Ukraine should strike a deal for those minerals with the European Union as a way to tell Trump to go fuck himself.

Portugal - Bacalhau á Gomes de Sá Salted Cod Cassarole

Absolutely my favourite meal ever.

Call his bluff.

American soft power around the globe relies on having those bases on foreign soil.

Bowtie pasta.

It’s alphaghetti for yuppies.

Tsunami

Gen X - Dazed and Confused

I’ll give you a hint. It starts with an “e” and ends with “mbezzlement”

His entire plan is to cut as much as he can and funnel it back to himself and his billionaire friends. He’s not looking to cut waste, he’s looking to redirect it.

Those dreadfully dangerous Antifa terrorists sure have gone silent too, haven’t they.

It’s almost as though they never existed.

Right now, we need Antifa to be everything that the right wings pretended Antifa was.

I somewhat believe that there won’t be a U.S. if that begins to happen. At some point, the states themselves will have to do something drastic for their own sake rather than let that idiot do something so inconceivably bad as starting a global conflict.

Maybe it’s unfounded optimism, but I feel like the United States would self-immolate before a war against the EU could take off.

More and more every day…

Will Bluesky eventually enshittify? Probably.

Should people come to Mastodon instead? Of course.

Are there far bigger concerns at the moment? Absolutely.

Whatever Bluesky may or may not turn out to be, the important thing right now is to get people off of X, which we already know is a nazi controlled space. We don’t sabotage that goal by being high and mighty and telling people they’re not leaving to the right place.

One battle at a time.

most european nations have no standing armies, and no conventional weapons stockpiles

Wherever you’re getting your information from, you should probably look elsewhere.

Found the Spartan warrior.

Define “outdated”.

My main workstation desktop that I use for most of my heavy lifting was bought in 2016. In the years since, however, it’s been maxed out on the RAM that the motherboard can support, the ssds, the video cards, etc… So while it’s now hit that bottleneck of “can’t upgrade anymore because it’s at the limit of what the motherboard itself can handle”, I don’t consider it outdated because it can still comfortably do what I want it to do.

A close second would by my Lumix G7 mirrorless camera. Old, yes. But still works perfectly fine. Records in 4K and still produces a better result than smartphone cameras because it uses actual proper lenses rather than digital software trickery. With mirrorless and DSLRs, the lenses are far more important than the frame (to a certain extent), so I don’t see a need to upgrade that anytime soon.

Because -isms exist in a binary world (sexism, racism, etc…)

Any increase in visibility for whatever minority they happen to hate, is a decrease in visibility for them (in their feeble transactional little minds) and it drives them bonkers.

I think (my own personal opinion) is that Big Trouble in Little China did something so crazy and wacky that no one actually recognised it at the time.

If you look at the film from a certain perspective, Jack Burton was the sidekick, and Wang was the main character. And they just filmed it from the perspective of the sidekick who thinks he’s the main character, which is a conceit I’ve always adored.

There are no stupid questions.

But there are in fact, some very stupid ones.

Josie and the Pussycats.

Rated 5.7 by people who had no clue what it was saying at the time. I feel like if it was released in today’s pop culture environment it would fare far far better.

It’s far more satirical, clever and funny than an Archie adjacent bubblegum pop movie has any right to be.

Writing: Specifically fiction writing in terms of structure, POV, plotting, etc…

History: Especially early societies and how much everything really stays the same, despite the advance of technology. No matter where or when you go, humans are gonna human.

Russia doesn’t want anything from the the U.S. except what it’s already doing. Fucking shit up on the international stage and thereby destabilizing NATO.

Any decrease is Western Hegemony is good for Russia. It doesn’t matter whether they achieve it by tossing some people out of windows, or by helping an orange toddler ascend to the highest office in the U.S.