I’m not an expert or anything, but I like to watch analysis on geopolitics and I heard a couple of times that it would also be a way to gain the legitimacy to enroll more people to an unpopular war because Putin knows it’s not going to end well for him if the war ends. The war is getting very unpopular in Russia. It would be bad economically to transition back to peace since normal jobs are already scarce and not very lucrative compared to the jobs linked to the war. People wouldn’t have as much money to spend and it would cause the economy to spiral down even more.

If NATO does nothing, with a handful of drone strikes, Putin could scare some countries into keeping their ammunition and military equipment for themselves instead of sending them to Ukraine. He also could demonstrate that NATO is weak and indecisive. If NATO does something he could claim he was right and that Russia must mobilize if it wants to survive turning the conflict into an existential crisis and hopefully (for him) convincing the Russians that the war is necessary.

At first I was puzzled too, but after hearing this rational it kinda made sense to me why Putin would poke NATO like that.

Edit: Also, I heard there is a political party that is openely agaisnt the war. I don’t remember its name, but the party’s logo is an apple and russians are sharing short videos of them eating an apple or having an apple somewhere in the video as a way to support the party’s message. I thought I would add this since I’ve found it interesting.

I don’t speak english natively. That’s why I didn’t know, yeah.

Didn’t know since we don’t follow this convention where I’m from.

Shrugs

2022: Come on, it’s just 8$ it’s basically the price of a coffee.

2026: Come on, it’s just 20$ it’s basically the price of a coffee.

The kind of person that will whine if I don’t press the button and cross the street.

We removed all the backseats of your car, yes that’s true, we are sorry about that. This is a random new internal policy. We understand this might be upsetting to you but you asking for reparation seems to be a bit of an exageration since you have used your car for so much hours already.

I feel it’s like reading a book. While I am, like everybody else, inclined toward the path of no resistance, I always end up having fun playing a new game. Starting a new game always feel a bit like a chore, but it always end up clicking to the point I keep thinking about the game and looking forward to play it.

My SO and I don’t share interests that much, but we share values and are similar/compatible in so much regards. When we start talking it is hard to stop. We have been living together for 20 years.

I don’t think having shared interests is as necessary as you seem to suggest.

I used to manipulate those at an old job. Even if they were packaged, I had to wear a mask and gloves every single time. They also made us read multiple articles with photos of terrible birth defects. They weren’t fucking around.

Unlucky boy

Dr. Light, Dr. Watson, Dr. Strange, Dr. Jekyll, Dr. Crusher, Dr. McCoy, Dr. Jones, Dr. Who.

The irony.

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The black market is going to thrive.

Showing a video you genuinely find funny to your best hommie just to be forced to watch him obviously pretending to laugh for two minutes.

From your youtube wall, click the tree dots aligned vertically next to the title of the video under the thumbnail and select “Don’t recommend this channel” from the drop down menu.

You will have to do this for his alt channels and the twich clip channels as you see them on your youtube wall. Very soon he should vanish and you won’t hear about him except maybe from other channels who shits on him.

Very useful to get rid of shitty AI chanels as well.

It’s much more peaceful and organic than other platforms. I’m glad I removed reddit from my life two years ago. I don’t miss it one bit.

Damn, that’s a lot of people who didn’t read the article.