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The problem is cars themselves. Bad technology overall, imo

Humans don’t… Sheesh. Humans crash cars, asshole! Use the bloody lidar!

Exactly. It’s not an “urgent matter for the chain of command”, it’s a settled matter of policy predicated on the unlawful murder of millions.

It’s outrageous how much better they are homemade with decent peanut butter and real chocolate. You don’t even have to temper the chocolate correctly, just form them in cupcake papers or scraps of baking parchment, pop em in the fridge, and devour.

I like to use chunky peanut butter, and add flake salt.

When you figure out how easy it is to make buckeyes, you never feel smart buying Reese’s again.

Don’t worry, they’re working on a sequel 🤮

No no, you see other people did bad things, so the scientists’ attempts to make the world a better place are bad. That’s just how ethical philosophy works, I don’t make the rules

Well now I feel like an asshole 🤣

I could convince myself that the conventional wisdom has shifted in recent years. Ukraine’s drone warfare expertise and domestic military production is now strategically critical to all its allies, who know that they won’t be able to buy from China in the increasingly plausible event of them going to war.

Now it’s not just the food production, which is also going to be critical due to a likely food price crisis coming down the pipe due to fertilizer not getting through Hormuz. The world is rearming and economically destabilising at the same time, and Ukraine is a source of world beating drones and highly productive soil. The US needs Ukraine more than it admits, as does the EU, who wants to bring them closer as soon as it can. It’s far from a one-sided relationship.

Further, will Russia actually beat Ukraine? If they wanted to, they would have been wise to do so by now. We’ve seen them turn their entire economy into a wartime one (maybe irreversibly given the brain drain and demographic collapse they’ve created in recent decades) and mobilise an international human trafficking ring to dragoon young men from poorer countries into front line combat. Yet all Russia will use them for is meat wave tactics. They don’t actually want to win, they want to keep the war going for as long as possible because their entire economy depends on it.

That’s my read on the situation, anyhow. It’s gone beyond simply “who can win”. Ukraine has already faced ethnic cleansing and they can’t afford to lose. Neither can its allies afford to lose Ukraine as a strategic ally and trading partner. And worst of all, Russia can’t afford peace. If Ukraine fell, they’d just attack the Baltics or someplace else. Bleak beyond belief.

Remind me, isn’t Zelensky constitutionally not allowed to accept such a deal?

The people pushing those laws super don’t care 😒

I thought to wash my hands of the whole bad business, but the view from afar is no better. Every day new grief and madness, and I cannot look away.

Best I could do was emigrate and deprive the regime of our taxes. My family and my wife’s were Americans for less than two generations anyway, to fuckery with the empire.

More chagrined than anything else. Having dual citizenship with US and UK is like having one foot in the grave and another foot in the toilet sometimes.

Why would any such fines be capped, unless the entire point is to effectively legalise crime for the ultra rich?

Christ

Yeah corpos don’t respect consumers or norms of human dignity, they’ll just do what they want more quietly if you complain. The only real solution is to break up monopolies (ideally for the last several decades).

Just get one of those chainsaws that spins on the ground in Resident Evil

He really does have a rare gift for peevishness.

I was agreeing with them. I had hoped the substance of my comment would make that clear. Damn.