andyburke @ andyburke @kbin.social

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I wasn't prepared for that. The views. Wow.

I hear you.

Just remember that we know so much more about everything that happens on the earth than even just a few decades ago.

Things have always been bad everywhere, we just didn't all have to hear about it every single day.

I say this just so you can maybe temper some of your feelings to make sure you're accounting for that difference.

Agree. However, if we get to the general and it's far right or democrat, I hope people choose the ancient democrat to the more fascism-friendly alternative.

I hear you, but they didn't timewarp from the late 90s to today, either. 2014 would have been a good time to think carefully about their defensive coalition membership.

Edit: I want to finish by saying I wish the US lived up to our ideals more often and that I also wish Armenia had better protection through their defense pacts.

Thinking about this more and it'd make more sense: a Ferengi that believed in giving gifts would certainly be banished, maybe he brought his message of giving to Earth....

... there's a chance he may have been Ferengi.

Armenia is a member of the CSTO, right? That's the NATO alternative run by Russia, as I understand it. Russia has no ability to actually help Armenia in this conflict, though.

I agree that the west is awful about doing the right thing if there's no compounding factor to juice it like oil.

But Armenia made a decision to ally themselves with Russia for protection. That has proven to be a terrible mistake. Let's not pretend this was a completely unavoidable situation that the west could just walk into and stop. Armenia's membership in CSTO complicates that greatly.

So .. gonna go with "a little of column a, a little of column b" here. I wish the west was more righteous and less greedy. I wish Armenia had chosen better friends.

There are millions of small companies and shops that need engineering help. Many will actually talk to you like a person because they haven't been enshuttified to death.

STOP WORKING FOR THESE GIANT HELLHOLES.

Hey, family is family. Like I said, India needs to police their shit, they're losing the script badly.

Hey, US citizen checkin in. Don't fuck around in or with Canada unless you like pissing the US off, too. I don't think India wants this heat. They need to change course.

Why are you applying to that soulless shitshack??

My friend, many, many planes that have been crashed have been serviced and returned to service, including airliners.

I know you don't want advice, but I want to share some information that may be important and helpful for you: recent studies have shown ulcers are essentially an infection and antibiotics have some success in treating them.

For too long doctors thought it had to do with stress or diet, but it's an infection.

You're not alone, but maybe we are? Everyone else seems to understand.

I watched Star Trek because my dad introduced me to it. I'm now a dad and I am sharing it with my kids.

I don't know you, and I don't know your family, but if your father liked Star Trek enough to introduce you to it, my guess is that he wouldn't want his death to take that away from you. If anything, my bet would be he'd hope it would bring you comfort and fond memories and hope for the future.

I hope you can get there when enough time has passed, and I hope this message might help it all hurt a little less.

I like the idea that life sucks so much that meth makes it better and the answer to that isn't to try to improve lives but to lock people up so life is even fuckin worse.

People are tired of bad news in general. It has nothing in particular to do with where this happened.

The Internet means that I, someone thousands of miles away, am now aware of the tragedies you are suffering, as well. Sometimes it seems like that much knowledge of suffering just wasn't what we were built to handle every day.

It's not you or where you live, it's just that humans can only take humans being awful to each other for so long before it becomes too much to bear.

Doubtful.

As an outsider with no horse in the race, I thought this a good discussion.

In the end, I think maybe Quebec gets what it wants: I have no interest in visiting a place that tries to police its "culture" that much.

The sad truth is it will need to get much worse until conservatives will admit there is a problem and let progressives solve it.

It has always been this way. You either live in a progressive, upwardly moving state with improving quality of life or you get stuck in a conservative, stagnant or downward trending place where people are more concerned with "others" than they are with doing anything productive as a society. As a species, we seem to slowly wobble back and forth between these extremes. It's maddening.