Collatz_problem [comrade/them]

They sound exactly like someone who understands the role of the US.

It is not a failed policy - the cruelty is the point.

Russia is basically in an unending economic crisis since 1990.

That’s the same strategy EU practiced. Now they are getting boomeranged.

Come on, slap tariffs on European goods.

Fun fact: lengths of cicada cycles are usually prime numbers to minimize overlap between emergences of different species.

It will be even funnier if Britain rejoins and then immediately leaves again.

He spent 20 years worldbuilding and wrote Hobbit before it.

For first several months the war was extremely unpopular, but sanctions and discrimination against Russians did orders of magnitude more to make people think of the West as the enemy than the dumb state propaganda.

Unhinged bullshit like this did more to make people support Putin than any propaganda he could spit.

In early 19th century there were attempts to classify chemical elements in octaves.

Pointing at society: Fix this.

Crassus would be proud.

They easily map to each other via linear transformation.

One may dye their hair green and wear their grandma’s coat all they want. Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead…

“Poors were allowed to escape before the rich, and it is unacceptable.”

“We care about your privacy. We absolutely hate it, but it counts as caring, doesn’t it?”

Ukraine held the upper hand for about three-four months in summer-autumn of 2022.

Or want to believe their country is good even when it supports fascists.

It’s not stupidity, it’s deliberate propaganda.