I assume the other 3rd are "Ukrainian" in the way that they've been places in Ukraine by Russ, but remain loyal to Russia, not Ukraine

Jesus Christ Russia have absolutely nailed this part of their geopolitical play.

They've basically got 2 members of, if not an entire, US government under their thumb, they've corrupted the EU to make one of their major contributors to leave (thinking the US is on their side, idiotically), and they've got good relations with the other superpower (china).

Annoyingly, it looks like the EU which is the most, even if not enough, "for the people" political establishment in our world today is going to get screwed over the next decade or so.

What was the plan here? Surely they had some idea of what they were going to do with the bodies?

Wrong country?

A weird amount of people were triggered by you asking for evidence. A reflection on our times.

I was replying to the other guy, and agreeing with you :)

Isn't it literally the one who dictates? (Maybe you were skipping that step)

What's your solution then? It's a fair enough concern that Putin backed in to a corner is going to become even more unhinged and throw some nukes around, no?

It seems the only option down that path is to accept that the endgame here is having all of Russia, and at least one other country, nuked.

Couldn't agree what stash you'd each grow for Movember? :D /s

It says in the post that 10th grade is the last mandatory grade, so this means many students will miss out on learning about evolution, no?

This sounds like a feature music streaming services should introduce with the sync up to your phone's alarm

Surprised nobody tounge in cheek said this already, maybe it's too obvious?

Ask an AI.

I'm not sure you understood. The fire is all of the other nonsense policies that trump comes up with, and that his party is likely to impose.

Is trump going to do anything different though?

Former President Donald Trump declared Tuesday that Israel must “finish the problem” in its war against Hamas

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-israel-gaza-finish-problem-rcna141905

If the above is true, I don't know why anyone would bring his up. It's like choosing between two seats on a bus. One has broken glass on it, the other has broken glass and is on fire.

White, republican, yet was still found not guilty by a jury?! :O

Yeah, I'd argue 'unskilled labour' or 'low skilled labour' doesn't necessarily mean you should be paid poverty wages.

Imo that's a regulation/policy issue, not a capitalism issue, but I'm happy for someone to talk me through why that isn't the case.

Elons character arc from a PR point of view is really interesting.

At one point I bet many of his current followers were loudly critical of him for Tesla disrupting the ICE vehicle industry. At that point he was seen as much more progressive.

But his mask has now been removed to show the opportunistic business man he is with very little moral standards. Becoming the enemy of many that had previously fallen for his PR, including me.

In my head he really seems like a comic book character.

I think the cringe here is more than somebody would have this in their window XD

But I get it- teenagers going to teenager or something like that.

Maybe there's some other context too, but from just tris pic... Cringe.

I genuinely use this technique to get myself out go and exercise sometimes.

Seeing my body as a pet I need to take for a walk can be a weird but helpful mindset.

Whilst these are all problems that it would be great to solve, I feel the vast majority of the public want to see politicians proposing ways to deal with more significant issues.

To me, this sounds like a list of things they feel the older generation dislikes strongly. They want to retain that base as much as possible so they'll put out statements like this ones without having, I suspect, much desire to follow through if and when they do have some power.

But I'm happy to be proven wrong on that.