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It is dangerous to be a Russian general. They are fair game for Putin, the Ukrainian military and pissed off Russians. Plus, at the beginning of the war, they were putting relatively high commanders way up close to the front.

At a corporate board meeting the CEO tells a joke. Everyone laughs except for one guy.
"Didn't you get it?" the CEO asks the guy.

And the guy says, "Oh, I got it. But today's my last day."

Yes, I distinctly remember the uncomfortableness of that scene. I know a few who will not eat a cherry tomato because of the squishy texture, even though they like the sauce.

What do you do with 6 lbs. of cherry tomatoes?

If the US had a real leader, Ukraine would have won that war by now. Fortunately, under Biden they did get support when they needed it most.

Unbeliever wrote: Fri Jun 05, 2026 6:35 am "Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love."
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Hobbit, 1937

Better than anything in the babble.

Sunk cost will pay off eventually sums up a few projects I worked on. On time we finished up, and the management told us to shrink-wrap all that new gear and place it in storage. Putin needs to start thinking about "sunk costs".

We had a nice dinner with some of our remaining friends who didn't go down the conspiracy, racist, anti-science shit hole. The sentiments range from the "country is done" to "it will all blow over sometime." I am leaning towards the notion that we are spiraling down faster than we know. The world's ...

Good point.

Beautiful and man, that is OLD even for a tree! For vertebrates the age champ is the Greenland Shark estimated at 250 to over 400 years however there is the so-called Immortal Jellyfish for invertebrates. Never dies, just reverts to its juvenile stage.