Russia wants better access and control in the Atlantic sea, and the permafrost (or permathaw as it soon will be) is making large parts of Russia unsuitable for anything.

You need to be go further back. To 1642.

https://pmwikittc8.meta-studies.net/pmwiki.php?n=Site.Introduction%3Ffrom%3DMain.HomePage

Short option. It can’t keep rising.

If you also learn voluntary sharting you can make multi directional attack.

Now that would surprise Pikachu.

My main grip on this is that the sub-destinctions of racism makes it harder to deal with.

We have plenty of racism here in Scandinavia, but it’s only a knee deep trench. People are racist or they’re not. The racists hate the immigrants. They don’t care if the immigrants are black, middle eastern, asian or even white people from the town next over.

Once we start accepting the words that distinguish the out-groups, it only makes the trench deeper and more difficult to get out of, because then people can partially accept one group over the other, which maintains the overall racism.

You’re describing American racism, and rightfully so, because wypipo is also an American reference to the privileged white American stereotype.

I’m not American, which is why I question the need for all these distinctions in the simple concept of hating everyone outside your own tribe.

This is a rhetiricical question though. You need these words because you’re all American, and a majority of you hate everyone outside your own tribe.

The cop called me “a destitute” the last time I was arrested. Does this count?

Some year/decades ago Prague was the best place to experience fantastic jazz for cheap money. Probably still is to some degree.

This was because they had a lot of people enrolling in universities (music conservatories) due to poverty. They even have a one of a kind conservatory for blind musicians.

The entire countryside was a dead end, so anyone with a remote talent for doing the hand whistle would move from the villages all over the Czech Republic to take the chance in Prague. Education gave them a low but steady income and a chance of getting into an orchestra. Much like Hollywood, right? Except these people got paid to do it, so it obviously attracted many to do so.

However, orchestras and universities only need so many players and teachers, so once they were educated they ended up playing on the streets or in small dive in bars if they were lucky.

Mind, these were the state-of-art and most talented people at that in the world. Competition was fierce. Only the best could survive on that.

As an ignorant tourist not knowing the reasons, this was heaven. The street artists were more talented than the professional orchestras at home.

I myself had a dream of becoming a performing musician at the time but I gave up that dream after seeing a guitarist at a jazz club in Prague play the most magnificent solo while attempting to keep the band aid shut on his finger to avoid the blood dripping over the stage from playing ten gigs before on the same day.

Soon, if things continue the way they are, we will find the best computer programmers on the streets, making code for nickels while wearing casts to keep their mouse stain injuries from stopping them.

Anyway. Romans didn’t do that, but gladiators, musicians and coders are still just people trying to make living.

Dinosaur Jr., NoFx, Suicidal Tendencies.

Ah shit now I’m stuck watching skateboard videos all day, again.

I don’t think anybody wants that, or not from the current Iran conflict anyway.

Trump just declared the war over about an hour ago.

Whatever these stupid events are, it’s probably not escalating to a world war.

It’s from twitter or something so possibly.

According to the following explanation, it’s not really racist, but only used against the bad white people. I swear I’ve heard this before somewhere…

https://blackgirlinmaine.com/racial-and-cultural/why-people-must-you-misunderstand-wypipo/

In my opinion that’s a band aid that has to come off.

We shouldn’t take the high road to avoid backlash. The populists are going to go lower regardless of where we set the bar. This is how it has already gotten so low that we’re even debating straws.

We should set the bar much much higher, so they can bitch and moan about hundreds of issues instead of finding unity in single issues like straws.

It’s a phonetic slur for “white people”. Try to say it.

I didn’t know we needed such a word.

You can call me whatever you want, but I will adjust my expectations of anyone using skin color based slurs to generalize people - regardless of the color.

I don’t think people are limited to bitching about one thing at a time, so we definitely shouldn’t hold back the discussion of unsustainable meat production until they’re done bitching about straws.

I just stopped using it. No ban necessary.

I did get one or two temporary bans some years ago. First time was for criticizing their censorship. The second time was for sending the middle finger emoji to Spez.

I’m not going to go out of my way to delete my dead user or posts or anything. It’s not my problem. Quite frankly, I just don’t give a shit about their site.

We aren’t supposed to learn anything from the giga-fucks of data.

It’s the AI that will learn everything about you so it can invent new ways to throw marketing at you.

The Iran situation is going to end the same way as Afghanistan. USA will declare job done and just leave, leaving the mess for others to sort out. Oil production will ramp up elsewhere where it’s suddenly profitable to extract because of the higher prices which will eventually find a new balance. Israel will kill a lot of people domestically and play the victim.

Most pictures of flamingos are the Florida kind because of the color.

Flamingos (even American ones) aren’t born pink. They’re bright gray and look like ugly storks.

The main difference between American and African/Eurasian flamingo is the food that they eat. The American shrimps have pigments that are toxic to most animals. Flamingos basically made this into a chili eating contest, where the most red (and surviving) bird won the right to evolution.

The color goes away if they’re fed other things for a while, so Zoos actually have to dye the food.

I just want people to think.

I asked Google about it and it clearly didn’t understand what half a centaur is, but it did confirm that it is an even number.

You’re right, but even if everyone hates AI it’s just not possible to put the cat back in the sack and shut it down.

Someone will want to use it or at least have the technology available.

It should however be banned from being applied automatically. It’s such as waste of money and resources. I sure hope it’s not sentient. I’d feel sorry for it to have to carefully consider all my queries when I accidentally mistype the url for a porn site three times in a row.