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, right. By the way, if mercenaries (not a national army) attack Poland in some way, can NATO then identify a nation to hold accountable? I guess so. ...

I suppose that's one way to snag up cannon fodder: Russia is forcing Ukrainians from occupied Crimea and Donbas to fight in its invasion of Ukraine — ...

Poland busts another Russian spy network, this time around unveiling plans to attack Ukraine-bound trains. Lukashenko + Putin "mention" that Wagner wo...

Dubbed "the North Atlantic sea surface temperature anomaly": High sea surface temperature in North Atlantic — Arctic News · Apr 22, 2023 /uploads/resi...

Hmm... As an aside, I've come across a few that have mentioned they "game the system" for own gain (including on the forum), though on a much smaller ...

Dozens of escaped goats take over neighborhood in California Yep, it's all goat.

Probably need a driver's license for those things. :D "According to Russia's Duma Defense Committee ..." Vladimir Putin Putting Together Network of Pr...

Depends on what part. What, if anything, can/should be done is less clear.

:D shill for big trig! /uploads/resized/files/x6/ckdfono8y5dwsn1r.jpg Pythagoras debunked

The ongoing grain thing ... Russia has not offered UN World Food Programme free grain — Michelle Nichols, Doina Chiacu, Leslie Adler · Reuters · Jul 2...

Hundreds of goats cause traffic jam at river crossing Don't forget, everything is goat.

I'm wondering if there is a law against discussing/criticizing this: Russian investigators call children as witnesses against their mother accused of ...

Are people starving for something new and exciting, something saying that we don't know it all...? Midjourney can help. Old Photos of Giants in 19th-C...

Angry Russia refuses to speak at UN meeting on its attacks on Ukraine’s key port city of Odesa — Edith M Lederer · AP · Jul 27, 2023 Speaking of angry...

Umland opines We’re going to need that Ukraine no-fly zone after all — Andreas Umland · The Hill · Jul 27, 2023 mentioning • food production + export ...

A thought experiment, if you will, turning the heat slightly up. Suppose some mutations occur that are about as contagious/transmissible as the Omicro...

From a Wagner commander, otherwise unverified (translation by google): NATO says it's boosting Black Sea surveillance, condemns Russian grain deal exi...

(I'll add some observations that are peripheral to the opening post, please let me know or remove if it veers too far off topic.) A kind of mass hyste...

How to deal with an untrustworthy insane party that rules an armed country? Looks like it's not just Ukraine that has a problem here. Criminals and in...

More on the grain thing... Analysis: Russia's Danube attacks tighten noose on Ukraine's grain sector — Max Hunder, Jonathan Saul, Olena Harmash, Sybil...

... instigated + ordered by the Kremlin. Do we have an insane government on our hands? :/ I guess, say, Litvinenko = a decimal point. (= rhetorical ra...

I'm kind of thinking Putin outdoes John Gotti rather well, maybe even in outfit. :D Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Joint Chiefs of Staff...

This was fairly predictable wasn't it? Anyone can be deep-faked in a scam ad. Even Ian Hanomansing — Ian Hanomansing · CBC · Jul 23, 2023 · 4m:26s Sca...

Approximately 201 officers... Persuasive Jumper Talks Entire Police Force Up Onto Ledge — The Onion · Jul 19, 2023

KitchenAid Releases New 80-Pound, Stainless Steel Block For Taking Up Counter Space — The Onion · Sep 3, 2021 /uploads/resized/files/az/q8r9wzk2qa5miv...

Sure, if Ukraine was to fare well free from the Kremlin, and Russians observe, then that might help free the Kremlin from Putinistas. Asked earlier (I...

Folks, those numbers haven't been independent. The protests were also about some of the elements those numbers are derived from. They're more independ...

? observations moreso than narrative (e.g. to proceed from) Warring — the Kremlin invades + bombs Ukraine Response — multinational political and defen...

, took me a bit by surprise. Don't know what I thought at that age though. Could have been similar. :)

OK, yes, that does look like Monday morning, before coffee. :D https://www.tiktok.com/@whiterockbearsanctuary/video/7230721982629678341 Meet Chada, 24...

Young children, 4 to 7-year-olds, though. 40 Percent Of American Kids Think Hot Dogs And Bacon Are Plants — James Felton · IFLScience · Nov 10, 2021

*phew* :fear: 2023 NT1

The Kremlin really doesn't like Odesa. Odesa, other Ukrainian port cities bombarded by Russia for 3rd consecutive night — Samya Kullab · AP via PBS · ...

OK, this goes well beyond any particular troubles in the world, and (I think) also answers i.e. such a "border/country free world" would go towards ex...

Yaay a suggestion, though it could use (or needs) some fleshing out. By the way ... Is this related to the "border/country free world" thing from earl...

Continuation of earlier comments: Russia to deem Ukraine-bound ships 'potential carriers of military cargo' from Wednesday eve — Felix Light, Peter Gr...

Will be interesting to see, but I guess only time will tell: Opinion: With their leader still missing, who will control Wagner forces in Africa? — Joy...

Weighing blame...? More than one topic I guess. The military-industrial complex (not just US, by the way), politics (like democracy versus authoritari...

, lately, no negotiations, just the Kremlin stating demands, refusal. Incidentally perhaps, now the same for the grain thing. Meanwhile, the Ukrainian...

Handing the Kremlin control of all of Ukraine('s grain + fertilizer + processing + transport) doesn't seem the best (Jun 16, 2023, Jul 1, 2023). UN as...

If "you people" means US voters, then, sure, a few US politicians are clowns, including RFK Jr. Clowns electing clowns? Let's get real. Democracy has ...

What to make of crap like this, coming from a prominent politician? RFK Jr. says COVID may have been ‘ethnically targeted’ to spare Jews — Jon Levine ...

Granted, it reads a bit like something from a movie, sort of alarmist: Record heatwaves sweep the world from US to Japan via Europe — Agence France-Pr...

My emphasis Why do you think so? NATO members (and whoever else) are indirectly involved (no declaration of war / combatants). Why "heavily" though? P...

How Our Efforts to Bring Competition To Television Unknowingly Helped Create the Fox Disinformation Machine — Preston Padden, Ken Solomon, Bill Reyner...

Opinion: Whatever happened to Mutually Assured Destruction? — David A Andelman · CNN · Jul 6, 2023 ‘Resting,’ fired, believed dead: Russia’s missing g...

Maybe this angle will catch on? Reinventing cosmology: uOttawa research puts age of universe at 26.7 — not 13.7 — billion years (at ScienceDaily) — Be...

"Eat more chicken! Eat more chicken!" 60+ geese making their own parade march through Winnipeg (The Weather Network · Jul 12, 2023 · 22s) https://www....

The Physicist Who’s Challenging the Quantum Orthodoxy — Thomas Lewton · Quanta Magazine · Jul 10, 2023 A Bet Against Quantum Gravity — Quanta Magazine...

Rambling dude as usual (emphasis more or less like the original). • nah, the Kremlin's invasion + bombery + all that brought wars closer, Ukraine told...