All of this to say: people are coming down extemely hard on the question of how the NYT as a whole has handled the Epstein question has less (though not nothing!) to do with Epstein and more to do with a general loss of trust in the paper in general

It's honestly no big deal. Something goes wrong, you reload. Genuinely doesnt matter.

I think expecting games to work even moderately smoothly is antithetical to the genre. It's like wanting books that cant catch fire

yeah I'm ngl I cant sympathise much with the owners of the ruined *checks notes* opium crop

oh god NK are like if some of balin's expedition went mad and started worshipping the balrog aren't they

I think it's good you're here to teach us about it from that personal perspective!

Btw while he's here can I just say thank you to @pymundgenealogy.bsky.social because of whom I think I understand the Haredi worldview a /lot/ better than I did before I knew him. It is a far more complex relationship to these things than people outside the community are usually willing to recognise

I'm not saying you should adopt the Haredi view on basically anything but the somewhat core difference between most Haredim and NK is that NK has in fact literally shook hands with Ahmadinejad at a Holocaust denial conference

this is also why it's completely unfair to group Satmar and similar groups with them btw

you'll see people go like "they still believe in a jewish state, they just think that one can't come until the messianic age" and if that were the only thing "wrong" with them that would be so minor that it's basically not worth mentioning lol.

but i've met them, and they suck

i can't rule out the possibility that there will one day be born a twenty-something who actually should be in parliament.

eventually.

It's fairly common for a unitary state to contain a particular autonomous area (besides for Ukraine, there is also Finland, the UK, France, Tanzania, etc) but Iraq is special here because in theory it is _supposed_ to be a proper federation but just didn't bother creating the other units.

But it wasn't a federal state!

Well, you know.

No one has ever said "mes be Kauno nenurimsim."

One of us! One of us! (Even if your people were from bloody /Kaunas/ specifically)

many american elites are idiots is the conclusion i draw. this is also backed up by other evidence

like. beyond anything else just think of the opsec