“Listen, all that talk about second breakfast really spoke to me while I had the munchies. At the time, proper appreciation for food was the best qualification I could think of.”

By American standards, I don’t think that’s true. If I’m wrong about that, that would be amazingly good news!

FYI, I’m not Ukrainian. I’m Romanian. We have more skin in the game than Germany or France though. If Ukraine falls, Moldova falls 24 hours later, and allowing our brother country to go back under Russian domination is pretty unthinkable.

Even without that existential issue, allowing democratically minded Europeans trying to walk the same path we walked 25 years ago get invaded by Russia without as much help as we can give them seems horrific to me.

Another Deezer user in the wild! Been a subscriber to it for years now.

Jesus, season 36… The Simpsons is a zombified show at this point. It really should be put out of its misery.

Thanks Austria, very cool. The domestic politics bump they got for being “tough on migration” sure was worth delaying our full Schengen status. /s

Need a dispenser here!

Finnish border officials say fences equipped with top-notch surveillance equipment — to be located mostly around crossing points — are needed to better monitor and control any migrants attempting to cross over from Russia and give officials time to react.

A fence won’t stop anyone, but it can detect people, which sounds like the point.

This period of war in Eastern Europe is pretty shit and I would like Western Europe to take it more seriously, thx

Nonviolent successes are always paired with violent alternatives. Nonviolent protests by themselves can be ignored, but if you have a nonviolent movement and a parallel but seperate violent movement biting your ankles… now negotiating with the nonviolent movement seems like a really good idea.

Wikipedia has a decent chronology tab of the kind of insanity going on when the UK just went 'Yay Ghandi! Nonviolence wins! Definitely nothing to do with all the terrorist attacks!"

Before India became completely ungovernable, their response to peaceful protest was to imprison anyone threatening their rule (make sure to read the “local violence” part).