oh my fucking god she thinks that Nietzsche's description of master-slave morality was him commenting on real life slavery??? and asks where his source is for that being how slavery worked??? https://t.co/ruDhaUyHYR

— ً (@INXLiNGs) February 15, 2025

And is performative edginess actually any less cringe, or just a slightly more offensive manifestation of the same ODD toddler mindset? Can you be outré without being a ten year old who finally worked up the nerve to curse on voicechat?

Drinking age should be 25 for men and 45 for foids

you won't have any problems if you can't remember them. my name is my advice to you all

I really don't understand why they didn't withdraw from the town when it was threatened with encirclement. Is Ukrainian command that dumb? Didn't they learn anything from Krynky?

— ℨ𝔢𝔩𝔦𝔤 𝔙𝔞𝔰𝔦𝔯𝔬𝔳 (@ZeligVasirov) January 26, 2025

There are countless people supporting Russia's invasion so I wouldn't be surprised if half of them simply refused to leave

— Pindrop (@X_Basnet) January 26, 2025

Pro Ukrainian rather admit that many Ukrainians are pro Russian than Ukrainian commanders are r-slurs ?

But this time it wasn't the case those guys got ultimatum in couple of hours to surrender. They didn't probably had some hopium that the higher ups had things under the control since those guys never got retreat command

The fall of Velyka Novosilka should serve as an example to everyone of the absolute incompetence of the Ukrainian command when it comes to withdrawing troops from dangerous salients. It also represents Ukraine's PR-based tactics (which don't win wars).

— AMK Mapping 🇺🇦🇳🇿 (@AMK_Mapping_) January 26, 2025

As of 23 January 2025, during the Russian assault on Velyka Novosilka, the 110th Brigade didn't get the time to withdraw from the southern part. With the bridge of the town destroyed, calls to surrender are being offered while the clearing of the settlement by Russian forces is in process.[15]

This what Wikipedia says

On January 24, Russian troops "divided" the Ukrainian Armed Forces group in half in Velyka Novosilka of the Donetsk People's Republic; the 110th separate mechanized brigade was completely blocked in the southern part of the village.[15]

(Russian wiki)

This story was posted 2 days ago

Today Ukrainian media posts everything is fine

Everything is fine Ruzzia will lose

https://kyivindependent.com/potential-encirclement-in-velyka-novosilka-prompts-questions-about-last-ditch-withdrawal-strategy/

Ukraine lost that town 20+ hours ago this post was made 12 hours ago thinking about how to not get into encirclement

It is now facing a similar fate to other Donbas strongholds, where Ukraine's delayed withdrawals resulted in avoidable casualties, according to military experts.

Russian troops appear to have cut into the center of Velyka Novosilka, likely dividing the town into two and trapping Ukrainian troops in the south, according to Pasi Paroinen at the Finland-based open-source intelligence organization Black Bird Group. Paroinen said on Jan. 25 that the southern pocket appears to have just fallen, with Ukrainians likely holding onto Velyka Novosilka's northwestern areas and Russia expected to complete the capture in "days."

Not same fate since I think its first time that Ukrainian absolutely failed to retreat and didn't surrender and since Russian learned to neutralise starlink, that why we didn't seen any videos about those soldiers.

"The question is if it's closer to a thousand or closer to a few hundred, and considering how bad the manpower situation is, it's probably going to be closer to several hundred," Paroinen told the Kyiv Independent, adding that it is "purely a rough estimate"

Jfl they trying to cope at every corner. That place was important base for Ukraine. During 2023 spring counteroffensive that town supposed to help reach Mariupol. So more than thousands soldiers protected it and manpower problem was a bit fixed when Ukraine disbanded some brigades and send their soldiers to already existed ones.

Any way I told early this month that Ukraine will lose Kurakhove, Toretsk and Novosilka and they indeed lost it

Now they will try to do this

This move will ignore new defense lines Ukraine been building

(Line west Dnipro)

Russia will also try to do this, technically Russian have pokrovsk at more than 180 degree

Locals are preparing the city of Pavlohrad in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast for defence. A ring fortification is being formed around the city. pic.twitter.com/OrM45rls0J

— AMK Mapping 🇺🇦🇳🇿 (@AMK_Mapping_) January 26, 2025

But it's seem that Ukrainian started realising pokrovsk is secondary objective for Russian and Pavlohrad is the main

By reaching Pavlohrad, Russian will wipe out 50% of supply lines to east Ukraine. It will not only make Ukraine lose souther part but will also question if Ukraine will be able to hold Kharkiv

Ukraine also lost last village in Luhansk (2 hamlets left)

Meanwhile Ukrainian military sponsored maps post this

https://old.reddit.com/r/economicCollapse/comments/1ia87tg/trump_ends_aid_to_ukraine/

So Ukraine wiped out that Novosilka brigade not to look week in front of Trump but Trump

Made up his mind.

The reason probably could be that Zelensky non stop boosting how he won't stop the war and needs "good hearted" or similar homosexuality worded peace deal. Homo been boosting about defeating Russia and chilling in Crimea

So frick that all bullshit and he should be accounted for his word. He got everything he asked to defeat the Russian if he can't he should return all the buxx and if he can't he should go defeat the Russian.

The EU will step up their game.

Oh yeah baby Germany will set new records in shrinking its economy

https://old.reddit.com/r/FluentInFinance/comments/1iai9n1/trump_ends_aid_to_ukraine/

Here Redditors simp for military complex

It's actually mostly in the form of surplus goods. They are sending expiring munitions and already replaced assets. The "money" is the monetary value of the already purchased surplus being shipped.

Essentially we are sending our leftovers from OIF and OEF.

Still should NOT be stopping aid, I'm just giving perspective.

It's kinda brutal that people still think Ukraine getting old stuff. When we have stories like this:

Or

Ukraine literally getting shells and AD missiles straight out of factories now even Atacms are straight out of factories since Ukraine wasted them all on Crimea. US was building around 200 of them a year and the expired one were wasted in September 2023.

Just want to point out, we've sent Ukraine leftovers from as far back as Vietnam.

Yes m113 that are still in service in US

But Germany is building it's replacement "Lynx" and guess who first started using this tech Ukraine

And if Ukraine get old shit it gets modernised to the newest shit. Every Bradley Russian captured was made/modernised after 2021

https://old.reddit.com/r/massachusetts/comments/1iaj6m2/support_freedom_support_ukraine_remove_these/

Brave warrior

huh. It's amazing to me that anyone with access to media that isn't state-run Russian propaganda could possibly have this view.

It's not Russian propaganda that was hyping Ukraine and now doesn't know what to do since they been telling Russia is constantly losing x10 men and now Trump comes out and says it's 1 to 1 ration. Redditors still didn't recovered that Ukraine has more men in the front and getting pushed back by Russian.

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1i2abjp/ukraines_military_now_totals_880000_soldiers/

Finding billion excuses

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1ia8ikr/ukraine_war_briefing_us_has_not_stopped_military/

Even with aid they started to looking for copes like no he didn't stopped for Ukraine and then

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1ia7uto/us_diplomats_push_for_exemption_on_ukraine_aid/

Brave diplomats are fighting for exception. Exception is 90 day no cases are won in 90 days

Also why you believe Russian propaganda

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/1iaqya8/ukrainian_forces_catch_russian_troops_in_fire/

Well, the article if you read it, says after the Himars ambush Ukrainians returned and cleared the area.......

So ruzzians dead, Ukraine retook the tree line......

Ukraine achieved its set goal.

This article has ZERO mentioning of Himars yet they delusions are so strong that they still believe in winderwaffle from 2022

Ukraine's objective for the last couple of years has been to trade land for Russian equipment.

Withdrawing in good order from a defensive position because it has no remaining buildings and is at risk of encirclement is good policy.

Spring counteroffensive wasn't "years" of krinky or Kursk suicide (part 2 was on January 7)

https://old.reddit.com/r/BreakingPoints/comments/1iar60l/trumps_peace_plan_for_ukraine_war_is_leaked/

Zelensky must revoke the decree forbidding negotiations with Putin

Zelenskyy already told his decree that forbids HIM the president of Ukraine to speak with Putin is for everyone except himself

But let's see how Redditors were hyping for it and telling it's the best shit

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/xvamaf/zelenskiy_decree_rules_out_ukraine_talks_with/

91% approval rating for Zelensky. You might waiting a while there Putin.

Uff did this aged

I love the Kremlin's reply to this, "guess we'll have to wait for a different president in Ukraine". Isn't it cool when a president is an elective position, huh? Bet they wonder how that is like.

But aside from that, the chances of Putin keeping his seat longer than Zelensky (who, I am sure, will leave the position as per his country's laws when his time will be up) are slim.

This also aged well since Zelenskyy is the only unelected president in Europe now that refused to leave

But good news don't end here for Ukraine

Chasiv Yar.

Fighting continues for the high-rise blocks in the city centre. Assault companies with the 331st regiment are attacking from positions in the refractory plant, towards the private residential area.

However, the main Ukrainian force withdrew from the city centre a… pic.twitter.com/ClMOd6AbaN

— AMK Mapping 🇺🇦🇳🇿 (@AMK_Mapping_) January 27, 2025

Seems like they also basically lost Chasiv Yar

Ukraine #ChasivYar Die russische Armee hat gestern in ChasivYar den unterirdischen NATO-UkraBunkerkomplex erobert (Koba). Bei seiner teilweisen Zerstörung durch die russische Luftwaffe März 2014 kamen zahlreiche Ukra- und NATO-Offiziere ums Leben.#Russia pic.twitter.com/pIUw3we8dX

— YOURMEDIA AGENCY (@YourmediaAgency) January 27, 2025

Since this bunker system was protecting the city.

All going well, a ceasefire will be declared along the entire line of contact on April 20th (Easter), and Ukrainian troops will withdraw from Kursk region.

This also won't work since Ukraine's need this as minimum

Without this territory they won't be able to use their second largest port and they are already in shit

Ukraine lost approximately 1/2 of its natural resources with the incorporation of four of its former regions into Russia -former Commander-in-Chief of the AFU Muzhenko.

Russia has seized half of Ukraine’s resources, which has allowed it to fully cover the costs of waging the war pic.twitter.com/9Ssa5z0jV6

— Jacque Line🇵🇭 (@MissJacque_line) January 27, 2025

Zelenskyy life is hanging on Kursk, he need to cover it in some kind victory no matter what's happen to Donbas

⁠The end of April will also see the beginning of mass returns of prisoners of war. • ⁠The International Peace Conference will make a formal declaration of an agreement on the war's end by May 9th. • ⁠After May 9th, Ukraine will begin to lift martial law and end mobilisation. • ⁠New presidential elections will be held in Ukraine by the end of August, with parliamentary/local elections to follow by October.

Symbolic way it's such a beautiful plan

• ⁠Ukraine will formally declare neutrality and renounce their ambition to join NATO, who will for their part approve this at their next summit. • ⁠Ukraine will join the EU by 2030, who will assist in the post-war reconstruction. • ⁠Ukraine will not be required to reduce the size of their army and the US will continue to assist their modernisation. • ⁠Ukraine will abandon diplomatic/military efforts to return the occupied territories, but will not formally recognize their annexation. • ⁠Russia will see some sanctions lifted immediately on the war's conclusion; more will be lifted in 2028 depending on their compliance. All EU restrictions on Russian energy imports will be lifted. However, Russia will also be subject to a (time-limited) levy from Europe to be used for funding Ukraine's reconstruction. • ⁠"Parties advocating for the protection of the Russian language and for peaceful coexistence with Russia" will be allowed to take part in the elections. Laws targeting the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and "promotion of the Russian language" will also be lifted. • ⁠The possible European post-war peacekeeping force is still a live issue; Ukraine obviously wants it but Russia remains vehemently opposed, so further negotiations are required.

Even if this is not ideal for Russia, it will be GIGA L for Zelenskyy and co. It will mean Russia gets every thing except formal recognition of Crimea and military help from US

So no fricking way Zelenskyy will agree on this

I like the part where Ukraine has to back out of Kursk but Russia doesn't have to back out of anywhere, with no guarantees.

It's like retaking positions without a shot fired.

Yeah, not sure how that makes sense myself. Zelensky was portraying Kursk as the biggest victory and bargaining chip of the war. On the other hand, it does look like Russia will end up retaking it before April.

I mean, if territory is the concern here, the current trajectory of the war has Ukraine losing what they hold in Kursk month on month elsewhere in Ukraine. If you had a deal that was agreeable, holding it up over leaving Kursk would seem to be counterproductive.

It also could just be swapped alternatively for what the Russian hold in Kharkiv, which is similar size.

If we assume Ukraine stop losing territory in Kursk.

Ukraine will lose more new territory in Kharkiv than they hold by April because Russian main goal logically would be now to cut northern supply routes to sloviansk kramatorsk. Their bridgehead is now solid

And they have a solid path to attack Ukrainian weakspots.

Republicans offered Zelenskyy to lower the mobilisation but that's Zelenskyy last card and it's empty because men are now running away at accelerating speed

They non stop looking for new ways out so despite they have like

700k in new age group

(Map is from 2022 https://sceeus.se/publikationer/ukraines-alarming-demographics/)

At best case Ukraine will mobilise 80k new soldiers so 2 months of Russian volunteers and kill Ukrainian moral.

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/1ibaypy/donald_trumps_100_day_ukraine_peace_plan_leaked/

Here more Redditors sneeding about Trump plan

Ukraine gets nothing and Russia will invade again in 4 years. Cool cool

Why he sad, didn't he wanted to defeat Russia on battlefield ?

Guy like him should enlist and maybe they will able to join the legendary summer party in Crimea

Like what's so hard to understand khohol promised they gonna win and now they need a way out before they will be fully wiped out and crying for fair peace after rejecting all previous Russian offers and promising to the world that they going to defeat Russian… come one they should have some pride. Russian gave them multiple "goodwill gesture"

https://old.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/vo3q97/russia_says_it_has_withdrawn_from_snake_island_as/

Redditor made fun back then but now it's Ukrainian turn for goodwill gestures

Socks is such a good big sister as a former feral herself, this cannot be easy

!animalposters !cats

https://old.reddit.com/r/redscarepod/comments/1ir8uxd/look_trump_blows_but_liberal_media_should_never/

There are people arguing that it is absolutely IDIOTIC that someone would hike in jeans when doing so could KILL you.

Redditors: Russian gdp smaller than Italian, sanctions will destroy Russian gdp

No Redditors:

Go read a fricking book.

GDP measures economic activity, says nothing about the health of a country. The U.S spends a trillion on the military a year, that goes into GDP too. Build a house, blow it up, build it again, that's two houses into the GDP.

This also proves that west is betabuxxing. Ukraine just doesn't have the money to pay 3k minimum a month to around million soldiers when their gdp per capita is 5k and their money is unfrozen despite they promised to keep it frozen chosen

https://kyivindependent.com/hryvnia-rate-to-remain-frozen-until-martial-law-ends/

West also trying to limit Ukrainian printing machine

Because Ukraine is already more or less bankrupt and doesn't have that big of a war industry

Thing is if Russia went from Summy and Chernihov Ukrainian wouldn't given much frick. Those are poor regions so despite majority folks in Donbas don't like Ukraine, Ukraine can't let them go since Ukraine in such case will never be able to rebuild it self since Donbas holds 50% of Ukrainian resources and shit tons of factories.

Russia has an Inflation rate of above 9%.

Therefore, the real GDP shrunk.

*21%

The interest rates of the central bank are at 21%. Inflation is around 9% according to Statista.

You do know that these published numbers are always real GDP growth, right? I've never seen a nominal GDP growth comparison chart in my life.

That's why I love Redditors they most of times have no idea what they are talking about and can keep it going for years. Like at this point they should had learned interest and inflation is not the same but nope, then they still claim memorandum is an treaty

For a better understanding you sohuld look at the underlying components of GDP. I think that the higher government investments in the military count towards GDP.

He could also count all the new people Russia got as refugees and the resources Russian captured

If the rouble loses value, so that everything becomes more expensive then GDP obviously goes up. Has this been adjusted for inflation and devaluation of the rouble?

OP just shows that he lacks basic understanding of economy. Russia controls the capitals flows, while Ukraines currency is free-flowing. While every ruble Russia consumes from its welfare fund / sate credits to war industry etc. in the war is counted towards the GDP, this is not a sustainable investment. Ukrainian weapon systems are however not predominantly produced in Ukraine, therefore do not increase the GDP. While Ukraine is doing okish for their current siutation, the Russian economic data looks horrible. They are for sure going into a stagflationary period unless they take extreme measures. That being said, countries like N.K. have shown to what length a facist regime is able to go if they do not care about their people.

Another genius

To get into stagflation you need high unemployment, Russia is importing even African now since they don't have enough hands available.

Like dude talk about other having low economical understanding and dropping "stagflation"

PPP or nominal?

Guy goes to another dimension to cope

blahblahblah

The second issue: it's Russia under heavy sanctions, personally I'd take their numbers with a heavy grain of salt.

Finally someone started coping with sanctions.

In 2022 I wrote this:

You going to your local shop to buy breed by shop keeper tells you he ain't going to sell you he is sanctioning you because you left his daughter pregnant.

It suck for you, tomorrow you going to buy your breed in another shop.

That's what sanctions are, their effect is instantly batter now decades Iran economy and NK economy learned to live under them and evade them.

This how a year ago they coped

Russia's great egg shortage is one consequence of this suddenly warped economy. The price of eggs has risen 40% in a year, prompting complaints on social media and one meme in which a man on bended knee offers his beloved a box of eggs instead of a ring. She declines, saying it's much too expensive.

Russian economy is doomed because of the eggs

6 months ago this time sanctions for real will hit Russian economy

But reality was always that Russia expected sanctions and even now Russia knows better than the west how to sanction Russia so they are working on plan b

Also found this gold

So Redditors didn't need to know that Russian economy is growing. His source is some r-slur professor from Scandinavia and article from November that says Russia won't have growth.

During the worst case for Russia, China would back them out. Somehow it was acceptable in 2022 to think that China won't stay on side. But now after all the game changers and billions pumped into Ukraine we don't want to think about this element

Literally getting results from 2022

this has haunted me more than anything I've ever read on here

!neolibs

Full text https://origin.web.fordham.edu/halsall/source/christ-muslim-debate.asp

Cute story about Saladin from the same thread

Imagine these two nobles getting to cuddle & go to pound town while everyone else died around them

Although it's technically a holiday in Hong Kong I am in the office, albiet with nothing to do so I have been watching DS9. Here are my thoughts...

Emissary

The best Star Trek pilot, both in terms of entertainment and setting the scene and establishing the main characters for the subsequent series. Quark and Odo aren't given much to do but nevertheless we get an impression of who they are and their relationship to one another- Quark's nephew BIPOC is presented here as more of a hardened delinquent rather than the naughty kid he would later appear as and BIPOC's father Rom only appears in the background. Kira is pretty annoying tbh and it took most of season 1 to let her calm down and stop being angry and unhinged about literally everything. Everyone else is pretty much as they would be throughout the show, including Gul Dukat who has a brief appearance.

The story revolves around the immediate aftermath of the Cardassian withdrawl from their 50-year occupation of Bajor and the uneasy new alliance between the Bajorans and the Federation, who the Bajorans fear might just be a new occupation force. The Bajoran gods, the Prophets, are revealed to be aliens who exist outside of time and space in an artificial wormhole which connects the Alpha and Gamma Quadrants of our galaxy. By the end of the episode the Prophets have agreed to allow transit to the new frontier through their wormhole after a lengthy extrapolation between themselves and DS9 commander Sisko on the nature of linear time.

This focusses on why Sisko- who insists we temporal beings are always moving forward- continues to dwell on the death of his wife during the Borg invasion, rather than moving on which he has argued is what we do. This is very smart writing- taking the very out-there concept of aliens who exist at every point in time simultaneously and linking it to the very relatable experience of grief. It would have been better without Avery Brooks' profoundly uneven performance. I think he is capable of acting some scenes very well- the relationship between Sisko and his son Jake is one of the best father-son combos in tv history- but he cannot play strong emotions and resorts to this odd staccato shouting which just seems weird.

Why exactly the Prophets- who experience past, present and future as one- would seem surprised or even threatened by Sisko deserves some exploration. Especially so since later seasons will reveal he has a very close relationship to one of them. I hypothesise that they are, to some extent, playing along with the scene but, at the same time, this actually is the beginning of a linear cause and effect series of events for them. They use Sisko's description of linear events as a template to create their own, deciding to interract more closely with the temporal universe beyond their own wormhole- that these events occur in the past from our perspective is irrelevant as the Prophets can leave their own dimension at any point along the timeline. From their perspective the line of cause and effect is- meet with Sisko, realise he's 'one of them'; send one of their own to create him; take a greater interest in Bajor and the greater galaxy (including abducting an ancient religious extremist to act as an alternative emissary- a wake-up call to goad Sisko into taking his role as emissary seriously, and saving the Alpha Quadrant from a Dominion fleet); and latterly suffering a schism among their ranks which creates the Pah-Wraiths. This happens all over our timeline but is a series of one-after-the-other events to them and is their exploration of linear existence. Of course, to some extent, they always knew they would do this as they always had knowledge of past, present and future as one- in the words of Dr. Manhattan; "We're all puppets, but some of us can see the strings".

Past Prologue

The first regular episode of DS9 introduces possibly the greatest reoccuring character in Star Trek history- challenged only by his fellow Cardassian Gul Dukat- Elim Garak (or "plain simple Garak" as he prefers). He is the only Cardassian to remain on the station and is suspected of being a spy, which is half true (but of course, the truth is just an excuse for a poor imagination). Andrew J. Robinson (who also played the Scorpio in Dirty Harry- he was wrong to feel lucky- and the heavy-bleeding father in the original Hellraiser) plays Garak a little too creepy and gay and apparently Rick Berman told him to cut that shit out, so Garak straightens out quite a lot in subsequent appearances. Garak is the best part of the episode, the rest of it is some guff about Bajoran extremists- whom we never hear from again- and another appearance by the utterly tiresome House of Duras in the form of the sisters Lursa and B'Etor (in their defence, they do seem to have nice tits) who are smuggling bomb parts for the extremists. Lets just remind ourselves of what eventually happened to them:

Anyway, none of this goes anywhere and Kira ends up looking like a bit of an idiot for initially supporting the nice-haired extremist leader- to be fair she does redeem herself towards the end. All anyone cares about in this episode is Garak and it's worth watching for him.

A Man Alone

Cut to: Bashir and Quark lusting after Dax (Jeets and Jews being notorious for this kind of shit). Everyone assumes that Sisko is going to feed her a length but he insists they're just old friends. For some reason I startrd imagining the noises Avery Brooks makes when fricking while writing this.

Anyway- none of this is the point of the episode and Odo harrumpfing and admitting to being a vocel before jumping up and slugging a guy at the dabo table and telling him he's got 26 hours (one Bajor day) to get off the station cues us to the focus of this episode. The guy he hit was some kind of smuggler but not the good kind- he let a kid die cos her family couldn't pay for the medicine she needed. He then killed a Cardassian for which Odo arrested and charged him. Later on he's seen getting a massage by a web-fingered holo-whore when's he's stabbed in the back and killed.

The tale requires us to go along with the notion that Odo might actually be the killer- after all, we don't know him that well. However Rene Aberjoniois is a fully paid up regular cast member contracted until at least the end of the season. I suppose, back in the 90s, there were still a lot of people watching who didn't understand how TV gets made but the whole thing never gets resolved and a bunch of threads get left hanging- most notably the motivations of Chudd McWrinklenose...

...who leads the witch hunt against Quark when he gets relieved of duty. I'm going to spoil the ending cos it's not very interesting. The suggler guy cloned himself and then killed his clone. Bashir demonstrates this by growing a clone of the guy revealing that, when it's grown, it will be allowed to leave medbay and go have a life- Odo states that "killing your clone is still murder". Now, I grant you that this might just be Bajoran law but lets just recall how Riker and the awful Pulaski reacted when someone cloned them:

The B-plot is about the O'Briens and Keiko being unhappy with nothing to do on the station. The woman was a botanist on the Enterprise (I assume she and a bunch of other civilians worked in specialist jobs like than somewhere among the huge and echoingly- empty halls of that ship- seriously, the Enterprise-D had a compliment of less than a thousand people -including civilians- and had literally millions of square feet of floorspace- place must've been empty as frick) and now she's sat at home with the kid. So she decides to become a schoolteacher because, when all other career choices dry up, that's what you do. She goes to persuade Rom to send his son to the school. Rom is... very different to how he'll be later. Of course,nobody likes Keiko so anything about her is unpopular. A lot of this is for the same reasons that nobody liked Skylar in Breaking Bad- male writers project onto wife characters and make them drag-wheels for the male protagonists... their feelings and ideas an obstacle to be overcome. Nevertheless, here's a compilation of Keiko being an annoying ladygarden:

In summary: meh.

I really want to know why Odo doesn't just turn his arms into tentacles and wrap up perps when arresting them or why he grunts and gasps while he's fighting considering he's a changeling who doesn't breathe.

Babel

Cold open on something I've never seen before: a hard working Irishman. Potatoneighbors usually only put the effort into three things- drunkeness, spousal abuse and the glorification of heinous acts of terrorism. But Chief Miles O'Brien will do anything to avoid having to go home and talk to his wife so he's personally taking charge of literally every actof maintenence on the station. DS9 was a shoddy rush-job, it seems and Cardassian technology is a bit shit compared to the Federation stuff. After fixing yet another anus-juice-producing replicator we see a mysterious object within release a strange gas...

The station becomes Wuhan to an aphasia virus which makes people spount gibberish. This is never funnier than when it's O'Brien- Colm Meany (an actually legitimately great actor) delivers this stuff wonderfully and it's an incredible shame that he's removed from the episode so soon. I could watch this shit for 40 minutes no trouble:

This episode is actually quite good and benefits from having no real b-plot. The closest you get is that Quark inadvertently spreads the virus further by breaking into the crew quarters on the command decks to use the replicators after the ones in his bar break and O'Brien's too busy having his spazz to fix them. Now this begs a question: what the frick are people paying Quark for if he's just using the same ship replicators as everyone else to make his food and drink? Is it ambience? I considered the idea that maybe Quark has licences to replicate stuff you can't get at home but then how's he doing it from a crew replicator? Maybe everyone only gets a certain ration of replicator credits and Quark's takes latinum for more but then that really raises the idea that his patrons are gluttons. I suppose the gambling and holo-whoring is something you can't do in your quarters but everyone acts like the food and drink is something special too.

Quark and Odo are the only two main cast members who don't get affected by the virus by the end of the episode which actually makes a lot of sense as Odo's a changeling and numerous TNG episodes established that Ferenghi brains don't work like goyim brains do.

Anyway- first objectively good regular episode of season 1. The next episode will be even better...

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— Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 (@CyrilRamaphosa) February 3, 2025

This person seemingly runs a peertube instance, an image board themed around herself, and some duke nukem fan site. The banner at the top promises the owner will return your calls from her garfield phone, and one of the top videos is entitled "I was RIGHT about Elon Musk. I am NOT 'schizo'"

She calls herself a !fosstards advocate, and her duke nukem site explains how to use her vintage garfield phone with voip https://dukenukemis.cool/technology/

!forumposters come bask in this unironic(?) web 2.0 site in 2025 A.D.

Very based opinions on JavaShit and Googloids:

4. Blinking text (and possibly soon marquee) is deprecated

I truly don't understand why people are being paid at Google and have nothing better to do, so to justfiy their job, they think of the most basic HTML tags to deprecate. IT MAKES NO SENSE. Sure, they depricate the blink tag. Meanwhile, you can still make text blink with overcompicated CSS or gay AIDs known as Javascript. So why depricate it? Becuase it's annoying? NOBODY USES IT ANYWAYS. AND WE CAN STILL RECREATE IT. SO JUST KEEP THE FRICKEN TAG. (Also I don't care if the blink tag was originally a joke and never official, it still has plenty of usecases.)

"We can confirm that the aircraft involved in tonight's incident was an Army UH-60 helicopter from Bravo Company, 12th Aviation Battalion, out of Davison Army Airfield, Fort Belvoir during a training flight," JTF-NCR media chief Heather Chairez stated.

This was out like, I dunno, 24 hours ago. But you closet chasers just don't care about a story until there's a in it, do you?

The 12th Aviation Battalion (part of The Army Aviation Brigade, TAAB) now operates Davison AAF and the Pentagon helicopter pad. The battalion's 18 UH-60 Blackhawks including 4 VH-60 models ("Gold Tops") is responsible for priority regional transport for US Army and Pentagon senior leadership.

I'm unironically disappointed with you f-slurs. This is so stupid. It was disproven before anybody even claimed. You didn't hear that though, because you didn't care about people dying. You just cared if there was involved.

This is mental illness and it's not the fun kind of mental illness, it's the pathetic kind where their brain doesn't work.

It's absolutely fricking pathetic that your kind will say people aren't "patriotic" enough if they don't lick JD Vance's balls but apparently none of you, not a single fricking one, knows the most basic thing about how the Army works.

Foundation's Edge (1982) is a science fiction novel by American writer Isaac Asimov, the fourth book in the Foundation Series. It was written more than thirty years after the stories of the original Foundation trilogy, due to years of pressure by fans and editors on Asimov to write another,[2] and, according to Asimov himself, the amount of the payment offered by the publisher.

This doesn't sound particularly promising.

Murthy argues in his advisory, noting alcohol consumption is to blame for nearly one million preventable cancer cases in the U.S. over the last decade. About 20,000 people die every year from those alcohol-related cancer cases

They expect people who are drinking enough to get cancer from it to be so into the health food craze to be scared of that? You could eat like 2 fewer hot pockets per year and it would do as much good. Most of these people probably smoke, which is where you've actively made a decision that you're okay with getting cancer.

The hypocrisy of this is just astounding. We put warning labels on alcohol products about stuff that everyone knows (you might actually be worse at driving! ) but for some reason reason out of all food and drink, booze has an exception for nutritional information. Why? When did this start? What possible justification is there for this? Why in the frick would you print any kind of warning on it if you won't even just tell women it's going to make them fat? Why do we go through this charade of pretending the government in Elliot Ness when there's tax incentives for the wine industry, the beer industry, the weed industry, the mushroom industry. Extreme taxes on the tobacco industry because I guess they were actually the ones really hurting people.

The Surgeon General's office has not replied to MNN's request for comments.

Also BTW am I literally the first fricking person in America who ever noticed this? I have never in my entire life ever heard anyone notice that alcohol makes your product less regulated.

!boozers !noalcohol

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