Ukraine should strike a deal for those minerals with the European Union as a way to tell Trump to go fuck himself.

Portugal - Bacalhau á Gomes de Sá Salted Cod Cassarole

Absolutely my favourite meal ever.

Call his bluff.

American soft power around the globe relies on having those bases on foreign soil.

Bowtie pasta.

It’s alphaghetti for yuppies.

Tsunami

Gen X - Dazed and Confused

I’ll give you a hint. It starts with an “e” and ends with “mbezzlement”

His entire plan is to cut as much as he can and funnel it back to himself and his billionaire friends. He’s not looking to cut waste, he’s looking to redirect it.

Those dreadfully dangerous Antifa terrorists sure have gone silent too, haven’t they.

It’s almost as though they never existed.

Right now, we need Antifa to be everything that the right wings pretended Antifa was.

I somewhat believe that there won’t be a U.S. if that begins to happen. At some point, the states themselves will have to do something drastic for their own sake rather than let that idiot do something so inconceivably bad as starting a global conflict.

Maybe it’s unfounded optimism, but I feel like the United States would self-immolate before a war against the EU could take off.

More and more every day…

most european nations have no standing armies, and no conventional weapons stockpiles

Wherever you’re getting your information from, you should probably look elsewhere.

Define “outdated”.

My main workstation desktop that I use for most of my heavy lifting was bought in 2016. In the years since, however, it’s been maxed out on the RAM that the motherboard can support, the ssds, the video cards, etc… So while it’s now hit that bottleneck of “can’t upgrade anymore because it’s at the limit of what the motherboard itself can handle”, I don’t consider it outdated because it can still comfortably do what I want it to do.

A close second would by my Lumix G7 mirrorless camera. Old, yes. But still works perfectly fine. Records in 4K and still produces a better result than smartphone cameras because it uses actual proper lenses rather than digital software trickery. With mirrorless and DSLRs, the lenses are far more important than the frame (to a certain extent), so I don’t see a need to upgrade that anytime soon.

I think (my own personal opinion) is that Big Trouble in Little China did something so crazy and wacky that no one actually recognised it at the time.

If you look at the film from a certain perspective, Jack Burton was the sidekick, and Wang was the main character. And they just filmed it from the perspective of the sidekick who thinks he’s the main character, which is a conceit I’ve always adored.

There are no stupid questions.

But there are in fact, some very stupid ones.

Josie and the Pussycats.

Rated 5.7 by people who had no clue what it was saying at the time. I feel like if it was released in today’s pop culture environment it would fare far far better.

It’s far more satirical, clever and funny than an Archie adjacent bubblegum pop movie has any right to be.

MFW I get arrested mid-way through applying my Dr. Zaius cosplay makeup…

Writing: Specifically fiction writing in terms of structure, POV, plotting, etc…

History: Especially early societies and how much everything really stays the same, despite the advance of technology. No matter where or when you go, humans are gonna human.

Russia doesn’t want anything from the the U.S. except what it’s already doing. Fucking shit up on the international stage and thereby destabilizing NATO.

Any decrease is Western Hegemony is good for Russia. It doesn’t matter whether they achieve it by tossing some people out of windows, or by helping an orange toddler ascend to the highest office in the U.S.

The only freedom’s you’ll have left is the ability to vote on what America names its version of the Lada

You think a U.S. military base isn’t getting kicked the fuck out of a foreign country the moment they are declared an enemy? Or do you have such a little opinion of everyone else that you think a couple of military bases will immediately take over every European county at once?

If America invades Canada it’s global reach becomes null and void essentially the next day. Every Nato country expels American military personnel, by force if necessary, and America’s role in the world is done, regardless if they win against Canada or not.