Until I joined Lemmy I would have agreed with you.
EDIT: Unless you are talking about the litterbox thing, I have heard this brought up as legitimate discussion before. I quickly squashed that conversation, but there are (stupid) people out there that believe it.
It's as real as Kids requesting litter boxes in school because they identify as a furry, it's just meme BS that a specific political group has latched on to and bitch about. It's definitely not real.
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It's the same as the Shopping Cart theory. There are a few analogous theories, but they're all the same. If you don't return your grocery cart, pick up your pet's poop, or hold your trash till you find a disposal then you're an asshole.
I think you're understating the difference between cheap Cheddar and authentic Parma.
It's like when the recipe calls for a glass of dry white wine, but the person exchanges it for Colt 45 malt liquor and thinks the recipe was the problem.
In this case you may be right, but region protected products can be quite ridiculous. For example Bourbon:
(Source Wikipedia)
That's pretty fucking generic except for the made in USA portion. If I'm not mistaken Champagne has similarly silly restrictions with no significant difference.
Been a while since I was in school, but high school went from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm. The bus arrived at my house at 7:30 and dropped me off at 3:30.
The school day consisted of four 1.5 hour classes, we had three 10 min breaks between classes and a 30 min lunch.
Yeah except that Dwarf Fortress was a complete game for years and free. Under the hood it's the same game, it only costs money now if you're getting the better graphics and music added.
In my mind Early Access is for games that are so close to completion that they can ask for money and withstand criticism.
It should go:
If your game suffers in Early Access then it likely means your game wasn't ready for Early Access. Too often a game that should still be in Closed Alpha or Closed Beta is thrown up on Steam as Early Access. If you're gonna do that then you have to take the criticism as well.
Nah, even if they did their NATO % contribution the amount would be pitifully small. When you look at most of the articles that talk about "10 Best Places to Live" it's mostly super small population, low immigration, countries with virtually no military.
Most NATO countries are between 1-2.5% of their GDP, but that's only ~$300 billion. The US does ~3.5% which amounts to ~$811 billion.
The other NATO countries wouldn't just need to meet their NATO 2%, they'd need to more than triple it. Even just for the US to come down to 2% would cause a ~$348 billion decrease (more than the rest of NATO combined).
If I were a European country free riding in NATO the last thing I'd be pushing is the US to reduce military spending.
Barak replied "It's already been known for many years that they have a bunker that originally was built by Israeli constructors underneath Shifa," which was used as a "command post" for Hamas and as a "junction of several tunnels"
"I don't know to say to what extent it is a 'major.' It's probably not the only...command post. Several others are under hospitals or in other sensitive places."
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Barak, who was Israel's prime minister from 1999 to 2001, responded, "decades ago, we were running the place, so we helped them." The Gaza Strip has been controlled by Hamas since 2007.
"It was many decades ago...that we helped them build these bunkers in order to enable more space for the operation of the hospital within the very limited size of these compounds."
But Is he a good boss and is he a good person?
While it's true that it would be better for them in the long term, it's also true that some people prefer convenience.
I have a coworker that pays the power company extra each month so that if her water heater dies they'll replace it for her. Why the fuck does the power company offer this service and by the time she needs one she will have more than paid for one.
Lots of people don't change their own oil in their cars, it's easy and cheaper, but people don't want to do it.
Coffee.... that's all I'm gonna say on that topic.
Renting is a service some people want, just like some people want to live in an HOA.
More people would probably buy a house if they could just pay the mortgage, similar to a rent to own setup, but that's not an option available to most people.