He was a brilliant chemical engineer who ended up having the most tragic of legacies . He probably had a greater effect on earth’s ecosystem than any other single organism.

I was a teenager when I saw Sato in that crop top. It made me feel things.

You’re confusing over/under rated with popularity.

Did it not come off?

Counterpoint - coffee and tea are both soup.

None but religious institutions lay claim to a divine insight into morality, though.

Throw the book at them.

It’s extremely unlikely that this can be pinned on “them”. People this rich never do their own dirty work and give orders in ways that are deniable. Only exceptions are control freaks and idiots.

Badalona sounds like how Spaniards pronounce Barcelona.

I don’t know that they really threaten the rule of law, since none of their bullshit ever actually works

This is the part that puzzled me - how can a movement like this continue to grow without any success stories whatsoever? It doesn’t make sense. Until I realized there’s a whole industry setup to drift these idiots out of their money. You can buy a sovcit passport, sovcit drivers licenses, all manner of stuff. None of it is worth as much as the paper it’s printed on, but they pay anyways.

It’s a whole industry designed to convince [stupid] people that if they just say the right combination of words, they get to selectively exist withing society and skirt rules.

Did those pidgeons forget they can fly?

I could totally see him agreeing to a debate format same as last time, but apparently he agreed to a debate format where your mic is cut off after your time is up? I never thought he would agree to that and Im not surprised he’s trying to get out of it.

Agreed on the ripping setup .

What makes them more dangerous than a sliding Mitre saw in this orientation? Obviously tilting it until the blade is parallel to the workbench is terrible but like this I’ve never understood how they’re any more dangerous.

Western countries employing Indian coders are generally looking for the cheapest coders they can find who speak passable English. All of that sounds like you got what you paid for.

I’m simply stating that not all school administrators are saints.

Literally no one is saying that . Simply by virtue of the fact that no group of any number of people will be all saints, whatever that means. So basically - cool story bro.

This is a supply chain integrity thing. They’re not alleging that the titanium wasn’t actually titanium (which as you said, would be noticed immediately).

Your knowledge of history appears to be…imaginary.

Basically, you’re saying that the rich should get richer at the cost of housing access for the poor. Not very socialist of you, eh?

Have you considered writing comments while not in a state of apoplectic rage? That way you might actually make a reasonable point instead of whatever this word-vomit is.

And this is why we never have any money for investing in domestic programs to improve anything. If it’s not Korea, it’s Vietnam, if not Vietnam, it’s Kosovo, if not Kosovo, it’s Iraq, if not Iraq it’s Afghanistan, if not Afghanistan, it’s Ukraine. Have you ever questioned why there’s always a new crisis that makes Raytheon execs rich, but mysteriously leaves nothing to spend on civilians here at home?

It’s absolutely not the reason lol. The reason you can’t invest in domestic programs like universal healthcare or post-secondary education financing reform is because half of your fellow Americans oppose it, and vote accordingly. Convincing others matters.

Russia has been an expansionist force for centuries - long before the October revolution. There’s various explanations for this such as Russia constantly feelings vulnerable due to the vast plains to their west without any natural Geographics barriers. But instead of forging literally any true alliances or building any soft power with the nations in that area they just constantly antagonize all of them. The one country they have on side is Belarus and that’s because they have to constantly prop up its leader against the will of their people. No good will, only force.

The current former Soviet countries in that area have the distinct memory of living under Russian control during the USSR and shockingly - want no part of it again. So they join NATO. Voluntarily. To the tankie if someone wants to join NATO, no matter how rational their reasoning for doing so, it must be because the CIA and “the West” tricked them into it. Smaller countries and the people who live there never have any agency.

After the USSR , western political discourse was full of talk about whether NATO is obsolete. Russia did everything possible to prove that wrong.