The Snark Urge

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I hear that. I work from home and I’ve yet to make friends in a new country. It would be downright monastic if not for my family, instead it’s more of an insane asylum vibe.

I’m not even convinced happiness and fulfillment are the right thing to be actively seeking in life. If you have purpose, these things will come in time. If you chase them as your purpose, you will never truly have either.

It’s nukes, so of course - every time anyone makes a move it’s stressful. That said, China is doubling its stockpile this decade and then calling foul just because the US is aware of it and discussing how it affects their position.

Regarding American willingness to strike first: The only US administration who has talked about using nukes in a casual way is Trump’s. As to accusations of genocidal tendencies, neither nation has a clean record.

“The U.S. is peddling the China nuclear threat narrative, finding excuses to seek strategic advantage,” a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said.

Later, same article

The U.S. has consistently pointed to China’s expansive and growing nuclear weaponry. An annual report by the Pentagon last October said China had more than 500 operational nuclear warheads in its arsenal, and will probably have over 1,000 warheads by 2030.

What is China’s serious concern, exactly? That the US is consistent about its appraisal, or that they’re reacting cogently to it?

That’s how you talk to someone with depression? Validate their hopelessness? Fuck off.

OP, voting is the bare minimum. You’re going to feel much more empowered joining your local climate protest group.

Old StumbleUpon was everything to me

If you knew what came next in the ST timeline, you would not wish for it

I’ve been quite coffee dependent ever since about age 16. Sometimes I like to take a week off, facilitated by a massive two litre teapot. In summer, iced tea is my crutch of choice.

The nightmares are increasingly thinkable

It’s over. It was honestly over long ago, it’s just playing out in slow motion.

It will probably continue to play out for another thirty years at least. Increasingly horrible, so at any point “eight years ago” feels like back when things were sane, except we lost our minds decades ago already.

Sorry we’re the nation equivalent of DJ Khaled; we think we’re “suffering from success” but in truth we actually are and we don’t know it.

Now why would they be doing that?

Fuck the junta

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Says @naturalgasbad@lemmy.ca, famously Lemmy’s most politically neutral user 🤣

Go on long walks with a litter bag cleaning parks etc while listening to books and music. Get really in shape. Cook every meal for my family. Write fiction. Get involved in helping local political movements. Attend more protests.

That’s all we need, a way for morons to turn the web into even more of a Potemkin village of meaningless blather

Do you think a peace deal that cedes Crimea and parts of Donbas to Russia, while also keeping Ukraine out of any defense pacts, to be a lasting prospect? It is hard to imagine that the story would end there.

Yes.

But this isn’t going to be a solution Russia can abide willingly, which is how we end up not being “anti-war” so much as hoping one side wins. Fine distinction.

Being anti-war is easy, it’s the particulars on which people will meaningfully differ. How do you build a lasting peace in either of these places?