Not even anywhere near that long. There have been humans for probably more than 200,000 years. Probably more. It gets confusing when you go back that far. But our written history only accounts for maybe 10,000 of those years. So 5% of total human history, if we take the minimum estimate of what it takes for us to be human. We have no evidence to support the fact that human advancement even lasts as long as written history. I mean, shit... the Romans had central heating and cement, and then they died out and we forgot how to do those things for 1,000 years. Our knowledge, and the acquisition of same is not exactly linear. Lots of fits and starts over the course of the various human civilizations that have occurred.

'Cause I'm drunk on a Thursday (Friday very early in the morning), and I've lost control of my life.

I've seen that in a lot of threads, and there never really seems to be a common definition for what that actually means. Could you enlighten the class?

Well, that post is actually where I learned about you lot. Granted, I'd heard quite a bit about tankies beforehand, but just never realized how far divorced from reality y'all actually are. Then, I was greeted with a whole horde of absolute morons with such incredibly braindead takes that I felt compelled to ask a couple of them if they had suffered brain damage as a child. It was that question which got me banned, actually. Asking if they had been dropped on their heads as a kid.

And it made me realize that in addition to being delusional, y'all are also generally crybabies to boot.

That's a mighty big leap there, skipper. The nazis also occasionally paved roads. Does that mean that all DoT workers are secretly nazis, too?

My bad! Another classic. Mel Brooks just does not miss.

My favorite bit about Flat Earthers is that most of the ones who consider the question of other planets / moons believe that they are all spheres. Because they can see them. But the Earth is somehow a special case.

What a lot of people fail to grasp about why Ukraine isn't advancing more quickly despite having superior equipment and training than the vast majority of the Russian army is the realities on the ground. For example, NATO tactics assume no, or very few mines. Ukraine is the most heavily mined place on Earth now. NATO tactics assume air superiority. Ukraine has very few fighter jets, and won't receive new ones from Western countries for several more months.

The reality is that despite being better equipped and trained, there are still several extremely difficult obstacles in the way of them reclaiming their land, and so they're taking it fairly slow in an effort to not throw lives away unnecessarily. Even so, every square inch they liberate is paid for in blood.

Still, I'm optimistic about the next few months. Ukrainians just reached the first Surovikin line near Novoprokopivka, and the latest reports suggest they've already entered the eastern side of that village. If they can take it and the high ground in that area, they'll have about 12km of contact with the trench network. If they can make a breakthrough at any point along that line, they can assault the length of it from 3 different directions, and collapse a whole front.

Also, with the death of Prigozhin, there's a decent chance of more unrest in Moscow, which would likely move Russians off the front line to quell any dissent back home. That, combined with morale among the Russian forces being at an all-time nadir makes me optimistic about Ukraine's chances of advancing to Tokmak this year. And Tokmak is a lynchpin of the entire Russian defense in the area. It's a major hub, as it is where all of the rail lines from the east join the west. If the Ukrainians control Tokmak, practically the entire area south of the Dnipro will be cut off from supplies.

So yeah, fingers crossed!

Yeah. I was thoroughly disillusioned by what the DNC did to Bernie. Really pissed me off. Still voted for Hillary, though, because her opponent is a literal monster. I hate having to make that kind of choice every 4 years: "vote for the shitty candidate who will do very little, or vote for an actual piece of shit who will do everything in their power to strip all of the progress we've made in the 20th century". It's awful.

I can’t say one single fucking word about how the trials related to trump are a complete out of control purely political witchhunt

I mean, you can say that all you'd like. Just don't be surprised when people judge you to be not very intelligent because of it. It is a profoundly dumb take, after all.

Tell me you don't know how vaginas work without telling me that you don't know how vaginas work.

To be fair, if enough snowflakes have a meltdown, you get a snowlake.