Those who say that NATO caused Ukraine to get what they deserve sound just like those people who claim that a woman brought rape on herself because she wore a short skirt.
Do you know how incredibly vile you all sound? Terrible humans.
Month: December 2024
Obscene Prices, Declining Quality: Luxury Is in a Death Spiral.
50 years of The Oregon Trail: The hidden controversies of a video game that defined the US.
How false claims that the Madison school shooter was transgender spread online. People are wicked dumb.
Low-income Americans are struggling. It could get worse.
Packed Cubicles, Empty Corner Office: Remote Work Is Increasingly a Right of the Rich. The plutes want their slaves in their “proper” place.
Spot Cover
That’s pretty impressive. Cool to see them re-build the song. I think it’d be better if it were a little more shoegaze. That outro is fire, though; wish it were a lot longer.
NUTO
“But NATO provoked him!”
No. I told you guys years ago.
He’s the delusional leader of a revanchist death cult. https://t.co/dFQkydtvQC
— Natalia Antonova 🇺🇸🇺🇦 (@NataliaAntonova) December 19, 2024
The “It was all NATO’s fault!” nutters wish to see the Ukrainian people liquidated. That’s all. They don’t even really believe it. Because their hero, Putin, also doesn’t really believe it.
A Wash
"We used to joke, 'A hundred men eat breakfast, seven men eat dinner.' That's pretty much how it was." – a Russian assaultman, who signed a contract with the Russian defense ministry, shared his experience.
He spent five days on the contact line, although, as he said, soldiers… pic.twitter.com/OTv6YuRrGe
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) December 18, 2024
Insanity. There are dozens of thousands of Russians dying a month, and for what? So they can rape women and steal washing machines? The ones who survive, that is.
Biscuits
They have won until hundreds of thousands of kids start dying of easily-preventable diseases again. Then some tunes will change. But at a great human cost. That’s the way people seem to roll, though — can’t learn lessons from anyone else and only take instruction the hard way.
Disdain
Wild. A Russian BTR-D runs over two Russian infantrymen while unloading into position. None of the rest of the group even thought about trying to help them in any way. https://t.co/uB6zpxqQ16 pic.twitter.com/0QbsPLxF95
— Special Kherson Cat 🐈🇺🇦 (@bayraktar_1love) December 19, 2024
To be somewhat fair, they were likely under fire. That said, the Russians do this sort of shit all the time. They do not care about the other soldiers’ lives they serve with in a way that’s hard for me to understand, having served as a paratrooper for five years. We just did not, would never have, treated each other that way.
There is something very diseased in that culture.
Pica
Not sure why kind of AI cracksmoking madness Amazon has going, but these two items are not similar at all:
When I think, I’m gonna eat some cashews I don’t start munching on toilet paper when the container is empty.
Appealing Pealing
I listened to all or part of 409 new (to me) songs this morning.
Of those, I liked 20.
Art
It takes a lot of artifice to make something that looks real.
Kitten – I Did It!
Fun song. And if you’re wondering why the bass sounds so awesome in this one, just look for a tall blonde with a blue Fender jazz bass and you will be enlightened.
Deer Fang – Gone
Wanted to highlight a very small artist with a good song. Wistful shoegaze is one of my favorite genres, and it’s done well here. They can’t help it that they are Canadian.
Starbenders – Time Stops
That’s one of the coolest music videos I’ve seen in a long time.
Treated
It seems like the same people who think we should allow homeless ranting vagrants some assault, as a treat, are also the ones who believe we should permit Russia and Putin some genocide on the Ukrainians for “peace.”
What the hell is going on there?
Biden makes a last big push to keep Trump from killing the electric car. Very good.
Advanced Civilizations Could be Indistinguishable from Nature.
The Crumbling Foundation of America’s Military.
“We will just line the bodies up and let their relatives pick them out,” he said. From 1940.
G.M. Led in China for Years. Here’s How It Ended Up 16th in Sales.
Humans may not have survived without Neanderthals.
Luigi Mangione Prosecutors Have a Jury Problem: ‘So Much Sympathy.’