That seems like a very odd way to end the article. It felt like the author got cut off mid-thought, like the scribe who carved that the Grail could be found in the castle of Aaarrrrrrghhhhh in “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”.

Interesting read, though. Not sure if it’s just wishful thinking on the part of the author, but it really does feel like the end of the war is coming soon. Fingers crossed the Russians finally come to their senses and go the hell home.

Awww - he thinks he’s in charge!

Gordon Ramsay being the unholy hatechild of John C Reilly and Ellen DeGeneres feels morally wrong, but factually correct.

Kind of crazy how Ukraine started faring better against Russia after they stopped sharing intel with the US. I’m assuming that’s just pure coincidence.

I ain’t reading all that shit, bro. Go fuck yourself, you mad, whiny, smug bitch.

You really can’t help but be a smug asshole, can you?

Same. I never forgive, but I do forget. So I end up having Dawi-style grudges against people and have no idea why I hate them. I just trust that past me knew what he was on about.

100%, yes. We actually don’t even need a new law for that. We already have laws against treason on the books. We just stopped enforcing them when the traitors took over.

You know what? Fuck you, my guy. This is just a television show for you; the rest of us are forced to live here. How fucking dare you criticize the anger people feel at the fucksticks who did this to us while you’re sitting at a far remove mostly unaffected by the carnage?

He’s married to Tulsi Gabbard. How good can he be?

The man can’t even complete his sentences properly. Should have had a competency hearing day 1 after recovering from his stroke.

If people want me to pay more billions, then let’s have that debate.

Nah, bro. No debate necessary. You pay taxes in money or blood. Your choice.

100% a 4Chan user.

You guys get 12 hours??? Must be nice.

I really like that poem “Ozymandias”, by Percy Bysshe Shelley. The point of it is: no matter what kind of outsized impact you have on the world when you’re alive, eventually no trace of you will remain, and everything you ever were and everything you’ve ever done will be forgotten.

It’s a heavy, depressing message, but I find it to be oddly freeing. If nothing you do will matter in the very long run, then you’re free to do whatever you want. Maybe you decide that you don’t care about the people 25,000 years from now and focus instead on the people in your life right now. Maybe you make it your goal to make their lives better.

You could succumb to depression and fall into a pit of despair and heavy drug use… but if nothing matters, why not spend your time making other people’s lives better instead? It feels good to make other people feel good.

Having to win a fight against yourself every day to get out of bed, put some clothes on, and go to work.

The PTSD of surviving a battlefield like this will be a unique kind of horrific. Like, don’t get me wrong - all PTSD is bad. But when the war ends and the Ukrainians and Russians have left their trenches, they’re going to take with them the experience of being hunted by machines day and night. Any little sound of an electric motor, like from their kid’s RC toy car, might be the thing that brings back memories of hiding in trenches, fox holes, abandoned & bombed out buildings from somebody hunting them with a drone.

It just feels so personal, in a way. Having someone fly one of these things around, looking for you. Having them hover right over you, trying to figure out if you’re already dead so they don’t have to waste the drone & explosives. Having them taunt you as you scramble for safety.

And yeah - the Russians definitely brought that shit on themselves. But they have drones too, now. And so will every army in the world after this war. It’s just all so “Black Mirror”.

Thanks, I hate it.

Broke: Stealing is wrong

Woke: Stealing is sometimes a necessity, given the economic realities forced on us by our billionaire overlords

Bespoke: Stealing is praxis

… What?

I’m sorry - are you asking me when I last met Donald Trump because you think that “real life” means only the people I personally come into contact with, and not, you know, things that really happen in the world?