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Unhousing people over the partner they bring home is probably not the energy I'd personally choose to bring to hexbear.net

Castle of the Winds is tons of fun, I remember getting part one on an old demo disc and replaying it constantly when I was a kid. Not the most complex or detailed game of its kind, but the sprite work is still fresh in my mind an embarrassing number of years later

Compact (adj.) genitals

Compact (v.) genitals

Most masculinity is performative anyway.

Isn't that kind of the point? Masculinity and femininity are two groups of performances and signifiers that are collaboratively and continuously defined and redefined by the groups that perform them. There is no "true" or "essential" masculinity or feminity, only the ones we assert and perpetuate.

Milei Massacre

Military regulations often allow for a great deal of command discretion. Consequently outcomes can vary from person to person.

If you are a junior enlisted member trying to get out of the military, please take this message to heart. You may not have been in a situation to learn this lesson before. I've known a member who used a CBD product and turned themselves in voluntarily who got an honorable discharge, and I've known members who got unfavorable discharge characterizations for the same. Command discretion is extremely broad.

There's something really insidious about that saying when you consider that the MSM and intelligence apparatus will take time to craft the perfect "official" narrative and release it after the firsthand reports have very clearly laid out the actual events

One upside is that the water surrounding the wreck would provide excellent radiation shielding

If only there was some other place besides money that political power could grow from

no commercial application for missiles makes them unprofitable

Low key glad they've actually learned a lesson and aren't trying Project Plowshare again

I'm going to argue myself and everyone else in the thread to the point of exhaustion as a bit

Has convinced me to disengage. Have a good night.

Historically, indefinitely.

A case remarkable for its singular, improbable nature makes a poor argument for calculated policy.

I don't understand this notion of 'most legitimate heir' that keeps cropping up

Then pick a different name for it, "person whose claim to the throne could mobilize the most rubles, guns, and hands to hold them". Non-legitimate claimants may still gain the throne by force of arms motivated by virtue of their adjacency to the last legitimate holder of power. The law exists, but its ability to influence action and the ways it will be rhetorically implemented are not cut and dry. Legally, Peter I was a non-legitimate Tsar while Ivan V should have ruled alone, but de jure legitimacy and "that quality which will motivate believers in a feudal monarchy to support a candidate materially" are not one and the same. "Being the child of the last guy" is a rhetorically resonant plank for such a believer.