If Moscow perceives NATO as weak, Russia could be ready to wage a “large-scale war” in Europe within five years, the Danish Defense Intelligence Service (DDIS) has said.

They didn’t say Russia will, they said Russia could. I feel like this is fearmongering to a certain extent. How is the war in Ukraine going for Russia? They’re winning, sure, but they’re fighting hard for every kilometer and it’s costing them. I really don’t think any other country is worth as much as Ukraine is from Russia’s point of view.

Well it was more like a greenhouse in function. It became quite hot after the sun came out.

Four different cooking techniques were tested, namely hard-boiling, soft-boiling, sous vide or 6X °C and periodic cooking. Hard-boiled eggs were placed in boiling water for 12 min; soft-boiled eggs were placed in boiling water for 6 minutes; sous vide eggs were placed in water at 65 °C for 1 h and periodic eggs were placed alternatively in boiling water (Th = 100 °C) for th = 2 min and water at Tc = 30 °C for tc = 2 min, for a total cooking time of 32 minutes, which corresponds to the repetition of the hot and cold cycles for a total of N = 8 times. In the case of periodic eggs, a bowl filled with water kept at 30 °C was used for the cold cooking cycle.

My dad put their cage in our sunroom during the night because they were making too much noise. Eventually the sun came out.

I feel like few people would actually consent to this new system if they knew what it was and how it worked. So how do these guys plan on forcing their post-democratic system on us?

How would you feel if those fossil fuel producers stopped extracting fossil methane and instead were producing methane from atmospheric CO2 and fossil free energy?

I do not follow your logic at all. It seems like you’re trying really hard to find some racism that just isn’t there.

It’s been called out for decades now. Explaining the situation every time a non-European site predates a European site of the same type would be beating a dead horse.

It’s not a leap at all. If hypothesis 1 is correct then you’ll find cave art all over the world because humans were making cave art before they left Africa. There’s been debate over whether Neanderthals were making art as well, seems like they were imo, and they left Africa well before Sapiens did.

Hypothesis 2 was never plausible. It was probably only considered plausible by people with hardly any archeological data who were stuck inside a white-supremacist worldview in 1940. The world has since made some progress disabusing itself of such ideas.

Do you have any good biochar resources I could check out?

I think they’re drawing from the out-of-Africa hypothesis. If there is cave art in Indonesia and Europe, then it’s plausible that the ancestors of both populations, which were in Africa, were also making cave art.

If you’d like a deeper dive into this topic then there’s a book called The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow.

This is just fearmongering. Oh no the sneaky Chinese cars are mapping our potholes…

Y’all don’t even know what tankies are anymore.

That makes a lot of sense. Katamari Damacy is also an excellent game with such a bizarre story. I’m guess I’m a fan of absurdity.

My favorite game in the series was Super Mario 3. I first played it on the SNES when it was part of the Super Mario All Stars cartridge. I really liked the levels, especially the variety of landscapes and the secrets you could find if you had the right powerup.

Super Mario World is just as good imo. Everything I liked about 3 and more, plus the star road levels, that was a good game.

The most recent game I loved was Yoshi’s Wooly World on the WiiU. Excellent art style and super fun levels, especially the unlockable bonus levels.

Oh and let’s not forget Legend of the Seven Stars. That was a fun and bizarre story.

That being said, does anyone else think the Mario universe is just fucking weird? How did the creators come up with Italian plumbers who can jump really high saving a Princess from an oversized turtle in a fantasy land with walking mushrooms? Who thought that was a good idea? What inspired them? I think the only reason it became popular was because Super Mario on the NES was one of the first decent games, and most players were kids who didn’t care about the game’s universe and narrative beyond saving the princess.

If Mario wasn’t the first popular platformer in the 80s and was instead introduced today, nobody would take it seriously. Since we all grew up with Mario, it’s a thing we accept as is. Of course high jumping Italian plumbers discovered the mushroom kingdom and rescued their princess from Bowser, again and again and again. Of course little dudes with mushroom heads are ruled by a blond haired human. Of course giant pipes are a normal mode of transit. Of course goombas and koopa troopas are the baddies.

Seriously, how did this universe come about?

Here’s some pics: https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-yjf73vy_VRo/T6rqS_Yec_I/AAAAAAAAAFQ/nAKPcFeo87w/s1600/durendal.jpg

https://www.ancient-origins.net/sites/default/files/embedded-stone-in-Rocamadour.jpg

I find it contradictory to first praise the imprecision of language but then go on to identify terms who’s imprecise use results in unproductive discussion and arguments. The author’s biases were on display and their definitions were fairly imprecise to boot imo.

I really don’t understand why you’re nitpicking someone who is trying to drastically reduce their impact. What would you recommend they do?

Okay so NATO waits until a NATO member or members start something, then they join?