Lexapro evened out my mood enough to make me less suicidal, but eventually I found I felt completely zombified and it was just a new form of bad. Wellbutrin has been the most effective thing I’ve taken but it’s sent me down a rabbit hole of potentially getting diagnosed ADHD as an adult

Unironic skill issue. And I say that not to be discouraging but more to say that, like any skill, you can get better through concerted effort and practice. Keep rolling big dog, you’re gonna make it

Been gone for a few months. Any good struggle sessions I missed?

Every time I pitch an avengers movie but with full penetration I get laughed out of the dentists office but this gets praise?? Fucking double standards smh

You either get assassinated by NATO or live long enough to see yourself join them

Zelensky just removed Zaluzhny from heading the military because Zaluzhny was getting too popular and becoming a political threat. Important to point out that Zelensky has called off the elections that should be happening right now and that there’s growing dissent for his administration due to how poorly the war is going. Also worth pointing out that Zaluzhny has ties to the far right militias of the Ukrainian armed forces and flaunted this fact when Zelensky first tried to have him removed. It would be very easy for NATO to back Zaluzhny and his right wing thugs (the same ones that took part in the maidan coup) against Zelensky if Zelensky breaks with the West’s wishes. US intelligence agencies are very good at pulling at threads of existing dissent to create chaos and oust difficult political leaders

That’s just being a pedo with extra steps

Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t Spain making a killing off the switch to LNG since nordstream was killed? iirc y’all have like one of two LNG import ports in Europe so Spain’s actually one of the few EU countries to come out ahead on this war economically

Good call. Gonna go watch The Great Wall (2016) staring Matt Damon

You say that like there’s better politics in other movies

Brewskie beer me bro

Oh I’m sorry I didn’t realize people were trying to form the n+1th international here

If Barbie doesn’t win for production design and costume design I’ll riot

Oh I thought we were fucking around with taking national liberation to its logical conclusions and breaking things up into as small of chunks as possible. Didn’t realize it was a piss take in the other direction

Virtually every large nation should be cracked up as well if you want to follow through with the logic. The amazonian basin would be a series of micro states. China has what like 50 recognized minority ethnic groups within its borders

I just learned for the first time that tiny dancer wasn’t edited into the Trump RBG video, it was actually just playing in the background when he found out she died lmao

I always thought I was a terrible singer until someone who was actually good at singing explained to me that my range is just too deep to hit the notes you’d normally hear in any given pop song. Anyway I’ve been searching for good karaoke songs and in the process I’ve discovered I’m a pretty good match for Tennessee Ernie Ford, so now the two songs I have in my back pocket for karaoke nights are sixteen tons and the union version of dixie

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There’s been a lot of talk about the production capacity gap between Russia and NATO as it relates to artillery rounds specifically. Russia has retooled its economy and invested heavily in wartime production and is currently seeing it pay dividends both on the battlefield but also in the overall health of their economy. Meanwhile the NATO nations have refused to make the investment in restarting mass production of rounds, a capability liquidated and sold off under the guiding principles of neoliberalism, and instead has solely relied on draining existing stockpiles bits at a time. The result has been catastrophic for the Ukrainians tasked with dying on NATO’s behalf ever since the initial blitz push from the RusFed was repelled and the war has settled into a WWI style trench and artillery game of attrition.

I think though that we shouldn’t confuse an unwillingness with an inability. There’s no reason to believe that the US or Germany are incapable of making the investment to restart the mass production of artillery shells (or any mass produced weapon of war rather than the big ticket, hyper specialized war toys they prefer now). There’s an entire point to be made that in this moment of profitability crisis the only industries that are succeeding are the ones hand chosen by the state to be made so with direct subsidies and funding (re: Brenner & Riley’s Seven Theses in which they attempt to coin “political capitalism” as the new economic model post-neoliberalism). The general consensus seems to be that there’s so far been an unwillingness to commit to the production process because it’s been thought that the Russo-Ukrainian war will end before the investment will be worthwhile and then the general style of combat will return to anti-insurgency missions relying on drones and laser guided munitions rather than mass produced dumb bombs and shells. My fear is that if this calculation changes and there is heavy investment in restarting the NATO war machine it puts us on the path towards another world war. The European nations may see the success of the Russian economy under wartime policies and see the return of a military Keynesianism as an appealing out to their financial woes but, as we know from the start of the previous century, you can only build up your stock of weapons for so long before the imperative to use them arises. I’m worried that the long duree trends of the 21st century see the return of both multipolarity as well as great powers conflicts, but this time we have nukes. Guess there’s nothing to really do about it tho but enjoy the view