Yes. In the new world of conquest, any country that is menaced by a great-power neighbor and doesn't have nuclear weapons is just signing their own death warrant. https://t.co/6pwgGeqM52
— Noah Smith ๐ (@Noahpinion) February 19, 2025
Shit, I need some nukes too. Right to bear arms, yeah? ๐
The Economist: "In April 2022, following Russiaโs retreat from the north of Ukraine, it controlled 19.6% of Ukrainian territory; its casualties (dead and wounded) were perhaps 20,000. Today Russia occupies 19.2% and its casualties are 800,000, reckon British sources." pic.twitter.com/h3hx04S7i4
— Richard Hanania (@RichardHanania) February 20, 2025
Ian Welsh: OMG WINNING SO HARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111111
Everyone who is not a goddamn confirmed idiot: Wow, that’s a colossal waste of money and people to achieve nearly nothing.
America is being sold out by its leaders.
Indeed. The probability of another Great Recession is 90%. And I’d put the chance of a depression (1930s equivalent, not 1873 variant) at around 30% now. And that is directly due to Trump/Musk and the destruction they will wreak upon this nation.
All of you Trump voters did FA and now are about to FO. And yes, Harris would’ve been better. Still bad but better.
I love this; another very small artist I found recently.
One film where I disagreed with Roger Ebert pretty strongly is the bathtub drowning scene in Constantine. He disliked it (and the film) for the same reasons that I love it: the scene is horrible and beautiful. It’s nasty, and not in the sense of any gore or even anything sexual. It’s horrifying what Constantine does to Angela — both his direct actions of bringing her to the edge of death by drowning and what you find out she’s witnessing immediately after. Weisz’s acting when Angela realizes Constantine does not intend to let her up is perfect.
It’s all just so wrong. And that’s what makes it a great scene.
Ebert was not a fan of horror. And it shows in his misassessment of the scene and film.
I’ve apparently gaslit myself about the monty hall problem since learning about it 10 years ago!
What the heck? What would even be the point of the problem if the host ever opens the door with the prize? Goddamn, people are stupid.
This is such an easy probability problem too. It’s dead simple so it’s always mystified me why it confuses anyone.
Our Government Is Experiencing a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly. And it will be very bad indeed.
Federal research cuts would rock Michigan economy, halt clinical trials, those affected say. Great Recession II inbound.
How to Make Trump Unpopular Again.
We Should All Be Paying Attention To What’s Happening to the National Archives. More looting and destruction.
Broken Legs and Ankles Heal Better If You Walk on Them within Weeks.
AI Killed The Tech Interview. Now What?
How Elon Musk and His DOGE Goons Are Following the Private Equity Playbook.
Think the military lowered its standards for women? Think again.
The Incompetence of DOGE Is a Feature, Not a Bug.
A dozen wolves collared in California as officials seek to track the growing population.
Democrats belatedly wake up to start battling Trump and Musk.
Marie-Thรฉrรจse Kaiser was charged and fined โฌ6,000 for posting a FACT about immigrant statistics and crime rates
Germany has no free speech pic.twitter.com/rWJVvBVQCV
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) February 17, 2025
An inconvenient fact. If you let a lot of North Africans and/or Islamic men into your country, you’re gonna have problems. Mainly a whole lot of women getting raped. This fact is suppressed pretty heavily across all of the EU. But the women being forced out of their own cities know it, as an online friend of mine was. And so do the women who have even worse things happen to them.
company wants me to fly out on my dime for a job interview to prove dedication.
And the answer to that is hell to the fuck no.
Though I might fly there to laugh in their faces and piss in their air conditioning vents. That sounds like way more fun.
New Chrome update disables uBlock.
I hate to admit it, but Chrome is finding ways to be even worse and stupider than Mozilla with Firefox.
And that’s kind of amazing. A browser without uBlock is unusable.
Donโt sell out Ukraine like they did Czechoslovakia in 1938.
It didnโt work out in 1938. It wonโt work now.
Appeasing genocide loving dictators never works.
— Margo Gontar (@margogontar.bsky.social) February 14, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Margo is right. Selling out Ukraine now means we’ll be fighting Russia in Germany in ~2030. That’s almost a guarantee. Poland and the Baltics will be done for as well.
Zelensky’s “I need ammunition. Not a ride” after the second Russian invasion is one of the most badass things any living human has said.
I’m pretty brave but I’m gonna be honest: I probably would’ve been on the first plane to Warsaw or London. The odds were not in Ukraine’s favor.
Elon Musk buying Twitter and bending it to favor Trump isn’t rigging the election, you fuckin’ numpties.
That’s called “strategy” and the Democrats should try it sometime. Creating a favorable information environment for themselves is something Dems are uniquely terrible at, so I can understand why when another person or entity does it they see it as cheating.
But it’s how you win. So of course they won’t do that.
Now that tัump has formally aligned America as subservient to his mater putin there is only one option left for Ukraine.
— denbelblack.bsky.social (@denbelblack.bsky.social) February 18, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Ukraine probably should’ve restarted their nuclear weapons program in 2014, after the first Russian invasion.
Boomers and near-Boomers are very, very worried that the younger generations might do anything at all that endangers their house prices or might cause them to pay slightly more taxes for the benefit of anyone else.
This keeps them up nights and makes them extremely defensive when anyone even barely implies that times are hard, or that younger generations have it tougher in any way than they did. Boomers want to believe that jobs are plentiful, that you can just walk into a place in the morning, shake someone’s hand and have a good, high-paying job by that afternoon.
That world, though, is long vanished — and in their hearts they know that they hoarded all the benefits and boons of a a better world for themselves while frantically pulling up the ladder behind them.
And that makes them deeply despise those scrabbling below them for the scraps they deign to toss down.