He came back to life, then popped out for milk and a packet of cigs and will have been back any minute now for the last twenty centuries, pinky swear promise

The population of Canada has only recently surpassed the population of California. Annexing the blue states would be a big meal for Canada to digest

Russia does not recognize our borders in the Arctic. They have rival claims to the Arctic Ocean

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/russia-arctic-ocean-canada-united-nations-continental-shelf-1.5983289

Is the post-1993 thing NATO stepping in to stop genocide in Yugoslavia?

Oh teh noes, not UK waging a proxy war on Iran and North Korea!

You are confusing things. IAC shut down both CollegeHumor and Drawfee in 2020. Sam Reich bought CollegeHumor and resurrected it as Dropout. Drawfee also went indie. “These guys” haven’t been involved since 2020

How do you feel about “demonizing” or “dehumanizing”? Same concept, older lingo

Now would be a great time for the federal NDP to have a leadership race. A year until next election. Singh is past his prime. Get some free press.

That’s literally Russia’s military strategy: conscript minorities and throw them as human waves into the meatgrinder in order to ethnically cleanse Russia while genociding Ukraine

You can’t be a cleric of any of the interesting gods: Umberlee, Gond, Bane, Bhaal, Loviatar, Myrkul

Which other crimes should also be punished by drowning you and your children in the ocean? Shoplifting? Speeding? Littering?

Me too. I assumed this was about the sport of curling

• Man: Hi, I’m from Pakistan. May I move here?
• Other country: No.
• Man: I guess I’ll have to open a club in Pakistan.

What exactly is a permanent ceasefire?

The South Korea-North Korea ceasefire has been in place since 1953

I would expect smog to block or reflect incoming sunlight, lowering local temperatures

The London thing does not apply to pedestrians

“I am a solarpunk in crypto because I want to burn the entire energy output of a second Ecuador in order to help criminals extort ransoms out of hospitals and libraries.” - An idiot

The historical difficulty is enforceability. That made the usual line “no making money on your creepy idiocy”, because once money is involved there are levers of enforcement. Advertising support is one form of making money

Welcome Sweden! It’s good to have you

Russian weapons supply a lot of wars in the Middle East too. Russia funded the 10/7 Hamas attack. Russia gassed and bombed a lot of civilians in Syria. Russian mercenaries are keeping the civil war going in Libya, as well as couping lots of governments across African countries in the past year