Famously there was never shortage of essentials in the Soviet Union.

the thing that annoys me most about tankies thinking that the US destroyed the Soviet Union is not even that they think that's somehow a bad thing. it's that they won't give us, the people subjugated by that fucked up empire, the credit we deserve

"Unplanned military activity related to ensuring state security". WTH is going on?

Why are both the DSA and the MAGA both all about nostalgia for the 1950s? It's time to retire boomers who think everyone just dreams of working for a minimum wage on an assembly line.

I also heard it causes cows milk turn sour and chickens lose eggs.

Currently US inflation stands at 3.4%, while Eurozone inflation is at 1.7%.

Average price of milk in 2018: $2.80/gal, average price of milk $4.20/gal.

Hungary is going to vote out fascism

It's noticeable that for about a month there has been a shift in who spreads Russian propaganda. It's less and less MAGA accounts, and more far-left accounts doing it these days.

EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says Europe cannot expand its role in the Strait of Hormuz while dealing with Russia’s war against Ukraine. She notes Gulf states have not supported efforts against Moscow and stresses cooperation cannot be a one-way street. #EU

Vatniks gonna vatnik

Yet another example of how terrible geography education is in the US. Russia is in the East. Russia is not “Western”. “Civilization” part is also a stretch.

Everyone who romanticized a multipolar world for the last decade is getting a harsh reality check. This is exactly what it looks like in practice. When multiple powers compete without a primary guarantor of global security, the immediate result is brutal, overlapping wars

Ah yes, the famous biodiversity of the Moon and Mars.

It's the Middle East not Latin America. TACO doesn't work. It's SHAWARMA (Shît, Here Wars Are Routinely Messy and Arduous).

Seems like a way more effective method to Just Stop Oil than throwing soup at artworks.

Socrates criticized the technology of writing and reading itself, arguing that it would create forgetfulness and atrophy memory, making people "dumb" by relying on external symbols rather than internal recollection.

From the @osintwarfare.bsky.social twitter account...

TurboTax be like find this obscure document and fill in what's in the box 7b and if the date in box 37c is after the last full moon of the year fill the box 2137x. Oh, you already maxed out this type of deductions, you did all that for nothing.

On the eve of Nowruz, a celebration of renewal, Iran’s regime chose repression: five teenagers executed after January protests, and 18-year-old Melika Azizi now facing imminent execution for dissent. 1/2

This is a work in progress but I made a visual that compares how much water AI and data centers use in total to other industries. Relies on a lot of botecs I justify in the methodology. www.andymasley.com/visuals/water/

Claude has got to be the least reliable thing I pay for. It's insane how dogshit their uptime is. For literally any other service this would be unacceptable.

No one could have predicted this! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenn...

Yet another example of the recent sovietizaton of the US. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear...

In a survey of 1,000 hiring managers, 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.” Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles.

Europe: - high taxes - excellent public infrastructure - social safety net - public services Texas: - low taxes - meh infrastructure - no social safety net California combines the worst of both: - high taxes - abysmal public infrastructure - no social safety net - poor public services

California is the only state in the Union that cannot afford school buses. Teachers have to beg parents for donations for such basic necessities as whiteboard markers or cleaning supplies. The California Teachers Association is on strike yet again because of horrid conditions at public schools.

A Polish Pendolino high-speed train has begun running in the Czech Republic for the first time. The service between Prague and Bohumín on the Polish border will run until June as part of a certification process that Polish operator PKP Intercity hopes will lead to a Warsaw-Prague route.

All you need to know about Google's interdepartamental collaboration is that Google Docs doesn't support WebP, an image format invented by... Google.

Drano is conscious!

TFW I'm listening to a 30 year old song, and it's about appeasing Russia during their invasion of their neighbor.

The US moves against a predator, but there's a nuance...

Putin's shills are calling our preparation to defend ourselves “warmongering” just days before the 4th anniversary of the Russian full scale invasion of Europe, a war where Russians killed 140,000 European soldiers and 87,000 European civilians. And they keep on killing.

State run energy infrastructure is bad, because it gives consumers no choice. Unlike in the free market, where I can freely choose between the PG&E and ... ... oh. NVM.

Zitrion is like that anti-5G activist, who found clear evidence of a coverup. It was a US government report stating clearly that prolonged exposure to 5g can lead to cognitive decline. . . . It was USAF reports on fighter pilots combat effectiveness during 5g maneuvers.

Hmmmm

OTD in 2022 we were informed not to perform mental gymnastics if your predictions about Russia don't come true. So it's good @caitoz.bsky.social would never do that when she's wrong.

Sonnet 4.6 www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

Oh the irony of using this specifically rocket science as the metaphor to prove your point, when... www.anthropic.com/features/cla...

Everyone: let's have the lovers' day during the summer solstice. Anglosphere: how about we have it in the middle of the winter instead?

Did this have an alien inside?

I kinda would like to replay Fallout New Vegas, but then I remember how garbage the game engine was, how many times it crashed corrupting saves on one of the bazillion loading screens.

Removing shoes above one's ankles sounds extremely painful.

If nobody got me, I know there’s one American institution that’s got me

Good thing Russia cannot afford to maintain their nuclear arsenal, much less so expand it.

Great news for Blue Origin. They're about to be the only game in town for commercial satellite deployment.