And in bold on the first screen you see after booting up, asking you to link an account and saying in large letters it's mandatory
To justify an invasion? We could have invaded anywhere we wanted any time we wanted
This makes it sound like you were born after 2001
Yes, in theory, the US could have invaded Iraq and Afghanistan any time they wanted, but wars in the US always require an excuse of some kind for The International Community (tm), and inevitably are unpopular with one party
The revanchist fury that soaked into the West right after 9/11 is hard to describe if you weren't there. That shit was bipartisan, every liberal went full 
overnight. News was 24/7 bloodlust, with the initial sucker punch on Baghdad playing live on every news outlet
What followed was 20 years of the biggest MIC grifting the world had ever seen. Billions in failed Future Soldier shit, billions in new weapons. Contractors selling pens valued at a thousand times their worth just to grift a few million more. And then came the PATRIOT Act and other surveillance methods which were accepted to wide acclaim because of 9/11, with no mainstream pushback. It further solidified the vassal relationship of the rest of NATO/the EU to the US as the US dragged others in and began militarily grifting them as well.The pre-9/11 world would be just unrecognizable to anyone born afterwards
Nobody is legitimately arguing that Bush personally contacted the Saudis and asked for Bin Laden. The usual argument is that the Bush regime had intel that they chose not to act on
I've seen it remarked upon in some lib circles... As a positive
They believe any Ukranian male of fighting age who attempts to leave or dodge the draft is a coward complicit in genocide and should be either forced to the front or imprisoned for life
I wish this was a joke 
but were Slytherin actually explicitly supposed to be the bad guys
Until very recently (ie an offhand mention of a character in one of the last books and that godawful stage play), yes
Every last evil person was a Slytherin. There wasn't a single one that wasn't a bigot and a bully, and every villain character was a Slytherin. It was basically Fascism House
A sterling example comes from that time he launched a massive missile strike against an (empty) airbase in Syria for no discernible reason, and all the lib media was fawning over it and how Trump was maybe turning properly Presidential
Power delivery and communication mostly
EV chargers deliver massive amounts of power, far more than what's delivered by a 120 or 220 socket. You can charge EVs with those but it's usually used to charge overnight because it takes hours instead of the minutes needed for a proper fast charger
You also need to have the car handshake with the charger to know how much power to draw and when to stop, because not every EV on the same charging standard accepts the same power draw, so in addition to the h u g e power phase and ground pins in the connectors you've also got a pin dedicated to talking to the charger to allow it to function properly
Technology Connections on YouTube has tons of videos on the subject, if you want a deeper and more specific dive
And you didn't care so far
This website: overwhelmingly and unanimously pro-Palestine and Palestinian statehood, decrying most of the west for not giving Palestine statehood
Some random scratched lib:
A scroll wheel that requires almost a full turn to scroll one line but also is smooth plastic, with no knurling to help scroll
Libs will just tell you that's fabricated anyway and can't be trusted because it's Soviet
One of the grimmest comments I've ever read, I'm sorry comrade
I have vivid memories of seeing fireflies off the back deck floating over wheat fields all summer long. It was magical, and the fact it's been stolen from younger generations is inexcusable
It's similar to the wording Mohammad Ali used to avoid going to Vietnam a few decades later, so I have to imagine some people did
The TD design with an immobile or mostly immobile turret seems to be viable again
Makes me wonder if the Swedes didn't have the right idea with the S-tank
For those that don't know, the S-tank is designed for defensive warfare. It's a super short tank with an absurdly raked front angle to its armour that makes kt very hard for a round to actually find purchase, and it has its cannon hull mounted, no turret
With how strangely static modern warfare is, it seems like it would be a better design for tanks these days. Split your tanks into S-tank style long range defensive tanks, and bring back light tanks (which every army is starting to do) with the same gun for any type of high speed maneuvers
the episodes of Johnny Bravo Macfarlane worked on
He what
lib neighbors that somehow can accept genocide as long as they aren't white
Correction:
Libs accept genocide as long as it's done by Good Countries. If a genocide is against non-whites but in Bad Country (or alleged to be happening), then they won't shut the fuck up
Oh fuck that does mean that if they do another movie it'll just be a lot of "mr grindelwald your fired sir" before he's imprisoned or some shit
God I hate this series so much
Rowling would absolutely make a magic creature that magically votes Grindelwald out of the power to use magic or some similar thing
This is quite literally the plot of Fantastic Beasts 3
The election for Wizard President is decided by a qilin - a cute deer looking creature that can see the True Heart of a wizard and is used to decide on which of the candidates is the best leader because of how pure of heart they are
So Grindelwald captures a qilin, kills it, revives it through dark magic, and replaces the real voting machine with his rigged one to declare himself the winner, until the heroes show up with the real voting machine which declares someone else the winner so Grindelwald gets mad and just accepts the results and leaves
We know at some point later he duels Dumbledore and dies there but that's it, as of right now he got voted out of power
I want them to keep going because they're so fucking bad
I need to see how they follow up on "we voted Wizard Hitler out of power in the marketplace of ideas!" because there's no way to actually do that without acknowledging that that doesn't fucking work, which is anathema to lib worldview
Gameplay wise it's pretty good, and does improve on what was laid down in 3 and NV, but it also back steps in some ways with VATS being a slow-mo thing and the only way to get critical hits now
Visually it's fantastic. Some people didn't like the art style change but I'm all for it, I think it fits the retrofuturist aeathetic
Story and writing wise it's dogshit. The main story is beat for beat identical to FO3 but with a new coat of paint and somehow even more boring, the characters other than Nick Valentine are boring, and the main villain motivation is nonsense
Solid 6/10 from me, goes up to 7 or 8 when modded
Also at one point the lead writer voices a character and he calls the player character - and player by extension - the ableist R-slur. Gives you a good idea of the respect the writing team has for your time I'd say
From looking up the lyrics, there's a use of the K-slur (against black South Africans) in the outro, used to mock someone with those beliefs but still used
