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on consent rule · c/onehundredninetysix · 9 pts · 4d

Everything else aside, duels were basically always linked to 'honor' and the accompanying societal pressure. As soon as you get duels back on the table as an option for 'conflict settlement', your 'consent' is very much under pressure by the societal expectations.

People in the past did not go duelling because they really liked duelling or wanted to die, but because it was the only way to reclaim your 'honor' in society. That is really not a culture anybody should want coming back.

Seems like education-washing

The museum is funded by a combination of private money and local public education subsidies, but it is not in public ownership.

Everything depends on how they actually tackle that topic in their exhibition. You could absolutely criticise whaling while being in a country where whaling still exists. That museum would be a great opportunity to get public attention on the problem. Nobody knows though if that is the case, since it is not even open yet.

Most of the international companies are listed there because they are supplying their products to Israel, not because Israel is exporting goods.

Even if the sanctions include companies that supply Israel: If a company is forced to decide between trade with 10 million Israelis or 450 million EU-citizens, the EU wins every time. The companies would just stop trading with Israel and continue trade with the EU. The market is too big to lose.

I can't even begin to visualise how many products would be missing from ever y sector of the market with sanctions on Israeli goods.

https://boycott-israel.org/boycott.html

I heard about exactly 2 of the actual Israeli companies on this boycott list (Sodastream and Fiverr). Most are "just" international companies with some ties to Israel, this often means supplying the IDF.

Israel does not even seem to produce that much consumer goods. 50% of their exports are computer tech, a significant part of it is cybersecurity and surveillance tech. Intel, Micron & Co. are producing some chips in Israel, although the global chip market is properly fucked anyway. Also in a case of sanctions they would probably just adjust their supply lines so the production from Israel goes somewhere else and some other country sends its production to the EU. Another big sector is cut diamonds.

I feel like nearly no private person would even notice it if Israeli goods disappeared. Ban them now. Nothing of value is lost.

https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4BD4-4528-6B2E-8327

Basically follow the first 3 steps, then move your games manually into the newly created Steam\steamapps\common folder. The next time you try to install one of the games, Steam will find the already installed game.

  1. Navigate to your Steam client 'Settings' menu.
  2. Select the 'Storage' tab.
  3. From here, you can view your default installation drive, as well as creating a new path by selecting the '+' button at the top.

They were founded in 1622 when Louis XIII furnished a company of light cavalry [...] with muskets.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musketeers_of_the_Guard

The novel starts in 1625, they did have actual muskets at the time, thats where the name of the specific unit comes from. "Heavy muskets" (= arquebuses) fell out of use starting in 1550 and were replaced by snaphance flintlock muskets.

The heavy musket went out of favour around the same time the snaphance flintlock was invented in Europe, in 1550.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musket

on I took a flight today.... · c/pics · 13 pts · 25d

https://zeppelinflug.de/en

Not OP, but anybody can book a seat on a Zeppelin sightseeing flight in Germany. Most of them are in the 'Lake Constance'/Bodensee area around Friedrichshafen, where this photo was also taken. Where I live you can see them all the time in the air.

on How convenient. · c/shitposts · 3 pts · 35d

The show was cancelled in 2008,[4] following the suicide of Rockwall County, Texas, assistant district attorney Bill Conradt, as police attempted to serve him with a search warrant[5] after he had been caught talking to and exchanging pictures with a Perverted-Justice volunteer posing as a 13-year-old boy.[6][7] Conradt fatally shot himself as police and an NBC camera crew entered his home,[8] an act that was captured by the filming crew.[9]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Catch_a_Predator

Yes, the game was meant to be experimental even by the developers. I remember how it released in 2020 without any prior announcement or marketing and literally had a 50% discount at launch. They wanted to try out new stuff without any expectations and see how the fanbase reacts. (In addition to attracting fresh players into the XCOM franchise at a lower price point)

It has a fixed character roster in a "XCOM-Alien-Police" spin-off-scenario and levels and gameplay that are focused on breaching and clearing buildings (like police special forces). It is fun and has good, fresh ideas. It is smaller in scale than a mainline XCOM though. I liked it and I think it is worth playing.