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Just cracked open another crate of these MINTY Bulgarian Makarovs!

@CynicalPublius Mightve been the pause to take the picture, that mighta looked to them like they were stopping and staring sizing him up

Lots of views on this today. It's scary because this was not one of those "Let's go hug the big furry cow" incidents, the guy appears to be keeping a respectful distance and something just set the bison off.

Is Ukraine winning? If you are satisfied with Ukraine simply remaining on the world map regardless of its territorial and demographic losses, then it hasn't lost yet, as we can see there are no Russian flags flying over the administration buildings in Kyiv or Lviv. On the other hand, Ukraine is locked in a long-term existential conflict with Russia. China does not consider it a reliable or stable entity to include in its own strategic projects, while European politicians argue that Ukraine is merely buying time for Europe to rearm. Ukraine's own president states that his country is the ''Shield of Europe,'' and the US continues to ensure Ukraine is armed just enough to bleed Russia, but without any prospects of actually winning in the sense that Ukrainians would want. When global players see no purpose for your existence, when you are too unstable for long-term investments, and when your usefulness is reduced to serving as a buffer zone—with your own president arguing for support on the grounds that Ukrainians can shield Europe from a hypothetical Russian invasion—you have already lost in the long run.

As Freud said "Sometimes lighting your mother's garage on fire with your penis is just lighting your mother's garage on fire with your penis."

RE: Air Canada So now that I’m back from my Norway cruise, there are a few travel-related stories I want to tell. Let’s start with this: IMO, @AirCanada is by far the worst international carrier I have ever flown on. Avoid at all costs. I’ve flown them twice; the first time was a trip years ago to Berlin where we transferred in London. They lost our bags for TWO WHOLE WEEKS. Do you know that Tesco sells virtually no clothing that fits someone who is 6’5”? The bags instead went to Milan and they were waiting on our doorstep in D.C. when we got home. That was the first trip. Now let’s talk about the one I just took (my cruise line, Viking Ocean, booked Air Canada for us, not me—I should have said no). I’m about to talk about Flight AC 866 on June 12, 2026, from Montreal to London. We flew into Montreal from our home U.S. airport on Air Canada's domestic-style business class, which was just basically shoddy, rundown and depressing. As some of you know I just had major knee surgery and I had therefore requested wheelchair assistance for the transfer to the international flight. Nope, nobody there. To get to immigration was about a mile walk. I attribute the current post-op problems I am having to the fact that I had to make that walk. It was brutal, and while my knee had been recovering nicely until then, that walk set it back and I’m still suffering. But we made it through the interminable immigration lines and boarded Flight 866 in Montreal en route to London. Or so we thought. Turns out, they had the wrong plane. By the “wrong plane,” I mean the WRONG PLANE. They had sold tickets for a differently configured aircraft than the one we were boarding. Guess what? It seems they didn’t even figure this out until PEOPLE ACTUALLY STARTED BOARDING. Let me say that again. The fact that they had sold tickets to the wrong type airplane was not identified until people got on board and their seat did not exist. As a retired U.S. Army logistician I find this utterly incomprehensible. How do you make such a mistake? Chaos ensued. First, they stopped boarding with the plane about 25% full. (@MrsDrPublius and I got onboard before they figured it out because we had bought business class tickets.) Then we just sat there on the plane as the minutes and hours ticked by and the pilots, ground staff and flight crew hurriedly rushed up and down the aisles looking worried. (At least we were seated. ~75% of the passengers were still in the terminal.) No one was telling us anything except that the flight was delayed because of some unspecified ticketing issues. Then they tried this crazy thing where they made everybody stay seated and write their name and the number of the seat they were sitting in on a piece of paper and hand it in. I don’t know what they thought that would accomplish, but it was useless. It was the Keystone Kops, poutine style. Then they made us all get off the plane. Then they re-booked every single person’s boarding pass in the system. Laboriously. Painfully. I heard complaints that people were kicked off the flight because there was no seat for them. People who had booked business class were sent to economy because there were too few business class seats. The delay was causing mass missed connecting flights in London when/if we ever did arrive. This was one of those international Airbus jets with ~300 passengers. I honestly thought there might be a riot in the terminal. For a while it looked like we never would fly. Almost 6 hours later, we took off and actually did make it to London, eventually. The next day they sent me a survey to let them know how they did. It was the worst survey I have ever written for any business in my entire life, and I separately demanded some sort of compensation for the incredible inconvenience their incompetence caused. It’s three weeks later, and they have yet to reply. So now I’m writing this post. You could have at least APOLOGIZED, @AirCanada. Rarely do I use this platform to complain about some personal issue with a business, but you earned it. Maybe next time at least acknowledge to your customers that you screwed up? Grrrrr….🤬😡🤬😡🤬😡

Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. The full report, spoken aloud.

Le parquet allemand accuse les autorités ukrainiennes d’avoir ordonné le sabotage des gazoducs Nord Stream en 2022 lefigaro.fr/international/…

@MAC_Arms @pizzahut At least they surely left in the bonus nausea and the new improved tasting like ass it has become anymore so you got that goin for ya

Every damn time @pizzahut. Every time. You screw up my order. For $50 for two pizzas and a 2 liter you would think you could at least once get my order right. Does this look like a deep pan to you? I've almost forgotten what deep pan tastes like because you rarely get it right.

And I repeat. This man is the most evil person to hold any political office in this country >> @Scott_Wiener

@Kronykal @Scott_Wiener At least the most overtly evil yes.

@BenStoeger187 Whatta you mean they made rear rear instead of front and rear on the last production run what are we gonna.. wait hold my beer!

The number of people sending me these new sights is totally unreal. No, I don’t know the point. Yes, I am curious. Any ideas?

Four DUI arrests. Read that again. Four. Each one a separate decision, by a man who had already been deported once and come back illegally, to get behind the wheel drunk. After the fourth, ICE asked the jail to hold him. The state of California said no. Less than a year later, that man walked into a home and stabbed three people to death. A grandmother. A mother. A two-week-old baby. The sheriff's explanation, in his own words: it was "just a DUI." A two-week-old infant did not get to learn to walk because a fourth DUI was treated as just. He should be alive. God bless every American who is done with "just."

@TheEbonyMaw Kinda depends on how good it was to begin with and kinda biased by smaller meals lately but I prob would've voted option three, Eat a small portion and end up tossing the rest later lol

You have leftovers you want to eat. It’s a portion that’s a bit too much to be one serving, but not really enough to be 2 servings. What are you more likely to do?

Have you looked up what our @NASAHubble telescope saw on your birthday? Our popular page has a new look — and now, you can use it to find five stellar sights that Hubble was observing on whatever day you choose. Check it out: go.nasa.gov/4xZJ5Sk

@Breaking911 lemme get this straight: the us house passes a bill to require ID to be on social media, but not to vote???

@IanRunkle @HoegLaw Will have to give it a go sometime

@IanRunkle @HoegLaw Still haven't played the first one though I think I grabbed it on epic at some point

"Without Evidence The U.N. Accuses Israel Of Genocide – Another Day That Ends In ‘Y’," my latest with @MarkGoldfeder @realDailyWire dailywire.com/news/without-e…

@SpencerGuard @MarkGoldfeder @realDailyWire Sure sounded like it should've said sources cited, Trust me bro.