CannonFodder

"One of the major problems encountered in time travel is not that of becoming your own father or mother. There is no problem in becoming your own father or mother that a broad-minded and well-adjusted family can't cope with. There is no problem with changing the course of history—the course of history does not change because it all fits together like a jigsaw. All the important changes have happened before the things they were supposed to change and it all sorts itself out in the end.

The major problem is simply one of grammar, and the main work to consult in this matter is Dr. Dan Streetmentioner's Time Traveler's Handbook of 1001 Tense Formations. It will tell you, for instance, how to describe something that was about to happen to you in the past before you avoided it by time-jumping forward two days in order to avoid it. The event will be descibed differently according to whether you are talking about it from the standpoint of your own natural time, from a time in the further future, or a time in the further past and is futher complicated by the possibility of conducting conversations while you are actually traveling from one time to another with the intention of becoming your own mother or father.

Most readers get as far as the Future Semiconditionally Modified Subinverted Plagal Past Subjunctive Intentional before giving up; and in fact in later aditions of the book all pages beyond this point have been left blank to save on printing costs.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy skips lightly over this tangle of academic abstraction, pausing only to note that the term "Future Perfect" has been abandoned since it was discovered not to be. "

• Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

So maybe other countries should require US citizens to submit their last five years of social media history so they can block any maga idiots. ;-)

Pretty sure subtle rhymes with shuttle.

The answer could most certainly be 4 as well as 3.

Holy shit, my iPhone keyboard has changed size and the keys aren't quite where they were before. Is this from the latest update or did I fuck up some settings?

We don't use grades, it's too judgey and might hurt fee-fees. Everyone passes with participation trophies.

And then we wonder why there are so many morons.

I really like the mental image of an udder clown.

Yeah sure, they're the same - ffs - are you that stupid?

It's not a matter of explaining Marxism ffs. It's that russia is attacking Ukraine. Countries want to join nato to protect themselves from exactly what russia is doing. Russia's current actions are destabilizing and dangerous for the rest of the world. Other countries will always prioritize their own best interests; but in this case, many countries' best interests are to support Ukraine against russia so as to weaken russia and teach them not to be aggressive. Russia needs to be forced to change course.

I wish. But no, they'll support Trump Jr for King.

What you miss is that by supporting appeasement to russia, you are the one encouraging more war. Yes russia wants to keep expanding. Putin has said this directly.

NATO 'expansion' is when countries ask to join and then are admitted . Around russia, countries join nato for the defensive pact. If russia doesn't want countries on their borders banding together to protect themselves from Russian aggression, then they shouldn't have been so aggressive. Russia has absolutly no right to attack it's neighbors just because they want to be able to defend themselves.

Yes, it sucks for the civilians on all sides when Russia attacks. The only solution is for russia to stop attacking - which they could do any day. But they're a war mongering country, so will only stop when they run out of the ability to attack.

The long term efficient thing is to support Ukraine and continue to wear down and embarrass russia. If russia is allowed to expand based on violent expansionism, it will only be encouraged to do more - and that will cost Europe more in lives and resources in the long run. Of course, they don't want to slap russia too hard, or it might have a tantrum and escalate. So the slow bleeding off of its capabilities is the goal. It really sucks for the Ukrainians, but they clearly would rather fight it, than become part of the shithole country that russia is.

All countries are the baddies from some perspective. Russia causing millions of deaths in a war of aggression puts it way up there. Europe will do what it needs to do to defend itself. And supporting Ukraine is the most efficient way to do that right now. As well as being the morally correct thing to do. Russians can go fuck themselves as their economy slowly implodes - they deserve it.