Utter_Karate [he/him, comrade/them]

“Losses” does not mean deaths. Losses includes wounded, even those that will fully recover fairly quickly, right? If you blow out someone’s eardrums for example, they are “lost” as a soldier on the battlefield, because they are no longer available to the enemy.

And the phrase “up to” is doing a lot of heavy lifting, especially when it comes to troop numbers. That means the absolute maximum possible by their account. Like if they hit a building with artillery and their estimate is that there were 30-50 Ukrainian troops there that will count as up to 50 lost troops, despite the fact that they know very well that they probably did not wound/kill everyone in the building.

The real number of dead will be significantly lower. The number of wounded/sick/deserters will be high, but it is anyone’s guess exactly how high.

“It is possible to kill children legally” belongs in the newspaper. It should in fact be the headline.

Gotta hand it to them, there really are two sides. One of them is pure evil, but it’s still a side.

Won’t the boulder roll back to the intersection anyway?

I’ll pay you 100 million dollars for 20 more minutes with the bear.

What an awful person. Just like Laddy Mr. Lennon and Moo The Dong. He was from the European Union you know. That’s why he acted like that and killed all those people. They cannot help themselves.

I did some math real quick and in order to make this fair you would have to sentence the CEO to 450 million years in prison. Or the homeless guy to below 1 second in prison. Or if you want to be a centrist about it lock them both up for 225 million years.

Ok, that’s a new one. Calling you a fascist for saying Lenin was a Marxist…

I can usually take these liberal takes in stride, but this is like they invented some new kind of weapon. I feel this weird itch to engage with them somehow, and that’s not healthy.

Me too! What’s your destination?

The attacks on the Houthis actually made their blockade more effective. Having the area classified as an active war zone by ship insurance companies raised rates on ships passing through so much that the Houthis are actually causing devastating economical damage even if they don’t fire a single missile.

So let’s just ask Mr. Putin what he would do in a desperate situation and then do exactly that. The solution is both clever and for some reason incredibly clever.

Two years later, I’d like to summarize recruiting in 2024. Today we approached a man in a full pig costume flipping a grocery store sign in 104-degree heat. The man said nothing, just flipped the sign faster than human eyes could follow. My comrades in arms are gone. All that remains of them are the stains their innards left on some cereal prices in the corner of the sign. I managed to surrender to the silent pig-beast, knowing I had nothing to offer him that could sate his hunger. He is now the governor of Ohio. I pray that it will be enough.

Well we’re certainly doomed if Europe has both the ability and the intention of honoring a promise they made to Ukraine.

Fine, I name this area “New Middlesex”. You cannot use whatever the original name was ever again, and that is frankly exactly what you should have expected when you asked Europeans to name part of your country.

My favorite part of this is that the lunch eggs can be “poached if necessary”. What do they mean, “necessary”? When they are prescribing a diet they could just tell us to eat 2 hard-boiled eggs for lunch, but instead they pause and concede that it may be impossible to have the lunch eggs be hard-boiled for some unspecified reason.

I am a bit bothered by how the modern borders of Croatia seem like they are designed just to prevent Bosnia and Hercegovina from having a coast. I get that you can have a thin country, but they are really pushing it. Give them one beach!

I can’t be too hard on him. In hindsight I guess it’s easy to say he shouldn’t have died in prison, but I’m sure he had his reasons.

Fuck every actual antisemite and also fuck every person she would not consider an antisemite.

Have these cowards never heard of ramming?

They… What!? They want it to - or they think that - but that’s just…

WHAT!?