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a broader shift in military strategy away from Europe and counterterrorism

Putin is pulling US troops out of Europe. This will allow the US military to focus on it’s one consistent strength: making the world hate the US.

He paid people to vote, that’s just very clearly what he did.

It’s already illegal. Unless the rich do it, of course.

Tauros in greek is bull, yeah. The minotaur was the Bull of Minos. It may link back to the pre-greek people of crete, known for bull-leaping.

The “ken” in “Kentauros” is thought to mean piercing, but why is a piercing bull a half man/horse? There’s no obvious explanation.

I love the idea of -tauros coming to mean a monstrous combination, like franken- in english. But if there were any evidence of that some very excited nerds would’ve told us, I’m sure.

Personally, I say sen tore.

According to my classics professor ~20 years ago, we can’t know how “au” would’ve been pronounced in the greek.

He told us that ancient greek diphthong pronunciation is just made up. Apparently it’s much harder to reconstruct those sounds confidently, but that didn’t stop past classicists from claiming their reckonings as incontrovertible facts. Oxford and cambridge used to expell students for following the diphthong pronunciations of the other, but both are basically guesses.

I presume it’s 4 days to live without medical intervention. The article quotes her father as commenting:

“Virginia my daughter, I love you and [am] praying for you to get the correct treatment to live a long and healthy life.”

It could definitely be true that doctors said she’s got 4 days to live … without dialysis. That could have been made clearer in the article. I suspect someone is being a little overly dramatic - to be expected of headline editors and to be forgiven of a recently car-crashed victim of sex trafficking.

In Australia it’s shortened to “Sepo”.

I don’t think this graph is accurate - the lines shouldn’t be so perfectly parallel.

The older I get, the greater the distance between my age and “old” age. When I was 12, 15 seemed old. At 42, 75 seems old.

When we kill CEOs it’s domestic terrorism. When they kill us it’s suicide.

It’s clever, catchy and appropriate for the historical moment.

When an illegitimate fascist coup accuses you of domestic terrorism, it’s because you’re doing the right thing.

I’m not racist, some of my best slaves are black.

This decision is an abuse of the legal system. It’s not a legitimate judgement and greenpeace should refuse to comply.

Incorrect. This will make our government’s imperialist invasions much easier, since our government is an extension of the russian state and the US military can only possibly get in their way.

Wait y’all can pick the correct thing out of your pocket regularly? I’d say I have a 10-20% error rate. At least once a week I’m standing in front of the staff room door wondering why my car key is in my hand.

Our russian controlled white house will probably host several more PR stunts like this as they work towards their goal of fully cutting off US aid to ukraine.

I think it makes more sense to look at this as the latest step in that plan, rather than an unexpected event that with uncertain consequences to puzzle over. If this particular stunt was axed at the last minute, the situation in 6-12 months would likely be the exact same.

Ukraine was never going to accept a shakedown attempt from a proven welcher working for their enemy, nor agree to a full russian victory just because it was called peace.

I suspect that’s an effect of the under-education of our country. A more functional education system would probably produce fewer proudly ignorant people.

Lol it’s always projection.

Once they’re done building their migrant death camps, Homan and his fascist ilk will literally be conducting human sacrifices for the glory of their god king and his brutal regime.

A less intentionally broken education system would reduce the scale of the harm done.

All mainstream social media is owned by the rich who support the fascist coup and work to protect it.

When I was like 9 or 10 I thought our neighbor was at the door so I jumped out in my home made samurai pizza cats outfit, yelling “samurai pizza cats, they’re so bad!”, presuming that he was there to play samurai pizza cats.

Turned out to be a boy from my class at school collecting money for something. He proceeded to blackmail me, getting my lunch in exchange for keeping my dorkiness hush-hush.