What if on the other end of it is a collection of reasons and decisions based on those reasons that arenāt conclusive enough to result in an absolute statement?
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Isnāt this getting rather meta, and philosophical?
In some ways I think esoka has been painted into a corner of āappearing to want to justify Putinās actions no matter whatā. I canāt quite tell who did all the painting 
(esoka, others, a combination).
Is that really what it was all about? I thought the most relevant part of it was ālook and see: itās not as simple as mainstream western media is painting it, and if you are a thinking person who does not want to have their view formed by western propaganda, you should think about these pointsā¦ā
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I donāt find endless whatifness just for the sake of whatifing worth it, Iāve been clear about it, what can I say. 
Iāll drop it tho, 2022 is still in March, plenty of things to happen yet (for better or worse).
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Read the comments as well.
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Same here. Iām also pretty sure, btw, that I would not dare to protest under such circumstances myself.
Iāve seen this yesterday. (I canāt verifiy it, of course.)
In #Russia activist was detained for holding sign just with ***. According to police he was disrespecting russian military. #Ukraine
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He was probably looking the wrong way in a wrong way. Thatās enough to warrant a detention.
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As with the current conflict, news without historical context provide no news at all.
Letās all hope for that!
Not surprizingly Bernie Sanders does a great job at that:
Very interesting and thought-provoking.
(Yes, I know when he made that speech)
Even back then it was not that simple.
Now we have trucks and air-freight for supply lines. Back then they had carts and conscripts and they all (be it is poor or rich, soldiers or kings) had to walk and ride there.
It arguably gave you a long time to re-evaluate your decision 
This one made me chuckle so hard
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Very good speech by Bernie Sanders.
Side note: I didnāt know that āIraqā could be pronounced like āairakā in English.
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Ī think that is the american pronounciation of it.
On more 2022, someone just sent me this:
I mean, really? 
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today is Pi day
The number Ļ (/paÉŖ/; spelled out as "pi ") is a mathematical constant, approximately equal to 3.14159. It is defined in Euclidean geometry[a] as the ratio of a circleās circumference to its diameter
there are 60 stones on this board
60 / 19 = 3,15ā¦ well, need bigger board for 4 after 1
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The team estimates that the source crater is about 50ā65 km in diameter and should be deeply buried under younger sediments in the northern Denver basin near the Wyoming-Nebraska border.
Soā¦ what if the primary impact was the reason for the creation of the whole Denver basin in the first place? 
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They say
termite propaganda
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Very interesting. The geological formations and activity in Wyoming and along the borders of many neighboring states is some of the most challenging to theorize and understand in the world. It is good to see that that topic has gotten some public attention with the impact craters. I live in the Casper area (central Wyoming), and it is not as well known but there seem to be many impact crater sites in my area as well. The average person who isnāt a geologist would never be able to tell they were craters from what was left over, but I had the privilege of visiting several potential impact sites in the Shirley Basin area with the geology instructor at our local college (to be honest I think he is singlehandedly responsible for discovering and studying those craters in-person), and it was quite the experience.
The first couple of trips out we did not find anything with much promise, but I think it was the third trip that we got permission to enter a large private ranch with lots of potential craters, and it was the most thrilled I had ever seen the man. Large columns of rock with shocks and fractures and all the geological ātell-taleā signs. I was the youngest person on that trip, and most people were older than my dad, in their fifties and sixties. Brutal day to be studying as well, with wind speeds of 100+ mph and snow coming down even though it was only perhaps September. I will never forget watching the 85 year-old lady that was with us haul down the large hill 40+ pounds of chalcedony in these conditions, which we also found in the bulk and got permission to take. She didnāt even look like she was struggling though; certainly far tougher than anyone else I know her age, or anyone 25 years younger for that matter with the exception of perhaps my younger grandma. While we warmed up in the van, our professor bounced around the crater zone on the other side of the hill through the entire storm without a coat or even a long-sleeved shirt. I think it was one of the happiest days of his life.
I wish I could remember more of the technical details, but I am only getting started in my geology hobby and actually know very little. My professor is the kind of guy that could talk about a specific region in our state for 12+ hours straight, and I am the kind of guy that has words go through one ear and out the other at times with a terrible memory when I am crammed with too much at once. That being said, I remember him saying that he had to ship the samples to a lab in Germany that was the only place in the world he knew about that could further test the rocks. So it is good to see the collaboration between German and US scientists in this project, and I would actually go so far to wonder if my professor is a part of this new project now, and if his initial studies in our area from a couple years ago are what led to this now seemingly large-scale exploration.
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meanwhile Ever Given is in the Suez again right now.
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Heard about this airstrike on training base? Reddit - Dive into anything
Apparently some volunteers were surprised to learn that they can be bombed in a war. People joke that those whoāve participated in wars with various sand people now get to experience the receiving end of strikes like that.
All this volunteering stuff reminds me of classical literature. In those times military and wars were considered a noble thing by many young people or so I remember. Never likes classical literature.
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