I grew up in the cold war. I’ve done the drills. I know both what the fear of an all-out nuclear holocaust is, and I know that the reality will be something entirely different.

Did you not see what happened to Russia’s latest Satan II ICBM? Thankfully that one wasn’t armed.

That’s a good line to use on Putin.

Realistically, if Putin uses the nuclear codes, this is what happens:

A few warheads in Russia explode in their silos and the government blames the West. A bunch of other warheads are harmlessly shot down. A few actually find their targets and a few million people are wiped out. The west retaliates and suddenly the war is over.

BICS then becomes ascendant in global power, China claims Taiwan and the Philippines and possibly Japan, and Israel is wiped off the face of the earth as all sides turn it into a nuclear slag pile, killing Israelis, Palestinians and a large number of Lebanese and Syrians in the bargain.

Then things adjust to the new normal and economies rebuild, with the noted absence of Russia and Belarus.

It’s the same type of people who were against seatbelt regulations in the 1970s and helmet laws for motorcycles and bicycles later on.

People who only want to live in a society when the benefit to them is immediately obvious.

Still?

Cuba hasn’t sponsored terrorism in decades….

Thankfully they don’t appear to have my number.

Obvious solution: build water splitters driven by natural gas.

The good news is that a lot of banks now offer free credit monitoring, alerts and controls because they know your data has already been breached. This allows you to, via your bank’s interface, take control of your credit monitoring instead of handing it off to an agency that profits from gobbling up whatever it can know about you.

Check with your bank to see what tools they have available for you.

So… the winning strategy is to overestimate them?

It’s about time.

Based on BC’s traditional water mismanagement and the rapid loss of glacial water due to global warming, pretty soon parts of BC are going to be running an annual water deficit. And that’s before we even get into wildfires.

Wait… aren’t the Illuminati supposed to be aryan overlords themselves? What on earth would they gain by losing power in the US?

That whole thing doesn’t hold together on so many different levels….

That requires three. With one, it sounds like the bigotry URL.

Personally, I’d just limit it to feeding them data that a large undecided segment believes a few provably false outlandish things, so that they publicly endorse said things when they could be spending time doing something socially destructive.

I just assumed the hats had been faux fur since the 60s….

I just realized what Trump means when he says “horrible people” — those are people who don’t protect him from himself.

Some of his “horrible people” will therefore be truly incompetent, and some will be people who are unwilling to put him above all else, or who were in the wrong place when he messed up so badly that it couldn’t be salvaged.

Something Chuck Norris could support….

I think people may have misunderstood the question.

Trump has a history of avoiding wars. Bone Spurs were his excuse in Viet Nam.

He’s shown he has no issues with causing wars; he just personally would rather avoid taking part.

The 2021 insurrection is a case in point.

Scleroses would translate as “hardening diseases” though. There’s only one disease.

Or… Chinese robot industry struggles to develop high quality products.

All depends on how you spin it.

It’s just been working for me so I hadn’t noticed.

Are there better clients available now?