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‘Putin Doesn’t Want Peace’ Estonia’s president on Russia, Ukraine, NATO, drones, and Trump.

“Putin doesn’t want to sit behind the negotiating table, and he doesn’t want peace,” Estonian President Alar Karis told FP.

Just for starters, I'm not as sure that the movie thinks we should admire any of these people as this reviewer apparently is. I'm wondering what his takeaway was after watching The Master

Love the movie, but this line was great and struck me as true: "On the backstretch of 2025, it portends profound losses in the battles that loom on the horizon. Where we need honest self-assessment and bold political imagination, we are still passing off posturing as revolt..."

What I'm getting here is that the first amendment rights of people who don't get news attention may be optional?

Most of us only have the opportunity to self-castrate once.

The Problem in a nutshell.

As a full time professional paywall operator, of course I agree, but a lot of leftists think parking should be free too. Only the most dedicated of paleomarxists should think price signals don't convey anything useful or worthwhile, it's the year of our Lord 2025, FFS

"'Good gene demographics!' Y'know, people who are coincidentally exactly like me!"

RIP. Already miss all the albums he never made.

D’Angelo, Grammy-winning neo-soul pioneer, dies aged 51 Singer known for tracks such as Brown Sugar and Untitled (How Does It Feel) died at home from pancreatic cancer

Fuck. RIP. I fervently hoped D'Angelo had more records in him. I didn't really listen to him until Black Messiah came out, but it's one of the most essential records I own and easily in my top 3 of the decade it was released. share.google/UH9xxQ72pWH0...

Enjoy! Love this game.

I don't have a ton of worthwhile or knowledgeable thoughts about that, sorry. Not my area of expertise.

The Russian legal system wasn't fully fleshed out post-USSR, particularly regarding property rights - in a lot of ways, Putin got to design one favorable to him from the ground up after Yeltsin. There's a lot on this in Putin's People, a mind-blowing read by Catherine Belton about his rise to power

"See the browser console for more information" is instructions for the 1% of users who already knew to do that.

Leave the gun

They sell Yassir Arafat postcards at the Nobel Prize museum - those people don't give a rat's ass about the official approval of the U.S. government.

How can it even get worse? A national holiday is declared where the Air Force nukes his house on TV, just so everyone can watch it burn?

Did you run into any geoducks?

Total chaos

For real. Just in case anyone didn't think he was GOATed after There Will Be Blood, he managed to do something even better 🤯

This is Rosa Parks Circle where I walk my dog and a little bit of the Ecliptic, where everyone in town gets together when the weather is nice, a place I'm supposed to be utterly terrified of according to white people from the suburbs on Reddit

Is there a Self-Harm-o-Meter you play chicken with, where for major powers, moving up the track toward and then past the Tariffs space strengthens the state...
until suddenly *ruh-roh*?

Nice work if you can get it

You can leave a bad situation if you need to. Unless it's a submarine or an airplane, you'll probably survive.

I can't even begin to imagine the fucked up economic modelling required.

Looks like Greenland doesn't have space for occupancy tokens! That's some low key optimism there, homie

Really wish I could play this!

For a second, I thought, "Ha, that will never happen!" And then I remembered never to be too confident about which states will and won't fail, not ever.

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Any agent who signs a "client" whose virtues are trivially easy to replicate deserves the problems that happen next.