Agreed. Russia is losing now. Not badly, but it is getting worse and Ukraine is undertaking more and more successful deep strikes on valuable Russian infrastructure far behind the front lines.
This will only go on so long until Putin is forced to…something. Uncertain what but probably won’t be great.
I’ve long known this is true. The actual literacy rate is ~25%.
By the way, The Castellows have one of my favorite lines of any song in “Freeway.”
And it is: “Don’t know what you’re feelin’ til you hear it in a song.” Those girls understand art and its use. Yeah, it’s just a throwaway lyric in a pop country piece, but it hints at why so much leftist art fails and apolitical but now right-coded art like The Castellows’ succeeds: what matters (to also steal from Bo Diddly) is how it makes you feel.
Nearly all good art, by the way, is apolitical even if the person creating it is extremely politicized. And by this I don’t mean that art cannot or should not contain political content. Not at all. I mean that the work must treat whatever side it is portraying as fully human, fully realized, with actual motivations and not just as some cackling evil caricature.
Good artists can’t help but do that, even if in their everyday lives they are raving lunatics.
I said more than I intended, but so does that line in The Castellows’ little song. Which is exactly what good art does.
That’s a good version of one of my very favorite country songs.
I love how worn Lily’s old Martin guitar is in that vid. That’s a beautiful church; I was hoping someone would play the pipe organ, but no such luck.
Chernobyl Fungus Seems to Have Evolved an Incredible Ability.
California, Arizona and Nevada announce new water-saving plan for dwindling Colorado River.
The policies of left-wingers in Europe are the same as they would be if their goal was to get more rape. I do think they actually want more rape.
Welcome our new robotaxi overlords.
US solar installations fall as Trump policies hit sector. Utterly moronic.
Investors are making up the highest share of homebuyers in 5 years.
US–Indian space mission maps extreme subsidence in Mexico City.
Uncovering Global Telecom Exploitation by Covert Surveillance Actors.
No matter what you think of this dude’s plight, what Alex says is dead on. H1B was never intended for and should not be used for any sort of long-term residency and was not created as a path to citizenship.