Dr. Bluefall

Forcing people to fight over invisible line on a map and pushing them into a meat grinder is evil.

I’m glad you’re opposed to the 2014 annexation of Crimea and the current invasion, very nice! Russia really should stop sending wave after wave of soldiers into the meat grinder just so they can seize more Ukrainian territory.

They are totally ok with profiting out of people misery and misfortunes, just look how much money they are making out of the war industry these days. They simply are scum, look around yourself they do corporations interests not people.

That is not an answer to my question.

Al capone did plenty of charity…

Cool, also irrelevant.

They are sending billions of dollars in weapons to an authoritarian and corrupted government who passed martial law and forbids any man between 18-60 to leave the country, who’s also seeking to forcibly repatriate these who fled the country and are eligible for conscription.

They past martial law because they are fighting for their sovereignty, my guy. If the US had an invader beating down its doorstep and they had already taken California, I feel like switching to wartime government is justifiable. A draft is unfortunate, but when the alternative is to fold in the face of Russian aggression? That’s no choice at all.

They are doing this while backing a genocide in israel, selling weapons to dictatorships such as saudi arabia and doing business with countries like china who are directly supplying russia in this war.

See previous. Yes, the US makes a lot of bad decisions. Supplying Ukraine is not one of them.

They don’t give a shit about you and me or common people, rulers do not fight their wars they send others to die for their slimy interests. That’s not a good thing.

So it is categorically impossible for leaders of nations to care about the people in the nations they administer? This comes off as incredibly cynical.

I get it, the interests of the US government are very frequently wrong and harmful to the world.

But even a broken clock is right twice a day. And assisting Ukraine in defending itself against an invasion is, unequivocally, a good thing.

Say it ain’t so.

I feel like I see more people using (Google) Assistant and Siri than Alexa, though.

They already tried other means (intl. arbitration) and China effectively told the Philippines and the tribunal to get bent.

If China didn’t want military escalation, they should’ve participated in the arbitration proceedings in 2013 and followed whatever ruling was handed down.

I imagine that does undercut the excitement on some level.

Like, it’s an amazing achievement nonetheless, but like… the wind’s already gone. Sail’s empty.

I mean, the ICJ can’t exactly enforce a ceasefire - it’s a “you and what army” situation.

I mean, yes… but a handgun does the job just as well.

NATO?

You mean… the organization the United States is part of?

No.

Fuck Gamurs for doing this to The Escapist.

It’s an expansion for Factorio, called Space Age, that Wube is developing.

I believe it should be. A lot can be gleaned about a society’s morals & ethics from how it treats its criminals (and arguably crime in general).

IMHO, Doctors have a duty of care to whomever is their patient. I don’t care whether that person is the second coming of Christ or the reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, they are entitled to effective care.

That’s not to say that they can’t be tried for their crimes, but the administration of justice is a different job from the administration of medicine.

Will everyone be expected to have some kind of official PGP key?

Peace without justice is as meaningless as ice cream with no sugar. I’d rather a just war be fought than an unjust peace be maintained.