Maeve

I don’t know. I can tell you about a quarter- century 17-18 years ago, I knew one Ukrainian and one Russian, personally. The young Ukrainian gentleman identified very firmly as Russian, the young Russian gentleman identified as Russian. Both were very well-mannered, kind, and integrated very well. I still think very fondly of both of them, and hope they have settled somewhere away from the current madness and are leading fulfilling lives. They are good people.

Ostensibly, Russians in Ukraine were being treated very badly. I don’t have access to the Intel in that region, so I can’t really say. Hence, “I’m not sure.” I feel very badly for everyone in the region, and looking at history, and USA meddling, destabilizing countries and regions to maintain economic hegemony, so which is more toxic is hard to say. That’s all I said. Anything else is reading a whole other narrative into it.

I never said any of that. I’m not sure at all Russia is less toxic than the US, especially right now. I think the US promised Russia no NATO creep toward their borders, and did exactly that. I think US toxicity and meddling has a lot to do with the position Ukraine finds itself in, currently.

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Vape if you want.

https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/vaping-vs-smoking#quitting

How many vape, which is more harmful, more addictive?

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Omg, I’m in stitches! That’s a lot of sky burials!

But unlike many inventors, Roentgen was a man of great humility. He refused to patent his invention, saying that the benefits of the X-ray should be freely available to humanity. He even donated his Nobel Prize money to his university.

Ah American exceptionalism. Because P2025 would never, ever do such a thing.

Djt is a puppet, dancing to the strings pulled by his puppet masters. He’s irrelevant, but as the curtain surrounding the wizards.

I’m not so sure of that.

Unless I’m missing something, the EU+ BRICS “has all the cards.”

“Consumer choice” is like saying "forced bussing,” it’s intentionally obfuscatory language, where “consumer choice” means quid-pro-quo business-political interests and “forced bussing” means certain races are segregated and given inferior school buildings, textbooks, teachers, food.

I have not read the book, only the article, and it seems to fit with other leaks.

I’m glad I left and never went back.

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Requires a phone number.

If you’ll forgive another not/religious expression, the pointing finger is not the moon. Please allow me to point again, after that maybe unplug for a while, sit in silence or walk barefoot in the grass, hug a tree, weather conducive. Sometimes we have to distance ourselves from the moon to see it:

https://kbin.earth/m/europe@feddit.org/t/1186175/-/comment/6122625

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegory_of_the_cave

Eta: or this can happen: https://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/Poets/M/Masahide/Barnsburntdo/index.html

It’s a global experience. We either learn from our mistakes or don’t, address them fully or halfway or make the barest attempts, then throw up our hands in disgust, and faciaism, authoritarianism happens again. That’s why we, imo, need to focus on ourselves, our lessons, our integrity, clearly, consistently, diligently doing the work to heal ourselves, and model for those around, behind us it can be done, so others are inspired to also learn and apply appropriate lessons. Stopgap measures of course will be implemented or an ungood anarchy or other system will continue to arise, but we simply can not improve as long as we continue to allow social systems to rob us of the time, energy, effort, rest and recreation to do so. Yes sometimes we will have to engage more, longer, harder to bring forth some sort of harvest, but limits can and should be recognized. A human laid up or dead due to health issues, physical, mental or otherwise isn’t doing anything for any reason, for anyone.