People make the mistake of thinking Russian culture is more-or-less the same as western European culture (I blame racism, but whatever). It is not. Putin views Russian history with an almost mystical reverence and his place in it will be either victory or death. He is committed to a Russian Ukraine and sees one that is a NATO member to be an existential threat. Losing that war will, in his mind probably, a) solidify his place in Russian mythos and b) convert Ukraine into a rump state. He is comfortable with either outcome and, if the U.S. wants to be involved, it needs to commit to one or the other, something that American public will is incapable of doing.

I'm still trying to figure out how they won while living under a fascist dictatorship

Slashdot has become Reddit.

I need to assign this movie as homework for my coworkers. I said that I "would go 'PC Load Letter'" on a device and no one got the reference.

Shhh...they're the Party of Science! You cannot question the Science!

Those are the same people who think Guam is going to capsize.

What does constitutional carry have to do with anything? That should be the norm, not the exception. "Okay, Bob, you and I are gonna go in to the store, check who's in there, then pull our guns from our pockets..." "Wait!" "What?" "We don't have conceal permits!" "Oh. Well. Shit. Never mind then."

Isn't the commercial vacancy rate somewhere north of 30%? It appears that Katie the Unready is determined to increase it.

That's pretty much what I'm doing. I pass on demanding, high-powered roles and take more laid-back positions. I'm hardly coasting, but I do have better flexibility and work-life balance than my Director and VP and, overall, make at least as much as they do.

They *would* not and He would not. That would mean abandoning their core value that Christianity is evil, plus all of his "problematic" values.

along with all the plastic straws. Stupid climate change.

And yet we elected a CIA agent for governor of Virginia.

Uh huh. DoW gets it funding from...whom? Oh, right, Congress.

Pretty much. I have a PS5 that hardly gets used and I'm not going to shell out a kilobuck for the PS6 just to play Horizon 3 (which AFAIK hasn't even started developoment yet, just their silly royale game no one asked for).

But they're easily contained and controlled