I just awoke from a vivid dream of watching a mushroom cloud rising in the distance. I haven’t had one of those in, like, 35 years.
The Cold War really is back….
— Nils Gilman (@nils_gilman) October 11, 2022
I dreamed about that fairly often in the 1980s. Nearly everyone did. But that dream hasn’t returned. Yet, at least.
What's your gender?|| If a very overweight person of your preferred gender wanted to have casual sex with you, would you? Assuming they are attractive, clean, eager, great personality, skilled, etc., and you're single and looking
— Aella (@Aella_Girl) October 10, 2022
No. I’ve never been attracted to a very overweight person. That and tattoos is such a turnoff for me sexually.* If that in the modern (absurd) thought makes me a bigot, so be it. It’s really damn hard (read: impossible) to force yourself to be attracted to things that you just aren’t, though.
*A woman without tattoos these days seems 10x hotter to me just because they alas have become so common.
Something typically ignored in these conversations is the recyclability of EV batteries. Once there is a critical mass of them in circulation and then aging out, the need for mining is expected to significantly decrease.
— Bret Hautamaki (@bhautama) October 10, 2022
Ayup. Only have to do that mining once until saturation is reached. The metals in EV batteries are 95% recoverable/recyclable.
If you ever worry about being good at your job, remember that someone was paid actual money to write this article. https://t.co/EQX4st1npd
— Harry Braviner (@harrybraviner) October 11, 2022
This makes me laugh every time I see it.
How stressed are the hospital ICUs in your state?
Remember, there’s people screaming on Twitter and then there’s reality. Two very different things.
My sisters lied about being SAed.
Well, now we know how women act when they get rejected. Ok, they’re young, but it’s weird to pretend that only men do crazy shit when they get rejected. It’s just that women aren’t on that side of things nearly as often.
Admittedly, women do different crazy shit than men, but they still do it. I’ve seen it myself.
Russia loses a militarily critical bridge it bragged was impregnably defended, petulantly lashes out with a missile strike against a purely civilian glass bridge in Kyiv… and fails to destroy it.
If this happened in a TV show you'd say the writers were hacks.
— Dmitry Grozoubinski (@DmitryOpines) October 10, 2022
That is pretty hilarious. As funny as anything can be in a brutal war, I guess.
Russia’s unilateral viciousness is a Ukrainian advantage. It has made of Ukrainians implacable supporters of fighting on, while Russians mostly see their lives upended by their own government (eg by conscription), and are not so viscerally drawn to fight Ukraine to a bitter end. https://t.co/NabYlszpSZ
— Steve Randy Waldman (@interfluidity) October 10, 2022
Yep. Huge fuck-up on Russia’s part, even apart from the moral consideration. All this does is guarantee that Ukraine will fight on until Russia is hobbled. There’s now no chance Ukraine will ever surrender, not even if Russia pulls a Grozny.
And indeed, it’ll be a disaster for both countries. But in this case, Russia brought it on themselves no matter what idiot tankies claim.