Tangentially related, he once said: “I had a German tell me one time, he said, the two pillars for us are NATO and the EU. NATO is for life, EU is for quality of life.” I wonder how that’ll play out in the near future.
EDIT: corrected link.

No, I’ve been afraid before.

🎶 What’s love but a second hand in motion. 🎶

Care to elaborate?

At least early Christianity is in many ways socialism. Remember the feeding of the 5000 with “five loaves” and “two fish”?
The true meaning is that there will be plenty if everyone shares. That’s the real miracle.

When the true king’s murderers are allowed to roam free, a thousand magicians arise in the land.
Where are the feast we are promised?

(Jim Morrison, An American Prayer)

Kinda like H2S, I guess. You can sense its putrid smell it in the range of 0.47 ppb to 100 ppm, then your olfactory nerve becomes paralyzed. Just when you think the gas is gone, there’s a 50% chance of you dying at 800 ppm. Years ago, I read about a “mysterious deaths” case in which H2S was the main suspect because of this stealthy property.

Brains should be worn on the inside of the skull.

I agree with everything you wrote, but I don’t think they carved up only Ukraine in that phone call. At least all of Europe, possibly the entire world.

Vasily Grossman:

When people are to be slaughtered en masse, the local population is not immediately gripped by a bloodthirsty hatred of the old men, women and children who are to be destroyed. It is necessary to prepare the population by means of a special campaign. […] It is necessary to stir up feelings of real hatred and revulsion. […] Experience showed that such campaigns make the majority of the population obey every order of the authorities as though hypnotized. There is a particular minority which actively helps to create the atmosphere of these campaigns: ideological fanatics; people who take a bloodthirsty delight in the misfortunes of others; and people who want to settle personal scores, to steal a man’s belongings or take over his flat or job.

Amazing book, btw. Like one long fever dream.

Kind of like coprolites, don’t they?

Those are some seriously crooked teeth.

You can’t save them. Whoever is willing and mentally agile enough to look for alternatives will find us. Honestly, at this point, I’d be glad if especially the folks commenting on Reddit’s mainstream subs did not join Lemmy and capture it with their boring, antiquated, views and extremely repetitive quips.

Someone needs bigger pants.

awk-ward

Bottom left guy has a hairpiece, I’m sure.

Pick up the receiver, I’ll make you a believer.

This is it. Welcome to all-out, blatant oligarchy. Ready to donate your last food stamps so the State Department goons get to wear brand new swastika shirts?

My dentist sez flossing is on it’s way out, everybody should start using these really small interdental toothbrushes anyway.