You guys aren't going to believe this, but I called it. I felt it in the winds a few weeks ago that Kissinger would die before the year was out, and the winds told me the truth. Not the exact date mind you, and he was bound to die eventually, but still.

BlackRock and UK Gov doing a bit of the old Imperialism

We've had a lot of rain recently too, but it's not the wateriest I've seen.

I'm hearing also that they may have access to the Cuban Havana syndrome gun, and Anthrax, and yellow cake uranium, and...

Hyperloop gags aside, the fact that they're able to use cars underground suggests that they have the ventilation problem sorted out. At least, I hope they do. It would come in handy in case of an Israeli gas attack.

But it's not framed that way, and a lot of children won't see the similarities. I may not have, once upon a time, as critical thinking isn't encouraged at school. There are many things I think about in relation to economics and foreign and domestic policy which I had to have pointed out to me by more experiened leftists. This frustrates me, as I should have been able to spot these glaring double standards and errors by myself; it also makes me worry about the children of today, who may go their entire adult lives without encountering anything which intellectually challenges them.

Is there still a premium feed around? I want to listen to their series about the manosphere

The merch seller, venue staff, and the rest of the crew deserve at least as much if not more money than the band, and I say that as a musician. Besides which, the band will be taking the lion's share of the profit from the merch sales themselves (unless the venue or label are saying that they want a cut of merch sales, and some do).

He already did step down as CEO. Which is funny, because there's a clip of him from the GN video complaining about the lack of time to make content... my friend, you were the one who created this working environment.

In that case, I'm not sure you do understand. They will never get the Donbass or Crimea back (at least not during this conflict); every Ukrainian death that happens now is happening for no reason, and is actively going to make their recovery harder. I'm saying that by packing it in now, they'd be cutting their losses. Do you think losing now would be worse for them than losing further down the line, when their population has been further depleted?

We don't want them to lose, we want the war to end. At the moment, that would mean ending in Russia's favour. Ukraine has been propped up by the west since last year. Without American money and weapons, they would already have collapsed. A staggering number of people have fled, and hundreds of thousands of men have come back from the front with life-changing injuries, which means their economy is going to really struggle for the next few decades. The West will have to pull out eventually, and then Ukraine will have to sign some peace agreement which likely won't be in their favour. However, continuining until the West says "enough is enough" (and after Iraq and Afghanistan, who knows how long that will be) will force more people out of the country and deplete the working population inside the country even further. What does Ukraine have to gain by sticking it out?

Perhaps, yes. I'm not sure what exactly the US has in South Korea, and I'm too lazy to look it up, but they must have ports and airfields. Having to defend those from the DPRK would force the US to commit resources away from the Taiwan Strait, making it easier for both China and the DPRK to get what they want. On the other hand, this could be a yolo moment for DPRK, as a Chinese loss in any coming war would mean the loss of their main trading partner. Might as well strike whilst you have the chance.