@geekysteven Ask your doctor if giving more money to the oligarchs is right for you
@geekysteven Ask your doctor if giving more money to the oligarchs is right for you
@saraislet How you can tell it is an American AI: has trouble with the metric system
“So, building a time machine, eh? What are you planning? Going back to kill Hitler to prevent WW2?”
“No, something more important.”
“Stopping Gavrilo Princip from assassinating Franz Ferdinand to prevent WW1?”
“No, something more important.”
“What could be more important?”
“Going to play with my children when they were small. Work kept me too busy to spend quality time with them. This is my chance to make it right.”
@copter_chief The answer is likely much simpler. Putin realized he could never defeat the US militarily (look how long he has struggled just with Ukraine). So instead he made a devil’s bargain with him: bow down before me and I will give you the kingdoms of this world. Oil money has let him systematically buy politicians around the globe.
There was an old saying that Russian strategy was external encirclement plus internal subversion. This is 21st century subversion.
@Uair @actuallyautistic @AtheismActually “I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity,” Marcus said.
“Charity toward whom?”
“Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn’t make a better world than this.”
The Dragon’s Path
Daniel Abraham
I've been a liberal Democrat all my life….I frankly find Democrats a better, more sympathetic crowd.... I'll continue to believe that Democrats have a greater regard for the common man than Republicans do.
The Groucho Phile
Julius Henry “Groucho” Marx