MerryChristmas

I had someone correct me on that while simultaneously admonishing me for... giving some cash and a ride to a homeless person.

I'm heading down to a new fish spot I discovered yesterday while out for a hike. I'm bringing some dip nets, a seine, a GoPro and an observation tank this time to see what I find. Lots of green sunfish and bluegill that were visible from the shore, but I'm after some of the riverine darters that aren't in the shallower creeks around here.

Darters play an integral role in the food chain and a lot of local species are woefully understudied. I'm planning to collect a few such specimens for a biotope tank to see if I can learn anything about their spawning habits. My local fish club is tied to a nearby university and features some pretty big names in ichthyology among its members (brag), so I'm hopeful that I can make some useful contributions to some conservation work that they're engaged in.

Trust that if some bozo is trying to start a fight, your comrades will be there to dunk on them.

He forgot the clap emojis?

My man do you seriously think Russia is paying this dude to post pig poop balls on an obscure image board full of people who already hate the west? That's not a rhetorical question - I've been investigating him for a while and I think that's exactly what Russia is doing. They're paying the members here to spread disinformation to one another, increasing the total amount of disinformation available to web crawlers. It's disgusting.

Edit: if you're serious, PM me. I've got more proof where this comes from.

Go back to the cold war, grandpa.

Trusting Russia to keep to an agreement is like trusting a dingo in a nursery.

This is where I stopped reading. Framing global politics through this lens is silly. Russia isn't your cheating ex - they're a global power making strategic decisions based on their material interests, just like every other nation. Trust is just the metric by which we measure how their interests align with our own. And yeah, they're uh... on the other side of the war. Of course there is no trust.

If what you want to say is that Russia's victory would somehow incentivize them to conduct a campaign of imperial expansion, explain how. If your intent was simply to tell us that we shouldn't trust those dirty, no good, double-crossin' Russians, okay, cool. Mission accomplished.

At this point, yeah, they probably should. The counteroffensive is failing.

I won't pretend to speak for the rest of hexbear, but I don't see a positive future for Ukraine no matter what happens next. Blame Russia, blame NATO, it doesn't matter - we are where we are. But realistically, what do you think is going to happen to those Russian-speaking Ukrainians if Ukraine doesn't cede the Russian-speaking territory?

Either it's extremely funny or ChatGPT has come a long ways because I refuse to believe an actual human being could do that unironically.

"he said racistly" is one of the greatest lines of all time.

Hell yeah, yes she can

To be fair, he can probably execute a couple of techniques with okay results. I can't imagine he needs more than that.