The parched hillsides with sparse vegetation don’t accommodate many tonnes of water being dumped onto them from the air.

This guy is gonna be the whole world’s problem until we collectively shun him into Russia or something.

My grandfather drove a truck for the Finnish Army in WWII and helped drive them out of the country.

About $60 CAD per month for talk/text with 50GB data which is average for here

A Pixel 8 on contract was free for me if I commit three years with my provider. I think I will get seven years support from GOS which is a worthy enough lifespan for an everyday smartphone

The problem fundamentally is that the Russian people crave autocracy, maybe not on an individual level but certainly on a collective level.

Rural, uneducated, poor, hyperreligious, xenophobic bumpkins are always the foundation of support for every single autocrat in the last century.

I thought he was another right wing populist demagogue but apparently there is method to his madness. I hope he pulls off this stunt perfectly and is able to land the plane.

Irrespective of his merit or accomplisments as PM its clear the party needs a rebranding and there is only one pathway forward in that regard. .

Prince Andrew would side with Putin if he got to rule the UK as a vassal state.

Had he simply been royal dead weight it would have been less detrimental than his chosen trajectory.

Radicalization is required as an existential evolution.

Also the vetting process is important. We need young healthy educated modern immigrants, not elderly nationalistic bumpkins with antiquated social mores. Look at the health issues associated with Pakistani cousin marriage. Certainly importing people from specific regions with widespread social issues should be curtailed or avoided

It is possible to be economically and socially left but still have issues with migration making problems.

Shoehorning progressives into uncomfortable stances isn’t the way either

The GOP exists to oppose anything that serves the common good. They exist to transfer public wealth to private interests. That is their entire mandate

The left in Europe and across the world needs to get stricter and more restrictive towards immigration or else they will just open the door to mainstreaming the far-right.

My only solace is that Trump kills everything he touches and betrays everyone who is loyal to him.

Google is reaching the enshittification stage where corporate rot takes over. However due to the size and scale of the company it will continue to move forward like one of those insects that has had its agency taken over by the parasites that it is carrying around inside it.

Buy a large flat computer monitor and plug a small PC into it

It is a moot point because ghouls cannot die

She sure can grimace like nobody’s business.

We all agree these problems exist but MAGA has been propagandized such that they are so ass backwards that they end up pushing the wrong way