I want to know how they lubed the cube.

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Well at least Russia has moved past some its medieval mythology to justify the war. It’s now moved on to early modern history lessons from the time Peter the Great: “The Great Northern War with Sweden lasted 21 years. Twenty-one years. But just a few years after it began, Peter the Great offered peace to the Swedes… What did the Swedes say? ‘No, we will fight to the last Swede’,” Medinsky said in an interview with pro-Kremlin TV host Yevgeny Popov. https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/05/16/kremlin-negotiator-invokes-peter-the-greats-21-year-war-with-sweden-in-ukraine-talks-a89109 Still, the Russians get the history of the war with Sweden wrong. But that is only to be expected of an aggressor state. Kremlin is not interested in any terms short of Ukraine’s total capitulation.

It’s from the Daily Beast. The Bee is more credible.

@Copper said in Emir Force One: Times change, he has the courage to change with them. We are so lucky. A fine example of troll relativism if there ever was one.

In football you get ejected and fined for targeting.

Interesting map. The meme is spot on too.

Phibes ran with it before I could.

Very short ride. I wanted to take one from the airport to downtown but they don’t pick up at the airport. So I accidentally went to the wrong hotel and my actual hotel was three blocks away. Mayla didn’t want to walk as her knee was acting up from the flight, I was embarrassed to call a human being for a 0.2 block ride. So it was a perfect solution. I’ll probably keep taking them while I’m here.

Good luck getting us to make socks or sew shirts.

I wonder how many turn into sales? There was the recent article about Cyber truck. How many reservations were made on it, but only like 5% turned to sales.

Medicaid already pays providers pretty much nothing. Not sure where they could cut. All they could do without a revolution is to change the nature of the program to block grants, which I think are already part of it. We're never going to get out of the hole without cuts AND tax increases.

@Mik said in So who did the insider trading?: Gosh, I don't imagine anything like this happened in the previous administration. Fair point, however I never got the feeling that previous administrations deliberately crashed the market. This time, it's not so clear.

I’ve gotten quite good at ventriloquism recently. Scared the shit out of my urologist the other day.

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Maybe you did pay attention in biology class! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viviparous_lizard

That is such a cool song. And good advice for those of us with stage fright.

Tough love.