Helicopters with anti-tank munitions did not cause the end of the tank, it just led to the development of better supportive anti-air elements.

Drones with anti-tank munitions is not causing the end of the tank, it will just lead to the development of better supportive anti-drone elements.

Also, I don’t think you could ever “win a war” with just tanks. They always had been and always will be one piece of a broader combined arms system.

Funnily enough, this is actually one of the few silver linings of this catastrophe. Definitely not worth the price in blood, but the lack of oil and LNG on the global market is speeding up renewable investment.

Looks like we share the same brain cell, just opposite polarity xD

I was making a joke :D

I guess this is why /s is so prevalent these days, it’s very easy to be wooshed.

No, it’s JFK

EDIT: I should clarify that there’s not one vegan philosophy. There’s many different philosophies that could lead to veganism. Animal personhood being the most extreme end of it, but vegans also include people who believe in harm minimization, people who just hate factory farms and live in cities, Buddhists, radical interpretations of halal, and more. I answered these questions from a harm minimization perspective.

General principle is minimization of harm. The classic example is “You’re on an island alone, slowly starving to death. There’s a pig. Would you kill and eat the pig?”

For quite a few vegans, the answer is yes. Luckily, that’s not the situation we find ourselves in, we can live healthy and happy lives without harming many animals in the vast majority of situations.

To directly answer the question: it depends. Is there an alternative that hasn’t been tested on animals? Is this medicine life-saving, or just very slight quality of life bump, like getting over a hangover slightly faster? Those questions would guide you to an answer.

To answer your chicken question, I don’t think there’s any moral issue with eating the body of a being that’s died of old age. I don’t think many vegans would do that anyway though, because after a long time without meat, it tastes “wrong” to eat meat (not sure exactly how to describe it). Same reason not many long-term vegans are that interested in lab-grown meat.

No idea, never tried Vegemite. Can’t imagine it being very different though.

I fully agree with your goals (last paragraph). Literally all I was disagreeing with was the finality of it, that your country is permanently wrecked. It is currently wrecked, but nothing is fully permanent, and with enough time (talking a decade at an absolute minimum, more likely multiple decades) and people commiting real effort, this is fixable.

Marmite is from the UK. Vegemite is the Australian version.

Never say never. In 1986, it was utterly unthinkable that the dictator of my country (Romania) would ever be overthrown. 3 years later, he fails a mad scramble to get out of the country and ends up being executed.

Might not be visible now, might not be for years, but there’s always possibility.

Go back far enough, and technically native Americans are immigrants too. Hell, even inside of Africa with how nomadic people moved around, if you go back far enough I don’t think there’s a single person on the planet who doesn’t technically qualify as a descendent of immigrants.

The reason why I love the 10 point difference rule is that it makes every buff on your allies and every debuff on your enemies feel super impactful. A bard in DnD giving a +1 to hit feels very meh, but a bard in pf2e doing the same thing gets to be like “I did that! I’m helping!” when an ally crits on an 18 instead of a 19 due to that +1.

Ia! Ia! Torvalds fhtagn!

While true, it basically never happens that such a massive power imbalance would happen in a real campaign outside of either a set-piece where a PC tries to punch a god, or a comedic moment where a toddler tries to slap a PC. You’re basically never going to see a 30 point difference between AC and +to hit.

The old 3.5e frenzied berserker Barbarian was fun. If you run out of enemies while frenzying, you start attacking your own party. Had a wizard in the party with calm emotions prepared at all times just in case.

That campaign ended when we entered a cave, and a goblin archer hit me for 2 damage or something silly. Failed my will save, started frenzying. Wizard, in a panic, cast light over the archers so I could see them. My character leaped over a gap, needed an 18 to not fall to his death. Proceeded to slaughter all the goblins in 2 turns.

Wizard cast calm emotions, will save passed. Proceeded to jump over the gap again and massacre the party. Last other PC bleeding out on the floor, and goblin reinforcements arrive. My character tries to jump over the gap again, finally fails the athletics roll and falls to his death.

Nobody could breathe due to laughter for quite a bit after that. The silliest TPK I’ve ever seen.

So get vegan borger

Increasing trade between the EU and Canada just makes perfect sense, with or without full membership. They bring the raw resources, we bring the equipment to extract those raw resources. It’s a pretty sweet deal for both parties.

L4D2’s port was great when I played it, and Valve even made a big triumphant blog post with all the benchmarks proving it worked better than the Windows binary. Maybe your confusing it with Dying Light? That native port was so incredibly trash that everyone forced Proton on to avoid it.

Pretty normal and a long history (for example, the East India Trading Company had a stronger military than the British Empire), but this is a bit different because it’s not a private company. As a state company, this is better understood as an extension of the Saudi government.

My guess? The government is trying to avoid as many KIA payouts as possible, so they’re just not reporting them.