Why don't he just go on sick leave and let some substitute take over if he's too sick to perform the tasks he was elected to do? Is he really that narcissistic?
I am kind of jealous of ancien regime French aristocrats. They were some of the last men in the west who was allowed and expected to dress flamboyantly. Menswear since then has all been dull imitations of military uniforms.
No, I don't have a huge vocabulary because I am some genius. I have it because I need to have lots of words for the same thing to make up for my memory recall fail rate.
The Strike: A silent movie about workers striking at a factory. It has some cinematography that is way beyond it's time
Battleship Potemkin: If you are into prevention films you have to watch this silent move about a mutiny at a tsarist battleship, simply because it has been referenced in so many other works.
Alexander Nevsky: This one is a talkie. It is a period drama about the medieval fight to kick the Teutonic Order (here used as a barely hidden historical standin for the Nazis) out of Russia. It had a huge budget and is kind of famous for the reenactment of a grand battle on a frozen lake.
Couldn't it just as well be a call for military operations against genocide-related infrastructure outside of Palestine, such as arms manufacturers or zionist "diplomatic missions"?
Don't worry, the regime has found a way to actually get things done this time. When announcing their military "acceleration fund" earlier this year they said that in order to speed up things they would begin to just buy stuff without doing too much work to make sure that they were getting the right stuff for the right price. "Mistakes are going to be made" they said.
Meanwhile every non-armed branch of the state is routinely expected to do more with less and spend their money more efficiently every year.
I spoke to some people working in executive positions for small to medium-sized Danish naval contractors recently. They told me that five years ago all the people from the industry were gathered by the navy for meetings on constructing new patrol ships. Many people drew large salaries for going to a lot of meetings. Nothing has been built yet. Now they're starting over from scratch, this time not just to build patrol ships but to build an entire new navy. Many people are drawing large salaries to go to a lot of meetings again.
The regime wants to build the new navy domestically. However, and these executives were very aware of this, the capacity to build large ships doesn't exist in the west anymore. The large shipyards have all been closed down and converted to other uses and even though Denmark still has a capacity for maritime engineering, design and architecture, the skilled workers needed to actually build the ships are not there anymore. And even if they were, nobody would want to pay a couple of hundred of them the salaries they would have to. There's a reason why ship building was outsourced in the first place.
The regime plans to get around this by letting a hundred subcontractors bloom, each building parts of the new ships in different locations. Then all the parts are going to be gathered in the harbour of Esbjerg and welded together there. The executives didn't think much of that idea. They thought that the way to get around having to employ 300 ship builders is to sprinkle the magic fairy dust of technology on the new naval shipyard, somehow using robotics and the line to reduce the number of workers to a hundred.
I don't think their idea of robotic domestic shipyards is that much less delusional than the one-piece-at-the-time scheme imagined by the regime. As if Asian shipyards were not already using robotics where possible. Also, unlike the west, China and other Asian countries have an actual shipbuilding industry that can be leveraged to develop new fancy high-tech solutions, the west doesn't.
I had McDonald's yesterday. The sauce and the bread was sugary enough to legally categorize it as a desert. I spent all night having a heartburn because of it and my skin still feels disgustingly oily.
Absolutely. The average Euro is convinced that were it not for NATO (purely defensive alliance of peaceful democracies), Putin would unleash the Red Army to flood Europe like a human tsunami, occupying every spot of land within a week.
They also believe that Russia is running out of vehicles in Ukraine and are riding donkeys and camels into battle. The enemy is too strong and too weak.
People are angry but there's nobody organising and directing the anger. Just a bunch of pissed off atomised individuals who are still too high on white supremacy and exceptionalism to ever entertain the thought that they're not living in the best of all possible societies.
Donnie's cell phone plan has been cancelled again. He is really upset because he he can't follow how his investments in BullCoin, the world's first beef tallow-based cryptocurrency, is going.
Xi agrees to let Donnie get his WiFi password if he pays half the bill. Donnie pays and tries to sell Xi some of his BullCoin. Xi declines and Donnie gets mad, claiming that Xi is taking advantage of him and being unfair.
The thermostat is in Donnie's room and to retaliate and make Xi buy his BullCoin he turns off the heating. Xi puts on warm clothes and changes the WiFi password. Although it is annoying to do with gloves on, Xi manages to work on his model railway.
Having spent all his money on BullCoin, Donnie has no money and the box with all his warm clothes was thrown in the Hudson river during the move due to an altercation with the movers. Now Donnie is cold and he has no WiFi. He tries keeping warm by wrapping himself in old fastfood wrappers.
At the end of the day Donnie turns the heat back on and Xi changes the WiFi password back. The episode ends with Donnie being mad about his loser friend Z not being grateful enough for getting the WiFi back.
"Sweden is the r*pe capital of the world!" has been a fash talking point for decades. The kernel of truth is that Swedish authorities take sexual assault more seriously than most other countries so more cases get reported and their crime statistics count each individual assault instead of just each case.
Now imagine that talking point being combined with a national inferiority complex towards Sweden, the bigger country who won all the wars against you and who makes you look bad by trying to be less shitty than you.
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Why don't he just go on sick leave and let some substitute take over if he's too sick to perform the tasks he was elected to do? Is he really that narcissistic?