InverseParallax

This isn't a now thing, what you don't understand is that texas never belonged to you, they just let you work their ranches and oil fields.

It's their state and always has been.

Never thought of it as gotg, yeah it exactly is, damn.

So I'm a McCain conservative, I love kinzinger, but mostly I hate Trump and consider him the antithesis to everything I care for.

Personally, this isn't about ideology, he's just trash, but that's me.

Eh. I’m voting for Trump

I mean.... really?

It's not a question of political views, I was a midwestern conservative growing up, back before the dixiecrats hijacked the party and drove it into a ditch,

Vote libertarian until they finally kick the trash out, sending a message matters more than anything else.

Please stop using, like all those terms.

Texas does believe in their Christian Nationalist Imperialism where all oil on the planet was given to them by God and Brown people should understand that. This should make sense because they were less than a backwater till they realized their black gold finally made them as rich and powerful as they always should have been, and people finally had to accept that God chose them specifically.

But that's mostly it, and Texans are just partiuclarly insane, they literally fought 2 wars of independence because their parent country wanted to tone down slavery, if it wasn't for them we wouldn't have had any of the middle eastern bullshit over the last, basically century. As oil dies down they can go back to being a worthless shithole desert and we can all ignore them again like we should.

Grew up there, I think I would have gotten over it if the fuckers didn't try to follow me and destroy the rest of the country.

And if you try to explain why they're so incredibly stupid, for instance, because their diet doesn't offer enough Niacin (Pellagra), or because they have a catastrophic hookworm infestation that causes developmental damage, they try to murder your scientists for 'insulting muh southern heritage!', instead of just adding supplements to their flour and wearing slippers outside.

Pike is the ultimate Starfleet captain, which is crazy.

TNG's chemistry was all over the place for the first 3 seasons, after TBOTW they locked it down perfectly, Enterprise's too actually. DS9 nailed the chemistry best till SNW imho, LD too I guess.

I don't think that's the game being played now, the new meta is forcing your enemy to be so busy tearing themselves apart that you are free to act anywhere in the world.

If Russia wins in Ukraine, then the Sino-Russian axis can start taking a more active stance in the middle-east, and Israel has to deal with Iran without a blank cheque from the US, and even Saudi Arabia has to make compromises.

It's in all their interests that the US fall to utter chaos, and Trump is the Lord of Chaos incarnate.

The argument against that is that Iran actually had a chance under Obama to rejoin parts of the global order, and was open to that.

I think one mistake we all make in geopolitics is to see countries as monolithic, I suspect Iran has political factions that want to bury the hatchet, and factions violently opposed to the same, much like every country has different opinions among themselves.

... Why?

I get that Trump was a worse person to deal with, but they were probably still better off with him, he was so erratic the rest of the world edged away from us.

Because China executes at a rate 100x the US, that we know of, believed to be 1000x.

No person, no prisoner. --Stalin

Also, Tibet and Xinjiang.

2 things:

1. It's more the determinacy, a GC randomly fires up and your systems stops for some long amount of time. There are pauseless GCs but that's a different nightmare.

2. The kernel has things similar to GCs. They're used for more specialized tasks, and some (like rcu) are absolute nightmares that have take decades to get working.