Oil Tankers on fire off the shoulder of Kerch

I’ve watched sea babies glitter in the darkness on the Azov Sea.

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.

Time to die… Putin.

The fact that it’s more difficult to see someone in front of you when your hood is 6 feet up probably has a lot to do with it too. Takes longer to stop a heavier vehicle too.

Commercial driving licenses exist to ensure there’s additional training for people driving a large vehicles. But there’s no additional training needed for driving massive pickup trucks.

I don’t like my chances as a pedestrian getting hit by even a Honda Civic. But I think someone driving a Civic is more likely to see me and stop their car before hitting me than someone driving a lifted F-350.

Get some more house plants?

Yeah, so have you dug into the stats to find out the percentage of those people that are dying from heart disease that are over 70?

Also what is considered an article about terrorism? If the NYT mentions 9/11 in one sentence in an article does that become an article about people dying of terrorism?

The methodology of gathering and compiling data in statistics is relevant, and that’s before we get into analysis.

As Mark Twain said, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” This graph is likely way more biased than the implied accusation of bias leveled on the NYT could ever be.

Having family members die of these things doesn’t make people aware heart disease exist? It’s only if it’s reported in the New York Times reports on it that makes people aware of things?

And no it’s not all that flashy when my grandfather dies of a heart attack at the age of 87. That’s part of your stats on the common causes of death, right? It’s sad for those that knew him, but do you expect a story about an octogenarian dying of a heart attack to make the front page of the NY Times? What would that accomplish more than an obituary stating people should give to a charity in lieu of flowers? Maybe with some more funding to medical research my grandfather could’ve lived to 88 or 89! But the damn NY Times decided it was more important to report on someone dying in the prime of their life instead of elderly people dying. Those insensitive bastards!

I’ve had various family members die from all of the most common things in the top 2/3 of the causes of death. It sucks. But I wouldn’t want there to be a story about it in the NY Times about it… because why would they do that?

They’re journalists not doctors, treating heart disease and cancer isn’t their jobs and it’s not all that interesting to write about.

It’s just all emotion and no rational thought now. People just go into outrage mode when certain topics are mentioned.

Really it opens a channel to criticize ICE without needing to logon to X to do so. But that’s bad because preventing communication is good?

Of course I doubt ICE will care about criticism directed towards their account on bluesky. But that means things said on the internet don’t have much of an effect on things, which means it doesn’t matter whether they’re on bluesky (or any other forum).

Mostly it’s about some weird belief by some about controlling what is being said on the internet gains power. You’d think the events that have happened would have proven this wrong, but still people continue to be upset about things being said on the internet and want some power over those things.

Really words on the internet don’t matter as much as people think, and the idea of blocking unwanted information is annoying at best and can lead to ignorance. What matters is the horrible acts ICE is doing. We should want more light being shown on them, and welcome any potential channel of discussion.

Wanting to prevent discussion indicates you feel you’re in the wrong. ICE is indicating they want discussion, while those that are outraged by ICE being on bluesky are indicating they don’t want discussion on ICE. Why would anyone want to make is seem ICE is in the right while they’re in the wrong? It’s people not thinking and only reacting emotionally and handing ICE a W because they are raging instead of thinking.

Gotta have a layer of blubber to keep warm.

Also it seems to me there’s more obesity in rural areas. People taking transit walk a bit more than people that drive a car everywhere I guess.

Joypad: “I think sitting me next to vibrator is causing some confusion about what I do. Anyone want to trade places?”

Soundbox: “No.”

Also are we just calling eReaders just “books” now? I don’t think books use USB.

One tank would use enough fuel for a great many of those cars.

Logistical problems in getting fuel to areas near to Ukraine indicates there could also be problems in getting fuel to the front lines.

Even assuming the Russian military is needing to divert the relatively small amount of fuel from nearby gas stations to the front, that indicates they’re in a desperate situation.

I’m gonna need you to get all the way off my back with these obsolete tanks.

“Vulkan has arrived” is something they’d say on the Enterprize when Mister Spawk beamed aboard.

It doesn’t cost $8 per copy to manufacture. I can get a writable 64GB SD card delivered to my door for less than that. And a plastic case is pennies to manufacture.

It’s more about preventing people from trading or selling games with other people after they’ve finished playing them.

That’s true. But it’s also true that the guy isn’t immortal.

I’m not sure what the point of an animated version would be… it would be like watching someone else play the game.

Don’t think any move would be a good idea, Link doesn’t really have a defined character because in the game you’re Link. In any movie they’ll need to define his character and it’ll probably not match most people’s expectations because everyone imagines Link’s character to be different.

Most of what he’s doing requires congressional approval. But what’s congress going to do about it? Impeach him? LOL.

Or hey, you could take it to the Supreme Court to see if they’ll stop him, LOL.

Withholding aid from Ukraine was the reason for Trump’s first impeachment. This time around the GOP Congress will probably just applaud him.

There’s … ummmm… reasons… they went from Africa to the plantations in the Caribbean before heading home.

Yeah it’s more about calling Putin/Trump’s bluff than anything else. We all know they don’t give a shit about democracy in Ukraine, Trump is just using the “dictator” rhetoric to appeal to his base. But that argument is gone now, so now Trump has to come up with a new lie to explain why he’s doing whatever Putin is telling him to do.

Ukraine joining NATO could be part of a peace agreement though.