Anyone who wants to have their mind blown, and understand a lot of the context around the Russia-Ukraine war, should spend some time studying the Eastern Front in WWII. There are a ton of great resources out there, but my person favorite is Dan Carlin’s “Ghosts of the Ostfront” series as part of the Hardcore History…

My ‘15 LEAF has me feeling pretty good (dare I say even a bit smug?) about this latest hike, like it did with the shortages not too long ago as well.

The thing is “Democrat who doesn’t support single-payer healthcare and student loan forgiveness” and “Republican who commits borderline treason and wants to create a fascist dictatorship in America” is a huge difference you can’t dismiss with Both Sides are Bad.

My point being, you cant blame dems for the higher gas prices in general, but specifically not for this move. The increase in recent prices is due to instability. When the US announced it would stop buying Russian oil, the market did nothing.

My commuter train into NYC was nearly back to pre-pandemic capacity on Monday morning, and the streets of Midtown are definitely more crowded than they have been. But to heck with the subway — my office is only a little over a mile from Grand Central, I can walk (or take the bus if the weather’s bad). The situation…

The psychotic hypocrisy of Republicans kills me... They’re now effing animals incapable of thinking rationally.

Of course gas prices will have to go up, otherwise the companies can’t maintain the record profits they’ve been making. 

Folks like Joe Saward seem to think a lot of this (Haas re Nikita and Uralkali, F1 re Sochi, etc) is simply tied up in contract situations (figuring what is required to dissolve, etc)

Sweet, I get to use this again.

his dads gonna start using ground up Ukrainians for his fertilizer business.

Remember when there were pipeline protests by Native groups and they were brutally and violently put down by the police almost immediately?

I just posted above: I once got tear-gassed for sitting in a park, protesting old growth forest logging. We didn’t cost billions of dollars in lost commerce. We weren’t demanding the heads of government officials. We weren’t even in the way or clogging up roads. Just sitting and standing with signs.

“some of those that burn crosses, are the same that work forces”

School Buses, Mail Carriers, Local Delivery Trucks, Police Cars... honestly anything that works in shifts and has a base where they go for refueling/restocking and shift changes... all of these should be EVs.

Meanwhile poor Jaime Pressly is wasting away in exile following Robbie’s coup and usurpation of the tile of Most Famous Person who Looks Like That.

I’ll always prefer the David Suchet version, with a pre-fame Emily Blunt as Linnet.

Branagh: “Ok, for the third Poirot movie, Mystery at the Regatta, I want Kevin Spacey, Chrissy Teigen, Ellen DeGeneres, Louis CK, Casey Affleck, Aziz Ansari, and Jeffrey Tambor. On the soundtrack, I’m thinking edgy - I want an R Kelly/Marylin Manson collab.

I have never once thought of whip-smart (or smart as a whip) as meaning anything other than someone, regardless of gender, who is smart and gets things right away. Not sure where you’re getting your definition from.

But then a person’s vote and ability to influence federal legislation won’t be weighted based on how much empty land surrounds them, and that’s just un-American to think all people are equal. 

I’m a project engineer in automatic transmission development and calibration, but company is biasing results through holdings not to have to pay bonuses. Anyway, joke on me for not changing sooner, I’m working for a consulting company, but have been working for the same customer for years, should have been a permanent…