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Not many people have the time, energy, or patience to keep up with all the in's and out's of geopolitical history.

So its pretty easy to frame it as "Big bad Russia bad man Putin invade smol bean Ukraine!"

Redditor's are really gonna trying using the whole "Russian invasion of Ukraine" as an election interference operation aren't they?

Meanwhile, Kyiv Orthodox priest Mykhailo Omelian said: "Everything that was related to Russia, and everything that Russia did the same way we did, provoked disgust among people."

Looks like freedom fries dressing is back on the menu boys!

A Monty Python skit where a narrator would ask Israelis how many Hamas they could see in a still shots of natural scenery...

Background: On 22 December, Ukrainian defenders shot down three Russian Su-34 fighter-bombers on the southern front.

Dude... its been three fucking days. Unless the drop in air sorties went from dozens down to zero and stay that way for weeks to a month, this means absolutely nothing.

The Dork Forest, the host invites on somebody to talk about whatever they are really in to. It's ranged from a comedienne talking about comedy, to a pen and paper Marvel/DC super hero RPG history/mechanics, to the Sailor Moon anime series. Its pretty chill and usually a decent listen.

The Past Times, its by the two hosts of The Dollop. (Sometimes Dave and/or Gareth will get wound up and stuck on a bit that can get cringy as it goes on too long.) Dave gets a newspaper from some point in the past and Gareth and whoever they've invited on just riff on the headlines, the content of the articles/advertisements/classifieds, etc. A bit hit or miss, but its decent for having on in the background where you aren't really trying to pay too much attention to it.

The Dollop is alright. Dave reads stuff about an historical event or person to Gareth and sometimes a guest. Everybody riffs on it. Sometimes the jokes are a bit gross and go on for too long. I'd recommend their sports episodes as a person who is not interested in the watching or playing of sports but I do find myself amazed about the history behind leagues, games, competitions, players, coaches, owners sometimes. Some of the episodes can get pretty dark due to the subject of the episode though.

It ended quite a while ago but, The West Wing Thing, is a pretty long series that follows a popular USA TV series "The West Wing" and the slow descent into maddness by the two hosts and their guests as they watch (almost) every episode and discuss what they watched.

USA Civil War: It was only the Southern states that were racist.

USA Civil War: The Confederacy was "only fighting for its way of life". With the hope that most USA'ians will assume that "its way of life" was anything but slavery.

In a neighboring alternate universe, the headlines read something like, "China's warships aggressively approach Jewish cargo ship in Red Sea, US Navy reacts"

Depends on what kind of programing your doing and what kind of projects your working on.

As a person who isn't great a programming, has no real use for it in my daily life and forgets everything I've learned, and has pretty much given up on trying to remember what little I ever knew I was able to make a program that used Excel, an Excel compatible version of a grocery store's main supplier's invoices, and USB barcode scanner to greatly speed up checking in the 10+ pallets of stuff that would come in three days a week.

Pretty much the only math I can remember needing to use was "add +1 to value stored in incrementerVariable".

Also, as far as programming goes, you can be bad at math so long as you can remember that there is a formula to do a thing. Nobody is expecting you to remember a pile of equations, only that they exist and how to look them up when you need them.

🇮🇱 Hey, wait a minute, there ain't no Mein Kampfh!

Other depictions are of Saturn with an angry face or ambivalently consuming his children. This one kinda makes it look like Saturn is not having a good time.

Lots of us poors just don't vote at all.

We're working all the time, so its difficult to find the time and energy to try to be up to date on the local politicians and ballot measures in any real way and even find time away from work to physically go vote (because who the fuck even knows if the mail in ballots even get counted assuming you can get one and figure out how to mail it back in).

Also, there isn't anybody to vote for. Your options are Dem, Repub, Libertarian, Independent. And none of the politicians running under those banners are actually offering any drastic material change to a shitty system. During the last mid terms where I live, I took a few hours to find who was going to be on the local ballot and skim their websites. The farthest "left" candidates were the Dems and the choices where "Religious Person", "Religious Person", "Milquetoast Boilerplate Dem", and "Cryptobro." None of them run off voting year outreach programs where they help people in need navigate the few social support programs in the deep red state where I live. None of them advocate for vacant houses, apartments, empty hotel/motel rooms to be appropriated by the city government to house those without homes. None of these candidates even really exist outside of the 12 months between filing their intent to run, securing their spot on the ballots before they're printed, and the final vote counts are certified.

Like, per month or a lump sum?

The Onion:

"... pilots of the Osprey, attempting to out hotdog the test pilots of the F-35 after their previous evenings trash talk at a local bar...

The Onion:

"Plane that's also a helicopter, tries to be a boat..."

I'm not reading through all the comments to see if somebody has already mentioned these...

1. A game where you start out Godlike, superbuffed, maxed stats, best equipment whatever... but to progress through the game you slowly start to give up your gear, quit using your best skills (until they atrophy and are lost/drastically weakened) to end the game as a regular person just doing regular things. The catch would be to wrap a good story around why you'd be giving up all your cool shit.
2. A FPS that is split between the cutscenes of the warriors talking shit and the generals talking shit and the actual gameplay of you being a random nobody who is just trying to survive. You can't pick up weapons, because you dont know how to use them or it draws attention and you get attacked directly by the soldiers of both armies. Maybe there'd be NPC's at the beginning of the levels that you'd sorta be expected to try to keep alive but inevitably they would start to get picked off by cross fire, artillery, tanks, booby traps set by the fighting soldiers, etc.
3. An RPG where the basic game loop is kinda flipped. Where you'd expect to have random encounters and fights, you'd be able to see the mobs and the interactions would be more of the "Talk" or "Trade" variety but doing things like opening a door or crossing a bridge or equipping a weapon starts a fight. Usually your character would have something wrong with them... so like, going to sleep would leave you with sleep in your eye or groggy and trying to search or open things would start the encounter. Another example, your character's let gets hurt and now your random encounter is with the cobblestones that you're trying to walk on to get to the house of healing.
4. An RPG in the style of like the NES/SNES Final Fantasy games or the Earthbound/Mother series where you're characters are trying to start a band and the Random Encounters aren't fights but gigs. You finish the fights by either playing really well a type of music the crowd wants/likes, playing poorly or playing something the crowd doesn't want/like until they kick you off stage. The goals are things like, getting better equipment, playing notable venues, making a name for yourselves and making it to "The Big Show".

Populus + Dark Reign + X-Com UFO

Less "get in to" and more "all my shit is so old basic things on the internet were not working any more if I left it running XP or 7".

Deodorant /= Antiperspirant.

I sweat like a hog due to having a chunk of my work life being physical labor and being too poor to keep the house air conditioned at 45F when its 110F outside. So antiperspirant would just paralyze my armpit glands but nowhere else.

Also, I got tired of spending money on deodorant and having more plastic to throw away and just started making a 50/50 (ish) mix of coconut oil and baking soda and just smearing some on my sweaty parts and it does okay at covering my stink.

Whether I use deodorant or not.. I notice that my smell changes when I'm around people (they tend to make me a touch anxious), some fabrics, and clothes that fit really tightly under my armpits. Also, I've noticed a HUGE difference in pit smell between full underarm bush and shaved.

Tiger and Bunny... I forget about it for a few years and then it will just pop into my head.