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Yes, I WANT to not have a massive depressive episode and withdrawals from lack of medicine while I'm on vacation

Tywin is pure evil. I will stand by that opinion.

You NEED 3 things for a trip, wallet, passport, tickets. Everything else is a want.

Wtf mate?

I'm gonna have to wait on audiobook but I've got a credit on standby.

Even this reduced list has questionable choices. I haven't seen the criteria but looking at the names on the lists who I think belong together. Arya and Joffrey should be on the same category. Near Pure Evil. And Craster is not a Pure Evil. Craster is his own man and living outside of Westeros and therefore outside its laws. Marrying his daughters deprive them of choice but how many children actually get to choose their husbands and wives until the modern age. His sacrifices to his gods is bad but the Starks do it too. Nothing Craster did is any worse than what Jaime Lannister does consistently. Craster never killed his king. He's not broken an oath as far as we know. Nor did he ever try to pass off his children as heirs to kings. Craster is cleaner than Jaime. Theon is dirtier than Craster by a large margin. Bronn is Near Pure Evil. Bronn and Arya are the same. Roose belongs to Pure Evil. The Green Grace and Ramsay join Roose on the list.

Nope. Just count how many shirts, pants, etc. I’ll need for the trip and put em in the suitcase. Packing for two weeks is tougher in terms of room. I don’t think I could fit enough clean clothes without knowing I could do laundry there.

I understand he lost his head as he watched his mother die.

I could be persuaded to see it this way if the punishment is limited to Walder, Lothar, and Black Walder. And said punishment is exile to the wall for the boys and confiscating of some land for Walder. Not the bridge but the taking of a few acres of farmland is fair. You have to remember that Walder and his sons behaved honorably until Robb Stark betrayed them. That was shameful behavior on the part of Robb Stark.

Basically, the ASOIAF characters who are on these wikis are listed like that (I am not going to list everyone from the Villainous Benchmark wiki because it has too many examples for me to list): Pure Evil: Joffrey Baratheon, Ramsay Bolton, Gregor Clegane, Rorge, Craster, Euron Greyjoy and Maegor Targaryen Near Pure Evil: Tywin Lannister, Roose Bolton, Petyr Baelish, Walder Frey, Lothar Frey, Kraznys mo Nakloz, Janos Slynt, Varamyr Sixskins, Aerys Targaryen, Rossart, Lo Bu, Joron I Blacktyde, Khal Moro and Wyl of Wyl Inconsistently Heinous: Cersei Lannister and Tyrion Lannister Villainous Benchmark: Theon Greyjoy, Jaime Lannister, Sandor Clegane and many others

I'm really curious about this, honestly - what assessments of the technical components have been so strong? I'm entirely willing to believe I've missed a lot but the notion that tanks are being used in a critical way and therefore must adapt seems to be something that most military theorists are already going away from.

You don't think that wiki was written by people with a bias? I will hold my opinions on the wiki itself until I have checked it out myself. Jaime Lannister is more evil. Lothar's family was insulted by the Starks and it was Tywin Lannister who wanted to stop the rebellion and bring order back to the kingdom. If Lothar is Near Pure Evil then Jaime should be on the Pure Evil list.

I'm not sure a theoretical discussion about future tank anti-drone systems is worth getting quite so heated up about. For what it's worth, Bironic's assessments of the technical capabilities of the hardware involved in the conflict so far has been excellent. Meanwhile, Ukraine has decided if they're not going to get tons of Patriot missile launchers, they're going to build their own! With blackjack and hookers! Probably. The preplanning for the new aid bill was apparently more thorough than first supposed. The US pre-positioned substantial stocks of new equipment in Poland and Germany weeks ago for rapid delivery to the front. Reportedly some of it is already in-theatre. Also confirmation that long-range ATACMS are part of the new supplies. There seems to be a growing drone imbalance on the front. Russian sources have identified Ukrainian drones working by sectors for different capabilities, and Ukraine has gotten skilful at using low-cost drones for missions that artillery would have carried out even a few months ago. This has allowed Ukraine to redeploy limited artillery ammunition against higher value targets. Russian milbloggers cite Ukrainian hunter-killer drones targeting short-range artillery tube systems as a particular recent major threat, resorting in some mortar teams refusing to deploy near the front. The imminent onset of many more drones, the eradication of Ukraine's artillery ammunition shortage and the arrival of F-16s to further reduce their air cover is not filling Russian troops on the front with confidence. There seems to be something of a race to achieve further gains in the short term.

This is... unconvincing, as an argument. Lacking any actual evidence that Hubbard, or anyone else, changed sex just to gain an advantage, we're left with the fact that trans athletes (in some sports) gain a natural advantage from their birth and upbringing - but so does everyone else competing at that level. And there's little evidence that the advantage trans athletes have, where they have any, is so disproportionate as to require direct bans to preserve the integrity of women's sport. (Indirect bans, of course, such as limits on testosterone levels, affect some AFAB competitors.) More relevantly to the thread, like the puberty blockers argument, or trans criminals, this is a problem presented and treated out of all proportion because of the wider political context and it cannot be divorced from that context. It's a proxy, of sorts, for the discomfort we as a society feel about the existence of trans folks, a discomfort we have felt (and still do feel) about other minorities too. But in the case of trans folks, that discomfort is linked to deeper issues with our society's conflicted and difficult attitudes to gender, sex (in both senses) and privacy. We're unsettled when we're forced to think about those, and the existence of trans folks pushes those issues to the forefront. In other words, when we argue about puberty blockers, or sports, etc. we're not solely arguing about that. We're working out some feelings about the existence of trans folks and their place in our society. If we truly accepted the existence of trans folks, these arguments would be minor, or non-existent, and regarded as fixable problems or ones we can live with, instead of how we currently treat them.

Out of being curious, where Frey right in killing (near) everybody under the guise of peace, because Robb broke his promise to marry a Frey? For the record, no I don't think the frey should die, it's just a family house, not like some kind of evil organization, if anything I think the ones that should die, are the ones reasonable for the red wedding, and then the Frey would basically rebrand.

You don't make a checklist? I just hate forgetting a hat or swimsuit or whatever when I need one because I also pack the night before outside of the laptop bag. Having to buy something you already have is annoying.

The giant weirwood in Whitetree had human remains inside. The two religions have the same ritual. It doesn't work or else too many of the walking dead will be around but it is the belief which gives the ritual importance. Like a Catholic mass. Do the wafers and wine really turn to flesh? No but it is still practiced to this day. A resurrection gone wrong is what it looks like. A try that went awry.

As usual, Perun's analysis of the attack is painstakingly thorough and looks at what exactly people wanted to achieve from the Iranian attack and the Israeli counter, and notes how the messaging is quite mixed depending on the audience. He does tend towards the view the Iranian attack was not supposed to trigger a larger conflict but Iran was likely hoping it would do more than it did. Most notably, the use of the ballistic missiles as the primary secondary component of the attack, under the likely assumption they could not be intercepted as easily, is hard to square with this fully being "just" a demonstration. Israel's response was considerably less grandiose but likely sent a much starker warning to Iran about Israel's capabilities and, more importantly, the utter uselessness of Iran's defences against them.

I've never read the books and I've enjoyed the show but ...

FTFY

For those of you who don’t know, there are several wikis for villains. One of them is called Pure Evil wiki (which, in short, is about villains with no redeeming or sympathetic qualities), the second is called Near Pure Evil wiki (Which, in short, is about villains with almost no redeeming or sympathetic qualities but they still can’t qualify for the Pure Evil wiki for some reason. However, there are other cases where a villain can be Near Pure Evil even if they don't have any redeemable qualities like slightly lacking moral agency or slightly failing the heinous standard of the series because they don't go the extra mile in terms of crimes). There is also a third wiki called the Inconsistently Heinous wiki (which, in short, is about characters who have committed awful crimes, but they still have too many redeeming and sympathetic qualities and excuses for their actions to qualify as Pure Evil or Near Pure Evil). The name “Inconsistently Heinous” means that the characters are too inconsistent in their heinousness to be Near Pure Evil and they need to have many redeeming and sympathetic qualities and/or excuses for their actions. Often times Inconsistently Heinous characters can even be morally ambiguous heroes in the stories they are depicted, but they also do some bad things along the way. Lothar Frey is listed on the Near Pure Evil wiki. Here is what he has done: He is the one who acts as an envoy and goes to Riverrun to invite Robb, Catelyn, Edmure and their bannermen to come to the Twins while acting friendly to them. He and Roose Bolton plan out all the little details regarding the Red Wedding and how it would proceed down to what songs would be performed and in what order. This makes Lothar one of the main orchestrators of the Red Wedding and gives him a huge part of the responsibility for one of the most horrible massacres and violations of guest rights where around 3500 are killed while they are guests of House Frey. He organizes the rest of the Freys and tells each of them what their role would be during the Red Wedding. For example, he gives Merrett Frey the task of getting the strong Jon Umber so drunk that he wouldn't be able to fight back when the Red Wedding starts. He makes sure that the tents would collapse when the Red Wedding starts by slicing their ropes and also puts crossbowmen among the musicians in the gallery, so the guests would be caught by surprise when they start shooting at them. Unlike his father, Walder Frey, it's unclear if he has any affection for the rest of his family. And here is the reason why he can't qualify as Pure Evil: He fails the Heinous Standards to his own father, Walder Frey, because the Red Wedding is Walder's idea and Lothar is just organizing the details around it because his father has asked that of him. However, he still stands out from the other Freys because he and Roose Bolton are the people who have planned how everything would proceed down to the smallest details, making him one of the main architects behind it, and he was also the one to personally invite Robb Stark and his bannermen to the Twins, which means he is still heinous enough to be Near Pure Evil. So, do you agree with the decision to list Lothar Frey as Near Pure Evil or not?

So why emphasize what you need to do to make a tank okay against certain types of drone strikes? I have seen that - the Gepard is exactly the sort of thing that is needed more of, not less - and it is not a tank. Then why defend specifically against drones? I like how you answered a bunch of the questions you asked. That makes it much easier. My point is that an infantry can fire some of these - especially drones that go after other drones - but more importantly they will either have to live with the idea that they will simply rely on not being found or being killed if they are, or they'll have to be under the umbrella of the defensive stuff. Which happens all the time apparently At least in Ukraine that's simply incorrect. A lot of manpads have hit things, mostly because the Russians didn't know that there were infantry waiting for the helicopters. No, it's not a joke; Russia has shitty night equipment and doesn't tend to fight at night. Sure, but it doesn't matter because of all the other factors. They did, but notice how they're not happening any more thanks to defensive structures and combined arms and the Russians learning how to counter them? No, I don't think they use salt water; submarines have passive cooling (which is what I said). They have the water around them and that makes a difference. They don't rely on it to cool actively but they absolutely do use it. Diesels use it even more than that. Seriously, why are you so upset about this? Why the personal attacks? The submarine is, however, and batteries ARE very hot if you want them to stay at reasonable performance. The Nissan Leaf got away with aircooling and they have a ridiculously shitty battery life. Teslas use more cooling. Just as a thought experiment - how far and fast do you think drones are going to advance in the next 6 years?

The stinkin' pile is now whining outrage at the amount of security around 100 Centre Street -- insisting THIS is why there aren't millions of his supporters there to demand his freedom of speech and movement, but instead, only about 5 people standing around chatting and enjoying the sunshine. Another political persecution of martyr to freedum him.

Space Gentrifier Paul Atreides! With his trust fund full of nukes!