So, first, the invasion has already happened. So “not invading” isn’t an option any more.

Second, the USA by way of NATO has been antagonizing the “East” for… longer than I’ve been alive. Usually we just start one sided military conflicts in third world countries with such a lack of air power and anti-armor capability that our military just rolls through the country where the biggest loss of life and equipment on the USA’s side are after the occupation begins and the troops are just sitting around waiting to get sniped or drive near an IED.

It just so happened that antagonizing the second world country of Russia, thinking it was a third world country, finally wound up biting the ass of USA/NATO when Russia decided to invade Ukraine. You rattle your saber long enough and loud enough at a right wing government and eventually they’re going to pull out their sabre.

So, since nobody can unfuck this sheep, best course of action is probably to allow the Ukraine government to admit defeat and sue for peace instead of forcing them to keep trying to fight a war they can’t win (but military contractors will make mad money off of). They’ve lost a chunk of territory that will either stay Russian directly through open occupation or be Russian aligned autonomous states that will absolutely NEED to keep the Russian military around to help fight off the terrorist attacks either from Ukrainian actors or carried out by non-Ukrainian actors using Ukraine as the safe highway to get to Russia aligned states or Russia itself.

That Feeling When: You talk about butt plugs to a naked mole rat and it looks at you in total confusion.

Ukraine Plans Privatization to Help Fund War Effort… (archive link)

scratches chin

Keep the NATO funding just high enough to keep the war going but not so high that Ukraine stops trying to sell state assets to private enterprises but managing the spread and escalation of the conflict in such a way that private interests don’t instantly value the auctioned items as “worthless” so nobody bids.

That’s a lot of plates to spin.

Depending on how they’d be mounted to the shelves, small lock jaw pliers could easily be pocketed/palmed and may be small enough to slip one side of the jaws behind the display. Then its just a squeeze to crack the display.

You can break the shelf tag, or it can get broken through use and just never be replaced but it won’t change that the POS system will constantly have its prices at the register (potentially) changed daily/hourly.

A question that might be important though, “Do customers shop based on the price they see on the shelf?” If I want a bag of apples and there isn’t a price tag near enough to the bag of apples that I can tell how much the bag of apples cost, will I still try to buy a bag of apples?

I remember the good ol’ days when the Ukraine/Russia war was absolutely not a proxy war between the USA and Russia.

Mr. Xi,

Our astronauts yearn for freedom!

Unfortunately I’m not in any specific position to have access to things that could be of help.

But good to know.

Israel’s need for some type of displacement/genocide to exist predates the current prime minister. Remove him, and nothing changes.

Mostly because I’m not the most competent techie, I’ve been using VLC between my PC and iPhone, for moving “books” around on devices that are very out of date.

Doesn’t have everything, but does have quite a bit. Still 10/10, would use again.

In another video, a TikTok user said she ordered one large cup sweet iced tea, but the AI-powered technology added nine cups of iced sweet tea instead.

Hey… it just wanted to make sure everybody was staying hydrated.

Imagine this guy trying to explain this discovery to people who spend days reading and responding to articles trying to calculate how many angles can fit on the head of a pin.

Converted all my Bitcoin to Beefcoin and THINGS ARE GOING GREAT!

Supply and demand curves, babyeee!

Nothing in the article supports that.

Also, nothing in the article specifies if the production capacity in Russia is from running the same factories longer or adding new factories. The former could increase defective munitions being produced and the later would probably show about the same level of defectives as production at lower rates.

Also, artillery shells and their fuses are two different things. Nothing in the article says anything about the fuse production, it might be assumed in the article and I’m just being pedantic, or it might an intentional oversight. Pretty sure its the fuses that are normally the problem when an artillery shell doesn’t explode when its supposed to.

Not giving Russia a political reason to for starters.

The door is slightly ajar.

Okay… but like… how much ajar?

Umm… a little bit.

So which little bit is ajar?

Huh?

The top, the bottom, the middle, the inside, the outside or the handles?

The more social media style posts/comments I read about this “AI” stuff, the more I realize I’ve been doing the same thing since I was in middle school.

I was reading way above my grade level and would use words (often incorrectly) that I wasn’t expected to know with such confidence that adults thought I was smart.

AI Revoluti-off