Even those guys are getting some understanding of modern warfare, wow.

BTW, I know that shouldn’t be too public, but are NATO countries doing this? Because Hollywood movies are good and all, but this is the revolution that has already happened, like tercios. I mean cheap mass-produced drones. One can talk quality-over-quantity all one wants, but there’s no way one wins against a well-organized equal force possessing those in good numbers. And level of organization is something hard to predict and developed by experience, so hoping for Russia and NK and China and who not remaining clumsy would not be wise.

Boris Johnson also knows a thing or two about homoerotic stuff, UK good schools and all.

Either Armenia or Azerbaijan could host it, Armenia endorsed Azerbaijan in exchange for them releasing another portion of hostages (the 2020 ceasefire agreement says that all PoWs must be released, so they are hostages ; and of course people captured after that are).

So in this particular case, apparently, kickbacks did not play a significant role. Which is actually rare for Azerbaijan.

Maybe they’re hoping for a “This is what your country will look like if everyone continues to ignore this problem” reaction from the attendees?

Not necessarily hoping, but this is a useful effect actually.

COP29 is held in Azerbaijan. People are talking as if Taliban going there were weird, but holding any such event in a country culturally and ecologically most similar to Mordor seems weirder.

Nobody is going to really talk about preserving climate in Baku of all places. The only areas not similar to Mordor polluted wasteland in Azerbaijan are not Azerbaijan, they are occupied Artsakh and sparsely populated mountains, villages with sheep and all, to the north of it. And the main reason they remained kinda green is that they were not controlled by Azeris.

It’s only called a climate conference, in fact it’s a meeting for Azeris to make deals on selling their oil or something.

The conference is in Baku and compared to Azeris Taliban is almost normal.

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OOXML is Microsoft’s proprietary format it itself doesn’t implement consistently.

Either you meant OpenDocument or you meant that you want a magic wand.

Linux is still mostly US-dependent as a project.

He doesn’t seem very bad from what I’ve just read in Wikipedia. Which parts are delusional?

a single delusional libertarian

That being who?

I know. I’ve just known a real narcissist. The difference is that with a pseudo-narcissist (like my mom) there usually is some way to avoid triggering their trauma. With a real narcissist (like that girl) there really is none.

I know about WWII. About today - it’s interesting.

OK. TIL.

Yes, and what you are describing means you have to cut it. I’ve had such emotions.

You will also find out in future that there can be relationships with all the joy and none of the pain. Even dysfunctional ones will more often be better than not.

There is, however, a kind of protective narcissism that can be removed if you treat a person gently.

The society (some family members included) may treat schizophrenics, autistic people with PDA, others harshly enough (pressuring them to be “normal”) that they develop this thing, that may seem very similar to narcissism.

EDIT: Putting it a bit differently - if a person is kind to animals, there are likely not narcissist, but may be pseudo-narcissist. If they can’t do something you ask of them, it may be PDA. If they can do something kind involving sacrifices on their own, but suddenly can’t when you put that as some expectation - then they are traumatized and the problem may not be with them.

I think this seems more like a BPD person, but - narcissism too.

As you are asking for advice, mine is:

About narcissists - never ever allow them to have any degree of control over you. Similarly to people grown cowards TBH.

Did you have a honest talk, without substances, on all the conflict parts?

If there’s avoidance of that, nothing you can do. I have, eh, some experience in my life too. Just move on.

Also, about substances - stop drinking. Try limiting yourself to something like tea without sugar and buckwheat, and maybe something like salted turkey broth with some pieces of turkey meat eaten separately. Maybe milk.

At least that’s what helped me to regain ability to sleep after my losses and traumas.

I meant that every bearded urchin has an FPV drone in addition to his AK, and will drop a grenade from that FPV drone from beyond the range of small arms.

What targets? In modern war you’ll very rarely see an enemy combatant in the range of usual small arms.

Standard combat roles, ahem, are not about small arms today. They are about FPVs and small artillery.