Talcosis

No, we still have that. It’s just that the circus is a carefully formulated mix of emotional content being pushed to your pocket tracker and the bread is high fructose corn syrup.

Oh, don’t worry, fully autonomous AI terminators have already gotten confirmed kills in real life!

No, I am not insinuating that you are advising the genocide of Russia. I am insinuating that the original video is involved in blaming all Russians for the crimes of the state, and you’re adding to that by saying Russia is the worst of the worst.

That being said, Russia was not involved in the korean/vietnamese conflicts after the Korean/Vietnam War, nor was Russia involved in most of the middle east conflicts outside of Iran and Afghanistan. Not to mention any of the insurgencies or proxy wars in South America. Unless you mean licensing the AK, in which case…well. Yeah, sure. The Soviet Union will be the cause of pretty much all conflicts going forward indefinitely.

So, once again. Extraordinary claims, extraordinary evidence.

edit: In English, there’s a concept called “scare quotes”, where you use quotation marks to express a certain “so-called” expression. Exampled twice.

Yeah, I see blaming Russia the political entity for invading Ukraine.

Blaming Russia (the political entity) for causing every conflict since WWII is certainly a choice and will require some extraordinary evidence.

Once you start blaming Russians the ethnic group you’ve lost me entirely, because youre starting to sound very, uh, “final solution”-y.

Exactly, that’s why these types of articles make me go “hmm…”

Don’t get me wrong, Russian leadership is completely responsible for starting a war of aggression, and Russian citizens share some responsibility for their leadership, but Russians as a whole are not “uniquely brutal and violent”, that’s just old Asiatic Horde racism. Notably, Ukrainians used to be part of the Asiatic Horde until the Russian invasion gave them honorary white European status.

This is a basic authoritarian mindset that you will find in about 30% of any given population. It’s not uniquely Russian.

This is an interesting corollary to the “anything you say can only be used against you in court” adage.

And that someone will be the US government and the “fucking with this idiot” will consist of arresting anyone they don’t like.

Simple, it’s against Eurovision rules for broadcasters and governments to advertise their acts or tell people to vote for their acts.

Hasbara, the Israeli state propaganda outlet, routinely spends around a mil a year aggressively advertising the Israeli contestant and telling people to vote for them. Interestingly, these campaigns are done in multiple languages.

I actually wonder if it’s the opposite, to some extent? Giving you a prescription that costs 300$ for three cents of pill is a great way to make money, and mental health, being on a spectrum, can be diagnosed easily.

There’s probably some class difference, too. I’d expect extreme over-diagnosis (especially for the cool diagnoses that get you Xanax) among the wealthy with under-diagnosis among the poor.

The citizens of other countries have their own lives to deal with, which are being made more complicated by the simple fact that screaming against it this entire time just was not enough.

They have no obligation to stand in solidarity with citizens of the country making their lives harder. This is not collective punishment, this is the predictable outcome of a series of events.

It’s like getting hit by an uninsured drunk driver: It may not be our fault, but it will be our responsibility to fix.

Nah, people being forced into homelessness and medical debt is too real. Nobody wants to think about that shit, and when it happens to them, they aren’t really in a position to deal with it.

Paper straws are perfect. They’re the most minor of inconveniences, so people are willing to engage and make jokes about it.

I don’t think it’s a significant problem, I think it’s a significant illustration of the little folk being expected to deal with the inconveniences caused by the wealthy.

Your rights could be slowly getting eroded away right now. And if there are any billionaires that exist in your country at all, I guarantee they are. It’s easy to talk shit, but the impactful thing is to stand in solidarity and do what you can from your side of the pond.

They’re doing about as much as what Americans are doing to help themselves.

The only solidarity we deserve after re-electing the orange fuck is a solid kick up the ass. This is on Americans to fix, and if we can’t fix it, the world doesn’t owe us shit.

Nah. Not really. Time zones don’t follow state boundaries because they generally follow natural population boundaries.

You’re not wrong (generally speaking, specifically speaking I use the NYT rent vs. ownership calculator to see if it’s worth buying or investing in the sp500)

But the problem here is entirely the lack of flexibility. Once an employer knows you are less flexible than the guy in the next cube, you’re picking up the slack of the guy that can up and move his ass to the next town over in a week.

All this cybertech looks cool as hell until your eyeball cooling drivers crash and your optic processing unit hits 100C like my GPU.

Only if they keep making people

I don’t know if you intended “get put out with them” as a euphemism for “killed” but it fits very nicely.