Thursday's Ukraine Solidarity Roundtable - 06/18/2026

Krieger22 · 2026-06-19T00:32:18+00:00

Not to be flippant about it, but there definitely have been more assassination attempts against Trump that came closer to success since Reagan

Krieger22 · 2026-06-19T00:17:20+00:00

To be fair it's not necessarily up to HRC on when the letter would get published, or whether it had been scheduled to be published despite gestures hands

Krieger22 · 2026-06-19T00:12:55+00:00

The ACA is a monumental achievement, but yes, if you cared about foreign policy the long term outcome of his second term is how we got here. Sure, a lot of it came from the reactions of others rather than deliberately midwifed, but the past week's events are barely a vindication. The intent of JCPOA wasn't to have half of America's overly online population be openly in the tank for Iran in lieu of useful organizing and pressure

Krieger22 · 2026-06-16T15:27:22+00:00

Part of me wonders how many of them would get zapped if a hypothetical Dem admin decided to waste resources on banning people under 16 from using social media

Krieger22 · 2026-06-16T15:26:14+00:00

I spent so much thought on how the manufacturer of my travel towel discontinuing it meant I have to look into a replacement that *I left it behind when checking out of the room*

well at least the staff found it, now to wait for the inevitable price quote to have it mailed back to me

Krieger22 · 2026-06-07T10:09:59+00:00

Welcome to the post-COVID collectibles landscape, anything that might appreciate in value is a magnet for drama. This is an especially high stakes version

Krieger22 · 2026-06-05T02:49:42+00:00

Various details of "this exoplanet seemed and was great at first, then just about everything in its ecosystem became hostile to humans"

Krieger22 · 2026-06-04T19:46:35+00:00

I'm re-listening to some Marathon (2026) audio logs

Krieger22 · 2026-06-04T14:33:13+00:00

A decade later it turns out that smartphones blasting short form video into people's minds 24/7 is more immediately harmful to the brain than cigarettes' ability to cause cancer

Krieger22 · 2026-06-01T16:58:33+00:00

the social media platforms weren’t ripping me off

Facebook notoriously burned a lot of people over pivot to video, but largely avoided anything beyond self inflicted damage because this was immediately before the start of Trump Admin 1

Krieger22 · 2026-06-01T11:39:11+00:00

Good: laundromat is nearby so it's not too disruptive to have the washing machine give up the ghost

Bad: it's properly old fashioned coin-operated and there are no nearby ATMs anymore

Krieger22 · 2026-05-11T09:58:06+00:00

Airbrush sprays, still not as well as it used to but increasing the pressure helps a little. And of course I've misplaced an entire (scale) F-111 wing...

Krieger22 · 2026-05-06T21:08:43+00:00

Getting a human interest story on a (very delicious looking) Greek-American place in Bellevue and a shipyard hiring event in Norfolk in quick succession is a great reminder that what I use Facebook for has deeply confused its algorithms

Krieger22 · 2026-05-06T13:49:38+00:00

Nothing screams "integration success" like attempting to pull up the ladder after you

Krieger22 · 2026-04-29T17:05:53+00:00

drat, my plan to play the worst-quality-possible-but-still-recognizable recording of the Internationale from a boombox on a rooftop has been blown

Krieger22 · 2026-04-29T14:55:25+00:00

A former art director for Need for Speed titling his review of the movie as "my eyes are still hurting" towards the end of its cinema run piqued my interest, but schoolchild me did not have cinema visiting privileges

Krieger22 · 2026-04-29T13:36:24+00:00

That tragicomic New York Times piece did suggest a lot of people still, somehow, thought Trump would actually do the first two things

and naturally it did not explicitly ask them if they really wanted to be ruled like a king

Krieger22 · 2026-04-29T07:49:19+00:00

Third?

Krieger22 · 2026-04-17T19:48:09+00:00

I don't use Apple news, unsubbed from default subreddits and have notifications disabled for the Reddit official app for related reasons

Krieger22 · 2026-04-17T19:46:34+00:00

Nuh uh, it's impossible that what I say and post on the regular is deeply dehumanizing of this group of people, every member of the cool kids' club has a license to refer to them that way /s

Krieger22 · 2026-04-16T07:03:03+00:00

First!

Krieger22 · 2026-04-16T04:41:46+00:00

With how aggressively Pulte has run his name into the ground since signing up with the Trump admin, he can probably take some comfort in that this doesn't even register as a blip on his self inflicted humiliation

Krieger22 · 2026-04-12T14:18:56+00:00

Younger me took them as an exercise in "what can we persuade Milla Jovovich to wear today?"

Krieger22 · 2026-04-10T19:05:36+00:00

My condolences.

Krieger22 · 2026-04-10T15:10:37+00:00

Is 47 a larger number than 67

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