Jamal Kashoggi is also part of the Kashoggi family (see Adnan Kashoggi.)

It could be more of a function of being connected to a powerful and wealthy family than being a media figure.

Just-in-time logistical models:

“wait wait you can’t do that, think of all the lost profits due to stagnant inventory!”

https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-237-how-selective-patronizing-deradicalization-discourse-pathologizes-anti-colonial-ec9c079761fc

This is my experience as well, I could at least access the site using jerboa, web browser was unusable.

Yeah, you got to why I asked in the end there lol. This isn’t OIwlcat’s fault, this is Pathfinders fault for not diverging from DnD far enough in that case. Owlcat just adapted the game system, there’s other rpg systems that have workable “alignment” mechanics. I like corruption in WFRP for example.

I worked in a pharmacy before this, and I thought this would be better for my bloodpressure than dealing with healthcare/insurance

Lol I work in maintaining the machines Ford uses in their factories, and they have been mad scrambling to get manufacturing back up and humming along in the most dysfunctional and half-assed way possible (from my perspective.) Getting any of their shit fixed is a communications nightmare. They send the wrong things in to be fixed under warranty and it takes months for them to actually sort out the invoices and whatnot. I have stuff they sent to us to be fixed in 2024 that they probably don’t even remember sending us at this point and we’re just waiting to hear whether or not this is actually the thing they paid to have repaired… They send us things that they don’t need or want to fix on accident! Just pallets of horribly organized ill-maintained machinery. Granted, the company I work for is a shit show as well and part of this problem is the ineptitude of our own customer service department, to say nothing of the fact my own department has lost 50% of our workers with no replacement (since I’ve been hired) because the entire American industrial supply chain has rotted completely through. Repair technicians have been retiring left and right and companies are not willing to pay for new hires, let alone in investing in education and trying to do something useful with all this on-the-job knowledge. I can only imagine they gutted whoever is responsible for overseeing this stuff and are just relying on some shitty AI tool to incorrectly fill out paperwork for them.

Oh man, it’s been a long time since I listened to The Growlers! I didn’t even know they’re back. Thanks for sharing Thomas.

I disagree that it would have ever gotten in the way, I think the logic behind this is it’s better to have a (controllable) weak pathetic loser at the head of the military hierarchy than someone who is a political threat to you.

(those game expose how bad tabletop alignment is in practice)

Is this about the D&D style alignment wheel? or something more fundamental?

Yeah Trump has always been a vocal teetotaller because of Fred Trump jr.

When his alcoholism prevented him from continuing to function as a pilot, Trump returned to work for his father’s business. He eventually moved into the unfurnished attic of his parents’ house and again did maintenance on Trump properties.[20] On September 26, 1981,[21] at the age of 42, he died from a heart attack caused by his alcohol use.[22][23][b]

He’s got a chip on his shoulder about alcohol specifically being a pathetic vice for weak losers.

(Uh, to be clear I am describing Trump’s thought process there. I, myself, am someone who abuses the so-called pathetic vice for weak losers. Not trying to hit anyone with strays on this.)

If the guy was a useful CIA asset I think him dissappearing to El Salvador is the most prudent thing for the US deep state to do. Send him back to Brazil and he might start squeaking about Agency business to secure amnesty for himself. He also could have been a not-very-useful asset, in which case he has nothing to give and no harm no foul sending him back to Brazil.

Germanisation as a phenomenon goes all the way back to the middle ages with the Ostsiedlung and the erasure of Polabian slavic peoples.

Warplock Jezzails ready, yes-yes!

Reads Natopedia definition of cartel

I wonder what wholesome chungus OPEC stands for

Longtime Grim Dawn prosyletizer here, and I have to shout out that if you liked Grim Dawn mechanically speaking, and don’t mind 20+ year old games () , give Titan Quest a shot! The first big hit by the same devs when they still worked for THQ/Relic ( )

E) There’s even a halfway decent mobile port of the game I played for a bit that IIRC only cost like $8.00 usd

You can see the remnants of the satire in the old 40k writing there in that confusion. The Emperor in 40k is if the God-Emperor (I mentioned in my Dune post above) never accepted the mortal sacrafice required by The Golden Path in the Dune setting. And so, 40k Imperium remains a fascist setting.

It’s interesting that with the death of Frank Herbert and ineptitude of his son the settings end up in (largely) the same position regardless of circumstances, specifically because he is of this older “Great Man” generation than contemporary Games Workshop/Black Library/Cubicle 7 writers are.

I am (obviously) also a huge warhammer fantasy fan lol, and yes. Dune is a massive influence on both Warhammer fantasy and 40k, fantasy more subtly and 40k overtly.