The Ukrainian point of view is that Russia somehow infiltrated both regions, faked a 90+% vote for independence in those regions, and invaded when Ukraine denied their independence.

I mean…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1938_Austrian_Anschluss_referendum

Have I got the tool for you

It’s bad enough that Wikipedia no longer allows linking to pages archived on there, and they’re actively working to replace any links already in use

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Archive.today_guidance

Put it up there with “Fortunate Son” and “Born in the U.S.A.”

That’s why I have my own olive trees, chicken farm, lemon orchard, anchovy fishery, and a dairy farm in Parma

I don’t know why anyone would buy readymade olive oil, eggs, lemon juice, anchovies, or Parmesan, they’re dead simple to make

I want to track down some Quatro bricks and find out.

We just have to succeed before we get drone striked

The American Revolution worked because there were professional military veterans fighting in and leading it. The American Civil War was a war because the Confederacy had professional military veterans and leaders fighting for it. A second American revolution/civil war only works if a significant part of the military defects and sides with us.

It absolutely does, because this time the enforcers wouldn’t be on the same side as the rioters

Hegseth has to be a master of drunken boxing

Not like any actual fighting style, just years of experience trying to punch people outside of bars

Because with harm reduction as the goal, the solution is never “give them more of the harmful thing.”

I’ll compare it to the problems of drug abuse. You don’t help someone with an addiction by giving them more drugs, you don’t help them by throwing them in jail just for having an addiction, you help them by making it safe and easy to get treatment for the addiction.

Look at what Portugal did in the early 2000s to help mitigate the problems associated with drug use, treating it as a health crisis rather than a criminal one.

You don’t arrest someone for being addicted to meth, you arrest them for stabbing someone and stealing their wallet to buy more meth; you don’t arrest someone just for being a pedophile, you arrest them for abusing children.

This means making AI better, more realistic, and at the same time more diverse.

No, it most certainly does not. AI is already being used to generate explicit images of actual children. Making it better at that task is the opposite of harm reduction, it makes creating new victims easier than ever.

Acting reasonably to prevent what we can prevent means shutting down the CSAM-generating bot, not optimizing and improving it.

We could feed the pedo AI more training data and make it even better!

No.

Why wager internet points when you can just wager actual money?

He wasn’t a good president, but I think Nixon was good at being president, and if he had the modern propaganda shield that Trump does, I’d be terrified of what he could have accomplished. All of Trump’s sycophants combined don’t hold a candle to what Kissinger was able to do under Nixon.

I’ve only been alive for five US presidents, and too young/too propagandized to really understand what was going on until the end of the Obama administration. But it really is the same shit over and over again, especially when it comes to foreign policy.

Fuck’s sake, he picks Andrew fucking Jackson as the first example? President "I’ve wanted to commit genocide since the War of 1812”? President “fighting the banks set up van Buren for a massive economic crisis”?

My username might give it away, I love studying the worst presidents in US history because they’re way more interesting than someone who was just kind of there and never got any scandals named for them. But damn, I really didn’t want to live through one of them

Hey, it was pretty cool before the Romans showed up

Bet you were pretty disappointed when Nelson Mandela got out too

There’s some interesting research from Kent State about that

The US has no credibility, from the USS Maine to the Gulf of Tonkin to this