this is a stupid present, though.

just think how much MORE stupid our future can get!!

hell yeah

Yeah, a Russian "freelance journalist"... https://informnapalm.org/en/leonid-ragozin-russian-opposition-journalist-in-latvia-as-promoter-of-kremlins-narratives/

Meanwhile, despite a few angry escapades in recent days, Ukraine’s European partners may begin to fall in line with the US on Ukrainian membership. On February 14, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said there was never a guarantee that Ukraine would join the alliance as part of a peace deal with Russia.

This statement contradicted some of his earlier pledges. In December 2024, the newly appointed Rutte said at a joint news conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy that Ukraine’s “path to membership is irreversible” and that it was “closer to NATO than ever”.

That's not really a contradiction

Contrary to various Western predictions that the Russian economy will collapse and the regime will crumble under war pressure, Russia has managed to fare relatively well throughout this conflict. Its economy has been booming thanks to lavish defence spending and – unlike Ukrainians – the Russian population has been effectively shielded from the war becoming a major factor in their lives.

Lol

I enjoyed this, thank you.

Worth noting, it ends with the "We cannot accept this level of inequality any longer.". I confirmed, and checked the source.

Still a lot of scrolling left over after that of empty page.

it's very good

That there was a muppet show pilot that was basically the same as the rest of the show, but was received differently because of a deliberately off putting subtitle, is very very funny to me. Henson was a mad man

perfect addition

https://theonion.com/i-appreciate-the-muppets-on-a-much-deeper-level-than-yo-1819583976/

same!

Im a single-tissue poster. Achoo ! Ok im done

i appreciate this!! i have been sitting on a "set up a robots.txt for my site" and this is a useful guide

i'm a single-issue fed poster if there is a particularly evil ceo named bowser

the year of luigi was more important to me than christmas

now we need someone named mario to off a rich guy too

or is it just edited entirely by dorks.

what do you think wikipedia is

on the one hand it is funny that there is a wikipedia article for the year of luigi. on the other does wikipedia actually need an entire article dedicated to a nintendo advertising campaign or is it just edited entirely by dorks.

This is an old piece that slipped through the cracks for me the first time around.

as part of the 20%, i also liked it

Imo he's one of the "M4A, hates Clintons" crowd that haven't achieved much and aren't good on queer liberation, racial equity, immigration and drug and carceral issues so I don't particularly care to align myself with him.

i know that some people take freddie de boer quite seriously but every time i encounter him he's going off half cocked on some obscure technical point that serves nobody. plus he posted cringe on twitter like ten years ago. i don't remember the details of that but if i remember right it wasn't good

I just got one question: how's this gonna help me get away with violating the Volstead act?

Should've used a VeraCrypt hidden volume

Also poor guy

1930s gangster, we re going to pull you into the 21st century. Im putting together a crew...

I do not care that some of this money was made in "options" or "bonuses" or the other kinds of ways that rich people hide how they pay themselves. That's how much they made; that much money, which might have gone anywhere and to anyone in the way that money does, instead wound up stopping with them.

Memorizing this for the next time I talk about wealthy people with my boss or dad