I think that's in part due to nepotism. It seems like everyone who's successfully in entertainment is the child or grandchild of someone else who was successful in entertainment. The same is true for the music industry and its starting to become true in the AAA gaming industry.

When people start to get those jobs because of their family connections rather than their ability everything goes downhill. The most obvious example outside of entertainment is politics.

These are the kinds of people who go to a book club meeting every Sunday for a book that clearly non of them have ever read.

It's insane that ultra-right fascists (in Italy and America at least) always define themselves as "Christian."

Christ would flip tables on them and pull out his whip

The short answer is that it doesn't. I think some of the most compelling cases I've seen have come out of South America, east Asia, and Europe.

The long answer (is really just speculation on my part) the US dumps so much money into defense that the citizens don't have healthcare, education, or decent social services. The USA is the richest nation on earth and many billions of dollars spent on defense are classified or unaccounted for. It seems likely to me that the US is one of the only nations with a program in place to study any recovered craft so any of our allies would likely send materials/craft to the US to be studied.

I downloaded "jerboa" which is modeled after RIF I think. Lemmy is pretty good so far but doesn't have as much content and the app is a bit slower than RIF.

I'm hopeful that it grows into a good replacement. It's certainly off to a good start. There's a starwars memes page though like I said it has a lot less content.

Hard to answer without knowing what you have there already. Those rooms definitely need ventilation but I don't usually see that ventilation being part of am interior door I imagine you could put on basically any solid core that fits.

Also Chicago has a history of unique and expensive antique door hardware so if your house is old you might want to do some googling of your knobs, lock sets, and hinges and either donate them to a place that deals in antique house parts or sell them online.

This is a very real possibility for pretty much every country in the world right now. Authoritarianism is on the rise

Today is bastille day.

Yes some more instruction for the lazy. Go to charts then scroll over to the military expenditure. If you look through all the charts you'll see that the only other nation that rivals US military spending is China.

I made a few wooden grid boards with plexiglass tops so I can use a dry erase marker on them. I also ordered a ton of blank cards that I can use as items and status effects. Other than that players and I use pen and paper.

Not exactly "self" teach but just talking with friends about it helps a lot.

Italy didn't exist until the 19th century. Are you saying the whole italian peninsula was a lost cause? Did you forget about the Renaissance?

Ive traveled around this country a lot and I'll say that America is a huge collection of different cultures with long histories.

One thing we get a lot from the rest of the world is "America is such a new nation and doesn't have a cultural history." Which is completely untrue. In fact America is older than most modern nations.

Each state I've been to has some really unique cultural aspects to it and when you spend enough time there you realize that people from bordering states can be just as different as people from bordering European countries.

We can, and likely will do better in space. Despite humanities failing most people still care about the human race enough that they want the long term survival of the species. The only way to ensure that is expansion into space colonies.

That doesn't mean we should give up on earth nor does it mean we should sacrifice climate health for the betterment of space travel.

Why is everyone saying "bespoke" all the time all of a sudden?

But who is "they?"

This is a psyOp but I don't think it's a lie. Since the 2020 (2019? I cant remember) NYT article it seems there's been an intentional slow drip of information preparing the public to accept NHI. Will we ever get full disclosure? Probably not. Is Grusche telling the truth? I think so. I bet we will see photo/video of UAP in the next 3 years