So all the people in Russia who disagree with the war get to be punished too? https://casebook.icrc.org/glos... Just for you, here's someone who knows a thing or to about how to live... https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

If you have to kill to survive then that's life. If it's discretionary, then we're back at "my wants trump your needs", which seems to be pretty much the definition of lack of empathy. Everyone who eats meat should be required to work - at least for a day - in an abattoir, to look straight in the eye the things they fund and make happen. To see the stress of the animals, pregnant cows opened up and all the other horrors, horrors that cause sky high rates of depression and suicide among those who work in such places. We often refer to the worst sort of people as "animals" but this is an insult to animals I believe. Animals do not have the capacity to think morally to the extent that we do. And they also don't have farming, freeing them from the need to cause suffering in other sentient creatures. When you consume animal products, you're making a choice to cause cruelty and suffering just so that you can enjoy your food. Don't make excuses for it - that's the reality and that's one of the choices that defines your morality.

So all that sage advice from the medical community to quit smoking and drinking and eating junk food lets you live long enough to suffer something far worse than terminal conditions these former vices might have "saved" you from.

"direct 2mm diameter metal spheres" - that sounds like size to me. How can you "direct" a 2mm object through a mouse - or human - brain, without destroying huge amounts of brain in the process?

"which are basically 2mm metal spheres" - this size is so large it has to be a misprint, surely?

Google have been bricking their expensive devices for years. It's part of the business model. If the think you have works, why would you give them more money. My Nexus10 cost me something like £350 in 2013. It was a 2Gb device. About a year later, they released an update that dropped the usable memory from 2Gb down to 700Mb. If I run KitKat on it, it's super fast and usable, if it weren't for the absence of the apps that I once used but that have now been made unavailable. YouTube and Firefox to name two important ones. Even when I run Lineageos 13, it's slow and unusable. It's not illegal for businesses like Google to sell you something and then brick it a few years - even 1 year - later. I think it should be. But until those that wield the levers of power agree with me (i.e. hell freezes over), we have Linux. I can happily run Linux on hardware that's 20 years old. But where's the profit for Google in that?

I've never really understood narrow minded thinking like this. Why do anything if you're not getting some material reward? Like a rat in an experiment that gets the cheese or cocaine or whatever. I guess if the cap fits. You need to pay the rent but this is actually more to life than cashing in, you soulless, neo-liberal ghoul.

Opens with "I'm really of two minds on this". Spends entire post proselytising the benefits of bums on seats.

Look at Nazi Germany. Mercantilists don't give a shit about moral right or wrong, the purpose is to accumulate more. The only thing of interest in a regime is whether it enables or thwarts that single solitary objective.

A valid use of the huge subsidies of the U.S. proletariat, so they can rattle their sabres and tell the world how they can "kick your ass". Sabre rattling is all you have left after the hegemony has taken all of life's benefits for itself and left you with your little toy sabre and sense of false superiority. If you look around the table and don't see the sucker etc. Enjoy!

"This sucks, someone stick a pillow over my face already".

Oh look another yank whining about subsidies in foreign countries while their own administration hands out billions to favoured corporates willy nilly. How laughably hypocritical. Essentially boils down to "Murica! We're the best. Nobody should dare challenge our supremacy!". Well, enjoy the fading winter of your empire, douchebag. I have one thing in common with you. The enemy of my enemy etc. So, basically, go China.

Hey Mephisto, do you get Kevin to mark up your shite posts +1 or are you sad enough to have a second account to do it? My money's on the second account.

Obviously I'm talking about the economic area. I just knew there'd be some wisecracking obtuse prick out there who'd test my will to live with this tedious, obvious gag.

Ripping a legitimately purchased CD for private listening is actually illegal in the UK. I think the UK is the only place in Europe that it's illegal. Hold on, I'm forgetting, the UK isn't in Europe any more. I guess Europe isn't fascist enough.