Putin is bad at chess.

Their valuation get downgraded one more time and he loses his free pre check membership.

There’s always more poor counties to exploit. There’s only so many rich ones to sell to.

I usually prefer hotels too, but I’ve never had this issue. What I don’t like is the extra fess they add though. Makes it hard to compare prices since “per night” has almost no reflection on how much total cost of the stay.

When I was in Rome I had a beautiful apartment for $70 per night with a terrace garden, a balcony, a grill, a full kitchen, a private laundry room, locals cafe, locals bakery. You don’t any of those things with a hotel, and yet mediocre rated hotels in that area were like 5x more.

Don’t want to lose the hook.

First step is testing safety. Then you give it to a much larger group to establish the level of effectiveness, since you need a lot of data to establish that. After the effectiveness is established you would declare it safe AND effective.

SMH. Can’t imagine how that’s not obvious.

Or Saudi or Qatari slave state money.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/28/saudis-kingdom-holding-company-to-maintain-twitter-stake

They were known for exterminating socialists. They outlawed socialism. And the first camps that they were famous(eg Dacua) for were originally made to deal with socialists.

Shortly after the Nazi rise to power and the Reichstag Fire, they arrested thousands of their opponents. The scale of these arrests led to the creation of early concentration camps to hold the prisoners.

The early concentration camps primarily held political prisoners as the Nazis sought to remove opposition, such as socialists and communists, and consolidate their power.

Here’s an article form 1933:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/mar/22/dachau-concentration-camp-established-nazis-1933

They teach this stuff in public elementary schools. Did you not go to school?

My company got rid of their main office and we are never going back to full in-office. And it’s one of the reasons I’m not looking at offers from other companies. I’m happy, and my team is happy.

Plaster, mostly.

It’s not easy or possible to dispel that it’s a literal theocratic ethnostate. It’s something they’re pretty open about. Still think it’s worth a visit. Lots of places with shitty governments are worth visiting.

I don’t understand this

I might call that one person a monster, regardless of their race. Not sure what you’re getting at.

This is good for GME lol

Well… not enough to stop it. Both are the most popular in their respective primaries. By far. It’s it even close.

It didn’t fail. For Prigozhin is was always about Prigozhin getting out of trouble. And he succeeded at what he came to do. For now, at least.

If someone breaks into my home, burns it down, kills my family, rapes my mother I’m gonna call them a piece of shit. A monster. Whatever. Don’t be a piece of shit, don’t get called one.

Full disclosure: I don’t use the term, because I’m not a victim of this war. But I wouldn’t blame anyone who is.

I agree. And I don’t use the term. But I’d imagine if they were lobbing missiles at my apartment building for years, I’d see why there’s a resemblance to an unrelenting brutal force that represents pure evil in a fantasy book. And ya I’d be less worried about the concerns you raise. I’d prefer people on the internet, commenting from the safety of their new iPads, not use the term. It’s a bad look, and it definitely can have negative affect sun the future. The language we use matters. But I’d never fault a Ukrainian fighting for their lives, and suffering, for doing so.

Dehumanizing sure. Still not racist. I don’t use the term myself. Maybe I would if I was being invaded by rapists and torturous scumbags. Just don’t agree with the sentiment that’s it’s automatically racist.

Or

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_on_Rome