Talcosis

I spent my teens and 20s achieving financial security and now I have a house and a career and zero women in my life.

Exactly. Even in the worst case, it’s better to ship a bottle of wine from California to Canada, than try to use greenhouses to make a Canadian winery a reality.

Nah, humanity is really good at shipping. Locally sourced wine is only environmentally friendlier than shipping if you happen to live in a vintner.

To be fair all of that is still true while the refinery is running. There’s a reason that Refinery Row and the Cancer Belt overlap almost perfectly in texas.

Fired up Desynched again for some reason. It’s a factory game, but instead of conveyor belts you have little robots that you can program to do stuff, from something as simple as pickup->dropoff to entire decisions trees and logic that fights enemies and builds stuff.

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.

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.

Why would Europe be involved? Did Putin invade someone else?