All Activity

Dortmund up in the away leg as well. Excellent. Would love an all Germany final.

I can’t answer for DV but imho he did attack everyone who is peacefully protesting by a) not speaking up against the crack down in campuses all over - I mean, one of his campaign’s mantras is the dangers of fascism and authoritarianism, right? b) continuing to feed the absurd notion (read censorship) that anti Zionism = antisemitism - something that countless Jews have spoken against repeatedly, warning that it is exactly the type of thing that fuels real, vile antisemitism.

MTG backs off holding a vote to sack Johnson. As I said a few weeks ago, as long as Trump continues to back Johnson, I don’t think she’ll force a vote.

Here comes Windows95Man. He's no Hackerman. But this should go through. ETA: Hah, did not expect the Austin Powers-esque choreography going so far. He looks like Günther's Finnish cousin: ETA: The Aussie song is just so ... new age-y.

Not at all. The currently published story is all we need to make predictions and test theories, because on any timeline the past and the future are relative to where on the timeline you define the present. For instance, if a person who has never read ASOIAF before were to read the first six chapters of AGOT and no further (Catelyn II), he might be able to predict quite reasonably that Lysa Arryn murdered Jon Arryn, based on the simple idea that storytellers like to surprise their audiences, and that the character who clandestinely sent the news of the murder is perhaps the most surprising answer to the question Who murdered Jon Arryn? We don't need to erase our memories in order to simulate that experience. We're probably all capable of constraining our thinking to only the information provided in the first six chapters and seeing what the situation looks like from that perspective, as though chapter six is the present. From there, everything after chapter six is the future and everything before it is the past. If an idea can be generated from a knowledge set constrained to chapters 0 through 6 and it's predictive of things after chapter 6, then the idea predicts the story. This actually works in reverse chronological order, too, strangely enough. If an idea that can be generated from a knowledge set that encompasses all five of the main books is predictive of things that happened anywhere in them, that you already read but didn't notice or don't remember, then the idea predicts the story. You can build out extremely powerful tools this way for analyzing the story, and it doesn't require any waiting for new books. Then it may surprise you to learn that the first mention in the series of Daeron I The Young Dragon involved Jon speaking of Daeron with admiration, and his uncle Benjen setting him straight. Benjen taught Jon that Daeron is not someone to admire, and he flipped the script of the official narrative of Daeron "the Young Dragon" by highlighting how his most famous deed was in reality a shameful blunder. Daeron and more than sixty thousand of his own people died for it, and only made the situation worse between the Six Kingdoms and Dorne. As with Ned and every other word in the story, its first appearance is its first definition. Here, Daeron is defined as a historical figure who's admired by people who don't know the real history, and condemned by people who do know the real history. It's no storytelling coincidence that Jon's reaction, to shout and stomp away in a drunken tantrum, is symbolic of how you're feeling now in this discussion. By arguing for Daeron's admirability you sided with Jon in an argument that he lost. On his way out, Jon bumps into a serving woman, knocks her drinks to the floor and runs out of the building. Like in Daeron's conquest of Dorne, the smallfolk are the casualties of the foolhardy, and they must be neglected so he can save face. Don't take it too hard. It's just a story, and I'm just showing off. Aegon IV's attempted conquest of Dorne shows me that, like Benjen and unlike Daeron I, he has studied Dornish history very closely. There are things in common between reused names, particularly the names that were introduced in the first two books like Ned, Robb, Arya or Bran. But their unifying characteristics sometimes demand a great amount of self-awareness from us, in order to see how our interpretations and behaviors while discussing the story are being symbolized within the story, often in the very same scene we were discussing.

Well, in Islam the lowest (and worst) part of Hell is reserved especially for hypocrites...

Spot on RDJ as Petyr Baelish Next: Klaus Kinski

Which citizens has Biden attacked now?

Kadyrov's make a wish plea to Putin.

He's so adorable ♥

Bambie Thug has a really theatrical presentation. Don't care for the song but the presentation is top notch. Even using something like Academy Ratio was an interesting choice that I'm not sure I've seen before. They are half-Swedish, too. ETA: Olly with possibly the most homoerotic performance ever put on a Eurovision stage. And again, clever presentation with the camera playing up into the song title. It was kind of a shame when they broke out of the shower set. Ukraine will go through, but too one-note for me. Poland... huh, Luna's not at all as strong as in the video, which may suggest that she needed some help to get that good, clean vocal and that if they put her more forward in the live music mix her flaws would be clearer. Alternatively, they've just messed up the mix. I like the chorus and the presentation, though (not so much the red ... whatever it was she had on to begin with). And now, Croatia.... not a fan of this one, but the bookies have not often been wrong of late. (But I hope they are. A Swiss or Italian win would be fine by me.)

Bang Drogo Kill Illyrio Marry Moqorro. I don't know if Red Priests can get married, but it would be interesting at least. Let's see what craziness happens with that dude. next: Masters of Whisperers Tyanna of the Tower Mysaria Varys

As a Lannister man (in Lorch's company), he could have heard that the Lannisters were searching for Arya Stark, the former Hand's daughter. He already has the other pieces he needs: she used the name Arry (very similar to Arya); she thought the goldcloaks were after her, not Gendry; she has a castle forged sword she insists is hers; and Yoren was willing to take her along, despite her age and sex, which he clearly knew about. Simple deduction, if he's observant and intelligent, which he clearly is. It's also possible, that as a fellow expat, he could have known Syrio in KL and heard about his new gig teaching the Hand's daughter. That would also give him the information he needed.

Kadyrov - for some reason - has set the Russian military the target of capturing Kharkiv and Odesa within one month. This seems a tad ambitious. Some responses that Kadyrov should set himself the target of not making any more videos to prove his health which instead seem to suggest he's teetering at death's door.

Yeesh, that snuck up on us fast. Had forgotten about it! Now watching, though want to watch the opening medley before jumping into the performances. Odds have moved very much, Croatia is touted at 34% to win, Switzerland at 16%, and Italy at 10%. Can't rule out a shocker here, but ... things aren't going in the right direction.

Love JK but don't think I'll be able to watch that movie.

Lann the Clever next: Robert Downey Jr.

Is anybody watching tonight's semi final? I know just about nothing about the contestants and the songs, so I am letting myself be surprised by all the Eurovision madness ... now, only if my Internet would cooperate enough for me to be able to watch ...

Speaking of a rather broad brush... this is the Mark Rothko of presidential assessments!

Arkane Austin also made Prey, which is an all-timer, and did about half the work on Dishonored 1. They had chops. Arkane Lyon have been spared though, and they seem to be the "main Arkane" that people think of (they did Dishonored 2, Death of the Outsider and Deathloop solo, and before Dishonored 1 were the only Arkane, so also did Dark Messiah of Might & Magic and Arx Fatalis). Damn:

Thanks. Weird that this issue is happening with that page. Any other examples? I've put debugging on.

Doing the same her father did to solve the Crown's previous financial crisis. Either paying the debt herself or simlpy forgiving the money the Crown owes House Lannister.

Anything with cilantro or pesto can piss right the fuck off. edit: and olives, them beady little bastards. my daughters both love them-- I don't even like having them visible in the fridge

Labour member canvassing for votes uses a racial slur after being told that the person did not vote for the labour candidate. I've read online that Birmingham Labour has had issues with racism in the past too and nothing has been done to change it.