anachronist @ anachronist @midwest.social

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Russia is so terrified of Nato encroachment that they stripped their defenses along the Finnish boarder shortly after Finland joined Nato, and they've moved all the defenses at this point (first weapons, now troops) out of Kaliningrad.

Cmon man. Yes I've been a few places in sailboats. North sea in the winter for one. You clearly were trying to refer to Cape Horn and The Cape of Good Hope (or Cape Agulhas). Just take the L and don't be a twat.

I assume you mean "both capes." While this line does come within a few thousand miles of the Horn of Africa, that's not known as an especially hard sailing area but maybe for pirates.

Sailing this line in the other direction would be considerably harder.

He ain't the sharpest tool in the shed. That's for sure. I think the world is gonna roll him. The ice is getting pretty thin, the water's warm. Do you think he can swim?

I think I'm beginning to understand how Trudeau keeps winning.

The official statement of the Biden administration is "we expect our partners in Israel to conduct a full and thorough investigation and will not comment on the matter further until Israel has told us what to think."

Facebook Purity plugin for firefox is a must.

Probably had CTE TBH.

Is it really possible to sign away a right to sue a company, especially hidden in an EULA?

Yes it is. It is called "forced arbitration" and pretty much every contract you are compelled to sign has it.

In any kind of just society with a fair legal system it would not be legal. But that doesn't describe us or our legal system.

Well they tried trashing him for providing tampons to women in need.

Then for being a retired military vet.

Then for making a joke about ladders.

So yeah, they're really running out of stuff it would seem.

So the unique thing about the Holocaust was the involvement of IBM and Bayer/IG Farben?

Ok yeah I can buy that.

Well I think he proved that if you fire 80 percent of a company it doesn't work anymore. That apparently is a surprise to a lot of people.

My guess is you're seeing the computer go into a reject loop until a human operator finally takes over.

Russia's nuclear sabre rattling isn't credible because their nuclear arsenal is not dispersed. Dispersal is the key to a nuclear exchange and it's why both sides spend so many billions on submarines and stratobombers. Since the cold war Russia's nuclear assets have been sitting grouped at bases around the country. If Putin wants to be credible he has to first order the planes in the air and the submarines to sea. But the submarine he sent to Cuba was accompanied by a tug "just in case."

I remember sitting in a cafe in Copenhagen and overhearing a conversation at the table next to mine. I had no idea what they were talking about but "fucking" was the only word I recognized. It was about every third word they said.

I always heard "Canada is three mining companies standing on eachother's shoulders in a trechcoat."

Although that one applies equally to Australia.

Marx called it thre reserve army of labor.

They need to reform as a non-profit with user membership, an elected board, and fundraising like Wikipedia.

Mozilla and its murder/suicide pact with Google falling apart may be the best thing that could possibly happen to Firefox.

Shapiro would have been a bad and divisive choice. Walsh was the best of the bunch and I'm absolutely stunned that she picked him.