InTangier

30313 pts · August 19, 2016


They be lurking. It's interesting because I'm fairly sure these folks aren't familiar with the books. "Historical"? Like the "historical" monsters and demigods?
Folks find the most absurd shit to be upset about.

8 hours ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

Imagine calling "attacking an entire population with an ad hoc militant group that loosely exists in some aeas" a war. It's like the US military levelling a city because you have one of those "patriot" right wing militia groups close by, and they live and work in the city. Surely that isn't an indiscriminate massacre of civillians, it's a "war" between two armies!

I wish they had gone to pick a fight with Iran or Turkey sooner, and face a modernised army with the ability to hit them back.

8 hours ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 2

Yeah, that's the one important detail in the frame alright

8 hours ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 2

At this point he is likely buried in an unmarked grave already, with a Mitch-print waifu pillow in his hospital bed with a speaker inside connected to some LLM. That waifu pillow will then be brought back to the US Senate and the entire GOP will say it's McConnell.

Waifu Pillow McConnell, US Senate Majority Leader.

8 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I guess there's that whole part where men are usually taught to be aggressively homophobic among their peers, so yeah, the stigma is bigger. Meanwhile, women can compliment each others looks more openly and such, I guess there's more room to look at another person and starting to feel some attraction, while with men there's a lot of self-policing. I've noticed this even in more cosmopolitan environments.
Yet another example on how patriarchy is bad for everyone involved.

8 hours ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 1

It's not "café culture", it's urban planning. In the US, most cities are built to be hostile to pedestrian traffic. Europe uses a lot of mixed commercial/residential districts, allowing for higher-density areas and businesses in the ground level, facing the street. Like restaurants, or cafés. Sometimes, grocery stores. You often don't need to get into a car at all, or own a car.
A café *will* have customers because it is in a high-density zone, instead of relying on people commuting to that area

10 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I saw some other user already explained how the particular layout makes it easy to monitor, without the need for massive infrastructure. There's also the part where if Russia was to try and sneak, say, a missile sub past the blockade (which is just being monitored AFAIK), they'll be locked inside the Black Sea. It would end up being detected, and the same geographic advantage makes it very easy to deploy mines and re-route sea traffic through a safe path with the navy making sure no subs leave.

10 hours ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Be Iran, with a tiny fraction of the military power at his disposal but capitalising on a Straity boi to bring the premier world superpower to a stalemate. All his Warrior culture or Spartan mindset won't help him much when the Persians come knocking.
I don't know the other guy, but looking beyond the US' cultural respect for their military, which I'll never understand, I provided Iran as an alternative, since they have his counterpart, and that person is actually *very* competent.

10 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Pretty much. We've just been watching the US and that already evil and stupid man just get stupider each day. The incessant saber rattling against allies, actual invasions of sovereign nations, including the kidnapping of a country's president...
If anyone is shocked by "abnormal" speech patterns, they might not have been paying attention.
I get that a lot of internal politics in the US is Big Bad, but internationally he crossed every single line and then some.

This is just a tuesday indeed.

11 hours ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

What the fuck is wrong with that reporter?! How is everyone so dismissive of these huge red flags for such a long time now? He does thrive on provoking controversy on every little thing he does, but the media spent years making a shitstorm out of every little scandal while ignoring serious threats like this.

3 days ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

So were any former administrations, but this one just gave them a Middle Eastern buffet. The thing is, what did every other administration think they were going to do with all those weapon stockpiles and tech? Letting them get away with, reportedly, spying and stealing even US tech. Turning a blind eye to the Israeli nuclear weapons program.

Even without Epstein dirt, that absolute moron would have no chance of holding back that rabid dog after years of wanting the Greater Israel lunacy.

5 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Come at me bro. With the amount of shit we faced in 2026 alone, this doesn't even faze me anymore. I'll build a Faraday cage and duct tape a bunch of oil company execs to my local community center so we can, uh, weather this out?

6 days ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

*punched out

1 week ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Dems have been capitulating to MAGA and forming an anti-socialist panic, proving yet again how many "centrists" are quick to get in bed with the fascists at the first sign of their dear status quo being challenged. "Obviously not a fascist" isn't so obvious in the US for many Dem voters, and fascist collaborators and enablers aren't exactly pointed out. Ironically, because these are the first to call for party unity and silence dissent.

1 week ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I wish Iran would oblige

1 week ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Unless he is into it. Also, he was a giant piece of shit even before Trump, so congrats to the US! Two for one, two for one! I was happy to see the turtle leave this world he helped turn into a hellhole, this was a very nice surprise!

Here's hoping the left flank can capitalise on this fast before Schumer and Jeffries drop the ball on this opportunity.

2 weeks ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I can't imagine that mag had any real place on a real battlefield, now that you mention it. The wear and tear alone, reloading those finicky mechanisms, all the gunk that will eventually clog them... There won't be the ideal level of maintenance required.
And nobody will trust their life to a mag that can jam constantly.

2 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

The US also sells natural resources, but never came up with the idea of going that route. Because allowing companies to fleece Americans into poverty drives innovation or some shit like that.

2 weeks ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 1

Lindsay Graham dying is hilarious.

2 weeks ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

It's fucked up, even though the population size argument is absolute bullshit. It is a question of scale. Population density is an actual argument that could be made, but it also works in favor of public healthcare. No corporation would open clinics to serve small, isolated communities in the ass-end of nowhere. It's not profitable.
Public healthcare ensures viability of healthcare where it wouldn't be profitable, or hard to reach. It's an infinitesimal drip in the tax budget.

2 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

And still Iran holds the upper hand over the supposed world superpower by having a fuckton of missiles spread all over the country and most of the world's oil supply having to cross an area easily in reach of those missiles, or simple ships with soldiers.

Somali pirates have been causing a huge pain with an iota of Iran's resources. This is just Stupider Vietnam, and I don't see a way out of this without folks seeing gas prices go even higher.

US gas is way too fucking cheap anyways.

2 weeks ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

He is right about Neymar, though.

2 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The Terminators from the movie, when they look up and see a huge swarm of suicide drones, flying in a pattern designed to confuse their image analysis and targeting solution.

They manage to take quite a few out, but you only need a couple to take out those very expensive pieces of hardware.

It's not a great design, and it's still replaceable by a swarm of cheaper drones, which are much more damaging and hard to counter.

2 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

No way they'd win, but the country needed yet another public humbling session.

I'm actually glad they made it thus far, allowing Trump to keep engaged, just to get a real vibe check on American Exceptionalism lol

2 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

*Actual* beer.

2 weeks ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Europe has multiple underground anarchist groups, operating as cells, designated as terrorist organizations by both the EU and the EU. Since the early 2000s there were bombings of nationalist party headquarters, kidnapping and kneecapping of CEOS, systematic targeting of prominent far-right figures for murder.

I wasn't going to suggest folks start with that when they haven't nailed down the basics.

3 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

The working class metropolitan area was tagged with what translates to "Antifascist Zone" and the anarchist A. It was everywhere. If those fuckers were seen so much as giving out a flyer to some other guy, they were jumped. They kinda don't let you kill people...

They all still know not to come openly. Skinheads wear a beanie, cover ther colors and claim male pattern baldness.

Again, folks fanfic about a civil war when you can bypass it by putting the fear of god into a bunch of hate nerds.

3 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

I just love Unreal 5's Lumen and Nanite, making my RTX 4070 forced to use DLSS to get stable framerated on the unoptimized shit these companies keep producing. Often, turning Lumen off isn't even an option. In some particularly heavy games, still in EA, only Frame Generation can keep the fps over 120.

All this in 1440p.

Meanwhile, you have games from 2015, 2018, etc that look absolutely stunning. RDR2 is still beautiful even without those bells and whistles.

UE5 is truly diminishing returns.

3 weeks ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I guess that is the case you folks will need to make one day when the workd takes away your car keys.

3 weeks ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0