Did the Ukrainians switch on the explosive ammo cheat or something? Holy fuck.

It’s going to take a lot of brave people and a lot of money to demine Ukraine. Luckily, Ukrainians are very brave and they have some extremely rich friends.

100% a public transit enjoyer. I get annoyed with people in my city who complain endlessly about how shitty our bus service is. I’ve been getting the bus daily since childhood, and it used to be so much worse. 15 minute minimum wait, often it just wouldn’t show up, and expensive fares. Now it’s uncommon for me to wait for more than 5 minutes, the fares have reduced, and it’s reliable. The only issue is that the bus gets stuck in traffic because there are twice as many cars on the roads now compared to 25 years ago. So great job drivers, you’ve created a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Most of it comes from people who have next to no experience of using public transit, and will just latch onto any excuse not to use it, when in reality they’re snobs who don’t like to admit that they think getting the bus is below them. It’s not. I used to get the bus into college with one of my lecturers (RIP) who owned a fucking law firm, and it keeps people humble in my experience. I honestly think society would be healthier if people used public transit more.

Reports are saying there are 40000 reserves being sent to Avdiivka, so it looks like the numbers are going to stay high for a while. Appearently they’ve also run out of armour, so it’s just infantry assaults now. What a horror show. I didn’t think Russia had any reserves, since there’s no rotation happening.

From the Russian point of view, Russian speaking Ukrainians are their fellow citizens. The Russians claim Ukraine is mistreating them and invade to protect “Russians” in DPR/LPR. It’s total bullshit, but it fits Russian’s desire to be seen as both victims and heroes in their own psychodrama about the war.

What a great deal. Ukrainian’s democratic and human rites are being taken away by Russians in exchange for some bird food.

So all of those assurances from Western leaders about supporting Ukraine for as long as it takes were completely disingenuous.

After a couple of months of running most days, I reached that amazing fitness level where I’m beginning run with relative ease again. I celebrated by buying myself a pair of fancy sport headphones. Hopefully I’ll be able to tackle a 10k again by the end of the year. Also, it’s fucking cold outside all of a sudden. What the hell.

I looked it up, and a 6700XT costs the same price as a PS5/Xbox in my country. Add onto that all of the extra components you’ll need to build a PC and it’s way in excess of what a console costs. Sorry, but the cost of entry for PC just doesn’t compare to consoles.

Look, you’re welcome to nitpick graphical fidelity, but I think current gen console games running on a 4k tv look excellent. They’re also a fraction of the price compared to PC hardware. That’s a better proposition compared to PC gaming these days for anyone looking to get into gaming. I get that that’s not a popular viewpoint among the PC crowd, but that’s why I posted it.

I’m talking about something which can achieve parity with the 4k graphics that console gamers expect nowadays. That’s not remotely affordable on PC, but it is for consoles.

I’ve stopped advocating for PC gaming after about 15 years of being a PC enthusiast. It’s just too expensive these days. I think the Steam Deck is a good entry point, but not everyone wants a handheld console. I can 100% respect anyone who looks at the price of a gaming PC and just picks up a Playstation/Xbox for $500 instead.

1/2 a mile to the gallon and $600 to fill up. Produces as much C02 as Luxembourg. New EV version out next year!