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a broader shift in military strategy away from Europe and counterterrorism

Putin is pulling US troops out of Europe. This will allow the US military to focus on it’s one consistent strength: making the world hate the US.

He paid people to vote, that’s just very clearly what he did.

It’s already illegal. Unless the rich do it, of course.

Almost as ironic as blithely accusing a large collection of disparate communities of having a culture of hate, negativity and rudeness.

I browse 3-5 times a day, and see something unnecessarily rude maybe once a week or so. I’ve not noticed any change in rudeness or negativity recently.

Without hard data, mood trends identified on social media usually say more about the identifier than the community.

Tauros in greek is bull, yeah. The minotaur was the Bull of Minos. It may link back to the pre-greek people of crete, known for bull-leaping.

The “ken” in “Kentauros” is thought to mean piercing, but why is a piercing bull a half man/horse? There’s no obvious explanation.

I love the idea of -tauros coming to mean a monstrous combination, like franken- in english. But if there were any evidence of that some very excited nerds would’ve told us, I’m sure.

Personally, I say sen tore.

According to my classics professor ~20 years ago, we can’t know how “au” would’ve been pronounced in the greek.

He told us that ancient greek diphthong pronunciation is just made up. Apparently it’s much harder to reconstruct those sounds confidently, but that didn’t stop past classicists from claiming their reckonings as incontrovertible facts. Oxford and cambridge used to expell students for following the diphthong pronunciations of the other, but both are basically guesses.

I presume it’s 4 days to live without medical intervention. The article quotes her father as commenting:

“Virginia my daughter, I love you and [am] praying for you to get the correct treatment to live a long and healthy life.”

It could definitely be true that doctors said she’s got 4 days to live … without dialysis. That could have been made clearer in the article. I suspect someone is being a little overly dramatic - to be expected of headline editors and to be forgiven of a recently car-crashed victim of sex trafficking.

In Australia it’s shortened to “Sepo”.

I don’t think this graph is accurate - the lines shouldn’t be so perfectly parallel.

The older I get, the greater the distance between my age and “old” age. When I was 12, 15 seemed old. At 42, 75 seems old.

I miss it so much.

When we kill CEOs it’s domestic terrorism. When they kill us it’s suicide.

It’s clever, catchy and appropriate for the historical moment.

When an illegitimate fascist coup accuses you of domestic terrorism, it’s because you’re doing the right thing.

I’m not racist, some of my best slaves are black.

This decision is an abuse of the legal system. It’s not a legitimate judgement and greenpeace should refuse to comply.

Incorrect. This will make our government’s imperialist invasions much easier, since our government is an extension of the russian state and the US military can only possibly get in their way.

*Putin says

just another servant of the Billionaires

Yep, that’s the job description!