Shiiit now I’ve got to take up smoking again. Just when I’ve been clean for 25 years.

How shallow and pedantic that would be.

(you’ve got a point there)

Distance is really not much of a factor any more, and hasn’t been for a long time. Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg can already be reached by submarine launched cruise missiles in less than 15 minutes (conservative estimate). And let’s face it, with MAD being a thing, any kind of nuclear strike is likely to escalate into all-out nuclear annihilation, anyway. This makes any attempt at overwhelming the opponent a losing proposition. So in that sense nothing has changed since, oh, the mid-1970s?

Then there is the argument that Russia doesn’t want a long shared border with NATO. Guess what, their aggression has caused Finland and Sweden to join NATO, which has only added to their shared border with NATO. That they already had with Poland and the Baltic states (there is no treaty nor official document prohibiting NATO expansion).

And finally, how hard is it to understand that NATO is a defensive alliance? It is neither politically geared to nor militarily capable of mounting a conquest of Russia. The fact that so many of Russia’s neighbors are eager to join the alliance should be a pretty strong hint as to why it needs to exist in the first place. It is Russia that cannot be trusted, not NATO. And you can’t make your neighbor “drop the gun” in their own house. The Ukrainians were stupid enough already to return their nuclear arsenal to Russia in return for explicit security guarantees. What a mistake that was.

Don’t even get me started on how China is criminally underrated as a manifest threat to world peace…

It’s like their version of STOP RESISTING.

Yeah that quote was the inspiration there.

Too many people still chasing the American Dream, scared to death of being woke.

I’m not seeing a lot of mentions of nipples here. So for me, size is pretty much secondary. Nice, prominent nipples are sure to get my attention, though.

Y’all gotta keep workin’ on that edumacation, Cletus.

I thought of the KKK. Thanks for the better quality picture.

So fall he shall. Something something humble beginnings, auspicious prospects.

Well, we’re also “sorry” that he was “murdered” by a “criminal”.

It’s also bad for noise dampening and EMC. I decided I don’t need my feet to be illuminated in all colors of the rainbow under the desk and went with an all-metal case instead.

Just a pinch of a fire truck on standby should do the trick.

That sounds right up my alley because another pet peeve of mine is when they block me from opening an image in a new tab via the right click menu. My eyes aren’t what they used to be and I need to ZOOM sometimes.

There is no such thing as an “amount of people”. It’s “number of people”. And the question given is basic game theory, just worded to be nasty.

Fuhgeddaboutit.

And a healthy swig of bleach for good measure. Cheers!

Yeah getting out of your car and realizing you have no idea how you got here is spooky.

Correct. My example for another necessary intervention would be YouTube. That’s a space in which Google does have a monopoly.

Bu-but hitting back is escalatory!