Sarcasm really is hard to communicate in the written form to people who donâ(TM)t know your genuine sentiments.

So youâ(TM)re saying that Ukraine as a sovereign nation has no business choosing who it assigns itself with? That they were asking for it. The defence of the guy who beats up his partner.

I get that Russia wants a warm water port but the way theyâ(TM)ve gone about it has galvanised everyone against this perceived reunification of the Soviet bloc

The best lecturers engaged with the students. They made sure that the students were following them. They were answering questions of people. They were clarifying. This might as well be watching a random YouTube in a theatre.

In this area, the label anonymous coward truly is apt. If you think this them own it. The Covid vaccine, like almost any vaccine such as seasonal flu reduces severity of infection rather than preventing infection like tetanus.

Because using a form of wit thatâ(TM)s best and clearest communicated in the cues that get lost in the written form, and with people who know you is a truly brilliant strategy.

Hoping that you forgot to put in the /s tag on that post.

No doing this will attract the attention of every conspiracy theory nut job but malaria is a serious and major health issue in that part of the world

When this kind of criminal behaviour impacts on the privileged class then we might get limited action. That criminals are extorting people on a regular basis without no punishment should be a source of unending shame for the local police forces.

If ai is to hold a legally responsible position solo then there needs to be a way it is held to account. This feels like a very bad idea. Just like if you had robotic surgery that was largely automated you would want a real surgeon assessing and ready to step in if needed, a responsible human is required and desirable

So India and China need to reduce their populations drastically to get reasonable quotas per person? This feels like itâ(TM)s going to go to a very dark place very fast.

A quick playground stop / toilet stop is at any random playground or public toilet. It is done in maybe twenty minutes. Are you completely filling your battery in that time at any random location or are you going to be constrained to a few spots that you have to hope are available?

The fuel stops on the long trips were take are maybe once a day and take ten minutes at the extreme maximum

That was a very interesting link. Thank you. I bought the book it referenced.

To be fair, the body count under communism made Hitler look like an amateur. Maybe we can say that both nazism and communism are awful?

Nazi germany defined you as a Jew if some of you grandparents were Jewish. It wasnâ(TM)t as simple as whether you avoided bacon and attended synagogue.

So youâ(TM)re backing the guy who set up camps that were murdering people on an industrial scale? Or are you one of those folk who think the Holocaust was a fiction?

It is as though the management class wished they were on the stage, the way they cannot but express every thought and laugh at volumes appropriate for an open plan office. The idea that the rest of us are paid for the work that comes from deep thinking and concentration and their stagecraft breaks that concentration