There have been no confirmed downings of F-35’s.

While it’s fully possible that the US is lying about that, it’s equally possible that the claims from Iran are also lies, because half of military action is information and misinformation. I wouldn’t lean on foreign propaganda any more than I would domestic propaganda.

While I gnash my teeth daily that the US isn’t doing more to support Ukraine, I do not believe for a moment that Europe will allow Ukraine to fall, because if Ukraine falls to Russia, along with all its resources and production capacity, Estonia is next. Armenia is next. Georgia is next. Latvia is next and all the other former USSR territories, and then Poland and the wealth of Europe will start looking real tasty to Putin.

No NATO/EU country wants Ukraine to fall, and they will pour every resource into defending it.

They just think it would be nice if you know, the US could fucking chip in a little, being the wealthiest nation on Earth and apparently we have SOOOOO much money freed up since we decided to let poor people die and we’re not funding space missions or vaccines anymore.

I carried a CCW for years and finally gave it up because it’s a huge hassle to always have to be aware of. It’s a presence that doesn’t give me comfort, it made me always aware of its presence and that’s not how I want to experience the world. I would go back to carrying if I move to a more rural area again with less chance of immediate response of emergency services or other people.

I thought you were being hyperbolic and then scrolled down.

Holy shit, it’s no wonder sex and relationships are crashing through the floor right now. Ya’ll don’t know how to have human interactions anymore.

Nobody bats an eye when it’s worded like “My bud told me I couldn’t do this in 8 hours, said I should call a pro, I said I could do it.” You people out there have no idea what the tone is like here.

If your partner isn’t a friend who can challenge you and be your “bud” you’re not with a good partner. Is this what you guys think relationships are really like? Dancing on fucking eggshells and being given ultimatums? It’s a goddamn self report.

Ya’ll gonna blow your minds on this one:

People make shit up on the internet.

Also, even if not made up, people have this bantering shit all the time. Nobody bats an eye if it’s worded like “My friend bet me I couldn’t do this myself in 8 hours and said just call a professional, I said I could do it.”

A happy relationship is a friendship where you can challenge each other. You have no idea what the tone is.

Between this and the Subnautica news, it hasn’t been a good year for highly anticipated indi-games going mainstream.

True caffeine addicts know that different forms hit different.

While I know rationally that the chemical is the same no matter the source, and I have studied the neural chemistry and could go on for hours about how adenosine and the neural transmitters work, I can also say with certainty that the caffeine buzz you get from tea feels a lot different than from coffee, which both feel a lot different from different brands of energy drinks and different from pills or shots.

Sounds about enough for a decent down payment on reliable vehicle. Then I would still have to pay off whatever is left and make insurance payments and licencing tax, so ironically if I magically made 20k, I would end up spending more than solving anything.

Meanwhile in my country 20k USD is like, your mortgage payments and property taxes and insurance for almost half a year if you have a decent home in or near a city.

Sounds like some cheap ass motorcycles tbh

While we still can, sure.

In about another year or two, even the most detailed inspection is going to be almost impossible to differentiate so we might as well get some enjoyment now in kicking them out.

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Media has fallen off a cliff in the last few years. Nobody but some of the older, more respected institutions do anything but publish rage-bait, pandering nonsense and clickbait headlines and filler stories meant to get grabbed by algorithms in content aggregation social media sites so they get traffic. It’s doing all of us a lot of harm being fed just the shit we want to hear, it’s literally why we have people arguing about the shape of the Earth right now.

The timing is great as I learn my healthcare premiums are likely to go up by over a thousand dollars a month.

The hard reality is that if you are pursuing higher education and you’re not also part of the culture of connections and schmoozing and socializing and having your parents party with the parents of faculty members and deans and heads of this and that, your chances of getting a job with your degree are about the same as your chances of just lying on linkedin.

Speaking as someone who landed a corporate tech job from lying on linkedin, and seeing friends with degrees flipping burgers if they’re lucky.

Likewise, going to college alone does nothing to ensure you’re going to get a job that can afford a house.

Gotcha, fixed.

The biggest crime here is that people are actually looking forward to a game that will INEVITABLY be the same GTA slop we’ve been playing since the turn of the goddamn millenium.

Graphics are no longer a selling point, we can make anything look like anything now. Unique gameplay and immersive narratives and interactive mechanics are now the way games stand out. Look how popular far simpler social games are like Repo and the like. look how well a goddamn knockoff of S.T.A.L.K.E.R did (Misery) and it was the most basic survival mechanics and it was made by one person and it looks like it crawled out of a Playstation 2… but it was engaging and addicting because it was trying new ways to do old things.

All that aside, yeah our countries hate unions and hate workers and everyone in power hates you and wants you to die.

A religious state is a funny thing. There’s a pretty fuzzy line between legality and cultural taboos. I mean, the place has a president and a supreme religious leader. A religious mandate is almost the same as a law in these kinds of conditions, but like with everything, everywhere, Iran is a big place and I’m sure it varies a lot by region and neighborhood.

“Ivan, pull the lever to lower the price of vodka a leetle bit more, the peasants need to be pacified.”