Life is like a fairy tale. Unfortunately it was written by Germans.

Another day of thanking my past self for leaving

Would, say, an actor playing a Nazi officer in a movie be protected from this?

When you have an unflushable turd, you need a plumber ;)

The Sextuple-U

Let’s find a nasty slimy ugly alien to fear

The US army has proven to be very good at fighting conventional wars but utterly incompetent in fights against guerrillas.

Also they can’t bomb infrastructure to starve the rebels out without fucking themselves over too, since they need that infrastructure themselves.

Rot in piss

Holy shit they made SCP-2875 a real thing

My old family home got burgled back in high school. Some things of value were stolen, though luckily nothing sentimental.

What was worth more than the stolen money was that I no longer felt safe in my own home. I couldn’t sleep well for a long time after that. I felt like I was sleeping out in the open. Sometimes I would hear a noise and jolt up and spend a whole hour trying to see if I could spot something weird on the camera feed (we installed CCTV).

Eventually there is blood but no shit.

Better red than bidet!

Good on the media for using the active voice for once

Protectionism only really makes sense if you’re a country without native industrial capacities and trying to industrialise. Even that is debatable.

Russia used to be a major world power with highly developed heavy industry and okay-ish light industry. A lot of that has been poorly maintained since the fall of the USSR but the factories are still there. Protectionism makes little sense here.

Ireland too :(

Article says the rebels going in are Islamists. Sadly, I don’t think life will get much better in Syria and will definitely worsen in Kurdistan.

They’re calling Musk a tourist

Damn, TIL. Thank you.

And for the first time in my life, thank you Erdogan.

NATO has not changed its position, that’s the thing.

https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_218165.htm

https://www.politico.eu/article/nato-backs-israel-and-warns-iran-to-stay-away-gaza-hamas-netanyah/

There is a very good reason the Irish care about Neutrality. The Montrealites are not so different.

Edit: Thank you Chairman Meow for telling me about this: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkey-blocks-nato-israel-cooperation-over-gaza-war-sources-say-2024-08-01/

Yes. The Americans ask this on every form for who knows what reason.