I think Mongolian or ‘Mongoloid’ is also an old-timey racist term for East Asian.

will he have get any playing time?

can someone explain this to me?

In the middle ages, they figured out that it was better getting occasional Syphillis von Kissing Cousins as king than it was to have all the king’s sons, brothers, cousins, former roommates, etc. fighting it out each time a king died.

What innovations? digging a rough, narrow tunnel with no safety features?

There are a lot of reasons we aren’t, and this has solved precisely none of them

By making it narrow, rough, and with no safety features.

Not to mention making sure it doesn’t fuck up the foundations of big buildings or run into any water mains or shit like that.

Or, you know, the actual builders of actual subway tunnels all across the world

Don’t forget the car elevator to get in and out. Doesn’t sound like that thing will have high capacity.

Proof of concept for a tunnel that cars can drive through? I’m not sure if you, but these things have existed for more than a century.

Why is he ‘building’ a ‘test’ ‘tunnel’? ‘Tunnels’ are not exactly a ‘new’ ‘technology’.

Isn’t it worse when expectations are higher?

Not every German conscript was a Nazi, but the Wehrmacht was responsible for plenty of horrific war-crimes, including massacres of civilians, wholesale murder of Soviet PoWs (5 million Russian soldiers were captured in Operation Barbarossa. 2 million survived the war), and some horrific scorched earth tactics, not to…

True, but my usual rebuke to the accusation of French being cowards is the fact more French died in WWI than Americans in every war America’s ever fought, combined.

That’s a nice rebuke, but I’m pretty sure that, historically, the French Resistance wasn’t near as a big a pain in the ass for the Nazis as the Czech, Yugoslavian, or Belarussian insurgencies were.

Why was 10 and 2 ever a thing? just about every other configuration is more comfortable

Maybe he has a point. There’s only room for one guy like that on a team.

So the position on this site is that activist groups with a laudable cause might in fact find their case weakened if the tactics they use to push said cause is too annoying or disruptive?

One issue is that you’re taking everything his people are saying at face value: