TBooneChickens [they/them, she/her]

I haven’t seen this before. It’s very accurate and clever. I hate it.

great comment, even

That’s true, but that does imply that this war would conclude first. Which is consistent with saying Russia does not want this conflict to expand beyond Ukraine.

I’m not arguing either of these points, I’m just pointing out that all NYT is saying here is that US officials have always believed that Russia wants this war to stay contained to Ukraine. Not that they think Russia didn’t want this war or that Russia doesn’t have other interests it will pursue external to this war.

All I’m saying is NYT didn’t really reveal anything here.

I’m not trying to get flamed as a lib here, but there’s a gulf of difference between “not wanting to expand the war” and “having no further ambition once the war is over”

I gotta start going to bars 😅

right?? RFK jr is married to Larry David’s ex-wife 🤯

the first sound plan I’ve seen on here

Finally, some good fucking [regulations on predatory games]

Asking someone not to dox you is not gatekeeping

To be fair, they probably meant “this year, you reached 915 days with us”

What do you mean by “protected under the law”? And what constitutes disruptive protest?

I would LOVE this. Especially if the war of the ring or other plot was on-going and you could participate as you pleased, potentially shifting the balance one way or the other. The idea of an open world RPG where the world exists and evolves with or without you is my dream. Mount and Blade is almost that, but for being too army/strategy/overworld focused, and the lord of the rings mod for warband had me hooked for a long time before the limitations got to me

That’s all fair, but framing the sequence of events as entirely unilateral action by the AfD is just as slanted as the article, and we’re better than that.

Probably a key piece of context is that they were invited