News and Politics • Re: Nick Kristof to Joe Biden - You need to Drop out
I notice the NYT never called on the convicted fucking felon to drop out. Why would they? The bar is lower for Republicans because they're varying flavours of terrible.Statistics: Posted by Gandalf —...
View ArticleUser Fiction • Re: The Noise Of Thunder
31 OCTOBER, Y16920:15:00“Via,” a visibly-impressed Colonel Tyl Koopman whispered, as through the periscope of his command panzer, he watched these North American Marines sweep through the streets and...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
Exit poll shows a Labour landslide. Conservatives: 131Labour: 410Liberal Democrats: 61SNP: 10Reform UK: 13Plaid Cymru: 4Greens: 2First result is a Labour hold in Sunderland South. For some reason, the...
View ArticleOff-Topic • Re: Cooking and puttering about the finnish countryside
And all the holes filled back in. My back... And still got a lot of soil and grass we need to move away, got some spots elsewhere that could use it.First load of lumber, they didn't have everything I...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: US Election 2024: Grumpy Old Men
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he 'won't take sides' on what happened on 9/11The independent presidential candidate made the remark in a social media post, later saying that he was referring to "possible...
View ArticlePure Star Trek • Re: Star Trek: Prodigy (New Series)
There's a line in one of the episodes that Jelico wants her behind a desk again, so it seems that she is just doing what Kirk did in TMP and taking over a ship from time to time.Statistics: Posted by...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: G7 agrees $50bn loan for Ukraine from Russian assets
This looks like it might become an ersatz-Ukraine war thread. This thread is being watched and it may be lockedStatistics: Posted by Vympel — 2024-07-07 08:32pm
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: Israel orders mass 'evacuation' from Northern Gaza,...
Inching towards the point where everyone acts shocked to find out that the death toll is really in the hundreds of thousands: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanc ... 3/fulltextBy June 19, 2024, 37...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: Nick Kristof to Joe Biden - You need to Drop out
I notice the NYT never called on the convicted fucking felon to drop out. Why would they? The bar is lower for Republicans because they're varying flavours of terrible.Republicans are delighted at...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Macron refuses resignation of country's prime minister...
Macron refuses resignation of country's prime minister after election chaosFrench President Emmanuel Macron has refused the resignation of the country’s prime minister, asking him to remain...
View ArticleOff-Topic • Re: Live from the eagle's nest
Only one eaglet left now.The first died because it got harassed by the biggest one, something that is not uncommon.The second died because something got stuck in its belly and it couldn't eat...
View ArticleUser Fiction • Re: The Noise Of Thunder
05) A Mighty Battle Coming31 OCTOBER, 256923:00:02These Romulans knew how to use their cloaks.NAS Muskogee drifted at 11.2 kips, her systems completely blacked down, well within gun range of a line of...
View ArticleScience Fiction • Dune is a cheap Star Wars Ripoff
I'm getting e-mails from something called 'Quora' and occasionally there's a fun topic there: the last amusing one was 'Is Dune just a cheap Star Wars ripoff' (Dune came out 12 years before the first...
View ArticleScience Fiction • Re: Dune is a cheap Star Wars Ripoff
I mean, obviously the original novel can't be a Star Wars ripoff, but that doesn't mean that the movies can't be highly inspired by Star Wars. It can't really help it, though, since Star Wars...
View ArticleOff-Topic • Re: Cooking and puttering about the finnish countryside
Some progress, got the top rails installed. I made it needlessly complicated but looks a little better like this.Started installing the cross beams (2x5s)They're all one variation or another of bendy...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: Brexit and not very united kingdom politics II
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/p ... 77266.htmlJacob Rees-Mogg starts filming new reality TV show following general election defeatThe former minister lost his North East Somerset and Hanham...
View ArticleFantasy • Re: THE OotS Thread, Part V
1304 is up.Statistics: Posted by Rogue 9 — 2024-07-11 12:40am
View ArticleUser Fiction • Re: The Noise Of Thunder
31 OCTOBER, 256923:03:11“They were warned,” Tom Zarek's holo said to some rando on the Alliance's Net, as, in the background, patriots, beat, burned, raped, murdered and multilated their way through a...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: US Election 2024: Grumpy Old Men
In a time where it is imperative for Biden to show he's up for the task of foreign policy after the sun goes down, he referred to Zelenskyy as Putin.He may have done everything else correctly at the...
View ArticleNews and Politics • Re: Twitter board agrees to $44 billion sale to...
Elon Musk calls for “criminal prosecution” of X ad boycott perpetratorsCongress accused advertisers group of colluding to tank X's revenue.ASHLEY BELANGER - 7/12/2024, 9:28 AMAfter the House of...
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