That’s ok though, this place is a slow burn.

People are more likely to participate if you are. :) But if the space exists, natural discovery can happen too. You do not have to do much more than open the conversation.

It takes very little effort to open and run a community here, be the change you want to see. :)

Gotta put out the bunions.

Tyvm :)

I bought an old single digit version of a kindle and just use Calibre. It’s pretty great.

Well, now you can check!

Unfortunately, with the good people, the early immigrants brought their repressors as well.

• https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27209433-white-trash
• https://archive.org/details/ForAmericaToLiveEuropeMustDie/foramericatolive_read/mode/2up

That they know of lmao

My sister, a physician’s assistant, openly wondered out loud if I have narcolepsy, so this checks out. My sleep is just shit lol.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4340974/

Don’t encourage me.

Knowledge is for sharing. :)

http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix9/softserve.htm

Lmao NSFW this pls.

The only shooter I’ll play is Hell Let Loose because it really makes you feel like canon fodder.

I totally agree with you here, this is the important, intended subtext I left out. We just are not used to not having a monopoly on political capital.

I meant is it’s not a service I’d depend on in a regional crisis as they can and will deprioritse it. It is not the main mission as the following passage to that sentence shows:

The functions of a diplomatic mission consist, inter alia, in representing the sending State in the receiving State; protecting in the receiving State the interests of the sending State and of its nationals, within the limits permitted by international law; negotiating with the Government of the receiving State; ascertaining by all lawful means conditions and developments in the receiving State, and reporting thereon to the Government of the sending State; promoting friendly relations between the sending State and the receiving State, and developing their economic, cultural and scientific relations.[18]

It’s not even rare for embassies outside of the first world’s to be openly hostile or outright useless to their own citizens in a pinch during times of peace.

Embassies can deprioritise citizen services when diplomatic relations within the host state make it politically costly to physically impossible, which is exactly what’s happening here. That’s the substantive point about the article and why citizen services are not even mentioned in the introduction.