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I imagine Commodus in Gladiator, Putin gasping and sobbing to his generals, "And now they love Zelenskyy for his bravery. So I can't just kill him, or it makes me even more unmerciful! The whole thing's like some crazed nightmare."

The rampant incompetence of Russia on this is kinda appaling.... Are they baiting for something worse or has Putin really gone that smoothbrained from being surrounded by Yes men for so long?

I think it's practicality. The US has an image to uphold, democracy to maintain - public opinion matters to democracies, because leaders and parties will lose their shot if they fuck up too hard. Russia has the luxury of not giving a shit about that, and can conduct warfare much more wrecklessly.

Chechen war was a meat-grinder. I remember Google Earth featured visible flames scattered around Grozny for a long time, until images were updated.

Watching Russian invasion on TV makes you almost wish back discussions about mask manddates ...

Yeah, it is very stressful.

Night.

Now you need to find a PS5.

It gets released for PS4, but yeah, sure, 10-20 years from now, I'll get it!

Woke up to the centrists bots trying to make the stuff in Ukraine the fault of the leftwing candidate. That level of brain damage on the lead up to elections is usually a good thing for a candidate, isn't it?

Rus v Ukr is a geopolitical standoff as old as the khanates, I always cringe when I see simplistic takes like "this is his or her fault, they are too corrupt or lame or power-hungry"

The world is full of frozen conflicts, like the Berlin-Paris rivalry that is kept in check through EU and NATO partnership. If that goes away, back come the wars, and Americans will be talking about Biden or Tucker Carlson.

Not Trump or Bidens fault. It's the fault of the REPTILIAN OVERLORD MOON BASE TRANNY BOTS.

Another pet peeve is people whining about how miserable they are all the time. Make the change you want and bring people into your life not drive them away with misery otherwise you will just end up dead anyway.

Mu wife's aunt was like this and she ended up dying of cancer basically alone.

Some people are just miserable though. As if it's the only source of stimuli they know

"He was going steady with this thing called life. Not married to it as you can see he is quite dead now."

I think when people say that they mean the person did stuff besides the normal stuff or maybe they are just saying trite shit for the funeral.

Honestly, I think they're just hammered by the realization their living loved one is no longer living, and so soon after, there's too many intricate personality traits to pick from, so they all land on "loved to live". Watched some court thingy, where lke 3 relatives in succession described the deceased as "loved to live", despite the person seeming interested in a bunch of specific stuff.

But US and Russia are both the type that by their own nature, by now, cannot permit any sort of significant change, because the path chosen is by now too deeply intrenched. Too many people of too substancial means depend too greatly on the system not only persisting, but intensifying.

We boast about having so much biodiversity and farmers are still doing their thing in the mud with no roads or infrastructure yet we also shackled them with having to respect Monsanto's rules on agraculture so no reusing seed, we destroy surplus crops and their stock is bought for cheap. It's so stupid, it's not even capitalism it's just a couple of families hoarding money the dumbest way possible.

And to circle back to that one of the leading "gotchas" against the leftist candidate is that he wore Ferragamo shoes. Like, motherfucker is a senator, you want him to go there on sneakers? You arribist pieces of shit would also throw a fit about that.

Like a statue on top of his head, marvellous

Googled "young David Lynch" and that motherfucker always sported the fuckboy hair of the era, didn't he? He is adaptable to the times for someone that old that doesn't like people watching things on their phones.

He has always been eccentric.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter was only 300 pages or so and spawned 9 seasons.

76 000 words, so between "very long novel" and "absolutely epic!" according to most sites. Like I said - the expectation seems to be really, really tiny books :I

It depends. Those tiny books are easy to sell everywhere at places like Wal-Mart since the education level of the average consumer is lower than somewhere like a book store. Red Dragon is a real easy read at about the same page length. Keep it in mind.

And it all started cus we wanted so desperately to *appear* on board with the big-boys rules, "Oh look, America banned the black people's jazz-drug! Maybe they will be impressed with us, if we ban it too :o"
And now we just stick to our guns, "nono, we banned it because of its INHERENT DANGER >;'''I"

By now, the entire Norwegian police force is built entirely on busting stoners - we have like 3 murders a year, a handful of burglaries - the only thing that keeps police stations even standing is the pot-busts, NOTHING else. Holy fuck how I fucking hate them, the entire goddamn police station in the city, ENTIRELY dedicated to busting potheads, and NOTHING else

Oh yeah, we had 108 official murders on record in 2019 for the state of New Mexico, and all they want to do is bust potheads too. Ya know why? Because it's much easier than approaching that tinted windshield on the side of the highway.

But it does not accept "automatild", automatic-fire, suggesting instead "automatsild", automatic-herring.

Is that the final boss of Chrono Trigger?

Like yes, algorithm - you're right; I *do* enjoy the songs that are on my play-list, thanks for recommending them right back at me, over and over and over

Such a powerful avatar you have built. It would be a shame if someone subtracted from it.

I’m in the same age group as Zegh’s username. Also, I can’t search product reviews without getting dumbass Hindu currency prices…..

I got the Hindu-thing for a while. Do you have "personalized searches" or whatevs on or off? I have them off, because I *loathe* the idea of having Google try to get to know me, and try to personalize my internet - it sounds like a fucking nightmare - but it DOES cause some confusion in Google's results - including quirks that seem utterly random, like Hindu-focused search results and such.

up the page count, or something? Wtf - with a word-count of 8000, font Courier, font size 10, I average on 20 pages!

What I MEANT to find out was: It seems there is a consensus of 3000-5000 words being "adequate" chapter length, with 5000+ being overall considered too much, while nearly all my chapters are betwen 5 and 10K words. NONE are 100 pages long :'D

The language being used has some to do with it.

https://i.redd.it/x6l4ewnd82e81.jpg

Tbh, too busy writing lately. After decades of dicking around, I've started a new project, a dystopia, 6 protagonists of low class, 3 men, 3 women, in a far northern Siberian megapolis 300 years from now, 50 million people, rainy winters, scorching rebellious summers, and more capitalism than a million elon musks would know what to do with.

Summer is coming :v

"Article: Something is happening, and here is what!"

Half the replies: "What's happening!?!? D:"

Mhm.

Like they punched him on the cheek *piff!* and he punched them on theirs *paff!* and they go back and forth like this a little while, untill they're all "wow, this guy's too sharp for us! better bail! this is maga country! you have not seen the last of us!"

And I *love* how - according to his own testimony, at this very point, he has a noose around his neck, and is unaware. He goes home, noose still there, then rumages around the house, getting a snack waiting for the cops, noose still there!

I would have believed him if he wasn't full of shit.

Is that when you you say "no homo" when you do your bro in the butt so it stops being gay?

No, being a "rompis" is definitely definitively being gay.

I like that one.