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I speak Arabic and Spanish and have started learning French but now there’s basically no point because by the time I can start traveling for work (that doesn’t involve working as a PMC) all of the areas that speak those languages are going to be war zones.
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Well, this seems kind of weird and self-defeating. Coverage on the mass arson of parked private vehicles in Sweden in the past week https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/15/world/europe/sweden-car-fires.html
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Milo and POTUS posted:My list of places I'd love to visit and will never be able to visit both exploded and imploded in like a 5-10 year period. Yeah of all the cool ancient stuff I'd like to see in my life, Petra is easily the least dangerous one to visit. It used to have a couple places in Turkey as close second and third but Turkey is looking less hospitable by the hour.
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Internet Wizard posted:I speak Arabic ... the areas that speak those languages are going to be war zones. boy have I got some terrible news for you
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45 ACP CURES NAZIS posted:boy have I got some terrible news for you The one or two that aren’t already
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https://twitter.com/flyingovertr0ut/status/1029383063036473344?s=21
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Maldives, socotra, caspian jungles, anything in syria/iraq/southeastern turkey, most of rest of turkey, vast swaths of the levant, north africa, huge chunks of subsaharan africa, blah blah blah. It's all loving finished. Being a geography dork will be like getting a major in ancient Atlantean history presently and the best news I can muster is at least it's not exclusively from climate change.
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"anti German propaganda" Get hosed you Nazi bitch
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C.M. Kruger posted:I wish I had a lathe because it'd be super easy to buy some 5-6mm food safe stainless/titanium tubing and start making SUPREME ULTRA TACTICAL STRAWS for MEN. My get rich quick scheme is to use some shady Chinese company to make common household items in black or multicam and sell them from my new company, FREEDOM EAGLE PATRIOTIC TACTICAL SOLUTIONS GROUP. Sure everything will be contaminated with melamine and other industrial chemicals, but I plan on using the ton of money from preppers and mall ninjas to buy a nice house in some South Pacific country that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the US once the jig is up.
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I'm so loving glad I had a chance to see Egypt before it all went to poo poo. 100% worth it too, goddamn what a place. When you go into the great pyramid and you're chilling in Khufu's burial chamber and it's this black granite vacuum of sound and you realize that there is as much time between the building of that pyramid and the battle of Cannae as there is between Caesar's murder and modern times. It was loving ancient to people who's writings we study in ancient history. My brain had trouble processing that for a few minutes.
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I once worked with an old Egyptian lady. When another co-worker told her he studied American history, she smirked and told us that Americans have no history, that three or four centuries is a joke. We were forced to concede the point.
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pantslesswithwolves posted:My get rich quick scheme is to use some shady Chinese company to make common household items in black or multicam and sell them from my new company, FREEDOM EAGLE PATRIOTIC TACTICAL SOLUTIONS GROUP. Sure everything will be contaminated with melamine and other industrial chemicals, but I plan on using the ton of money from preppers and mall ninjas to buy a nice house in some South Pacific country that doesn’t have an extradition treaty with the US once the jig is up. Up? I have some good news re: the state of consumer protections, friend.
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MA-Horus posted:I'm so loving glad I had a chance to see Egypt before it all went to poo poo. 100% worth it too, goddamn what a place. On a personal level, It is a real downer that I won't get to visit Egypt, the Levant, or Russia due to either war or general lovely policies
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MA-Horus posted:I'm so loving glad I had a chance to see Egypt before it all went to poo poo. 100% worth it too, goddamn what a place. Spoiler alert, you can still go to Egypt and see this poo poo (for now) and be fine. My Trump voting in-laws went in February of this year and both came back and went from "All Muslims want to kill us are bad and are terrible!" to "Well actually, muslims are mostly good people and they hate ISIS more than we do in some cases, who knew?!?" Seriously, I get that poo poo is hosed up and bullshit, but some of you are starting to sound like my loving mom. Take some risks, enjoy the world for what it is while you still can.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Spoiler alert, you can still go to Egypt and see this poo poo (for now) and be fine. Ease up homeboy, you're probably fine if you're with a tour-group or towards the Red Sea but I'll be hosed if I'm going down towards Aswan by myself.
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Handsome Ralph posted:Spoiler alert, you can still go to Egypt and see this poo poo (for now) and be fine. Visiting Egypt is probably about as safe as visiting Jordan, it's cool stuff like Palmyra in Syria and Persepolis in Iran that are gonna be difficult. Not to mention all the real cool Mesopotamian bronze age/pre-bronze age stuff that's scattered all over in Iraq/Syria.
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MA-Horus posted:I'm so loving glad I had a chance to see Egypt before it all went to poo poo. 100% worth it too, goddamn what a place.  It's all just so damned depressing. As if I needed any more help
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MA-Horus posted:Ease up homeboy, you're probably fine if you're with a tour-group or towards the Red Sea but I'll be hosed if I'm going down towards Aswan by myself. My bad, wasn't trying to rag on you alone or anything...I just often run into the "It's dangerous to go to places other than Western Europe and North America!" chat when it's usually massively overblown. Are there risks? Most definitely, but I'd say most of the time you're fine so long as you're not a complete idiot. Egypt, yeah, tourgroups or with locals you know and trust. Jordan, did that poo poo solo and I had no issues. FAUXTON posted:Visiting Egypt is probably about as safe as visiting Jordan, it's cool stuff like Palmyra in Syria and Persepolis in Iran that are gonna be difficult. I would have loved to visited Palmyra or even check out Saladin's tomb, but lol to that ever happening anytime soon.
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Maybe they'll find Alexander's tomb and it'll turn out to not have been looted/turned into a car park/filled with concrete/flooded with red liquid of immortality.
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FAUXTON posted:Maybe they'll find Alexander's tomb and it'll turn out to not have been looted/turned into a car park/filled with concrete/flooded with red liquid of immortality. He drank so much that the fucker would still be giving off fumes after nearly 2400 years. Just follow the emissions.
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FAUXTON posted:Maybe they'll find Alexander's tomb and it'll turn out to not have been looted/turned into a car park/filled with concrete/flooded with red liquid of immortality. You forgot 'fixed with superglue'
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Fallom posted:You mean RADICALIFORNIA? I'm so sick of that dumb gently caress commercial. Goddamn worthless gently caress Walker Stapleton.
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I lived in Egypt from 2009 to late 2010. I went back in early 2014 after the coup, and frankly, I’d have a hard time feeling comfortable going back given the country’s absolutely abysmal human rights record under Sisi. It’s a pretty sad and creepy place if you dig just beneath the surface or go anywhere outside of the major tourist areas.
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I think Iran is gonna be safe to visit as soon as theirs and our baby boomers die
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Informal poll: are you all fine with the current level of shitposting/white noise in this thread, or is it disruptive?
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EBB posted:Informal poll: are you all fine with the current level of shitposting/white noise in this thread, or is it disruptive? Shitposting happens, it's often entertaining. Dealing with shitposting is almost never entertaining. There's still enough signal punching through the noise.
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One of my teachers at DLI was an Egyptian and when we found out he’d been thrown in prison for a bit but was eventually released without ever having been charged he just kinda shrugged and said a lot of people get arrested in Egypt like that, as if that’s just the expected thing. He told us this after Sisi was elected but it had happened to him a couple decades ago.
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EBB posted:Informal poll: are you all fine with the current level of shitposting/white noise in this thread, or is it disruptive? Theres enough news on any given page. It's fine.
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EBB posted:Informal poll: are you all fine with the current level of shitposting/white noise in this thread, or is it disruptive? it's fine. who's whinging?
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I’m new to following this thread but find it to be very much my jam.
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EBB posted:Informal poll: are you all fine with the current level of shitposting/white noise in this thread, or is it disruptive? Nah, it's fine for the most part. But if it gets any louder, then maybe clamp down, idk. pantslesswithwolves posted:I lived in Egypt from 2009 to late 2010. I went back in early 2014 after the coup, and frankly, I’d have a hard time feeling comfortable going back given the country’s absolutely abysmal human rights record under Sisi. It’s a pretty sad and creepy place if you dig just beneath the surface or go anywhere outside of the major tourist areas. Yeah that's probably the best assessment. Co-worker of mine grew up in Egypt (her dad is a USG employee, her mom is a local) and her family stopped going back for a few years due to the issues going on there after the coup. I think they *just* started going back for twice a year visits, but they no longer live there full time.
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EBB posted:Informal poll: are you all fine with the current level of shitposting/white noise in this thread, or is it disruptive? Everything's fine except when those two come around but it's been a few weeks since last time ykwim
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Handsome Ralph posted:Nah, it's fine for the most part. But if it gets any louder, then maybe clamp down, idk. sixers are fine candy for when everybody gets a little too rowdy.
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