Not really no. Just anecdotes that I've read or heard over the years. As you can see in the video even when you are prepared and extremely determined, even anaesthetised, the physical act of cutting into yourself and performing surgery (usually for the first time on anyone ever) is an extremely stressful experience that can easily make you abort and call an ambulance. I've never really dived deep into the subject personally.
Wow, I've heard of people performing a DIY oriechtomy on another person before but I think this is probably the first time I've ever heard of anyone successfully performing one on themselves. Just seeing how much their hands are shaking is terrifiying.
Its fixed price per unit. I feel like the benefit of having a contract that is popular with customers is pretty obvious. Its only when energy crisis hit that these stop being unprofitable and they stop offering them.
There was a dry spell after WaW (2009) but in Cold War you play a soviet sleeper agent that the CIA tries to turn and you can choose to betray them, shooting all the dipshit main characters from the black ops games and then detonate a bunch of american stay-behind nukes to turn the world against them.
The price of heating oil literally doubled overnight here. Petrol prices have already started to be marked up too. I expect another surge in Electricity costs like after Nordstream, where the price quadrupled briefly.
I have decided from now on to skip the preface/introduction unless it was written by the author until I have read the book. Too many old theory books feature an introduction by some no name western academic going on a anti-stalin rant or something along the lines of "While this book has lost its relevancy because history has now ended with the fall of the USSR (Yes this intro was written in 2005, how can you tell?). Its still a quaint little thing." And they are always like 50 pages long too. I've found myself spending a week trying to get through the 50 page intro because I keep putting it down after 2 pages only to then finish the rest of the book in the same amount of time it took me to figure out what the fuck Satre was saying at the start of Wretched of the Earth (Its actually a really great intro, but its one of those intros that is written with the assumtion that you've already read the book, so it may as well be at the end)
Honestly I have no fucking clue whats going on with the Lunar Gateway. Its a project thats never made much sense, especially since the current plan for the ISS is to keep it up just long enough for commercial space stations to take over (First HD video of someone dying in space speedrun any %). If by 2028 there hasn't been any launches planned then I think its safe to say its not gonna happen.
This is a frog in a pot situation where they are slowly going to roll back the timeline until the real date of 2030 (at best). For those not in the know, Artemis III was a planned 2028 lunar landing mission using one of the two imaginary landers that NASA has contracted out. The first one is quite literally a 40 storey Starship landed vertically on the moon (again, for 2028). The much more reasonable lander model is a frankenstien from all the government jobs program defence contractors and Blue Origin, which has delayed the test of its much smaller robotic test lander several times and is "planning" to launch this year (maybe). Assuming this test goes well (it won't), then they will now have to construct the much bigger human rated lander for
2027 for a LEO test, before the scheduled 2028 lunar landing mission (Which will not happen). Also this is ignoring the very real problems with the Orion capsule heatshield that haven;t been addressed. There is a distinct possibility that Artemis II may have a critical if not fatal failure of its heatshield on the much hotter re-entry from a free return trajectory.
Meanwhile the CNSA lander Lanyue is a much more modest apollo style lander that is already built and being tested for the planned 2030 landing.
My new prediction is that the Americans will achieve a moon landing in or slightly after 2030, at which point they will promptly never go back while the CNSA spends the 2030s building a lunar base. It will be recorded in history as one of the last rallies of the dying American Empire
I do think that despite his palpable enthusiasm for the communal project in the book, he was pretty honest about the small scale and vulnerability of the project. I think it could have benifited from some actual numbers and figures but who knows if there even are any to use. I also think there was alot of detail left out of many things due to the books brevity. I would have liked a more in depth description of how some of the property siezures worked practically, some more explanation on the land law and stuff would have been great too. But ultimately that is a lot to expect when the existence of any sort of english language stuff on Venezuela is a miracle in the first place.
Struggle food is such a wierd term. Half the people who use it seem to think "struggle food" is the stuff university students eat. People are calling potatoes stuggle food while Im thinking of the stuff you eat when the potatoes are gone. Under the Hawthorne Tree drinking straight cows blood and tree bark stuff.