wow https://t.co/naiACOUTel

— Faine Greenwood (@faineg) March 29, 2022

LOL. But RUSSIA IS DOING GREAT. They got this.

So much this. Obscure problem related to the dock that you cannot for the life of you figure out? Firmware update will probably fix it and it takes like 2 minutes

— Andreas (@andyhoan) March 29, 2022

Yep. I’ve fixed issue people have been having for years by updating the firmware on their laptop docks, issues people have gone to their helpdesks repeatedly for and no one could solve. Even most IT people don’t know you can and should update docking station firmware.

Quote from one of the people that I did this for a few years ago: “You’ve solved a problem that people, including me, have spent hundreds of hours on. In 10 minutes.”

I am indeed that good.

It was heartbreaking to visit Portland, Ore., on my last and recent trip.

I've never witnessed street persons in living conditions like this.

All across Portland this is a common sight now.

How did America get to this point?

My old neighborhood pic.twitter.com/omR1FY58VT

— Scott Ford (@GreatScottFord) March 27, 2022

I don’t think it’s quite sunk in yet, but a lot of American cities are going downhill fast. And it’s going to get worse.

(And no, I don’t mean by the presence of homeless people. I mean that it’s obvious that the pandemic and related closures/restrictions made a lot of cities just decide they could give up on providing vital public services, so they stopped doing so. And this shows no signs of reversing.)

I’m surprised I haven’t caught Covid, honestly. My precautions of late have been avoiding — mostly — people spitting directly into my mouth. Other than that it’s been whatevs.

Of course it is possible that I did have Covid but it was asymptomatic altogether. That’s why I got vaccinated.

And into the late 1970s. I remember 'em. https://t.co/IsgerFPEgQ

— Charlie Stross (@cstross) March 29, 2022

These were available in the US until at least the late 1980s. My dad used to buy them for me sometimes. There was also candy chewing tobacco. Had that occasionally, too.

A contrarian view from @iwelsh : The Ukraine war may be going pretty well for Russia. Russia went in with a 1:3 troop disadvantage, suggesting they never meant to occupy and hold the country. https://t.co/Wdo9BlmMxC

— this IS my inside voice (@MitchWagner) March 28, 2022

This is absolute bullshit. If there were a way to be any more wrong, I’m not sure what it could be. Ian Welsh is a total fucking idiot who just knows not the first thing about this. What Russia intended to do was to move in quickly, decapitate the government, take Kyiv in a couple of weeks at most and then most of the larger cities. If they had done that, they would’ve controlled Ukraine.

They failed. It was an ambitious plan they could not execute and that’s just the way it is in war sometimes. Ukraine’s supposed 600K troops is irrelevant and not even really correct (except on paper).

I wonder how it feels, mindlessly repeating Russian propaganda? And not even being paid for it. If I’m gonna be spouting Russian talking points, some $$ (not fucking rubles) better be appearing in my bank account.