I think I made it clear that the persecution was used as a cudgel to move bodies to the colony

You see, when in retrospect, that stuff doesn’t matter when a peoples are pushed over and across their breaking point.

Take a little mouse, for example. Let’s say you smack it around for a long while, then finally push it in to a corner. Then you lean in for a kiss.

OF COURSE YOU’RE GOING TO GET BITTEN?

Don’t you get it? (even at just a… theoretical level)

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You make some nice points to me. Not unlike what happened in the USA, altho I’m not perfectly from the States.

BUT you just skipped over the enormous points I brought up at the start. Now why is that…?

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As far as I remember he was never called short in the books, right?

Two things come to mind with that-- for one, there’s sort of a trope of the ‘little old guy who’s paradoxically, extremely dangerous.’ (and Gurney was the war-master, right?) Yoda and Gollum come to mind as pop examples, but the core of that might go back to folkloric, mythic examples, such as Rumpelstiltskin, fey faeries, elves and so forth. But I’ve also seen that kind of thing before in various modern lit.

…And I kind of like it, frankly! You know, as opposed to the more common ‘look at me, I’m muscular and badass-looking’ character, which is kinda what Marvel/DC have flogged to death over many decades.

The other idea is that concept art is notorious for being experimental, and of course, intentionally so. So an artist might create half-a-dozen odd character designs to show the production-designer / director, letting the boss pick and choose elements they like best to create the final physical version of that production’s character. All very SOP and common in these cases. So you might even find a concept drawing in which Duncan is the shrimp, and Gurney, the big, imposing guy. :D

Eh, pardon the ramble. It just sort of popped out, haha.

Oh dear. oO

Less disgusting, too. (late reply alert)

I mean what are you trying to imply there, Gallagher…?!

@FauxPseudo@lemmy.world

Late reply, but this was such a crazy match. Karpov looked like he was running away with it via four wins in the first nine games, then Kasparov managed to draw 21 of the next 22 games to stave off defeat, before finally winning in game 32.

The draws continued, and the stress of the match seemed to be getting to Karpov. Kasparov won games 47 & 48, and that’s when the FIDE president swooped in to abort the match. Really awful interference IMO.

Karpov made the public statement that he wanted to keep going, but behind closed doors, one suspects he was desperate to have the match aborted. Thankfully, that was pretty much the end of his champion days. He later had the gall to say that if he’d won 6-0, Kasparov never would have been champion, which is utterly ridiculous.

This is from 1969:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kQcuhoZD0Y

I wouldn’t be surprised if the original joke goes back to the silent movie era.

Understood; just wanted to add on.

My point is more or less that this doesn’t have to be a closed-book situation about fish oil. Maybe it can help in some other way, and/or maybe it really can work as ‘advertised’ in conjunction with other substances. Certainly wouldn’t be the first time, if so.

Best webcomic I’ve read in a while. The intrinsic hilarity of the situation was ridiculously refreshing compared to the usual ‘straining to come up with something funny / clever.’

Most fish oil is completely ineffective:

I’ve personally noticed some powerful effects from fish oil: 1) it can act as a neotropic booster, particularly in conjunction with SRI’s and similar meds / substances, 2) it can cause me significant insomnia (no arrhythmia) if I take ~6-8 capsules.

Is that germane to this thread? Probably not, but something seems to be going on. Maybe fish oil has been studied so far on too limited a basis.

@cheese_greater@lemmy.world

Seems like millions of redditors say just that through the many slaps in the face to users, then hang around anyway. :S

A modern Israel never would have been necessary if Jewish people hadn’t been unfairly persecuted for centuries and then genocided in WWII, a good bit of that due to bullshit literature like “PEZ,” that sought to find external scapegoats for internal, national difficulties.

Regardless of all these comments, there’s simply no good reason to start slinging shit in a post examining interpersonal conflicts within Israel. You are breaking the simple rules of this sublemmy (follow “netiquette”), and I don’t appreciate it.

I’ve seen him do a lot of variations of the central figure, but what I love about this one is/are the background color gradients. The blues, greys, yellows and browns. Really cool!

OMG, thank you for explaining that. I get kind of emotional at times, but what you said was… schön?

posts dehumanizing pro-genocide propaganda

I never did, so don’t you dare put that on me. Neither did the post.

I see you’ve learned absolutely nothing, and likely never will…

Oh, well?

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