This is so unrealistic as to be bordering on Ukrainian propaganda. Neither side is having it easy, but Ukraine is paying in blood, sweat and tears to get the invaders out. No way they can force the Russians into chaotic retreat and especially not by January.

Good, arrogant and slimy and powerful. He had a lot of support, but I’m glad it wasn’t enough. I’m still shocked how long he was able to drag this all out.

But you very confidently trash other poster’s predictions, so you should have some sort of basis on which to reject those predoctions.

What temperature rise do you think we’ll be seeing by 2050?

There is a profit motive to polish turds and therefore someone will be bending/breaking rules in this area. It’s surely just a question of how much and how often.

I think at this point the defensiveness has eclipsed the original infraction. I think 4 years in prison is too much for kissing someone without their permission, but at this point throw the fucking book at this arsehole. If I grabbed and kissed a coworker, the bare minimum is I would be fired. I definitely wouldn’t be allowed to defend my sleaze in front of a bunch of applauding weirdos. This has been such a strange affair. I think the kiss is a relatively minor offence, but he’s shown that he thinks he has the right to grab and kiss his coworkers without any retribution, and he’s sort of being proven right so far, which is incredibly frustrating.

Are the NATO soldiers that definitely kicked off the war by invading Russia in the room with us now?

Oh commenting and crossing my fingers! Thanks!

Wow, that was a very distilled insight. I’m grateful in hindsight that I didn’t have the option of optimisong my learning away, because my younger self would have, and I’m better for having struggled through under my own steam. Your insight was interesting, thanks

People hate recognising this, but i also fear that it is true. There’s an interesting book called “The Great Leveler: Violence and the history of inequality…” (it’s a long title) by Walter Scheidel that unpacks thie phenomenon and doesn’t offer much hope for the future. People are beaten down and tired and surveilled now to confront the systemic violence enacted against them, in my opinion.

No, they get more twisted and bizarre all the time. Fucking rhodesia, as if that was anything to be proud of, that country got roundly fucked by colonials. what a malevolent man.

Huh?

Edit to clarify: how is it relevant, why do you ask? (Not american, maybe i’m missing some allusion).

Never is an impossible target. I think it just has to be better than humans, who have tonnes of accidents .

Eyyyyyyy, I see what you did there