blue_gold_84

https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-moderation-eu-dsa-thierry-breton-2022-4

This is satire, right...? Right?

LOL

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/ukraine-war-russia-1.6430916 Sergei Lavrov is a real piece of ****.

Good read from Wiebe.

This comment is aging well.

I find you get what you pay for. Wendy's and A&W are a bit pricier but so is the quality, IMO.

Nashville?

What's not good about it? He's one of the least penalized players on the team, which is a good thing.

You cared enough to reply. The kneejerk bullshit from fans and media here recently is embarrassing to see. I've come across some absolute gems of stupidity. Yeah, this season was a failure and there are a number of factors that played into that. But moving top players and retaining salary to do so just smacks of emotionally-charged ignorance. A new coaching staff is what's needed. That has to be the organization's top priority.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservative-truck-tax-budget-climate-guilbeault-1.6423519

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-tests-new-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-2022-04-20/

Finland opting to join NATO can only be deemed a provocation to Russian leadership, its brainwashed populace, and the uninformed. You fail to explain what's irrational or unreasonable about a sovereign nation's aspirations or doing what's best for its own interests, while then making your own irrational comments. You should go tell the Ukrainians fighting for their country that resolve is worthless and see how that goes. It's easy to make such a remark from relative comfort and safety and I'm sure your tune would be different if you were in their place. Russia is the way it is because of its leadership, which obviously includes Putin. That group of greedy, delusional narcissists haven't accepted the fact that the USSR failed, the golden age of Russian influence in Eastern Europe is over, and that it collapsed by its own hand. They've been blaming the West ever since, lacking any introspection as to the internal factors that led to the USSR's ultimate demise. They whine about NATO as though it is somehow a threat to Russia's existence. Meanwhile, Russia actually threatens the existence of other nations. That's garbage. They whipped up false narratives and propaganda for years to unjustly invade a country, destroy its towns and cities, and terrorize and murder its people. After having already done something similar eight years previous, annexing Crimea and spurring conflict in the Donbass Region. It's evident Russia is not interested in peace with anyone unless it's on their terms; that's not diplomacy. You can't ask for peace or neutrality with your neighbours by bullying them and then play the victim when they don't bend to your will, and even less so when you invade them. This is what's wrong with Russia: this fabricated persecution complex created by an old boys club who can't accept reality, so they send impoverished, impressionable young men to do their bidding, many to their deaths, while denying any wrongdoing and skirting accountability. It's such a callous disregard for human decency. As for Finland, it isn't some feeble country: https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/hybrid-underdog-russia-should-be-scared-finlands-military-innovation-191333 Russian forces already appear to have their hands full in Ukraine, to the point they had withdraw and refocus on the eastern regions. That's pretty telling and doesn't bode well with regard to conducting another "military operation" on its border with Finland. Russia exposed itself on Feb. 24th. And it's not a good look.

Finland can do whatever the hell it wants, IMO. Russia trying to bully yet another sovereign nation to its best interests is only going to temper said nation's resolve. I think that's only been reinforced now that we've seen what a mess its "special military operation" has been the last seven weeks or so in Ukraine. There's no neutrality to be had with Russia anymore, at least not without Russia having the upper hand in some way. Is that really neutrality? No. I'd say the wheels are in motion for both Finland and Sweden becoming NATO members in the very near future. And Putin, despite his incessant lamentations and objections, has nobody to blame but himself for it. Ironic.

I can't see there being an election next year. That is to say, as long as the LPC-NDP agreement remains in place. As for Poilievre, irrational hyperbole (Justinflation, for example), dog whistles, and empty promises will only get him so far. He should've learned from the last two CPC leaders how ineffective those tactics can be.

@JCon just provided four, though. Your healthy scratch comment isn't the gotcha you think it is.

A new coaching staff has to be the top priority going into the off-season, IMO. If Lowry can be retained in an assistant/specialty role, I'd be good with that. Flaherty, too (goaltending is a strength of this team). The rest can be shown the ******* door with extreme prejudice at this point.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-moves-heavy-military-equipment-towards-finnish-border/ar-AAW7tbP

https://www.livescience.com/first-interstellar-object-detected

Pretty vicious.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-61066503

https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/april-2022/citizenship-education-failure/ Pretty fascinating read, IMO.

Oof.

https://www.psypost.org/2022/04/donald-trumps-presidency-associated-with-significant-changes-in-the-topography-of-prejudice-in-the-united-states-62880