The first time I heard about him he was described as something along the lines of “a lib but had a good platform to run on.” And then it was about Oz. But he listened to his supporters and won by sticking to his platform.

Which sucks all the more that he’s made such a turn. There’s no way to really prove it but I am convinced those strokes changed him.

The bridge crossing level and using the crossbow to crucify combine soldiers were about the best parts of the game as I remember it.

Stay federated and up prayed.

27% is the crazy factor and a rather stable data point. Obama-Keyes is an example.

Having never heard of him before, I looked him up.

He is 20 and has been a content creator for 8+ years. This is perhaps some of his first non-teenaged content, then. So I am not going to judge the monetized content of children too harshly.

Computer.

But even so, it shouldn’t be costing double at any rate.

I am willing to bet there’s a layer of insurance policy at every stage of production just adding to the costs. Every business has to pay some kind of insurance tithe these days. It’s just standard practice that the costs be passed onto the consumer because anyone who doesn’t is run/bled out of business.

If it is chronic those flowers and cards dry up quick. Also the medical care and attention beyond hucking out pills. Which brings us to panel 2…

Set Your DVR

Damn they know their viewerbase well.

They’re converting to natural gas at any rate. The facility just doesn’t have coal to continue running because the plan all along was to shut down and convert. This order to stay open did fuck all except inject delays into bureaucracy.

Those Achaemanids just made it up!

Well, it’s Tibet, one of the many places British got their imperialism in everyones’ anti-imperial nationalist movements.

The power plant had been winding down for years and was scheduled to close by Dec. 31 until the Energy Department ordered that it stay open. Coal piles that once filled acres had dwindled.

Yeah this site doesn’t have the coal to burn and their whole plan was to convert to natural gas. Which wasn’t great, but now they can’t shut down to convert so they can keep producing energy, and they can’t produce energy by staying open to burn coal.

Efektiv polis.

went as far as to call Khrustchev revisionist.

I mean Khrushchev explicitly announced the USSR was abandoning the concept of ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’. Lenin’s big thing was establishing the concept of the ‘dictatorship of the proletariat’ with the USSR. So all political criticisms aside, let’s be real: it’s not the most audacious thing for Khrushchev to be called.

Lenin actually wrote a fair bit about it and it contains some of the most pronounced criticism expressed towards ‘the Georgian’. He felt the chauvinism of ‘Great’ Russia needed to be countered specifically by deferring to indigenous minorities across the former Russian Empire.

One of the things Lenin grappled with the most was the direct inheritance of the backwards and corrupt institutions of the Russian Empire. And probably more than that he did not want Stalin to inherit power, especially for his excessive chauvinism.

20th century was the century of the moustache.

21st century is the century of the eyebrows.

(And that’s plural, Brezhnev.)

SDS reformed about 20 years ago, so maybe we can do some real Rainbow Coalition again.

Possible good news from a week after the article:

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/controversial-cdc-hep-b-vaccine-study-guinea-bissau-may-be-canceled

The USSR did stop the Russification of imperial subjects as under the Tsar in favor of a new Soviet identity during the revolution and civil war. The nationalism of SSRs is something Lenin actually favored. “Korenizatsiia” it was called.

When Stalin took power after Lenin’s death, the USSR then really made the effort to Russify that Soviet identity. This especially took off in the 30s.

So like, they’re not wrong, even if it’s just glazing some nuance that’s probably not super helpful. And you can fault Stalin, easy, but nonetheless that dynamic of establishing a Soviet identity that wasn’t inherently ethnically Russian is something that did come out of the (early) USSR.

This and Midvale School for the Gifted were some of my favorite Far Side comics.

This one in particular I remember doodling iterations of in class as a kid. Peak comedy to my elementary self.