Ah, the Strange Dogs novella. That's a really good bit of side story.

You're a model in 1993. In order brush elbows with the elite, make connections and continue finding work you are given an invite by your modelling agency. You attend because this can only be good for your career.

You get sexually harrassed.

You didn't ask for this. You're trying to make a living. Titans of the industry see you as a bag of meat to toss around and abuse.

"You were asking for it."

Reading this felt like the computer version of whatever the SAW movies are.

Torture porn? It's so repugnant but I want more.

Also locks out anyone not living in the 66 countries serviced by the PSN.

Also now requires giving your personal info to yet another third party and their friends. A third party which has a storied past of losing user data.

My job sees me putting a lot of really heavy objects on trailers, vehicles, boats and trains.

You must say "She ain't going nowhere" and tap the load with your hand or else she is going somewhere you don't want.

I swear by it. Every time I or one of my subordinates has forgotten the phrase its been a disaster. So we say it every time now and make sure the new guys do it to. Or else.

We all shake our tits for the rich in one way or the other. Some are just a little more honest to themselves about it.

I've been told that the armies in many countries use sliding scales of work-rest cycles based on temperature and humidity. For example in Canada, above 35°C you may only have half the crew working 30 minutes on 30 minutes off. Meaning you have 50% of the work being done 100% of the time. Hydration and heat stroke checks are strongly enforced as well. The American army does similar if I've been told correctly.

How American civilians and labourers are not allowed these very same standards is insane to me. People die because of this shit and unions are just okay with this?

The moral implications for both sides are honestly incredibly horrific.

The chimera was the trapped, transformed and lobotomized soul of a mortal child... Having those experiments lead to the idolized cat girl form on the left still implies the capture and inhumane abuse of a human being's essence forever trapped in a body that doesn't match what their brain wants to be wired to.

Somehow this response became about trans rights. So no. I will not force human beings into cat girl bodies for the benefit of others.

Based and healthy mentality pilled tbh.

European nations and the US presently have boots on the ground?

For anyone who doesn't get it: The joke relies on understanding how Latin languages gender words (Un v. Une, Masculine/Feminine form).So it literally doesn't work in English. It's also a common translation error non native speakers have because you only know the "gender" of a word by... Knowing if it's masculine or feminine through experience.

Best way to carry the joke is:

"Oh look, a/un(male) fly."

"No, it's a/une(feminine) fly."

"Wow, you have good eyes/Wow, you can see it's genitals from here?"

Certainly clunky but hilarious if you speak French.

It's not in the EULA at all. A major problem with this change is that PSN is only available in about 66 countries. Locking out the rest of the world from playing without fear of repercussions due to falsified account info.

Also just the shitty problem of having to give your personal info to yet another third party. One who has a long history of losing personal data of its users.

Funny anecdote: I watched the movie first then -in highschool- when our section on dystopian novels came up my teacher assigned Starship Troopers to me because as an avid reader I'd already read the others.

I genuinely thought Heinlein was a comedic genius. Wrote a whole 10- page essay on it for the end of semester assignment. My teacher had to explain to me that Heinlein may have been a little bit of a Juntist.

All that to say... I guess while the movie is tongue in cheek about it all the book(s) are quite literal at times about manufacturing war in distant places in order to rationalise genocidal behaviour masked as patriotism. Also I suppose a person's prior programming may hardwire them to interpreting certain media in a different light.

I knew the society in Starship Troopers was messed up. I just thought Heinlein wrote it that way on purpose to make the point even stronger.

We usually can see it but only once it's too late. If you're fast you can usually get rid of all the brood comb and pray it doesn't continue to spread but usually the hive is a goner.

It's spotted by discoloured larva, a bad smell and poke tests. It's one of those diseases you can't really manage. It contributes to hive collapse syndrome along with varoa mites which we're still studying.

A big reason this disease gets to spread along with Varoa is because of factory farming of honey and the global transportation of colonies for annual pollination cycles. Especially barley and other grain.

Capitalism is literally at fault for hive collapse syndrome.

I really appreciate that. I try hard and I've come a long way. I find it easier to apply these principles to others but I'm learning to respect myself as well.

I think this post was a little bit of self care in a sense. I think I suffer a lot from some sort of Rejection Sensitivity. So while I'm in tune to these feelings for others I struggle a lot with accepting rejection for myself.

Which is wild considering my line of work...

Nolite te bastardes carborundorum!

I'm just curious. How long would you consider a reasonably quick read expressed in hours?

The gloves fit on both hands...

Hi, this is part of my area of expertise.

Neither nation is a signatory to the Ottawa Treaty of 1997 prohibiting the use of victim operated landmines and booby traps. Nor does either nation recognise the amendments to the Geneva convention made in 1996. Additionally, neither nation is a strict adherent or signatory of many of the Geneva conventions or treaty of the Hague which limit undue suffering. Making this specific act not a war crime.

The boobytrapping of a IFAK (Individual First Aid Kit) we see here adheres to laws outlined in all many of these treaties as they aren't directly interfering with humanitarian aid.

Without citing the specific articles you may not:

• Target unarmed combatants or NGO workers
• Make false surrender (perfidy)
• Target hospitals, schools, religious sites or specified culturally significant sites; any force held within these areas are protected under the articles until hostile action is taken by them which forces the building or site to lose protected civilian status making it a valid military target.
• Create or alter devices and ammunition to cause undue harm. (Aim to maim rather than kill)

And the one we're most concerned with in this conversation:

-Target Red Cross, Red Crescent or associated NGO humanitarian aid. Nor may one booby trap or target Humanitarian aid intended to reach soldiers and civilians.

Do you know what isn't humanitarian aid? A soldier's personal first aid kit. Why? Because anything owned or operated in war or for war does not have protected status and is a valid military target.

Soldiers have been booby trapping magazines, crates and supplies since the Boer War. It is not a war crime by any article or treaty I know of because tools of war are valid military targets.

Every single NATO soldier has these things drilled into their heads. Any competent soldier knows to never ever ever pick up anything the enemy may have left behind because they can and absolutely will leave things behind to fuck you up.

But I want you to go through the list of things you may not do and tell me how many of those the Russians have done. Because it's all of them.

I'm going to need some help with this one...

Éowyn probably.