Have you talked to anybody living there? The ones I talk to have no desire to talk to Russia (even the Russians in Ukraine). They hate them all with a vengeance (Particularly the ones who got woken up this morning with a hypersonic missile that the air defence didn't pick up). There's going to be l...

Apparently the terrorist Igor Girken is going back to war (rather than just sniping on the sidelines on Twitter). There's a $30,000 reward being offered (which looks like it's growing by the minute) for his death or capture... https://scontent.fhlz3-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/311808681_4803502774...

But the most important thing that's said in this episode is this: This is meant to be another forever war, just like Afghanistan. That's what USA wants, it's why they'll sabotage any peace attempts in this proxy war. They see it as, we make a killing selling weapons and gas to Europe, they spend th...

A Ukrainian friend in Kyiv told me to watch this channel.

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...

I really liked that! I'm a bit drunk so I won't post about it now but I have some thoughts. Here's the text for folks who can't access it. I just copy/pasted, it might be fucked up from endless advertisements, IDK. Ihave few memories of being four—a fact I find disconcerting now that I’m the father...

New Yorker article: "Are You the Same Person You Used to Be?" https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/10/10/are-you-the-same-person-you-used-to-be-life-is-hard-the-origins-of-you?utm_source=nl&utm_brand=tny&utm_mailing=TNY_Daily_100622&utm_campaign=aud-dev&utm_medium=email&utm_term=tny_daily_digest&...

On the other hand, Russia still has several possible responses -- mass mobilization, totally cutting off energy exports to Europe, stirring up some crazy nuclear powerplant blackmail (already in the works), becoming China's bitch for life, and mutual immolation. Considering Russia is a Fascist Stat...

I'm not sure if all these are still a thing... but at a social gathering you might be asked to "bring a plate"... This means bringing a plate with something on it. The things that go on it are often a selection of the following (I remember Honeycyclical going a bit gaga over Lamingtons). Cream out a...

I've always had real jobs that require actually doing things and not just fucking around on the internet, so I have never "worked" from home This reminds me of someone I know who told me he basically fixed the electrical circuits in airplanes for a living. I was shocked and told him he was the only...