I have more genetic potential for athletic performance than at least 90% of the population

Dude. Being better than 90% of the population means there are probably a couple people better than you in gym class. That ain’t getting you into the Olympics 🤣

Or maybe Ukraine isn’t the aggressor here and Putin is proving why Ukraine wants to be in NATO

You mean like being a part of the USSR and wanting nothing to do with them?

I’m also curious how annexing a country and extending your borders to countries already in NATO solves that problem?

And what history does NATO have of using their arms for offensive purposes, rather than defense?

What is NATO doing to interfere with Russia’s domestic operations and sovereignty? Ukraine is not Russia, so Russia should have no say in the matter just because they’re next to each other.

Same thing would apply if Ukraine were to invade Russia. Ukraine would have no business doing so.

Putin should have no reason to give a rat’s ass if any country is in NATO, unless he plans on invading it.

Ironically, you could use the meme template to say that somehow

“Huh, I hadn’t really considered this [kinda racist when you think about it] view, but it’s actually pretty popular [by bots] so maybe there’s something to this!”

Did you perhaps just read the small paragraph that gets added to the post on lemmy?

To be honest, yeah. I’m used to that having full articles to save me from the ad infestations of so many news sites out there that I didn’t bother clicking into it. Plus it was a bit early for me when I was giving my daughter an overnight bottle so I was in a state of foggy annoyance.

They used a lot of words to say that it’s recently rained in Barcelona and the tourist season is beginning. Then they said tourists use more water than residents, with absolutely no indication of how that may be the case.

Then the article just… Stopped.

That’s fine until you tell me that’s almost 40 years ago!

I hadn’t heard that story before. True or not, I’m glad it was there

Canada and Denmark also had the most adorable and honestly, meaningless border dispute up until a couple years ago

Yeah, as a software engineer I have 3 monitors if you include the one built into my laptop

after an unopposed bid

I mean, if literally nobody else made a proposal for this, what are the UN’s options? Just put it in some unprepared location? Cancel it? Do some lame virtual thingy? Sometimes you’re just dealt a shitty hand and there’s no good way to play it

If that’s the approach they took, and especially if it made it into a source code repository, I’d probably have fired them a long time ago!

I learned that when she opened a show soon after his latest indictments. Paraphrasing a bit, she said that on a personal note, she would not be covering the latest allegations against Senator Bob Menendez, her father. Her MSNBC colleagues would be investigating and reporting on that story otherwise, as they should. Those last 3 words I remember much more clearly and I think was a direct quote.

It’s hard not to think about her father when seeing her on air, but I’m a firm believer that someone shouldn’t be tied to their parents like that. Unless I find out she had involvement of her own, I’ll live with that fact and try not to judge her on it. Lawrence O’Donnell certainly wasn’t holding anything back when it was discovered his wife (don’t believe that’s Alicia’s mother) was the driver in a fatal accident.

MBS is a piece of shit, but he also knows he can’t isolate your average person from the rest of the world, and that people will want some of the things we have. Your average person can see that the rest of the world has movie theaters, and they want that. They can see that the rest of the world has women driving, and they’ll want that too. Alcohol? At least this gives the optics, even if it’s still inaccessible to most.

Even a piece of shit knows when they have to loosen the leash a little, especially when it doesn’t really affect the piece of shit. If they don’t, it’s a matter of time before it comes back to haunt them.

I wonder if “opposite side” means at the back of the plane