Well, NATO isn’t about legislation so much as mutual defense. And the UN’s resolutions have as much impact as individual countries permit, in many cases.

It’s often said that the real point of the UN and the security council veto power was to offer the world’s most powerful nations a way to come to a more permanent table and disagree, instead of war being the default threat.

Thank you for sharing this story.

Ever since space tourism, capitalism has corrupted space. So, yeah, I guess the afterlife is all that’s left (assuming plenary indulgences were bullshit).

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Thanks, I will!

That’s not how any of that works.

ELO measures the year you could go back to and match someone who is actually pretty good at chess for their time.

I’m pretty sure you’re thinking of opioids. Opinions are animals that regularly consume both plant and animal matter.

No, you’re thinking of onions. Opinions are American marsupials known for confusing predators by pretending to be dead.

Maybe its meant to look like the live action Scar?

This is exhilarating. Get excited!

No. No! We ended The Game. It’s over.

The large intestine is about 5 feet long.

Brings this graph to mind, with the new wrinkle of someone failing to meet the moral standards of the lower-right quadrant.

Still available, on GOG Games at least.

Gonna recommend you look for reports of people who feel differently from you on this, read their stories and emotional accounts of going through this, with some empathy.

“I plan to live forever, of course, but barring that I’d settle for a couple thousand years. Even five hundred would be pretty nice.”

CEO Nwabudike Morgan, “Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri” (1999)

It’s not about security, it’s about data. At least, its not about security for the benefit of the public.

250th anniversary, counting from the U.S. Declaration of Independence.

Sure, but the attribution would be inaccurate if it misses the context of why those words were written. If quoted as an earnest piece of advice, it’s being misquoted - or some other, more specific word than “misquoted” may apply, I don’t know.