Barbarian

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[–] Barbarian 2 points 5 months ago

True. It's not surprising, it's just annoying. We won't have a change in politics until the older generation dies off. They already lost a lot of power when the DNA started actually enforcing anti-corruption measures, so they've gone from the only dominant force in Romanian politics to one of the dominant forces.

[–] Barbarian 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It's a special experience. Others have gone over the broad strokes, so I'll instead describe my two favourite characters in the entirety of fiction.

Sam Vimes is a pragmatic, down to earth everyman. In a world full of crime, racism, magic, and political shenanigans, he tries (and mostly succeeds) to be true to his beliefs and convictions. Convictions like female dwarves deserve to identify as female if they want to, no matter how much dwarven society despises any dwarf not sticking to male identities. That anyone and everyone deserves to be hired and promoted on merit, no matter the stigma around ghouls, zombies and werewolves. He cares about his people and his city, and really tries. He may not fully understand your culture or religion, but he will defend your right to it to the death.

Rincewind is the opposite of the hero archetype. He's the coward with a thousand backs. A failed wizard, because the immensely powerful spell living in his head scares off all the other spells, all he wants is to live a nice, calm, peaceful life. Against his will, he's dragged from adventure to adventure and runs away from every exciting and mystical thing in the world. He's seen everything, done everything, and never wanted to step out of the Unseen University.

[–] Barbarian 4 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Ugh, she's a member of PSD. Can elaborate if anyone cares, but that party is an anchor on the neck of Romania.

Also, she went to Dimitrie Cantemir University, which is a laughing stock here in Romania. It's very much a diploma mill. I'm not even sure they're allowed to give diplomas anymore.

[–] Barbarian 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Blink-blink-blink. Blink. Blink. Blink. Blink-blink-blink.

No, I don't have something in my eyes, I swear I'm fine looks nervously at boss.

[–] Barbarian 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Commentators I've seen blame the lack of defence on incompetent commanders that aren't reporting losses, lack of construction equipment for preparing fallback lines and lack of communication between units. There are apparently many cases of electronic warfare units jamming Ukrainian drones because they don't know what the drone unit is doing. In short: doesn't sound like a problem that can be solved by just adding more bodies.

Disclaimer: fog of war, I'm reporting on what people have said about what people have said, this may not be accurate (but what source is perfectly accurate in the middle of a war?).

[–] Barbarian 5 points 5 months ago

"Huh, these tear-oh-nides the boss sent us to fight sure do look like devils from back home"

[–] Barbarian 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I wonder if the curse can tell if it's lab-grown. What about cultures though? Could you extract muscle tissue, feed it, cause the muscle to grow larger, and then feed it to a cat? And would that result in a partial curse trigger? Basically, just laying waste to some of mankind.

[–] Barbarian 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)
[–] Barbarian 6 points 5 months ago

(or no nutrients!) affect intelligence.

Absolutely not ok to do that imho. The link between breakfast and learning outcomes in primary schools is extremely well-documented.

That study is borderline unethical.

[–] Barbarian 12 points 5 months ago

3rd time's the charm! And also according to this map they didn't even have to split it with Russia this time.

[–] Barbarian 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Way to smear a whole bunch of people you've never met. It looks like that media budget was well spent on convincing people like you.

[–] Barbarian 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I truly wish Romania would do the same with Roma people here. The culture is still very racist towards them without any actual understanding of what Romanians did to cause this to happen in the first place.

Short version: slavery followed by mass murder during WW2 (not on the scale of the Jews, but still pretty bad) followed by forced assimilation of the style described above against the Sami.

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