large_goblin [he/him, comrade/them]

Geopolitics is just a map painting game to these people. When your borders are bigger thats good. Why would you not want your borders to be bigger? Graduated from Total War university with a PhD in Medieval 2 crusade strategies.

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I was in a very similar place for most of the past year, and I’m not entirely out of it. Some of those feelings have gone away, but others have not. I didn’t get things back together by myself, it was the support of others that allowed me to start healing.

I hope things will get better for you, and this community (including me) is here for anything you need to keep going and start moving towards a better place. If you just want to talk, for someone to listen, people to play games with or whatever helps take your mind off things or helps you work through everything please reach out. That includes material assistance too.

I can’t give advice without specifics of where you are but please feel free to post in [email protected] if you are struggling to pay for essentials.

9 months. It has been hell. At points I felt like the job market just wouldn’t get better, even if the economy recovered the new hiring processes were here to stay and I wasn’t compatible with them.

Time to return to work. Hoping this won’t end in redundancy or bankruptcy like all my other jobs. This time I’m going to become an immensely boring person for a year, get my finances in order and have actual retirement and emergency funds in place.

Det. Greggs beats down a physically restrained “suspect” not once but twice

Hey ACAB applies to them all. I was referring to Kima’s personal story being about commitment and compromise in relationships and eventual parenthood instead of what all the other cops were up to. Still a bastard but we see some personal growth and a welcome break from the self-destructive behavior of the other characters.

Bodie was so conflicting because he showed zero remorse and the little bits of humanity we saw died when he killed his friend who was also still a CHILD at the time and just went on business as usual.

But he still didn’t deserve what happened to him,

And then McNulty tries to do the exact same shit the day after.

This is the face of the show and the cops in general for most of the seasons too, the reference point for cop behaviour, he’s even portrayed as one of the “better cops” when Omar gets arrested.

Kima was the most human of them all and Bunk was just sad. It felt like as long as he kept being one of the more / only competent detectives noone would ever try get him to avoid liver failure in the next few years.

If we start Prez discourse we could get a 200+ comment hexbear thread going.

McNulty was a terrible person the entire series who committed a series of crimes being saved by his badge every time and whose only decent quality was being a passable detective willing to tackle big cases.

He even put himself on the level of the completely irredeemable fuck ups like

The wire was ACAB throughout. Every cop in that show was either a criminal themselves, corrupt, incompetent and almost always extremely racist. The one (arguably) good cop in the entire show gets forced out.

It did a great job of showing how the police and the gangs are two different criminal organisations with their own heirarchies filled with actual human beings.

Season 3 was the highlight of the entire show, watching the police become the “muscle” for the drug dealers.

I’d go as far as to say it was a crime show, not a cop show.

So Japan is expected to keep it’s interest rates at or below zero to allow the yen to be used for speculation.

But during economic crises where other major economies raise interest rates it’s also expected to do the same or face devaluation of the yen?

I’m more interested in the yen finally starting to recover from it’s steep decline than I am in the value of the stock market.

“Diverging monetary policies in Japan versus the U.S. and Europe are behind speculators’ moves, he said. The yen’s appreciation is contributing to the sell-off, he said.”

I don’t understand this area of economics and everytime I think I learn something it seems be proven incorrect shortly after.

I believed Japan was facing pressure to raise interest rates in line with other nations. Now it’s done that and the yen is starting to recover it’s monetary policy is divergent again causing a stock sell-off?

I’m tired of my income turning into monopoly money whenever I think about going abroad.

I just use Mac OS.

I have a macbook and two raspberry pis

“I have black friends” but with so many additional layers of creepiness

From what I understand I think they’re trained to ask these types of questions in their rent-a-cop class and look for inconsistencies in your body language or whatever.

The neurotypicals are at it again

No interest in experiencing this so will probably never visit the US. My friends who were born there have very weird stories about the TSA questioning why they live abroad whenever they visit. It’s as if they pick people who believe the US is the only country worth living in to work at an airport of all places.

You won’t just get a butter knife in business class either, you’ll get ones suitable for steak and thick braised meat dishes, which is even more hilarious.

Hexbear has been WILD today

There are lots of different types of tofu with very different characteristics. In my supermarket I have at least 8 different types.

When I make a paneer style dish with tofu there’s a type I buy that is very similar. It’s pressed for extra firmness but in a way that does not make it more grainy like extra firm tofu normally is, keeping it smooth like paneer.

There’s also types of tofu that melt and behave like other varieties of cheese.

If you have a better vegan paneer alternative just replace the tofu in the recipe with that. Recipes are there to be changed and adjusted.

It was good to scam these companies and all their clones for the 6-12 months when they were throwing vc money around and you find coupons everywhere for more than 50% off but they’ve been pointless for years now.