Because of you don’t stop Russia now, there is a big chance that in a few years it’s a gangbang with the all the Brics nations who learned to handle the nuclear whip like a pro dom.

That’s a City Slickers grade humor.

In the past, children were your labor force, health care and pension plan. People had many children so at least some survived into adulthood. There wasn’t much alternative back in the day.

Now children are a net cost. They can’t even take care of you in old age if government pensions or retirement plans don’t pan out because many can barely feed themselves.

So, the best time to have children was roughly before 1900. That’s when things started to change.

The maga peeps that say sanctions against Russia don’t work and then turn around to sanction themselves.

Am I the only one here that checks the new releases weekly to filter and mark the interesting stuff to see in advance?

I took the “I will name him George, and I will hug him and pet him and squeeze him…” route. Now they know to leave me alone most of the time when I’m busy but will come to me if they need some love. Or they’re really hungry.

A bang big enough to blow up a typhoon is big enough to cause nuclear winter.

“The kitchen here is contaminated.”

I guess we’ll just have to call it Hong Gary then.

Voyager uses plutonium 238 which has a half-life of 83 years. So after 50 years, its fuel has decayed too much and it’s running out of power. The article didn’t make that clear.

https://youtu.be/sP2tUW0HDHA

It’s from the movie Idiocracy.

Didn’t Erdogan try to do the same in Türkiye? After some currency crashing and cost of living crisis he did change his tune.

but this is really about predicting what trump will do

Trump plays pigeon chess — it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.

It’s football. Attacking civilians because they wave around the wrong flag, or just wearing the wrong color of t-shirt or scarf is reason enough for a beating.

That’s probably the perception. Democrats have been in power for 4 years, things didn’t get better for a lot of people and then they say to vote for them for more of the same. Surprisingly that doesn’t help with voter enthusiasm. They’ll have more chance next time with messaging things won’t get worse with them after Trump mishandled stuff.

Simple, good-sounding things they want to hear is what wins elections these days.

Alright, what are the best options for blocking mentions of Trump? Last term there was so much noise from that guy or about him.

Sounds like the perfect excuse to subject any vehicle coming from a country that deals with Russia (cough China) to some additional time consuming bomb checks. They can’t say it’s tarrifs or unappropriate as there is a legitimate threat made.

It’s a bit of a shock after years of hearing that this thing will happen in the future, to realize that the future has arrived and it’s within our lifetime. Kinda how you look back and suddenly realize that your favorite movie is now closer to world war 2 than it is to present time, but it still feels like last year.

The weather services did see this coming and were giving red alerts. Local governments were like “nah, it’ll be fine.” It’s straight out the movies with the classic “we don’t want to cause any panic in case the scientists are wrong.” It’s especially damning after the exact same ignoring red alerts already happened in Germany and Belgium.

At this stage, it’s ignoring reality. Yeah, preparing and being ready for this kind of catastrophes is expensive but rebuilding everything isn’t cheaper. It’s why experts already said that in the end it’s cheaper to prevent climate change than dealing with the consequences.