Icewolf
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Wasn't this the name taken by the losing side in one of the Early Great Wars? (Too lazy to wiki)
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And still we have idiot politicians scattered around the world denying climate change is a problem!
Its the wind farms stopping the wind that are causing the global warming.
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IRON: We can't really speak latin
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As far as I understand it, some people have declared war on other people, and in response some people declared war on them, only not enough people declared war on other people for it to get fun.
Or something.
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Sell down to my level and I'll take you on. I'm just about bored enough.
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So essentially we need to abandon faux legal spinning of treaties and get back t the good old values of just beating the !@#$ out of each other.
Isn't that DBDC's war motto?
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Just because there is no justification from the war does not mean there are no reasons for it and it is divorced from political reality. There are politics in this game and lots of alliances competing to push their own agenda.
It so happens that DS have managed (better than invicta) to reach a place not before reached in CN history-namely the place of having the ability to act against certain alliances without needing a justification. I find this very interesting as there are two possible actions for those that dislike this;
1. Fight back, and hope to win support for their cause on a moral ground
2. Not fight back, and hope to build a new sphere around a moral cause.
Or 3. Do nothing and slowly fade from significance
Options 1 or 2 both involve actual political work (so the power of persuasion and the power of ideology rather than cold gameplay and a fake justification). That sounds fun to me as we get to see a proper upfront consequence of conflicting morals.
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I am fairly certain that subjectify is not a word, so.....what?Except that subjectifying ones self is just part of western female culture. Whether the women realizes she's doing it or not, she does. But another thing to keep in mind is the difference in male and female mentality. Men are more visually stimulated than women. Hence why nearly all of us subjectify ourselves for social gains. Even without realizing it.
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The protagonist is kind of a dick. He is crying about his love for a woman, listing only her physical attributes. Maybe if he learned to approach women as humans rather than sexual objects he might find love easier to find.
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In the earlier texts it reads very much like a collection of sentences that just happen to be on the same page. This suggests you were thinking too much about each individual sentence rather than on the entire paragraph or chapter in one go, whereas this text flows much better suggesting you were less hung up on each sentence.Thank you, but what do you mean by "I was thinking less"?
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The writing style seems a lot better than in the other things you have posted in this blog. I suspect because you were thinking less a you wrote it rather than trying to force it out so the text is much less disjointed. Maybe that is something you could take from this and incorporate into your other writings?
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The first few global wars also lasted a little more than a week or two.
Great War I-17 Days
Great War II 5 days for the League to surrender, just over 3 weeks for LUE
Great War III 5 days short of a month
Unjust War 2 weeks.
Modern wars take over a month for the parties to be fully engaged, let alone for anyone to start talking about endgame.
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Are there any of the truly old alliances (so back to 2006 etc) that do not have any original members?
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I thought it was more to do with the fact that training yourself to always let the anger out rather than "bottle it up" is a bad idea as it trains you not to control your anger.
So if your punching bag is a way of letting anger out then it can be a bad thing as you associate fists with dealing with anger.
On the other hand, exercise is generally good for peoples mental well being and releases endorphins making you happy, so if exercise is a way to extinguish the anger that is good.
I definitely know that I was in a less good frame of mind when I injured myself and had to drive to work as I lost the 25 minutes of exercise on the way to work that helped relax me for the day ahead.
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One point of argument is to test your ideas against someone. If you cannot defend your ideas you need to think again. The need to think again does not automatically mean accepting your opponents point of view-if you are arguing an orange is green against someone who insists it is blue, the fact they have demonstrated it is not green does not mean accepting it is blue.
The key to see if you have been successful in getting someone to rethink their ideas is in the next argument they may well come back with a moderated position or a different stance-those are the changes that you can actually see-people never admit they are wrong upfront.This is often one of the hardest things to manage in a workplace-creating an environment where someone can produce an idea, have it challenged, and then accept that it is wrong and not be thought less off or be resentful that it was wrong. And on the flipside people need to feel they can raise challenges, and even if that challenge is overcome and the idea wins out they are not looked down on for having raised that challenge.
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Even at 14, I knew that insulting people didn't convince them.C'mon, people. I know this looks moronic, but the child is only 14 years old. Give him a break.
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I used an Edwin Jagger twinblade. Much much smoother than a disposable, and the razor blades are about 20p rather than the £1 each for a disposable razor head.
It also looks much nicer as its made of steel rather than plastic and rubber.
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We may be hopelessly outnumbered, out maneuvered, out led and out gunned, but we still have our freedom have been the rallying cry of precisely 0 successful revolutions.
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I hereby summon you to appear before the International Criminal Court for wanton and reckless use of comic sans on a civilian population.
May you get 20 years scumbag.
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Chews on Shows?
Anarchy in the English Language!
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Gold is valuable in terms of the fact that it is used in electronics. It is also valuable in that people will pay for things that look pretty, and it is shiny. Its value as a currency though is just that, a medium of exchange. Its price actually fluctuates as much as most other currencies do against each other, so it is not even an especially good currency. Particularly as most currencies have at least nominal interest rates rather than charging you to hold them.
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I like gift cards because:
1) it makes me spend money on myself (when otherwise I'd just save the cash)
2) I've not had a gift card with those problems for years
I got some money for Christmas, and there is a simple way to ensure you spend it on something. I was given money by my Grandmother who likes to know what her Grandchildren are up to. As she has given me money, I will now find something to spend it on and write her an email or letter (probably an email but she is not the best with technology) and say what I spent it on, and a general update on life.
As I know I am doing that it gives me an incentive to have spent it on something worthwhile.
Better idea: Don't fuel this ridiculous consumerist holiday, and give no material objects. Give love and give this time of year back its true purpose and meaning.
There is a difference between gift giving and consumerism. Gift giving is a way to enrich others lives in your friends and family. I do this by trying to find things they would not normally buy themselves, such as books by authors I know they haven't read, or topics they don't know, or types of sweets they haven't eaten etc etc.
I know others who have given paintings they have made for the occasion as gifts, or other handmade items.
Alternatively, if you want a really interesting challenge invite those you exchange gifts with to shop on a budget of £3 and you will do the same and see what you can get each other.
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"Here, as your gift I am giving you my rights to reclaim an interest free unsecured loan I gave to a multinational corporation."
July-December 5 Month Plan of Supernova X
in The Imperial Truth
A blog by The Zigur in General
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I dislike plans that have an end date and an end target. That is poor project management. This plan has no intermediate goals to measure performance against, which is a recipe for failure.
What will you have done by the end of Month 1? Month 2? Month 3?