What was the point of that smug, moralizing drivel?

That simple-minded comment isn't a representation of what is really happening, and it wouldn't solve the issue, either.

What are you talking about?

The sacrifices would be an order of magnitude greater than that, and the success of "good messaging" was spotty at best,

Yeah and the Christians are still going to think it means Jesus will return sooner. The 2nd coming is always just around the corner and ever bad thing that happens accelerates it.

Right step 5 now we must invade Ukraine to protect our citizens

That's not a solution--that's a shell game. You just move the consumption from column A to column B.

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Putin will not allow inspections bc all his devices are falling apart in disfunction. Heads I'm right tails Russias rusted out. Ballets ensue

It is a long elevator ride down. Need nice?

Vell you know how it iz comrade. I need a nice glass of wodka after seeing dear friend fall to death below.

The world is in a really shitty spot right now. If a match is lit in the wrong part of the world, WW3 could start. That’s where this war on Ukraine has brought us.

> US President Joe Biden extended the nuclear treaty by five years to 2026 as one of his first acts upon taking office in 2021 shortly before it was due to expire, after Putin had pressed his predecessor Donald Trump without success to agree to a deal.

What? Trump didn't listen to Putin when he was being reasonable?

How does he not feel like a small, floppy cock saying this when the rest of their world got news that Russia plans to make his country its bitch in the next 7-8 years?

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Another veiled threat from Putin, yet no sign he will stop in Ukraine.

Yet there's still so much wasted food being found in retail garbage dumpsters.

r/dumpsterdiving

Of the speech? It's masochists only, I'm afraid.

Here you go: Link.

Did his podium have stilt’s as his iq can be compared to his heigh in inches.

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Somebody send the video

Honestly this is why I’m such a strong 2A supporter. The idea that the government is corrupt and that global supply chains are going to be severely unstable is not compatible with the idea of disarmament.

Taiwan is a redline. I guess china could just blast it to bits but thats war.

Those semi conductors are very important to USA military equipment. Need them for our jets/subs/nukes/radars everything.

Without those were pretty screwed short term.

And one thing USA doesnt mess with is its military.

My thinking is it took nearly a year for Russia to attack ukraine.

I feel tho China has determined it is entering in the next year or so and Russia is now prolonging the war trying to get the WEST to use up as much ammunition as possible and take out what they can.

Russia is still trying to take Maldova even while getting their shit kicked in. That doesnt tell me deescalation is coming.

But im just a smoothed brain ape and never been in military. I do study psychology and like making my best guess on how people will respond. I think theyre waiting.

And i think everyone who has written russia off will be mistaken.

Why arent we allowing them to strike moscow or inside russia with the weapons we give ?

Why are we holding out jets ?

What took so long to send tanks ?

Why are our leaders worried about escalating. They know something we dont.

Not arguing for or against these ads, but just to explain a bit how it works (from my modest experience in the industry, maybe some companies do it differently).

Basically the people in charge of monetising the website are from a different team than the publishing team.

I’ve been in meetings with both teams invited, and they basically fight the whole time, the publishing team wants to offer the best user experience, and the monetization team wants to maximize profit. Obviously those are conflicting goals, most of the time.

And that’s when they even have an internal monetization team, because sometimes it’s a third-party company that controls all the ads of a website.

When i talk about the “publishing team”, it often doesn’t include the writer, they are freelance and get orders from a publishing director or something like that.

TL;DR: The schizophrenia is due to a “silo effect” (compartmentalization) with different people working on different goals, that are often conflicting.

One interesting to realize is that when you’re reading free content, you’re not the client, you’re the “product”. Advertisers are the client, and that’s where the publisher’s revenue stream come from.

I like to compare us readers to a farmer’s chicken: he spends most of his time taking care of them, but his goal is to make them as tasty as possible, for his customers.

Russia has been ground to a dead stop by NATO surplus stores and the most bottom of the barrel European economy.

100% fair and valid ty for the clarification.