If you have dual citizenship why not renounce your US citizenship and stop paying US taxes? If you don’t live in the US and you can’t get a passport, there’s not much advantage to having citizenship.

Nice! This would also be a great candidate post for c/dull_mens_club! I’ve never thought of building a shed before!

They were losing on the ground for most of the war. They lost a lot of territory and it’ll take a lot of work to win it back. Their drones can help them with that, but they also need more soldiers. They’ve lost a lot of soldiers, and almost nobody talks about that.

A sticker with a red circle on the bottom? That’s strange, like the jars were being targeted for poisoning by some group or something. Really scary!

Accidentally? I thought he had a large batch of spoiled milk powder and was looking for a way to use it up.

This is a UI problem, not a you or I problem. Browser makers never figured out how to do bookmarks properly, so tabs became a bad reinvention of bookmarks.

Look at how some students work with their textbooks: they fill the book with tons of little sticky bookmarks, colour coded and everything. You can write on them too!

So why are these better than tabs or bookmarks on web browsers? Because they’re organized per-book! Put one book aside and grab another and it becomes a whole new space to put your stickies! Browser tabs do let you do that with multiple windows or tab groups, but it’s too clunky and not spatial/tactile the way books are, so people don’t remember what’s in those other tabs.

Accident and deliberate aren’t the only two options. I think the most likely cause is gross negligence on the part of intelligence (who may have been relying on outdated information).

Gross negligence carries culpability. It’s still a war crime because the responsibility for due diligence is on the attackers.

To show that it was deliberate is another matter entirely. There’d have to be evidence that they knew it was a school full of children and that they ordered the attack anyway. Why would they do that?

Yes I know exactly what you mean. The mechanics have a very visceral feel to them, like a living machine. Solid state machines feel much more smooth, refined, and high tech, albeit somewhat sterile.

I think this difference is also why people get nostalgia for classic cars over EVs.

Oooh! Really nice! I want to get an EM pinball machine at some point. Sounds like a really fun project!

Hope Tubby calms down enough that you can befriend her!

Come on Hungarians! You know your future is with Europe, not with Russia.

Lil old manbaby!

I don’t think it favours their military at all. I think the war is grinding the Russian military and economy into dust. The prolonging of the facade is only done because Putin is backed into a corner. If peace is actually declared he has to face the music at home, something he is not prepared to do.

Keeping the war going is the only thing Putin knows will keep him alive. He’s not winning though, as much as he’s trying.

It’s hard to imagine how it could develop in such a ragtag, depoliticized, nihilistic society. Not to mention a lot of those soldiers are just mercenaries.

I think most of them don’t care at all about honour and are just hoping for a payday and to keep their head down until they can go home. Seems like such a dim hope!

The blushing cheeks on the t-shirt skull make my day!

We’re missing a key component of the discussion: dose. Therapeutic doses and recreational doses are vastly different things. A drug that’s addictive at recreational doses isn’t necessarily an issue at therapeutic doses.

Therapeutic Adderall doses typically start at 5mg whereas recreational users may be using 30-60mg or more. That’s an order of magnitude difference! Now, a long term patient taking prescription Adderall may eventually have their dose up to 40mg but they will have developed significant tolerance to the drug so that it doesn’t affect them nearly as strongly as a recreational user would experience popping 40mg out of the blue at some club.

I think it’s a pretty safe bet that Putin has tried to keep as many of his eggs in different baskets as possible. Having Epstein manage a bit of his money would be pretty low risk if he’s got most of it in other ventures.

For all the many public failures Putin has had over the past few years, he’s proved himself frustratingly resilient. He’s like some kind of nuclear powered cockroach.

Because the ball rolls smoothly in any direction. The wheels do not roll at all parallel to their axles, they just slide which is not as smooth.

I think this is where we’re really starting to see modern society break down. We’ve gotten to the point where we all live and coexist in a space but there’s nothing binding us together, as community, other than the law. Turns out that if we assume there will always be people who try twist and exploit the law to their own advantage then the law itself no longer works as a tool for building a free and just society.

In the past, we had other systems such as community norms and traditions which tended to be much more adept at dealing with rule-benders. Where did we go wrong?

They’ve also been importing soldiers from other countries, letting mercenaries fight for them. Those will eventually run out too but it’ll take a lot longer. There are a lot of men in global south countries who will take what they think is easy money. They have no idea at all what they’re getting into.