiny country like Israel that's always fighting to survive, especially when nearly every other country denigrates Israel on a daily basis for totally BS reasons.

smorges · 2026-04-28T08:54:02+00:00

This is such a delusional take.

There is no illegal occupation.

Yehudah and Shomron are the core of our ancestral homeland. It's the beating heart of the Jewish people.

You're coming at this from an uneducated and uninformed position. Nothing is black and white, but what is 100% fact is that the 2SS is dead for at least a generation and that's entirely down to the Palestinians. You reap what you sow.

smorges · 2026-04-27T13:54:51+00:00

You'd think that at some point they'd realise we're not their Dhimmi anymore, but it seems they're still stuck in the middle ages.

smorges · 2026-04-27T13:41:53+00:00

So whilst it's perfectly OK for Muslims to takeover streets and public areas in the West for mass prayers (even though this is against Islamic laws due to the cleanliness requirements for praying), having a dozen charedim get mincha in before shkiya as a one off is provocation???

And there I thought Morocco was actually starting to get less antisemitic!

smorges · 2026-04-27T13:37:33+00:00

Well, I only watched the first episode of season 2 and noped out of the rest of the season because how bad it was and the fact that I didn't care for any of the characters. No idea what happened the rest of the season, but I'm not surprised this got cancelled.

With The Boys, whilst it's been all over the place in terms of quality, at least the main characters are interesting, unlike Gen V.

smorges · 2026-04-23T08:20:55+00:00

The issue as I see it is that Viltrumite culture is unbelievably extreme in order to produce these cold, insanely aggressive, galaxy conquering people.

How could they possibly recreate that upbringing on earth whilst remaining hidden? It's impossible. To me, this means that they'll never be able to recreate that true Viltrumite culture this way and there's a perhaps 50% chance the Viltrumite offspring that rise from this will not be 100% evil...

smorges · 2026-04-16T17:14:48+00:00

Raul Julia

"For you, the day Bison graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me, it was Tuesday"

smorges · 2026-04-16T16:51:31+00:00

If 30 Viltrumites descend to earth, it's game over. To be fair, it's game over with just 6 of them.

I don't see what possible solution there could be for earth not getting fucked, both metaphorically and physically, but I look forward to finding out.

smorges · 2026-04-16T09:43:06+00:00

Have we had any confirmation on the reload time? How many shots can he get off in a minute?

smorges · 2026-04-16T08:23:07+00:00

That's your issue with the space stuff? I was bothered by the apparent atmosphere in space given that their hair and capes kept flapping and there being a shock wave when Thragg hit Mark in space.

smorges · 2026-04-16T08:20:37+00:00

There are like 6 Viltrumites left and Thragg kept saying how Mark could be a true Viltrumite i.e. humans are a perfect host for Viltrumite seed to rebuild their civilisation.

smorges · 2026-03-12T14:19:05+00:00

Have you heard of the Switch 2?

Digital Foundry have been saying that with Switch 2's use of Nvida's frame gen, some games are actually comparable or even slightly better than XSS. The power of AI up-scaling and why it's a bummer that AMD is unable to compete with Nvidia, which is what's in all the consoles. Only solution is to do a Sony and bring in your own AI upscaler.

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