Or maybe Ukraine isn’t the aggressor here and Putin is proving why Ukraine wants to be in NATO

You mean like being a part of the USSR and wanting nothing to do with them?

I’m also curious how annexing a country and extending your borders to countries already in NATO solves that problem?

And what history does NATO have of using their arms for offensive purposes, rather than defense?

What is NATO doing to interfere with Russia’s domestic operations and sovereignty? Ukraine is not Russia, so Russia should have no say in the matter just because they’re next to each other.

Same thing would apply if Ukraine were to invade Russia. Ukraine would have no business doing so.

Putin should have no reason to give a rat’s ass if any country is in NATO, unless he plans on invading it.

Oh please let that be a reason accidentally spit out by one of those plagiarism machines some day

My dad thought it was silly for me to replace my gas powered motor with an automatic throttle control that doesn’t really work with an electric one, but having no knowledge or desire to rebuild a carburetor (like him), I think I made the right move.

Yes! I’m amazed at how few responses here bring up the lack of attraction in a mall. Nearly every square foot has been given up for dumb kiosks for cell phone cases or something like that. There’s just nothing to give some warm fuzzies about visiting - a water feature, a kids play area… Heck, I grew up the first indoor mall and at one point they had a giant parakeet cage. If one landed on your finger, you could keep the bird.

Not the one you replied to, and I have a slightly different model (OpenRun Pro) but in my experience, not at all.

They work a little differently with bone conduction. This requires a tiny bit of pressure just below your temple. It doesn’t hurt, but if I wear it all day long (way more than a couple hours) I find myself a little bit… Annoyed with them? Just a little. I still happily put them on again the next day. Zero pain.

Oh, and bass comes out a little differently and kinda tickles a little bit. If you listen to stuff with a lot of bass frequently it may not be your best option. Sound quality is generally like a pair of Sound Blaster speakers from the 90s: it gets the job done just fine, but it’s not for audiophiles.

Also a huge fan of mine (OpenRun Pro). Worth mentioning that they’re pretty lousy in noisy settings, like airplanes or mowing the lawn, but I love being able to listen to things without separating myself from the outside world

That’s true, I have generally gotten my pizza elsewhere (not that I’m an anti-chain purist snob, but there are several options and Domino’s is my least-favorite). If Domino’s is particularly egregious, why was that your choice? Surely you knew that and a coupon wasn’t the only way they could do it?

In my experience, damn near every pizza place has had combo deals and coupons and stuff. And no, I never had to give any extra information or data or app install or whatever that I wouldn’t have had to give for the order anyway. Just say “yeah, add that special to the cart”

Kinda like if you order a cheeseburger, fries, and drink instead of a #1 combo.

The steak. The steak said you couldn’t do that. I mean, look at it!

😟

Ironically, you could use the meme template to say that somehow

On that note, wasn’t Whose Line is it Anyway originally British? Because Drew Carey’s was peak!

Food generally cooks from the outside in. Pasta, especially spaghetti, has a pretty thin diameter so it doesn’t really matter how long it is, as long as it’s submerged. That bit where it has to wait a minute to become pliable enough to fit in the pan is trivial. It will always cook surface to core faster than end to end comes into question

As long as you gave them the full experience with tossing a disc in the trash because of a buffer overrun. Damn Nero software!

CD: the kind you buy from a store with content already on it. Mass-produced with methods and equipment not available in the consumer electronics market, because it was never really necessary. Also includes CD-ROM (Read Only Memory) for data/files read by a computer instead of music alone

CD-R (Recordable): can be written (“burned”) once and only once. As mentioned in another comment, it may deteriorate over time because of how the disc gets written, but by the time that happens you’ll probably forget you had that disc

CD-RW (ReWriteable): Can be written like a CD-R, but you can also erase it and write on it again. More expensive, and I believe some readers had trouble with it, but in a world where data storage was expensive and small this was still a useful thing to have

DVDs had a similar thing, except there were variants where the - was a +, eg DVD+R and DVD+RW. I can’t remember the difference there, but it was pretty trivial. There was also a relatively obscure DVD-RAM that had random access memory. That was pretty cool as well, kind of an alternative to DVR that wasn’t a VHS tape. No need to lose everything you had if you wanted to add more to it