@MentORPHEUS Apparently it wasn't just the public phoning in for Ukraine. There is a scandal with Romania's votes for Moldova going to Ukraine instead. Like that.

@MentORPHEUS The point being some grindy wars. What would Russia say? That "Their new standard weapons are too much for us!"?

Part of me thinks that large part of the conflict strategy is to glut the region in so many black market NATO rounds that people stop using Russian rounds. Sanction the Russian rounds, glut the market in NATO rounds, and then switch the American system to a new one (6.8mm) so that entire new stockpiles need to be made. The US military gets to buy first, and so this helps to keep the rounds out of American patriot militia hands.

@MentORPHEUS I'm guessing that American war mongers would like another year or so to enter the war because they've settled on the new 6.8mm weapons. If massive war were to happen too soon then likely the upgrade plan would get scrapped since that isn't the thing to do right as you need to mobilize for deployment. These new standard computerized optics and fast bullets would make for some pretty good fighting on the flat-as-fuck Ukrainian plains.

@destraht Hopefully something as innocuous as this shakes people awake en masse instead of them waiting for Americans to incrementally get all the way to involved in the actual shooting war.

History shows, we'll stupidly march forward wrapped in one American flag and waving another.

@MentORPHEUS Ukraine won by the public phoning in. So it's not so much of a centralized conspiracy because the public did it, except that central planners caused them to love "Keeev" so much that everything else be damned. I think that the public knows damn well what they did. For them they imagine that this big Fuck You to Russia is the next level of natural progression from dancing TikTok videos for Ukraine. You know - the thing that really wins wars.

@destraht Just looked and it happened; Ukraine was handed that victory. Let's see if there's post-nut clarity on Sunday and beyond. Maybe it'll turn out like when they released that "I'd like to buy the world a Coke" commercial song or The Fonz jumping the shark, where everyone watching had their suspension of rational disbelief broken all at the same time. A collective "Meh" and turning away from taking the subject seriously.

That's my naively optimistic "I'd like to buy the world a clue" hope, anyway.

Post-wall former dancer pivots to new career posing dead mice in stripper dioramas. Vegans hate her.

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@MentORPHEUS We don't seem to have a lot of predators here. Just cold weather and politics. Also what few predators would be running wild wouldn't like that the entire area smells like dog and with them having the full run of the place. At some point though I expect to lose one or two until the next level of planning can happen.

My worker just proposed to bury the cast iron bathtub that I picked up some months ago to use as a pond. It might be cool, but there are downsides like you said. It could get weird.