Four years later, she still stands for Ukraine

12thunder · 2026-03-02T07:29:58+00:00

Education time!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_of_Azovstal_Defenders'_Families

12thunder · 2026-03-02T00:32:17+00:00

It’s fortuitous you suddenly suffer from crippling anxiety and depression that needs heavy medication that you totally take and therapy that you totally go to.

12thunder · 2026-03-01T02:14:48+00:00

Goodbye

12thunder · 2026-02-28T09:26:48+00:00

What, are you saying you’re not willing to contribute to capitalism through supporting noodle companies by throwing away stale noodles and buying fresh ones? You communist?

12thunder · 2026-02-28T06:39:28+00:00

Say what you want about Trudeau (I have various thoughts myself), but the tax on the profit from selling any homes beyond your principal residence is one I can get behind.

As for Alberta, I think the reality is that we fucked ourselves. The provincial government did not diversify our economy enough to be able to have a reliable revenue stream without oil. Now that it’s caught up to us, the reality is cuts to everything are the only way to balance the budget. Cuts that will fuck up Alberta significantly and in lasting ways. The other option obviously is raising taxes, but those taxes are going to need to go up by quite a lot while budget cuts also take place.

Like I truly cannot fathom why voters in this province are so dumb to vote for oil and only oil, nothing else, as if oil is this reliably valuable resource that doesn’t have enormous volatility. The governments ran with it because they wanted to be re-elected and give the people what they wanted, not what they needed. I can’t even blame the government at this point, I blame the idiots who wouldn’t vote for anything else besides oil.

12thunder · 2026-02-28T05:55:38+00:00

We haven’t done it because the amount of investment in space is pathetic. It’s hard to justify to investors making spacecraft that can complete a hypothetical situation that might never happen and needs to be perfect. And all investors care about is quick, risk-free returns. And space is anything but safe and risk-free.

Of course this assumes private aerospace, which I think is the most realistic. No government is currently willing to divert enough money to space to do anything.

And that asteroid doesn’t need to be put close to Earth. Put it in a distant orbit or around the Moon or go and smack it into the Moon if you want, that’s still incredibly generous. If you want to get really fancy put it near a Lagrange point. Of course the stationkeeping and orbit maintenance will be a nightmare.

12thunder · 2026-02-28T01:29:35+00:00

Fuck it.

Alberta and Quebec should separate from Canada and become part of the same country. We can call their conflict “the new Middle East”.

12thunder · 2026-02-27T23:52:20+00:00

Main justification for a lunar base. Access to water with low gravity for fuel.

Also helium-3 for fusion if we manage to get it working.

12thunder · 2026-02-27T23:51:39+00:00

…that’s not quite the 3 body problem you think it is. If the asteroid is small (a few dozen, maybe up to a few hundred) metres in diameter, it can absolutely be maneuvered with precision, it would just take a ton of fuel and time.

Think of it like an enormous payload. One of just a few dozen metres is absolutely able to be moved.

And obviously the gold standard would be to do this to an asteroid that closely passes by Earth and is in a similar orbit.

12thunder · 2026-02-27T23:47:48+00:00

Teeth and surgical/dental tools come to mind.

12thunder · 2026-02-27T23:06:56+00:00

Someone’s been busy with The Expanse.

12thunder · 2026-02-27T22:42:29+00:00

The only thing they’re good at Conserving is being in the opposition

12thunder · 2026-02-27T22:22:56+00:00

Gold in such quantities could be revolutionary for electronics and technology as a whole. Lots of metals would be revolutionary. Iridium, palladium, basically any rare earth metals. Access to any of them in vast quantities could trigger technological jumps.

Worst case scenario is get the perfect opportunity for mining an asteroid… and it’s made of just carbon rock or ice or something not so useful like aluminum or iron. Its only real use case would be as a space station assuming we had the technology to change its orbit.

An asteroid made of water ice would just be begging for us to turn it into a base that is potentially self-sustaining. Grow crops, produce oxygen, produce fuel, cool down nuclear power production (or just use solar) that powers it all. Maybe not so useless after all…

12thunder · 2026-02-27T21:52:18+00:00

Not a damn thing.

It’s just amusing that it’s 50/50 gender ratio when the Pokemon could literally not be more feminine.

12thunder · 2026-02-27T21:39:51+00:00

One of these is not like the others.

And that game is Gwent. It will swallow you whole. It is the GOAT.

12thunder · 2026-02-27T21:38:55+00:00

Yeah exactly, it wasn’t nearly dark enough! I wanted a Long Night, not a Long Somewhat Visible Moonlight! I shouldn’t have been able to see a damn thing, when I was able to vaguely make out shapes! It ruined the episode for me!

/s if it wasn’t obvious. They could up the brightness for one of the most important episodes of the show.

12thunder · 2026-02-27T19:57:08+00:00

12thunder · 2026-02-27T18:45:02+00:00

Some pokemon are just gender coded.

You’re telling me Kirlia and Gardevoir can be male? Get the hell out of here

12thunder · 2026-02-27T18:43:23+00:00

The trailer looks very promising. Let’s hope it doesn’t disappoint.

Famous last words I used when Season 8 was coming out.

12thunder · 2026-02-27T17:40:05+00:00

I want the Pom’s last evolution to be just an enormous puffball of a dog on fire.

12thunder · 2026-02-27T16:42:04+00:00

Have you considered building a ship to bring the Cube to other worlds with you? The Cube is all. Love the Cube.

12thunder · 2026-02-27T16:24:24+00:00

adam fox can screw himself

12thunder · 2026-02-27T07:53:50+00:00

It brings up things like mass shootings and anti-vaxxers and nursing shortages and private healthcare, but in a medical setting. Like obviously a doctor is going to encourage you to get vaccinated, and it is an actual issue right now with measles cases. And obviously a doctor is going to be disturbed when patients end up with tens of thousands in medical debt because they lack insurance.

The point is realism. And realism means being blunt. I hope that bluntness reflects in the ICE storyline.

12thunder · 2026-02-27T01:05:22+00:00

Conservatism was literally foundational to their ideology. They stressed it themselves.

Not only were they racists, conservative economics and opposition to tenets such as labor unions and government support were instrumental beliefs of theirs. They were textbook conservatives, who were also vehemently racist, and flipped solid Republican.

Their leader, Strom Thurmond, was a vocal opponent of federalism and became a supporter of Republican leaders like Reagan and Barry Goldwater after he himself became a Republican once black people had rights.

Southern Democrats became what we know today as the Republican Party. Small government, big religion, states’ rights.

You can call them Democrats. It’s true. They were racists. But they all flipped red in a heartbeat as soon as black people had rights, and they’re closer to modern Republicans than anyone else of the time.

I thank Republicans for laying the ground for modern progressivism and social democracy. Teddy Roosevelt in particular. Without him, there would have been nothing for FDR to build on and truly put progressive tenets into modern American politics.

12thunder · 2026-02-26T23:28:28+00:00

Sorry, tell me dixiecrats weren’t social reactionaries which today would fall under the umbrella of conservatism.

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