I’d only heard of council juice

No we did, it was good tea. That’s what made the message clear, the value being sacrificed. The popular American predilection for tea up until after the Townshend Acts was well documented by de Tocqueville. It was only after that drinking tea was considered “unpatriotic”. Before then we would even eat boiled tea leaves with butter as a side dish. We were mad about the stuff, but as a colony we were only allowed to buy British tea. It was a whole thing.

Anyway I’ve had an electric kettle for ages. It’s more common in Asian-American households perhaps. We didn’t fit in that well in the states, so we went back to the UK. Now I only buy British tea again. Full circle.

I don’t know what happened. We used to be really into tea. Blame the Townshend Acts I guess?

Only if you get caught

I’m closing my fkn phone rn

sippy cup noises

That wasn’t my intention - I don’t know what is possible for Russia in the future, only that they don’t show any signs that they’re trying to change.

Obviously it takes two to tango and the US has not done enough to smooth things over. The world is too imperfect for tidy solutions or easy answers. All I’m saying here is that nobody who knows Russia is raising their eyebrows at the way they’re acting.

You’re still being silly as hell. The AR can be easily reconfigured for several different cartridges, some of which are quite powerful. Also, just about any rifle is far more deadly than any pistol for several reasons. Reducing the subject to a binary “can/can’t kill” is charitably, infantile and if I was not feeling charitable I’d call it a bad faith argument.

Oh you’re just silly? Alright buddy. There’s juice in the fridge, help yourself okay?

No, buddy, you’re confused. 5.56 is fine for killing grownups.

I used to think I liked monopoly busting

Until they busted up the state’s monopoly on violence

This one is my biggest cross to bear, I’m otherwise close enough to neurotypical that I was able too fool myself for decades.

Not sure anyone else bought it, but they didn’t raise a fuss. Bless.

I think many of us in western democracies have not studied Russian history well enough to understand that the recent behaviour is not new at all, and it was always going to come to this.

I think many of us really believed that a Russia that seems to be playing the game our way would not simply revert to bloody-handed tyranny against the world and all reason.

An America that really understood Russian culture would never have signed the Budapest Memo, imo. Call me Russophobic if you want, but they’re a grim and cynical folk and it’s been that way long enough to confirm the diagnosis.

Oh shit, that’s exactly what they’re going to do. Shit.

This is the only arrest in recent times they’ve found disgraceful enough to get mad about? Send one to CECOT and we might get the place shut down.

I finally managed to get her in my party without attacking the grove. Wish I’d had her along for my seldarine drow wizard run, she’d have hated that guy.

I think he is a fake president.

https://thiswillhold.substack.com/p/she-won-they-didnt-just-change-the

You know how if you’ve got something really biting and witty you want to say to someone, so you kind of manufacture a little segue just so you can fire it off?

Yesterday my republican co-worker did that just so she could say “juneteenth, pff whatever”. That is what she considers comedy.

Edit to add: she paused to laugh at that point as if to invite me to share in the joke. She really is that dreary of a person.

Oh hey, I’ve done that too.

The Aussie slang “I’m not here to fuck spiders” just took on a bitter but satisfying depth and flavour

Well they should have called it Ørstedium then, and people could refuse to call it that because nobody knows what Ø sounds like or how to type it.