Seriously, why are the local humans such dicks? Had a human wizard that was known as Katherine the Great by the wizard-hating dwarves, because she spoke draconic and brokered a peace between them and the kobolds. The orcs called her Katherine the Timeless, because she got ahold of a potion of heal, and a philosopher's stone before her 17th birthday, and made herself a potion of eternal youth/ immortality. The local humans called her Katherine Lady of Death......
Whoops that's just an interview with the author, though may be useful to some, I shall keep looking.
Audiobooks.com has a 30 day free trial, and this is one of the books they have, but still not good enough.....
Bookey.com also has a free trial and this audiobook. I'm failing here as a pirate. Unfortunately, I haven't pirated any audiobooks so I don't know where to look
And US aircraft carriers have an honestly embarrassing amount of firepower, completely disregarding the jets. There's a reason that they haven't been sunk by anyone other than the USN since Midway. Apparently we have sunk several carriers since WWII, one with a nuke. It survived the first nuke, but the second sunk her. Though the Independence survived both nukes.
If they keep this war up, with the current losses in manpower, for another 8 to 9 months, they won't have enough Russian males to repopulate the country. Putin may be effectively killing Russia as a country. Unfortunately Ukraine may hit that point sooner since they have fewer people.
Most of the staff likely would have told me that it is mandatory. There are news stories all the time about kids being bullied, given detention, and other negative repercussions, for exercising their right to not say the pledge.
I base that on the laws and regulations that the US has for immigration, vs the ones that countries like The UK, Germany, Japan, Canada and Australia have. There are navigable paths to US citizenship for people that don't have skills that are needed in the US. For many other countries you either have to be rich or skilled to get in. Poor people aren't welcome. Poor people aren't exactly welcome in the US either, but they can get in.
The bed of those massive trucks isn't big enough to fit a single grand piano, much less 3. They just made everything else bigger. The beds are still the same size as a 1980s Toyota pickup.
Black bears wouldn't have a chance of survival being hit with that thing. Grizzlys might slow the truck down, maybe. A Polar Bear is the only type of bear I can think of that you'd really need a tank sized vehicle to deal with it. Heck even a Giant Panda is just gonna bat at you to get you to go away since you aren't bamboo.
I live in Imperial Beach, California. There is absolutely no reason to have one of these monstrosities here, and none of the 15 that live in my neighborhood ever have any type of mud on them. Not even the 4 whose hoods are at my eye level, I'm 6'3" / 192cm, because they lifted the hell out of them. I will admit that the guy who has an 8'4" tall old school VW bug may be a bit strange, but at least that thing looks cool, and he has it as an advertisement for his shop, so there was a reason for him to have the thing.
Ironically the VW is the only one that ever has any mud on it.
I maintain that the issue is that they keep trying to have someone like a president. That doesn't work. You need a council that has executive power, that way if one person starts getting corrupted, they can be winnowed out. If you really want it to work, you need to outlaw political parties from day one, and require that no one that wants to hold political office is eligible to do so.
Robert E. Lee, and several of his commanding generals, specifically said that no one should ever commemorate their names or visages. That means no statues, or places named for them. They recognized that they were traitors.
Woodrow Wilson didn't give a fuck about dead men's wishes.
He would have been happier to have nothing named for him and no statues erected. Apparently Woodrow "Author of Southern Revisionism" Wilson didn't give even half a fuck about the dead man's wishes. Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and a bunch of the other generals all specifically said that no monuments or commemorations should be erected to honor them, as they recognized they were traitors.
Wilson is the one that refounded the KKK, helped fund the filming of Birth of a Nation, showed said travesty of a movie at The White House, used his Yale credentials to write Southern Revisionism, used his power as president to erect said statues and change the names of places and monuments, and segregated The Federal Government. That's just looking at his domestic policies. Wilsonian Doctrine gave us the Forever Wars that have ensued since, and that could easily be argued to be the least damaging thing that asshole did.
Wilson is only second to Jackson for worst president ever, and that's only because Jackson paid off the national debt, and caused the worst depression in US history. Deepest by economic percentage, though not dollar amount, and longest by over a decade. They both committed their own flavors of genocide against the Native Americans.
Every kilt I've ever worn comes to the bottom of my knees. That's a few inches longer than normal, normally they reach the top to middle of your knee-cap. They could be longer I suppose, but that inhibits the previously mentioned pooping abilities.
Edit: upon further research, there's something called a "great kilt" that extends further down your shins.
Swedish authorities say Russia is behind “harmful interference” deliberately targeting the Nordic country’s satellite networks that it first noted days after joining NATO earlier this year....
How mysterious! ( lemmy.world )
Cognizant descent
Russia Loses Last Black Sea Missile Ship ( www.kyivpost.com )
Hong Kong says school children sang anthem too softly ( www.bbc.com )
Hong Kong officials have singled out at least two schools for singing the Chinese national anthem "too softly"....
A Russian Propaganda Network Is Promoting an AI-Manipulated Biden Video ( www.wired.com )
China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report ( infosec.exchange )
GitCode, a git-hosting website operated Chongqing Open-Source Co-Creation Technology Co Ltd and with technical support from CSDN and Huawei Cloud....
Time to move ( lemmy.world )
You can fit two cars there ( lemmy.world )
New Study: At Least 15% of All Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion ( medium.com )
Whose idea was it to broadcast this?
Failed a spot check ( lemmy.world )
Louisiana's new "Ten Commandments" law actually contains eleven commandments ( boingboing.net )
It's going. I'm alive. ( lemmy.world )
The cycle of pants continues ( lemmy.world )
Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win ( arstechnica.com )
It's how you turn a goth gf into a goth wife ( lemmy.world )
NATO Member Sweden Says Russia Disrupting Its Satellite Networks ( www.swissinfo.ch )
Swedish authorities say Russia is behind “harmful interference” deliberately targeting the Nordic country’s satellite networks that it first noted days after joining NATO earlier this year....