The guy was nervous before coming on stage, took 100 Amp hours of liquid courage and fell like a man!

If I remember correctly, during the planning of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the Japanese foreign minister Matsuoka argued that a country that doesn't care to help Britain when it is bombed by the Nazis will not care about losing a few ships in Pear Harbor.

Seems relevant today.

@dkaleniuk.bsky.social
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On March 25, 1949, the Soviet Union committed one of its many crimes against humanity deporting 90,000 Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians to forced settlement in Siberia.
- 70% of them were women and children
- 2850 were solitary elderly
- 185 were unaccompanied minors
- 146 were disabled

Life feels like a twisted fairy tale now, where absolute evil is set to triumph. I miss the old days when the idea of the world being ruled by an utterly selfish and greedy elite, who would never allow the establishment to be challenged, was a plausible conspiracy theory. I miss my small worries.

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Having the right political views doesn’t make you a good person. This is a recent and fleeting belief - the world will be a better place when it fades.

Straume ieguvusi Globusu! Cik tālu esam gājuši kopš 1988 gada.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RavQ...

A conspiracy theory but a plausible one.

It was predictable...

They want to dismiss Nabiullina. Deputies of A Just Russia have already introduced a bill on the early removal of the head of the Central Bank from office. The document also provides for monitoring of the Central Bank's indicators, including GDP growth.

Here's Russian state media admitting that Assad's job was to make sure no pipelines went through Syria into Turkey so that all that cheaper Saudi and Qatari LNG never hurt Russia's gas monopoly, the one Putin lost anyway by invading Ukraine.

The difference between the Russian evacuation of Syria and the U.S evacuation of Afghanistan?

There are no crowds of thousands of Syrians trying to get to Russia.

Chomsky also excused and defended the Assad regime while Syrian leftists pleaded with him to stop: newlinesmag.com/review/choms...

Since 2012, Putin's puppet Assad was there to make sure 3 pipelines never got finished, projects that would have brought cheap Saudi and Qatari gas into the European market.

All the brutality Russians inflicted on the people of Syria was to ensure Russian EU gas monopoly

The idea that Putin’s perspective needs more empathy implies that’s it is based on positive values, like love of country & justice. If Putin is killing Ukrainians, then it’s just “love of country gone wrong”. In fact, what’s driving Putin are largely negative values, like power and destructiveness.

The Brexit Curse

British food exports to EU ‘have fallen £3bn a year since Brexit’.

Border checks, lower standards on pesticides, veterinary drugs, animal welfare make UK exports harder.

Brexit costing UK economy about £100bn a year.

Rejoin EU.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

This is a true 'once-in-a-lifetime shot.
A meteor and Milky Way galaxy in the same frame

As a fan of minimalism, I say bravo!