What is utility?

Must it be measurable and quantifiable?

And even if it needn’t, can it exist otherwise in an economic system that requires quantified value in all things?

In contrast, bulbasaur is weak to all the birds and bugs that are so common in the early game.

To make it more difficult, Bulbasaur is the only one of the three starters to not learn a STAB move as their first move after the debuff at 5.

Squirtle gets bubble, ember for Charmander. Leech seed for Bulbasaur. And while leech seed has uses late game when you’re tanky, it is mostly useless against wild pokémon.

That is to say, both Charmander and Bulbasaur have a lot of trouble early game until you get a diverse team. But Squirtle will just stomp through it all (especially in original Gen1 when Special was imba, combined with its natural high defence state).

Aye, any Israeli who isn’t actively opposing the settlements in the West Bank is unambiguously in the wrong. And I wish that wasn’t a controversial statement.

You’re right in that Rabin’s assassination wasn’t the change in itself (that such Israeli extremists had continued to exist shows that that violent current in Israel had continued and been bubbling away), but it makes a good mark of a turning point and the loss of really any chance for reconciliation in at least our lifetimes.

The Nakba was a tragedy, and Ben has his role in that along with all the other high ups in the various paramilitary forces. The IDF didn’t exist then, though it does trace its routes back to those paramilitary groups.

That Ben G worked to limit their power once the nation was formed is a mark against him being a fascist to me, and he didn’t go as hard on violent struggle as the meaning of life as full fasc-fascism does.

Violent, racist, and did bad things yes (and genocidal to boot!). I don’t think that auto-makes fascist.

As for what was being done pre-Six Day War I’m going to guess pogroms, murders, and forced sterilisation. So I’ll go back up and add genocidal to it. Doesn’t make him fascist though, unless we’re making it a synonym for genocidist.

Shockingly, nations aren’t monoliths.

Football was the name the players used.

Soccer was the name used by people looking down on them and legislating against them.

Give Israel some credit, Ben Gurion wasn’t a fascist, despite his problems - but also you could understand where he was coming from.

It’s really from the 70s on when Israel moved from problematic and apatheidy into the full on genocidal regime we see today.

The watershed moment, not surprisingly, being the assassination of Rabin.

Which particular set of Israeli policies are you supporting here?

The 10-15 civilian deaths per strike on a possible low level Hamas supporter?

The continued “accidental” killing of medical staff, including Red Cross and Red Crescent workers, and journalists?

The idea of turning off water and electricity from all of Gaza as a valid response?

The escalation of illegal settlement and theft of Palestinian property and land in the West Bank, with IDF support no less?

Or the use of the Hannibal Protocol against Israeli Civilians on October 8th by IDF forces?

Or do you just not think it is incumbent on the one with greater power and strength to offer the olive branch first if peace is truly desires? And in fact would rather the Palestinian people are smeared across an enlarged Israel?

No one said that AI was doing the jobs it’s replaced people in well.

What other “mistakes” did they make?

A U in “colour”? An S in “realise”?

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If you’re trolling: well done, wanker.

I didn’t like the first series, and would’ve quit it at episode 3 or so but I ended up without internet access for a couple of days and the whole series downloaded… It got better.

But yeah, life’s too short for TV shows that take time to be taken on faith. And if you did finish the first series and still not like it, more power to you.

Worse, the IDF was under orders to expand the Hannibal Protocol to civilians the whole time, too.

Hannibal Protocol is the order to kill Israelis rather than allow them to become hostages.

The best solution for the people of the PRC and the State of Taiwan (RoC), and to undercut US imperial goals in the Asian Pacific is for the PRC to recognise an indepent Taiwan, in return for not being excluded from semi conductors and having free passage through territorial waters (and throw in recognition of PRC claims in South China Sea if you like).

Without the threat of invasion and a normalisation of ties both will help both economically and socially, and the shared cultural links will pull them together over time; and it ties the US’s hands in meddling.

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Created the time line specifically for Webster to frankenstein the language for sinister ends.

I admire the gusto.

But also:

Yanks say mass noun and not uncountable noun?

To me, mass noun sounds more like a group noun, such as family or police - where they work as both singular and plural .

My family are hungry. My family is hungry.

It’s an all time great. Unintentionally driven people I have lived with mad by leaving some 30 minute recording session take off of bootleg on.

Don’t understand how they couldn’t be into it…

I’ll respect the pokémon card game for demolishing reprint equity and making sure the meta cards are easily and cheaply available to players.

The card game gameplay, and high level competitive battling, while not M:tG good, are still both solid though. Closer to Magic than they are Yu-Gi-Oh.

Been clean since Sun/Moon.

I was disappointed with X/Y and gave them one last chance to change course.

The disappointing dungeons of X/Y had been replaced by nothing by straight lines with occasional fancy camera angles. The utter disgrace that was Z Cave as a super (only) dungeon was more than anything Sun/Moon offered.

For a game series meant to be about exploring and discovering monsters to collect, they’ve really let the exploration/discovery side down. Holding my console upside down is cool and all that, but gimmicks to sell strategy guides are no subsidy for actual explorable environments to lead to dynamic, emergent gameplay experiences.

Really want to make my take on a monster capture world explorer. I think there’s a lot of space for a spiritual successor to Pokémon.

Does seem to be the case, they also seem to have no follow up to researched rebuttals of their talking points.

Edit: although the person I was responding to does seem to be not, if not anti, Marxist-Lenninist. Maybe they’re Dengian or Maoist…

Could be peachy, we won’t know since their self governance and ability to have their own Tibetan characteristic revolution has now been completely quashed.

I linked the other comment for a reason. If Tibetans and people from that culture don’t seem to think it’s a big deal, I’m inclined to agree them rather than trample over them because they’re backwards ignorant savages who don’t understand things.

Obvioisly though, coerced child adopting isn’t a good thing. But it is much down in the other PRC regions and Nepal too, I don’t see why that trend wouldn’t’ve applied to an independent Tibet.

Part of opposing imperialism is to be against it whenever it happens. If you’re only against imperialism when one said does it, your not anti-imperialism, you’re just anti-that other side.