Common Caleb L.

You seasoning is a coating

Alternative to cast iron: carbon steel.

Same seasoning process, better heat conduction, lighter, cheaper.

I use a metal spatula on my cast iron all the time.

I see tons of foreign cars here in China.

Japanese cops do fuckall. Which is really nice coming from America.

As cowbell said, liberalism covers any ideology that seeks to maintain capitalism, whether by letting the corporations be free to screw you over, or reinforcing capitalism with a welfare state while actual power remains with the capitalist class.

Fuck you, xyz is great!

From 1990 to 2014, Ukraine was a bufferzone/Russian puppet. After 2014, it became a US puppet.

Russia assumed:

1. they could restore the previous status quo in about 2 weeks, by driving directly to Kiev, in a straight line (lmao)

2. An EU-alligned Ukraine would eventually join NATO, putting hostile troops like 100 miles from Moscow.

The calculus will look very different after

1. the war showed their military and economy are still weaker than they were in 1990

2. There is not a hostile state about to be backed by NATO right on their border.

Russia will never agree to that, so you’re just advocating every last Ukrainian be sent to die in a meat grinder? Maybe if you send the Poles, Germans, and French to die too, Russia will run out of manpower and then you can have your borders.

Churchill? The guy who killed 4.2 million of Indians via famine? Who proclaimed fascism the antidote to the poison of communism?

I like Zelenskyy less than most billionaires, but I wouldn’t compare him to a genocidal ghoul like Churchill.

There was about a 15-year window when they had a democracy

Are you talking about the 90s and early 2000s, when Russia experienced a drop in life expectancy on par with WWII? When foreign capital pillaged the country with the explicit purpose of making an example of them?

Here’s a link to The Shock Doctrine: Rise of Disaster Capitalism. It helps explain how things got bad enough that Vladimir fucking Putin seems like the lesser evil to the people who lived through it.

Neither side has any interest in the well-being and prosperity of the people living in those regions, I just want the war to stop. Same position I’ve held since 2022 when the lines were mostly where they are, and the peace deal was mostly where it is, but millions were still in their homes and hundreds of thousands still alive.

What if they invited UN observers?

Do you have any data suggesting otherwise? Before the invasion, those people weren’t happy with the anti-russian language laws passed by the central government or the fascist militias they wouldn’t stop.

Why does it matter what they want? What next, are you gonna ask the people being sent to die? The only people who really matter are billionaires like Putin and Zelenskyy and what chickenhawks on redditlemmy want.

If only literally any other company had that branding. Why does the archetypal American bike have to be some 800 lb monstrosity that’s constantly having minor mechanical issues, and impractical for going to work or getting groceries, or going around traffic, that absolutely sucks to pull onto a curb?

I don’t remember seeing 1 jeep in China, but every mall has a Jeep clothing store.

And I am telling you the predictions made by your model don’t match observed reality.

I mean it is biased, just not biased enough for Musk.