Ok. Part 1 is done. Part 2 & 3 (order doesn’t matter) is that Trump ends sanctions and then stages a massive false flag attack that they then blame on Ukrainian Extremists upset over the ending of support to enact a full police state.

Part 4: ???

Part 5: profit

So, funny story. I like to joke that I’m prescient.

In 3rd Grade, about the year 2000, I heard a news story about Vladimir Putin. This was long before I understood fuck and all about Jack and shit. I told my mom “that guy is pure evil.” I remembered her telling me “Gotta give Russia a chance.” I’m fairly certain she meant a “chance to remove him” now, but at the time I was like “ok, but he’s clearly evil.”

25 years later I remember that as my second premonition. I’m sure I heard something from someone about how he was behind the apartment bombing false flag and that’s what connected it.

The first premonition was when I grabbed a pillow in the car and squeezed it about 20 seconds before my dad hit an ice patch in our car and spun out into a bridge wall. Again, I’m sure I just got frightened by the cold weather and being on the road for about an hour.

Unfortunately, none of it has been terribly useful. Although one time I had a dream where they had rib sandwiches as school, and if I went with the burger I would be disappointed because my friends were all talking about this crazy good sandwich they served at school. So I got the rib sandwich and it was amazing and they were right.

There we go. Putin is upset that after his invasion of Ukraine and occupation of Crimea in 2014 he faced consequences.

Then, somehow, didn’t expect his second invasion to trigger more sanctions.

And that’s a problem, how, exactly?

It means things change, because that’s what humans do. We adapt. There are still 750k children born in Japan in 2024, vs 1.6m that died.

To me, it sounds like the obvious solution is to make life better for the young. That doesn’t have to come at the cost of the old, but that’s what the wealthiest will choose.

Sure, but that still sounds like a self-correcting problem.

I still don’t understand how a falling population leads to a society crumbling.

The only thing a reduction in population does is make domestic labor more expensive. If that increase in expense outpaces the product of your society, that’s not on the population, that’s on the sustainability of the society.

And that’s only the capitalist way of looking at it.

Putin is aiming to have sanctions put in place since 2014 lifted. He wants to be a global superpower again.

It’s not really “nah” for me it’s like “lol make me”

Wartime breeds innovation!

Dude this was me. It’s been over two years because my ex can’t seem to make decisions.

I moved out last April. If you can figure something out, which I really hope you can, it’s so much better.

It’s gotta be old. 10 years ago I had to get CPR certified and it was chest compressions only.

And you’re right - the actual act of respirations doesn’t do any good. The lungs operate on the diaphragm pulling a vacuum. The diaphragm is a muscle. Muscle requires oxygen and exchanges carbon dioxide. Oxygen can only get to muscle if blood is flowing. Further, oxygen and carbon monoxide in the lungs can only be exchanged if there is blood flow. The last breath the person took only consumed 24% of the breath’s oxygen. I’m sure it’s more complicated than this, but that sounds like if they aren’t breathing, you can get 3 more breaths worth of oxygen cycled.

And I agree, if the airway is clear, the compressions are definitely cycling the patient’s breath a very small amount. The lungs really don’t have any where to go, so each “down” is going to push a tiny amount, and each “up” is going to vacuum in a small amount.

I thought that CPR would have a significantly lower chance of survival in general, that 40% is encouraging to read.

Because unlike those dinosaurs, it fucking hurts

Not that I know or anything

“work camps for autism and ADHD.”

Just shoot me and get it over with. Idk how it goes for ASD folk, but if there’s one thing I develop off my ADHD meds ? Problems with authority.

Take your shovel and shove it up your ass you brain dead Nazi death camp guard.

It’s so cold right now the plane said “fuck this, you guys try keeping me warm now.”

Or what?

Nuke Europe? That threat only works if you follow up on it once in a while.

The price is daunting at first, but once you see people’s army’s and start seeing your own minis improve, it becomes a real hobby and you make it work.

I’ve probably spent way more money on paint, brushes, and practice minis before I started on my armies.

It’s worth it IMO.

I do too. I’ve never met them, but come on. Playing tanks with grown ups. What’s not to love.

Paint your army, roll a bucket of dice, shout funny things. Play combat patrol, or just do a good ol beer hammer at a local brewery.

Look, idk about you, but if you haven’t played soldiers and tanks with a bunch of grown ass men, get yourself to a WH40k group and learn what cool is.

Ah ok, I see the flaw in my thinking.

Things that are always in demand don’t drive a price solely based on supply, and since people don’t act in their own best interest the actual demand of something can’t be a useful way to determine the value of a thing.

So that sort of says to me that with a truly free market economy, it would be just as impossible to model future prices because of the inherent unpredictability of humans.

And I suspect you might even suggest the only real aspect of economics boils down to supply vs demand regardless of what the thing in supply or demand is?