It doesn’t matter how many solid gold trophies you give them, the leopards will always demand more.

Making money… So that they can buy a tv so they can spend their last two hours of awake time alone watching tv.

You sure that’s a bet you want to make, honey?

It has nothing to do with money and everything to do with community.

People aren’t having kids because communities have been hollowed out.

I think “invest in IRL social institutions and socially encourage and incentivise people to be positively involved in their IRL communities” and the babies will come soon enough.

But, instead the constant “your miserable life is for work” message doesn’t really make people want to skiddley-poo.

How are there any fighting age men left in Russia? How have they not all fled the nation by now?

The competency factor is something that online commentors greatly undervalue. The US, for all it’s faults in many places, is extremely competent. It’s an institutional world history anomaly. No one comes close.

And that’s the source of the “Greatness” of America that the billionaire-bro class just doesn’t understand and is actively poisoning. They think they are going to own “American Greatness”, but they don’t understand, can’t understand, that they are actively poisoning the institutions that made them rich. They are turning America into Russia (that is literally their expressed goal), but when they do there went be another America left to keep the world order in place.

To circle back to the Su-57, I don’t believe any of it’s advertised capabilities are real. Which is why everyone that was going to order them (India) has greatly pulled back their orders.

And I promise you, the F-35 is definitely not bullshit. But if the programs and institutions that support it aren’t diligently maintained, then in 20 years every plane will be worthless.

Are you suggesting that other animals are less capable of attention focus? Because I share that experience.

The decay in their institutions started much earlier than 2 years ago. At my most generous, it started immediately after the fall of the USSR. But the truth is that a culture of grift has existed in Russian culture for centuries. The Soviets were just as guilty of it as the Czars were and the current oligarchy is now.

I personally don’t believe Putin believes Russia has a single viable nuke remaining in it’s arsenal.

My primary evidence for this suspicion is that for all Putin’s consistent nuclear sabre rattling, he’s never done the one thing that would really rattle the sabre: conduct a nuclear weapons test. If he had a nuke to test he would have tested it just to scare off the West.

The text of the matter is that building a nuclear bomb really isn’t that difficult. A reasonably well funded university physics department anywhere in the world could probably build one. Having a nuclear weapons program is another matter. That’s orders of magnitude more difficult and more expensive. Honestly, I would be really surprised if the USA had half of the viable nuclear weapons it claims. Much less Russia.

Aerodynamics are obviously very important in the sport, but I doubt it’s that extreme.

They couldn’t maintain a viable tire rotation program with all the grift and corruption. They definitely don’t have a viable stealth fighter her program.

I don’t get the joke.

A drop in birth rates is generally seen as a sign of increasing prosperity in a population… Up to a point. After a certain line it’s a sign of decreasing financial confidence and insecurity.

… Because they don’t want Ukraine to bomb them all.

Why is this headline a question?

What’s going on is that in the Olympics the difference between Gold and nothing can literally be centimeters.

If there is something an athlete in the Olympics can do to give themselves another 3 centimeters they will do it.

That’s so weird.

Software design is cheap in the same way flat pack furniture from Amazon is cheap.

You pay for what you pay for.

The 90s were a wild time in Christian media…