Then why did people starve?

It doesn't matter if he personally loved every single Ukrainian that died, the fact is that even if you believe everything that was done to mitigate it was a best effort, and that everything that led to the union at large being essentially helpless to feed its people was an accident, it still paints the picture of a big talker that managed a country into the ground.

At best, in the most forgiving light, Stalin was an incompetent head of state, regardless of how smart he was, and was responsible for a lot of people who died reaching out their hands begging for help while he pulled out his pockets and shrugged. And that would have been the end of it, but no, he goes and waxes poetically about how starving people don't have freedom while the graves are still fresh.

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I don't blame trump for COVID, but I do blame him for the piss poor response and unnecessary deaths that could have been prevented were it not for willful mismanagement, blatant ignorance, and a cabinet woefully unprepared to deal with a megalomaniac hell bent on letting karma motorboat through a demographic he didn't find any value in.

Sounds pretty familiar yeah?

they're gonna be pissed when they realize it's just a really REALLY big globe.

Specifically, one guy saying one thing AFTER doing the opposite. (See: Ukrainian Famine 1932)

he said this in an interview in 1936. https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/stalin/works/1936/03/01.htm

It's still a good idea. Also, Stalin is still a fucking travesty of a human, as is everyone who enabled him.

It's as simple as his new wife wanted a foundation, just like his old wife had.

No one ever remembers voyager. 40 years old and the first craft in interstellar space.

That thing had serious mirror universe Emperor Georgiou energy.

I wish I could ask the writers if the holodeck scene was a direct call-out to the old something awful blue stripes series

https://www.somethingawful.com/news/blue-stripe-life-4/

Ah! Exactly! When I DM, I take players requests as a challenge, and that makes it more fun for me. For this case I was a guest so I played it safe 😁

Just give it to your warrior. I played a game where I wanted just ice spells for RP reasons, but most of the ice spells suck, so I just reskinned the fire ones as ice, and left the damage as "cold" fire (affected by fire resistance) so as not to affect the game balance.

Ice bolt, ice ball, ray of ice, etc.

Still requires the compiler though.

I don't have a good answer, but I've embedded python in bash scripts before after having the bash script install python. Take that as you will.

I got to use "There be whales here!" in the context of being on a whale watching tour, and only getting to see one as we were heading back, having given up seeing any.

It might be my life's greatest achievement.

I'm in this meme and am painfully aware of it.

You think maybe he'd wake up in the middle of the night on DS9, quietly whisper "Computer, end simulation", and then silently sob himself back to sleep?

These memes are on fire, and that's a problem because Nestlé got to the firehose first.

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