J.C.MacSwell

+1 for the badge joke!

If there are any badges, I nominate myself to be rewarded the first one.

Ukraine denies attacking fuel depot in Russia Ukraine attack on Russian soil? Seems pretty unacceptable, given that some of that fuel going to fuel Russian tanks and armoured vehicles might also have been used for peaceful Russian purposes. (not to imply that Russia is on anything but a peace mission in Ukraine) "Certainly, this is not something that can be perceived as creating comfortable conditions for the continuation of the talks," Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said, five weeks after Moscow began sending upwards of 150,000 of its own troops across Ukraine's border. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-russia-war-april1-2022-1.6404889 Russia's stance. It would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic.

Ahh...I always suspected it was all fresh...😊

Not asking for the sake of personal information, but who was the POTUS when you were born? The worst WH administration, IMO, since I was born (Eisenhower was in his second term as POTUS) was G. W Bush's, and they voted him in for a second term after an unprovoked attack on Iraq in the first term based on "weapons of mass destruction" that did not exist.

Trump is just doing his best to support the current POTUS. As we all know Biden is fairly prone to gaffs...but here we can at least be comforted by the fact "at least it's not Trump".

Some Russians seem to be getting around government blocked internet sources. https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/12/tech/russia-internet-censorship-circumvention/index.html

Makes cents to me!

I just wish we could get those guys to bee hive.

He does subvert our minds with everything else...

That definition would include Russian state media. In fact their "accountability" has become even more stringent recently.

Perhaps Abraham Lincoln said it best:

Who would you like to decide what information you, yourself, are allowed to be exposed to?

Apparently Youtube decided to block WION for seven days for reporting statements by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's claim that Russia did not invade Ukraine...which is laughable if you watch any Wion videos as they clearly have and are covering the invasion...but sad that Youtube would even consider doing this... (CBC reported the same and felt no need to point out that Lavrov's claims were preposterous either) The block did not last very long but platforms like Youtube are in dangerous territory doing this. Their blocks on Russian state controlled content continue, though in that case they at least have the argument that Russia has eliminated any dissenting views including factual information. Wion's report was factual in that Lavrov actually said it, and they didn't endorse it or claim it was true. and they ran Ukrainian Foreign Minister's comments also, I think in the same video.

Agree. Let them have their "victory", and hopefully they can sit back and enjoy their peace and lack of prosperity. Congratulations Russia on having successfully completed all your planned atrocities.

I'm already trying to bike more to stores, at least on the weekend for small items (and planning vehicle routes more carefully otherwise. I now see myself dieting with added incentive. All, in part at least, feeling guilty having Ukrainians fighting my/our war for me, considering how they fight alone. I know Canada doesn't import Russian oil or gas, but it's a global market. Also a good time to implement much needed carbon taxes...(which proves why I'm not a politician and would never get any votes) But as I said earlier (before Elon Musk tweeted it) I'm also for temporary increases in fossil fuel production. Agree with that, as much as it might be deserved in some respects. Zelensky has done an absolutely incredible job of taking the highest road possible. He's relentlessly challenged everyone he thinks can possibly make a difference while defiantly appealing for peace...including the citizens of Russia. One of his key points has been that Ukraine has never been a threat to Russia and that the invasion is totally unwarranted. Of course that's in currency value and not mass or food calories. But it emphasizes what the self serving and corrupt Putin et gang has done for their economy, which despite being by over double the largest country in the World, and almost 4 times Canada's population, it has a lwer GDP (and dropping faster than ever) Some of the last public thoughts (just last month) of Madeleine Albright on Putin, first US female Secretary of State and refugee from Soviet controlled Czechoslovakia: “Instead of paving Russia’s path to greatness, invading Ukraine would ensure Mr. Putin’s infamy by leaving his country diplomatically isolated, economically crippled and strategically vulnerable in the face of a stronger, more united Western alliance,” Albright wrote in an essay in The New York Times on the eve of the war last month. “Ukraine is entitled to its sovereignty, no matter who its neighbors happen to be. In the modern era, great countries accept that, and so must Mr. Putin,” Albright wrote. “That is the message undergirding recent Western diplomacy. It defines the difference between a world governed by the rule of law and one answerable to no rules at all.” https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/23/politics/albright-putin-russia-ukraine-analysis/index.html

DeSantis is at least capable of being wrong and yet not all about himself, all at the same time.

Even the first of what we would arbitrarily deem a chicken egg came before the chicken. It may have even been eaten by a predator and never turned into a chicken...assuming it was even fertilized in the first place. And, later, the first chicken had to come from a chicken egg. Your thinking is a little scrambled.

Those people of course, if they vote at all, will support someone like Trump. More of an issue is that the average voter isn't given a good alternative. They might be offered a better one, but despite how low the bar is...not much better.

We wouldn't want Putin to call Serge "scum" or "traitor", or otherwise accuse him of not swallowing the kool-aid... https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/russia-putin-warns-pro-western-traitors-ukraine-1.6386960

The World didn't need him the first time.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/03/15/europe/ukraine-russian-prisoners-of-war-intl/index.html Seems more and more to be the case. Putin might have not so much have overestimated his military's competence, as underestimated the decency of the average Russian soldier. If humanity is going to survive long term we're going to need to realize we're all cousins, and we're all in this together.

Still...they might want to be cautious in their mega yachts if they venture too far North while vacationing in the Black Sea.

Now it's getting Personal. Russia is Sanctioning Joe Biden and Hilary Clinton: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-60754136

...which steers the bike underneath the centre of mass of the bike rider system...with an extremely small gyroscopic effect from the spinning wheels +1 This is the key...same vertical force (on average) but it's easier bio-mechanically. The weight feels less even though it isn't. Also gives a slight relief of the vertical force through the "sticking point" of mechanical disadvantage for his arm, which he can make up for afterward when his arm is straighter vertically. Somewhat analogous to the way weightlifters use momentum in a clean and jerk to get by sticking points, but here they can pay later rather than upfront, with the weight raising delayed while the arm raises the light end.