If she's anything like Phyllis Schlafly, why yes, the moment her husband tells her to get back in the kitchen she absolutely will! Right away! She'll drop everything, her privilege, her power, her perks. Her entire staff will be S.O.L. after just a word from her husband. If he just says the word, why, she wouldn't utter a word of protest. Honest!
I'm often reminded that while Jesus counselled his followers to turn the other cheek, he reviled the hypocrites.
Have you seen Dmge ? It's web based, but it has fog of war and a few other nice tricks, if you've got the maps.
Just a few weeks ago there were left voices mad that the party wasn't preventing Andrew Cuomo's campaign to be mayor of NYC. I didn't see any one on the left crying foul over suggesting the party shouldn't play fair.
The number of warheads each nation maintains is agreed on in the START treaties, and those levels are determined by stockpile effectiveness. The US is recognized to have superior targeting and guidance systems, so they need fewer warheads to maintain parity with Russia's stockpile.
The best possible outcome is for SDI and it's descendants to be a complete waste of taxpayer money. If some clever chap comes up with a practical missile defense system, Russia would immediately generate enough warheads to overwhelm such a system and maintain parity.
Each missile represents a potential fault path to WWIII. We've been lucky with at least a couple near misses in our history. I don't look forward to a future with more.
A lot of the usual suspects, but when my group of grognards plays we reach back a bit. Tomorrow we're playing Traveler. Last few times we played it was Champions.
I'd like to run an OpenD6 game of I can pull a group together. The last few times I ran it was D6 Star Wars, but I like the system for other genres as well.
Let's not forget the endless conversations about which park is Werewolf territory and which is Gangrel Vampire territory. Then the slow realization that you don't live in a place cool enough to attract any supernatural presence.
To make things even more awkward, prior to making promises to the Jewish community, the UK had already made promises to the Arab community to provide independence to Arab Palestine in exchange for fighting the Turks.
What a hottie.
The scientific method is more about falsification than problem solving.
"If you ever succeed, devise and implement a test to see if it was a fluke."
There was a period where it was still a skill to know how to use a computer. If you had a computer in your house it was a part of your identity, you were a computer owner. Using a computer was something you did. The computer is a powerful tool, and the user had an opportunity to overcome the challenge of learning how to use it.
Now a computer is an appliance. People know how to do what they do with it, but see no reason to explore farther. They aren't interested in delving into the device's potential. Owning a computer is like owning a car. They want it for the function they use it for. Learning more is like learning to change the oil in a car. In principle easy, but more of a chore than an opportunity.
I remember watching an interview with the CEO of SUN microsystems in the 90's argue that you didn't need to know how to run a nuclear power plant to use a light switch, and you shouldn't have to know how a computer works to use one.
I guess his vision came true, and we're mad about it?
Indeed. It feels like a lot of historical context is missing in Lemmy political discussions. The Democratic party was the party of FDR, JFK, and LBJ. The Democratic Leadership Council took over the party after the left candidates failed to deliver election successes, but even then, the DLC had to do the work to take the party leadership positions, build a funding network, and win elections. Before that FDR had to wrestle party control from the the Dixiecrats.
Hopefully Hogg and allies will be successful in reforming the party once again.