Try babysitting… Actually, don’t. Just keep being snide to strangers, you’ll save the world that way.

Isn’t it weird to imagine someone having the gall to say that in person? It’s not even clear what they’re hoping you’d do even if you did somehow agree.

No idea. It’s thermite, obviously. I’ve heard that “Baba Yaga” have a payload of about 30lb? This is from memory, so don’t depend on that guess. I would love to see how they rig it up. It appears to destroy the drone after the payload is dropped.

My feelings about the above video are nuanced. I’m glad to see Ukraine kicking asses by any means necessary, yet I hate the idea of this kind of attack becoming normal in others conflicts. If Russia can’t be stopped from sooner or later causing a world war, that is my kid’s life on the line.

In a real sense I do feel Ukraine is defending me and my family, in the long run. So I watch this kind of footage every day with a melange of hope and horror. I never want my son facing this, and that makes me a bit of a hypocrite. So be it.

Good nuance in that. People are and aren’t simple, we contain multitudes without trying to be obfuscatory. Stay humble in your estimations of others.

Mixed emotions watching absolutely inhuman weapons of hell on earth being used against the greatest threat to peace of the century.

Then they maced the Nazis again, and I said nothing because I was too busy laughing

There has been enough to drive it from my thoughts until you mentioned it, but yes. Reality is all too poorly written.

no Android

Boo hiss etc

They would prefer to sign patriarchy itself into law, but they’re not sure how.

Mexico, when the walls fell.

It takes confidence to prop others up like that.

Topical, given Russian ties to the Taliban currently in the headlines.

Can voters connect the dots?

The Taliban is trying to pivot towards legitimacy and governance while not dropping their worst fundamentalist tendencies, and their enemies are worse than them.

The US military never should have set foot there. Things are far worse for it, which was hard to believe possible, and it’s hard to see how anything gets better.

Condolences.

Aren’t there laws about who gets to teach kids? I know there are strictures on teacher to student ratios, but how can that exist without a written definition of what a teacher is?

Yes, but let me dream that someday enough competent people quit that his entire political apparatus simply crumbles.

I’m gonna look back on this moment someday and laugh bitterly to myself that it used to be a joke.

Being a trump advisor sounds like the most stressful and unfulfilling job imaginable. They should probably quit.

You don’t find it so? Maybe I read too much Vonnegut as a kid, it seems clear to me.

Surrealism is always antifascist. Cruelty and absurdity are two sides of the same coin, or perhaps the same side of two coins.