Brazil’s Bolsonaro loses bid for second term in fiercely contested presidential vote As I post this, Bolsonaro has yet to concede. He was making Trump like rumblings about fraud pre-election, so lets see how far he takes it. The world seems to have a gone a bit crazy lately, so nothing seems too ou...

I agree that corporate greed is the least of the inflationary causes. Corporations do love to tack on a few extra percent for themselves since prices are going up anyways, but that's not a significant factor. All the covid related largess, corresponding lack of productivity, and resulting supply cha...

Re: Clare Daly. Read this on wiki about her: In late January 2022, Daly described the Russian troop build up on the Ukrainian border as being "clearly defensive" and believed there is "no evidence that Russia has any desire to invade Ukraine, it would be of no benefit to them". This statement alone ...

Anyway, I think it's very naive to see Ukraine as clearly in the right. It's obvious to me that this is another proxy war between West and East. For years there has been escalations on both sides, going so far back that it never really stopped since the cold war. I know it makes many people happy t...

That study just goes to show nobody should get any of their news off of twitter. Opinions on their friends lunch or a concert, fine. Ignore the rest. Or just take a pass on twitter in general. Russia could probably swing the bot count in their favor but I suspect they have chased most of their IT ta...

The only reason Ukraine is not a peaceful Russian puppet state right now is because of Western interference. Well, that and because Ukrainians didn't want to be puppets. Sure, they would have been quickly overrun without Western support and living in peaceful subjugation with Russian kleptocrats lo...

I got one booster in December of last year. I'll get a 2nd next month. I would have gotten one earlier but I kept hearing that the next booster to come out would work against more variants. You were right. The Pfizer bivalent is targeted to BA.4/BA.5 so it's better than whatever was around six mont...

Good lord. I suspected that was a man before I even clicked on the link. Transgender wannabes aren't doing themselves any favors with these sorts of shenanigans. If they want to be perceived as normal, they should try to behave somewhere vaguely near the middle of the bell curve of normalcy. But any...

Interesting. If those testers could get over their obsession with oversized boobs they could generate some attractive looking women.

Anyhow, where's John Clay when you need him?

Per Dot's comment on losing Chinese support, this is why I don't buy into any of the nuclear weapons bluffs. It seems clear to me China has to greenlight all of Russia's actions before they occur. Hence delaying the invasion until after the olympics, and Russian bloggers were also commenting on how ...