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They're not "getting their asses handed to them", lots of the latest negotiations (with the US) seem to involve Russia gaining territory in any peace agreement. And they're switching over to a fully wartime economy, so they're in it for the long haul.

Don't underestimate Russia's ability to play the long game in a war. I know western media likes to give us stories like "Russia is running out of Russians" or whatever but that stuff is just propaganda imo. Ukraine, even with all the western weapons, is treading water.

EDIT: Just to demonstrate what I mean, the estimated military casualties for the Soviet Union in WW2 was around 8.6 million. And then they won. Russia ain't running out of Russians any time soon.

It'll be interesting to see how they enforce that. The Electoral Commission will have quite a time tracing all the Bitcoin transactions that go to that address.

You can do it! My advice is to take it one day at a time and remember that nicotine cravings go away after about 10 minutes.

Tell me about it! I had to accept that part of quitting involved forever missing something, but knowing I'm better off without it.

The largest 3rd party in the country (according to polls) is talking about accepting donations that can't be traced by regulators like the Elections Commission. They've already been associated with a lot of US dark money who would love something like this to get around donation limits. This is definitely newsworthy.

Exchanges are, but anyone can make a working wallet using one of the many free programs available. No real name, no KYC, just a public/private key pair and an address.

The true face of Jesus.

To steal a tip from JB Smoove - walk around with one shoelace untied. Someone will notice.

"Hey, your shoelace is untied"

"Oh, thanks"

Ice: broken

KKR will "help it deal with its mountain of debt". How nice of them to not expect anything in return!

Sounds like you were the one being a troll in this case.

I have one friend who got divorced. It was difficult for him since it was during COVID and their 2-year-old daughter was involved, but now he's thriving and super well-adjusted. I think some people just refuse to come to terms with things beyond their control (namely the people in the pic).

Yeah it's real - people can have a seizure despite having no prior symptoms, and a scan won't be able to tell you they've had one unless they had it inside the MRI scanner. Unfortunately that's what makes it a plausible get-out-of-jail-free card for causing death by dangerous/distracted driving.

That stage of life is pretty difficult work-wise. Up until then most people's lives have been on rails: go to school, do exams, go to university, do exams. Now you've got all this choice, but also the idea that the "wrong" choice will affect your life in a negative way.

My advice is just to try out lots of things. At this age you're not locked into anything, you can spend a few years doing something, decide you don't want to keep doing it, and it's not time wasted. I'm 35 and I've got friends my age who are changing careers now. You'll never know if a career is "for you" until you've tried it.

Talking about trains with my fellow train drivers:

Talking about trains with those fucking idiot bus drivers who don't know shit:

Who said that? I couldn't find it in the article.

So... run at a massive deficit in the hopes that we'll get acquired by a bigger country?

What's the context for this? I've been out of the loop with this story.

Or, if they're a foreign agent being paid by another state, they'll be at the front of the queue of applicants because they don't mind the uncompetitive pay.

It certainly doesn't make you a worker.

Is there some kind of parental software that can lock down phones like what happens on corporate phones? Like where you can control which apps are installed etc? That sounds like the best approach: just give them a phone with WhatsApp, phone and SMS. Any refurbished phone from the last 10 years would work for that (lack of Android security updates might be an issue though)