Scumbags.....

Is this the same Rio Tinto that blew up the aboriginal site in Australia?

A fash pervert at that........wait.....I'm being redundant again, my bad.

2023 just told 2022 to hold its beer.

The end is extremely fucking nigh.

The Navy also has multi layered defensive postures. There are few in this world dumb enough to go toe to toe with a carrier strike group. Also the US hasn't fought a war with a country that had a respectable navy since Korea(?).

Pretty cool flex on the part of the Constitution tho.

Are you talking about the Japanese fishing vessel?

It's the only ship in the US Navy with a confirmed kill.

A pyrrhic victory of life. Johnny Cash is such a tragic story. Dude had everything and nothing all at once and in the end the bill wasn't worth the meal.

To me he was saying that if he could go back and do it all over again he wouldn't.

Have you seen the music video? It's a gut punch of him singing with snapshots of his life and all he'd lost. I cried like a bitch the first time I saw it.

Only music video I cried like a baby to. It's absolutely heartbreaking.

It sure as shit wasn't the Goombas.

So if I'm understanding this right our brains are seeing modern society and all it's daily trappings as a bad bet and a losing proposition and so tells us that it's a good idea to nope out of the situation in any way possible.

This makes a lot of sense.

Enhance!

Meh

If it's well written sarcasm the /s shouldn't be necessary.

Shiny!

There is also the historic and cultural disdain the Russians have for the Ukrainians. They even have a bigoted term for them. In the average russians mind it is unthinkable to lose to Ukraine. It's an old trick. Dehumanize the enemy and your soldiers are capable of anything.

Even if it was a Ukrainian that did the job I would still expect the nukes to fly.

This would need Russian fingerprints or none at all.

I am unfortunately aware of the average Russians opinion on the war. That's what worries me. I fully expect Putin to go "scorched earth" rather than lose face by admitting any level of defeat. I am also aware of the Russians cultural and historic denigration of Ukrainians. Russians losing to Ukrainians is unthinkable for a large percentage of the population.

Putin is "all in" at this point. There is no future in which he capitulates and retains power. So he's going to escalate and escalate until he can't or he's dead.

Yeah, fuck "we".

This is on the Russian people to take care of. If "we" have anything to do with it it will only escalate things dramatically.

Putin has no choice. He's backed into a corner. If he capitulates he loses all the fear he has used to rule so far. He either wins or he dies.

Wouldn't that mean that all plastic extrusion creates nanoplastics? I realize this kind of repair usually happens in the open air, but the method used isn't much different than normal plastic manufacturing, right?