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He didn’t stop it because he still really really really wants to do tariffs, but he did fold. If he wanted to have a good round of negotiations usually you say ‘These are the tariffs we are thinking of implementing in x months’ which gives other countries time that’s needed for negotiations, but Trump didn’t want negotiations he wanted complete submission, hell Vietnam was like ‘sure we get rid of everything’ and the Trump government still didn’t agree because reasons, I think they said VAT.

If he didn’t want to do it why talk about manufacturing and how all that money from tariffs means they won’t have to pay taxes and so on. Like the guy thinks tariffs are great and fun and so beautiful he’d kiss them if he could.

Then US treasury yields kept rising which meant money was rapidly leaving and suddenly ‘oh those tariffs yeah we’ll stop them oh and during the trading day yes, not announce it normally, yeah this is urgent, wait no it isn’t this was all planned.’

Like the various people then would give conflicting info because this was totally planned.

What is wrong with you? Why do I need to push you on something so obvious if you are a german? Which I assume you are with a name like Ole.

And if you can’t see why it is about this now, if you truly don’t know and aren’t just playing dumb. The laws have been applied solely against anything to the left of the most right wing shit. Do a climate protest at a summit? Get charged with terrorism. Apply this law against some people protesting a genocide but the pigs from AfD and Union saying nazi shit over and over. Well can’t do anything about that. These laws have over and over been used to suppress anything left of the left, and this is just another step in a long march towards outright fascism. Look at what the current politicians are doing or have done during the last year.

Like fucking Scholz and Merz having a discussion before the elections that came down to ‘Actually I will be better at deporting the immigrants, actually I will be better at cutting social spending.’ Scholz allowing NSDAP and SS Officers to get honored, like literally his direction was ‘Ok so Wehrmachts Soldiers that didn’t resist against the nazis can get honored’ like literally U-Boot captains that were in the NSDAP and SS. Fucking Clown country. You want me to say ‘oh this is all very normal for germany it’s an election year of course they’ll rehabilitate SS officers that’s how they get voters’? Germany saying that they actually don’t really think the ICC applies or even you know has any right or legal justification even though nazi germany literally was its justification.

Like CDU and AfD working together for the first time, and surely going to be in a coalition in 3 years time when the current coalition collapses. Why worry about something as small as the government just deporting people without a legal precedent. Like this is literally ‘First they came from the communists’ but I guess you think it’s totally ok for the tankies to get put away and you’ll be oh so fine

Edit: Just in case someone reads this and is bewildered this article should help.

Heinz Karst fought in Poland and on the eastern front and received an Iron Cross so he fought and probably did a bunch of warcrimes during WW2.

Erich Topp was in the NSDAP and SS and only after the war was critical probably because his own aunt got thrown into a KZ, real ‘I didn’t think the leopards were going to eat my face’ moment there.

Again Scholz thought it was ok to honor warcriminals and nazis because they were really good soldier, after working in my neighbours garden a bit helping uproot a tree I will amend one thing I said. Germany is not a clown country it’s an entire circus.

Lol I am sorry what? I guess we found the AfD voter guess what you piece of shit get fucked. germany only has a right to exist if it took every person from the AfD lined them up against a wall and shot them, then took like I dunno half of the Union and shot them as well. So get up against the wall

Do you think banning the AfD wouldn’t be based on law? Considering you have party officials doing a Hitler salute, saying ‘Sieg Heil’, doing nazi Apologia over and over and over again? Like it’s the same article but somehow it is used to beat down people protesting genocide and not you know an outright Nazi party.

And I agree the situation in germany in not chaotic, this is a well oiled fascist machine that does fascist things, whereas the US is doing chaotic fascism.

I don’t know how you can’t look at how germany has been goosestepping towards fascism over the last what 4 years and go. Actually this is all based on law so no need to worry. Like the writer of this article is completely right, this is just another step in the march towards Germany becoming a fully fascist state again, but I’m sure you’ll tell me that the camps are actually based on law and the deportations and killings are done very orderly much better than in the US where it’s oh so chaotic.

germany has no right to exist.

Depends on the Map I want to make and how much time I have.

Worldographer for hexmaps, I’ve tried other programs like Hex Kit but honestly I like Hexographer the most because it is the easiest to read and fastest to get something put together in.

Dungeondraft for Dungeons/Battlemaps, there’s some issues I have with it with how it handles several assets but overall it’s solid and just your assets straight out of the gate are solid.

Wonderdraft for ‘Useless Maps’, this one is for world maps but for the most part I use it to make a map that players might find on a goblin that details their plans to attack a village or a city map in an old style so it is used more to convey an atmosphere.

Honorable mention to dungeonscrawl which I use to just sketch out a dungeon real quick has enough functionality for me.

A wet erase map probably. Though I don’t know if that’s an ‘accessory’ since it’d be like saying dice, or notebooks are accessories they are so central to the whole thing.

I think one thing I really like since about last year is ‘origami’ miniatures i.e. miniatures folded out of paper, there’s just something that speaks to me when I put down a bunch of paper frogs or a paper dragon as a miniature. They are ‘abstract’ but honestly it’s not like it needs to be super detailed. Plus I don’t have to worry about it getting damaged or lost, plus I can give it to people, which if you are running a game for kids, you’ll want to bring more than just one paper dragon miniature.

As for supplements I quite like the Book of Challenges from 3.5e and WallyDM’s Journal of Puzzle Encounters both help me with just coming up with challenges and puzzles since I can page through it a bit then make a new puzzle/challenge.

Wikipedia has some good pages and some horrifically bad pages, we all know the one where some american teen made all the scots pages even though he literally didn’t speak a word of scots but there’s tons of other pages that are questionable at best and wrong at worst. The main contributors after decades are still like 80% men and most of them are in a STEM field which again shows in pages that go outside of that narrow niche. I at one point edited some wiki pages myself and you’ll literally have some guy do a fucking edit war because he thinks Somatotypes are real and you have to fight for months because you don’t have the clout of a math nerd.

And this isn’t even looking at the serious Nazi problem wiki has.

Wikipedia had decades to get their act together, they didn’t I doubt they will anytime in the future because of how their whole shitty system works.

Edit: To double down their reviewers are also shitty STEMlords who often have no qualifications but think they do, again look at any philosophy page which is just laughable. Everyone is always walking around on eggshells when it comes to how shitty some sections of wikipedia are which has resulted in festering puss filled wounds that glorify nazis and since it’s on wikipedia well then it has some credibility to it.

Alright mini rant here because reasons but

The US just can’t accept that WADA, which receives more funding from the US than from any other country in the world, isn’t biased towards Americans.

It quite literally is though I think the best example of this is currently Wesley Kitts who was popped with methylhexaneamine, basically amphetimes, and got caught. Now they say ‘Well he didn’t want to compete and did those drugs recreationally so we will only allow a suspension for one month’ which went from July 3 to August 3, weightlifting competition starts on the 10th which is really really really opportune timing. Now before you bring anything up let me again say this:

He got popped for a competition that was mandatory for qualification for the olympics. He weighed in. He really wanted to compete and got popped. And even if he didn’t attempt to stimulants like this provide more blood to skeletal muscle which in turn helps build muscle mass and this drug can and has been used to mask other performance-enhancing drugs.

The USA is getting special treatment but they are not getting enough special treatment it seems. Like they pulled this shit for a weightlifter that the last time around came 8th in his weightclass. Absolutely embarrassing show at the very least by the US weightlifting team but watching commentary on swimming, tennis and the newest ‘boxing scandal’ the USA should be heavily penalized but they won’t.

Not to worry intelligence services and police already were monitoring the communications and even infiltrated left-wing extremist groups like Last Generation known terrorists that do extreme things like marches and protests.

Like you already know this but the germans were already doing this against left wing groups. This isn’t because germans have a problem with Nazis it’s because AfD is soft on Russia and China like they’ve been Nazis for as long as they’ve been around but it’s only recently become a problem so now they acknowledge something everyone knew for literal decades.

I call bullshit, like yeah I’m sure that’s the smallest degree or whatever, but how ‘hot’ or ‘cold’ something feels is up to way more than just temperature like humidity, wind chill if it’s sunny or cloudy so in a real example I doubt a person can notice the difference between a 66°F and 65°F day because there’s so many other factors. And you know what it is actually really bad at? Telling people when stuff freezes, you think some person from texas or nevada or any place that usually doesn’t get cold enough knows the exact freezing point in fahrenheit? Most people will guess around 30 while pretty much everyone knows that the freezing point of water in celsius is 0°

In a just society all those people that force these workers to work those hours, wrecking their health like for example they’ll be exponentially more likely to suffer strokes and more severe ones at that, would be thrown in jail, holy shit what a misery that is put upon these people and for what? So some financial ghoul can shift some numbers from one pile to another and maybe buy a new jetski. It makes my blood boil how people are abused up for literally miniscule amounts of additional profit at this point, they are just grinding up the stone to get that last droplet of blood out of it.

Just gently remind the player that it is a game, if they insist tell them that a Chimpanzee has a STR of 14 and since most fighters would have that or well above instead of doing the ole ‘have at thee’ they’d could just grapple them and crush their windpipe, if you have some ogre they realistically would just grab the wizard and pop them like a waterballoon but obviously no one does this because it’s boring and makes for a bad game.

Germany is not alright and Bavaria is the least alright , nominally leftist parties barely get up to 10% in elections there so yeah was to be expected.

OSCE had a mission through the entire period 2014-2022 as observers and released daily reports of the region together with ceasefire violations so we can find it for pretty much any day online like this one from 2022-02-03, and you can look up others here.

I can’t find it anymore but there was a video floating around of Zelensky inspecting the troops and telling them to stop attacking the DNR and the soldiers telling him straight up no. Although I can’t find that video you can look at the election results from 2019, Zelensky ran on a platform of brokering a peace calming tensions with ethnic russians and general prosperity which is why Poroshenko accused Zelenski of selling out to Russia. A ton of people in eastern ukraine wanted things to calm down and that’s why he got the most votes there, but the military and the neo-nazi paramilitaries kept on doing their thing and here we are.

More than likely it’s a cost issue, coal is artificially cheap thanks to several countries subsidizing the coal industry like Germany, USA and Australia.

There’s also I guess the practical question of how much plant fiber per ton of metallurgical coal is needed, i.e. how land would be dedicated towards ‘producing plant fiber’ for the steel industry.

Metallurgical coal only makes up for rather small part of coal mining, around 7% of all coal production goes towards it, and while the process produces more GHG than just burning it for power it has a less profound impact because it’s just smaller. It’s also one of the places where we can’t really find an alternative, to produce steel you need to use bitumen coal because they have more carbon and less volatiles than charcoal.

On top of that steel is extremely recyclable meaning that any steel produced can be reused pretty much 1:1 with only a small amount of energy needed.

Lol that’s not how this works. Saying “We share intelligence” is worlds apart from what you want to imply here, again stop being some weird wannabe OSINT guy, at most Ukranians get satellite images which technically is ‘sharing intelligence’ but not what you are trying to imply here.

Who is this we? And why are you so sure? I’m not saying you are some guy working for the government I’m just saying you are making shit up and read too much of OSINT twitter so you feel ‘in the know’. You don’t know what intel is being gathered, if that intel even gets out or not. Like why should the US feel compelled to share with Ukraine? Because they are on the same side? From the few statements they seem more interested in using the war to pay off the MIC similar to Afghanistan and it doesn’t seem like any intel was gained over a 20 year period.

It really isn’t Germany is subsidizing coal by 1.7bn € every year. Like all currently coal producing countries give huge subsidies to their coal industry because they’d just immediately shut down.

The one that stated that 80% of the land in italy was owned by 20% of the people? I think they did hear about it and did apply it to Cuba but I might be wrong there.