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[todays-xkcd]

Interpretations of the Hermeneutic Oath differ.

Professional Oaths [Explained]

Transcript Under the Cut

[8 Panels in a grid.]

Hippocratic Oath [Ponytail in a doctor's coat with her arm raised in pledge.] First, do no harm

Hyperbaric Oath [Cueball shaking.] First, acclimate to the pressure

Holographic Oath [A hologram of Ponytail fitzing in parts.] First, shimmer intangibly

Histrionic Oath [White Hat yelling, fists upraised.] First, whine and complain

Hydroelectric Oath [Megan sat in the cut-out wall for a giant turbine.] First, maintain your turbines

Hippodromic Oath [Ponytail in a chariot pulled by a horse.] First, race your chariot well

Hypnagogic Oath [Cueball, half-risen from bed in shock.] First, jolt awake just as you're drifting off

Hypergolic Oath [Cueball on fire.] First, burst into flame

[rei-ismyname]

Early Magneto Histrionics

They know who you are dude.

We want the world... and we want it now! Is he quoting The Doors to the UN? King shit

The exclamation mark king!!!!

Who are you talking to?

How did Angel survive this?

Classic death ray

THRAK!

Man loves his island and volcano fortresses.

So drunk on victory he accidentally wakes up Proteus. Not his problem!

[kosmic-apothecary]

Don’t Zionists ever get tired of their own bullshit? This one admits the people who want to see Palestine be free of occupation and apartheid are good people then repeats the ludicrous lie that they all want her dead. it’s honestly hilarious how insane they are 😆

“I can’t trust anyone anymore” Yeah, you can’t trust because at any moment some great person you’ve been friends with all your life could turn out to be one of those brave principled people who stands up for the most oppressed people on earth who are going through a LITERAL GENOCIDE. You poor thing, @jewishspite! How will you ever get through this?

[tomorrowusa]

Caught off guard How the ICC’s arrest warrant for Putin threw a wrench in the Kremlin’s plans for 2023 — Meduza

Since the International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant against Vladimir Putin on Friday, the Kremlin has done its best to appear unfazed. But multiple sources close to the Russian authorities have told Meduza that the Putin administration was not expecting the court’s announcement, and that the severe restrictions the warrant puts on the president’s ability to travel abroad could poke holes in the image he tries to project at home.

The indictment of Vladimir Putin by the International Criminal Court has disrupted his travel plans for later this year. 

According to two sources close to the Putin administration, these trips were very important for domestic propaganda, among other things, because Russia’s pro-government media could cite them while telling citizens that Russia “still has more friends that detractors” and that it remains “one of the pillars of the multipolar world.”

“The restrictions on foreign visits will work in the opposite direction. Before the warrant, [Putin’s] trips abroad were combined with foreign leaders’ trips to Moscow. Now, it won’t be possible to keep having meetings with the same frequency — you can’t constantly invite everybody to come to you,” one source said.

Yep, being a war criminal sort of makes you socially unacceptable.

The president’s foreign travel difficulties have already begun: in August 2023, South Africa is slated to host the next BRICS summit, and Cape Town has already said that it’s “cognisant of its legal obligation” regarding the ICC warrant. Putin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, however, has said that the Kremlin has remained “calm” and will “continue working.”

Not everybody in the Kremlin has remained “calm”. Former President Dmitry Medvedev, who’s become a reliable source of hyperbolic hysterics, is threatening to bomb The Hague with hypersonic missiles.

Russia's former president suggested firing a hypersonic missile at The Hague after Putin's ICC arrest warrant: 'Look carefully into the sky'

Maybe the ICC shouldn’t worry too much about Medvedev’s latest hissy fit. Ukraine just destroyed a train loaded with cruise missiles in Dzhankoi in Russian-occupied Crimea.

Russian cruise missiles destroyed in strike in Crimea, Ukraine Defense Ministry says   

This makes Putin look bad while Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Moscow for a state visit.

Not only was Ukraine able to hit the target, but Ukrainian intelligence had discovered in advance where the cruise missiles would be at that time. Cheers to Gen. Budanov!

[askvectorprime]

Since you answered the first question that the ad for Transformers: Evolutions asked, I want to task their second one: what if Transformers existed during the Roman Empire?

Dear Romantic Roman,

Given our civilization existed long before, during, and after the Roman Empire, I assume you would be referring to the Transformers toy line. And you will be pleased to hear in one universe, an enterprising collegium developed an ingenious line of transforming wooden toys that were inspired by our adventures.

I briefly recorded one of the advertisements recounted by a gladiator, and here is the translation:

"It is a world changed, where things are not what they seem. It is the world of the Shapechangers! Enjoy the great battles of the civilized Autochthonians and the barbaric Histrionics, led by the great Tribunes, Endymion and Phaethon. Now your children can re-enact these battles with the latest artifices, only from the collegium of Hadrianus Bruttius!"

Hopefully that satisfies your questioning.

[princelabia]

louis should have introduced lestat and claudia under the bathroom door like cats

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Imagine the psychology required to get angry about not being oppressed, and then having the first world privilege to rant about it to seven billion people in order to solicit reassurance that, as a person who is, in fact, living in a first world liberal country with a Bill of Rights and a comprehensive Constitution, you are indeed "oppressed," and ensure the spotlight and concern is directed at you.

This is the sort of noise people who need our help the most struggle to be heard over.

When victimhood has been adopted as a personality trait, taking it away is interpreted as an attack on the self, on their identity.

People who are actually oppressed, and know it, don't want to be oppressed; it's part of their circumstances, not part of their personal identity. They are a whole, real person, and have specific, achievable, measurable goals. Often, these are very modest. e.g. I want to go out in public without being covered by a tarpaulin.

Of course, there are also cases such as North Korea, where they have no idea whatsoever about the outside world, or how oppressive their regime really is, until they escape it.

To the person suffering from victimhood identity, there are only vague, unrealistic goals - "world peace," "end all violence," etc - or none whatsoever. Nothing that could happen in the outside world will ever be sufficient, because it's about sustaining the perception of self, and reflects the internal narrative, not the external circumstances.

We need to have the courage to set aside those who are weaponizing our empathy, and commit it to where it's actually needed. Rather than continue to direct it towards those who, not unlike the bible god and its unquenchable thirst for worship, possess an insatiable hunger for affirmation.

It's remarkable to have a fully functional, real world demonstration unfold to prove the point so quickly.

[cathyleetong]

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