I think there were some legitimate concerns about the potential nuclear threat as well as uncertainty regarding Russia’s actual capabilities.

Now we’ve seen that Russia’s claims don’t hold any more water than a strainer, the west should be more aggressive with its assistance. The Ukrainians have already demonstrated that they are not just going to take it laying down and they’re the only reason Russia hasn’t moved on to invading other former Soviet states. I think we owe them all assistance we can give.

I don’t think I’ve seen this meme template before. I like it

H Y P O C R _ S Y

“I’d like to buy a vowel.”

My opinions are mixed. I like living here in general. I don’t like the extremely rapid transformation of Benton & Washington counties into a vast sea of urban/suburban sprawl.

We also have tons of serious social problems that get very neatly painted over by the relentless construction and “newness”.

I’m sure when Tom and Steuart have spent hundreds of millions of Jim’s money to transform this area into the “biking capital of the world”, all our problems will be solved. …ha ha.

As an Arkansan, I appreciate the thumbnail photo of Jim, Alice, and Rob Walton who earned their wealth the good old fashioned way. By inheriting it from their dad. They spent a decent chunk of it gentrifying the Northwest corner of the state to the point that if you were born here, you can no longer afford to live here.

Also trickiest step to liberating Kuwait.

A repressive regime that becomes less repressive during a global pandemic is highly suspicious. Gotta keep up appearances.

This particular stopped clock just happens to be opportunistic.

I disagree with the idea that all insurance is a scam. Insurance is a risk mitigation tool. I’m fine with paying a little bit of money every month so that my family is financially secure if I die unexpectedly or I can replace my home if it burns down. All in all, insurance can be a fairly good and cost effective risk mitigation tool.

The problem is that an insurance business model is incompatible with healthcare. It’s not likely that I’m going to die within the next year. It’s very likely that I’m going to need medical care within the next year. As we [Americans] have increasingly leaned on health insurance to pay for routine medical care, health insurance companies have done a great job of muddying the water and making it more and more difficult to understand how the process works, much less get good quality medical care. There’s a clear conflict of interest between making money and paying for medical care.

Insurance itself isn’t bad. But health insurance is bad. The fact that health issurance is often tied to employment is also bad. Ironically, it has a negative impact on the economy. Maybe even a significant impact although that’s hard to say for sure.

If politicians really cared about small businesses, they would pass a universal healthcare bill ASAP. I would bet my left arm we would see a huge increase in small businesses if the potential small business owners didn’t have to worry about getting healthcare from their current employers.

“The police have been dispatched. Please lay on the floor in the ass beating receiving position and avoid any sudden movements such as sitting in your recliner or taking a nap.”

Knew one family that had a big rear projection in their “media room”. Going to watch movies at their house was a legit event.

Forgot “Pasting it into a Word document”.

“Let’s see what happens when we give these mice food coloring.”

Twenty minutes later…

“Mother of God…”

Putler is [most likely] a sociopath. He’s has no morals but he’s not clinically insane. The only thing using nukes would guarantee for him is his own death, which he must certainly be aware of.

…if Russia even has any functioning nukes.

Bringing back Gnutella.

The best thing about MongoDB is that you can stop using it completely and switch to PostgreSQL, which will happily accept all the horrible JSON data you can cram into it.

“…If there’s a problem writing your data, you’re fucked. Does that sound like a good design to you?”

“If that’s what they need to do to get those kick-ass benchmarks, then it’s a great design.”

Oh God. I am laughing so hard watching this.

Hi dad!

This is already laughable without even considering the fact that the population of Venezuela is overwhelmingly Roman Catholic. Might as well claim to be able to move the earth off it’s axis.

The Mayor should just go ahead and resign. Take the city attorney with him while he’s at it.

What a bunch of asshats.