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I do not, unfortunately. I had actually never heard of that sandwich before but it looks really good. I am vegetarian, though, so it’ll have to stay just looking good for me

Green ones with garlic and lemon juice are top notch though

I am in the UK so that would make sense. Going solely off of wikipedia’s page on the romanisation of Arabic, I’d hazard a guess that the UK spelling came via French

God damn do I love a good bruschetta

Nice bread, some houmous and balsamic to dip it in (separately, of course), marinated olives and artichoke hearts, grilled courgette and tomatoes

Ahh, sorry for the misunderstanding

That really sounds like good guys with guns do not and cannot actually stop bad guys with guns

In practice, FPTP is not actually user-friendly either. Unless you’re lucky enough that you genuinely do just want to vote for whichever of the two big candidates you’re presented with, you either vote tactically (a decision nobody enjoys taking) or you accept an extremely high likelihood of your vote being effectively wasted. Even if the actual process of putting a mark next to one candidate is simple, the decision process leading up to that is significantly complicated beyond the necessary “work out who you like”

This particular quirk of Indian English is also responsible for penetration cum blast ammunition

Oh my bad, I totally misunderstood what you meant. Excellent drawing though

Small fandoms? There is a delightful youtube channel called Colganology in which an eccentric old English man documents his craft projects and whatever else is on his mind. I discovered him because of his series in which he builds a bunch of absolutely terrible musical instruments out of random bits and bobs that he has lying around. I would very much appreciate a depiction of his mighty war horns intimidating his enemies

This is actually what an adult cow looks like, we just never get to see it in real life because we kill them for meat before they achieve their true glory. All of humanity used to be pescatarian, but a cult of human skaters convinced us to start eating cows so that they could win at the X Games

Obviously I’m gonna work out how much to set aside to live comfortably off the interest forever first. That should not require a big percentage of that much money. Get myself a house, make sure my loved ones are set and comfortable too.

Next I’m going to set aside a chunk of it to be completely irresponsible with. I’m gonna get on a train and see all the bits of Europe I want to see, stay in nice hotels, eat in fancy restaurants, and bring my friends and family along to various bits of it. There are a few things like videogames I would like to see developed but do not have the skills to make myself, so I’ll throw a few tens of millions at those ideas. If they work out, awesome, they might even pay for themselves. I’ve always liked vehicle design so I will get a car coachbuilt. Not something flashy and loud, just something exactly how I decide it should be. A bunch of custom-built guitars.

So with needs and vices taken care of, and I cannot imagine I have even come close to getting through the first of five billions yet, it’s time to actually try to do some good. I have a strong casual interest in history, so I think I’d enjoy funding work to be done by local institutions in places that are currently relatively under-explored. Ask universities in these places what they want, ask nothing in return other than that someone shows me whatever cool stuff they’ve learned every so often. You want to take the time to laser-scan a bunch of ancient buildings like the Zamani project is doing? Hell yeah, I’ll pay everyone’s wages for that. My thinking here is that if I’m not directing it I’m unlikely to unintentionally fuck something up through ignorance, and by paying for skilled work that is not extracting anything physical I am hopefully giving the local economies a boost in a way that should not result in me undercutting any local industries or anything

I go walking when it’s windy or cold. So long as it’s dry. Get fucked, insect casuals, come back when you’ve developed winter coats

You think it’s weird that someone speaking in their second language in a position of great international power is using language that you wouldn’t use day to day?

There’s no trick here. It’s not a term he made up, it’s one rooted in relevant international law. Stoltenberg said exactly what he meant: Russia’s war is unjust. If you think that that’s an odd position for the secretary general of NATO to express then I really don’t know what to tell you

So what’s your issue with it? Just that some pro-Confederacy dickheads use the same words?

“War of aggression” just means a war that’s not in self-defence. “Aggression” specifically is also a term used in laws like the Rome Statute. This language is actually very well established in contexts that are not people trying to play cover for the Confederacy

It is, but these examples are a poor counter to it. America is a republic. It’s just that being a republic and being a democracy are not mutually exclusive. Finland, Brazil, and Indonesia are other examples of countries that are both democracies and republics. The trick these Republicans are playing is pretending that a country can only be one or the other so that they don’t need to say they’re in favour of democracy

According to the article, people were trying to pin this on a Ukrainian-fired American-made missile.

I think the other notable part is the specific kind of missile used. This one should more often than not land within 6m of where you tell it to. If it was actually directly targeting the hospital rather than “just” being a glide bomb flung in the general direction of Kyiv, that’s even worse

You came in here complaining about Americans with literally nobody talking about America, and you said that they should be talking about the humanitarian toll when that is in fact what everyone here was already doing. You are whining.