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SEN. KELLY: I've spent 15 years working with Russian cosmonauts. Took me 5 years to understand what motivated them. Number one, appearance that they were in charge of something. Two, who to blame when something goes wrong. Three, what to steal today. Only four, mission success. I think as Ukrainians, as Americans, as Brits, we're often motivated by mission success. You want organization you work for to be successful, you want your country to be successful, you want British Army to be successful, I want US Navy to be successful, I want NASA to be successful. That wasn't my experience with Russian cosmonauts I worked with. I'm talking about dozens of people that I knew well, what motivated them when they went to work every day. At the top of the list was that they really cared about the appearance that they were in charge of something, not mission success. Now, whether they were really actually in charge of it or not didn't matter so much. Mission success wasn't even number two. Number two on the list, I would say, was whether they knew who to blame when something went wrong, like placing the blame. Russians have a position in their Mission Control Center which is called "mistakes officer." When a Russian cosmonaut makes a mistake, they keep track of it and they take money out of their pay. I would say the third thing, even before mission success, was what am I going to steal from my employer today. And we would talk about that. They were very open about this. And apparently there's a saying in Russian that if you didn't steal something at work that day, you did not have a good day. For us, and I think everybody in this room here, mission success is the thing that matters more than anything else. And for the Russians I worked with, it might have been number four on the list. So I actually was not that surprised about their incompetence.

@GrantGHurst Who are these "Europeans" people keep mentioning?

The Europeans would rather die of heat stroke while claiming AC is bad for you than just admit they're poor. We talk about Thirdworldism a lot here, but I think we need to renew discourse on Secondworldism. They're aesthetically first world, but are secretly poor.

@DrakoDoge Iceland has excellent seafood, you're in luck.

Ok so I can't stand fish, but since we're in Iceland and they are known for their fishy food, I decided to be brave and try some fish and chips. ...it was actually fucking delicious. Have I been missoing out?? 😳

@canameanal "Weird" is the most useless word in the English lexicon.

PLEASE STOP USING THE WORD WEIRD TO DESCRIBE ANYTHING YOU DONT LIKE PLEASE EXPAND YOUR VOCABULARY

@AllbonesJones What is "Europe", anyway?

the more i interact with the world the more i realize japan is an advanced country americans should emulate and europe has somehow tragically backslid into something uneducated and provincial why do only americans and the japanese understand "if there's a problem, fix it"

@SandyofCthulhu @TristinHopper There should be a wargame about these.

@TristinHopper They're not "terrorist trucks" they're "technicals". "Hey, check out my new Dodge Ram!" "Neato, dad. Where's the machinegun?"

I don't like that most people refer to large sailing brigs as "pirate ships." Do you want people in 200 years to refer to pickup trucks as "terrorist trucks"?

@angedipus Viewing the whole world through the lens of conflict is convenient when everything is understood as a zero-sum game. As adults, we should at least act like we understand these people.

People really want the Nordics, especially Sweden and Finland, to have a third world esque ancient conflict that still inspires burning hatred amongst us for some reason (in reality nobody gives a shit)

@sanson_ganbaru Saatan olla väärässä, mutta vihanpito vaikuttaa teennäiseltä. On valtioita, joiden johtajat haluavat yhdysvaltalaisten ja eurooppalaisten kiistelevän keskenään.

アメリカ人とヨーロッパ人マジで仲悪いんだな

@Avabelly__ Pearl?

Everybody keeps saying “Snow”… but I feel like I deserve something a little more unique 🤍 What name would you give this sweet white kitty?

@SandyofCthulhu Warlock is still great!

The old legend says smoke from a campfire always blows towards a witch. At least, this is the legend in America (I don't know about elsewhere). This legend is largely forgotten, partly by unbelief in witches, but also because we don't camp out as much. A sadly now-deceased friend of mine was in the Ozarks in the 1950s, and was sitting around a fire with some locals. An elderly toothless hag sat down, and the smoke immediately blew into her face. She just cackled, and said, "Smoke follers beauty!" But the other folks there were visibly uneasy, because they knew the legend. If you believe in witches, they are no joke. I'm happy that a certain recent movie (no spoiler) has again restored the evil of witches. And of course we have other terrific witch movies such as the Conjuring, Messiah of Evil, Suspiria, Blair Witch (not really a witch), The Witch, The Witchmakers, and other such films to terrify us. Got a favorite witch movie? (And please - Wiccans are NOT the same. No one's afraid of Wiccans.)

@PietaPotato "sutjakkaan" ei myöskään törmää enää, olisiko elvytettävä näitä hyviä vanhoja?

suomessa 'mönkä' on. se ei esiinny muussa asiayhteydessä kuin sanonnassa "mennä mönkään", eikä kukaan oikeastaan tiedä, mistä se tulee :P

@LambentLucien @Nordix_XY What kind of nationalist pseudohistory is this? There was no standard Finnish language before Agricola codified it. The Swedish realm was much like any other medieval monarchy in the early years, not even particularly oppressive.

@Nordix_XY 700 years of oppression, cultural erasure, and linguistic domination, relegating Finnish to a peasant tongue, and Finns still continue to act as though we have some sort of a cute brotherly relationship to the Swedes It's not cute at all. It's an unaddressed historical injustice

Kinda interesting that Swedes have live in Finland for 900 years yet even today, you can tell in a heart beat which twitter accounts are fennoswedes and which are finnish finn.

@SandyofCthulhu @timburchett Sometimes I get the idea that public protest is fine as long as no one is inconvenienced in any way.

Call-out fees to fix a 1 square foot hole in the road are around $200-300. The delay in using the road is probably worth another $2-10,000 depending how busy it is. Set a price at which the city makes a profit when someone glues themselves to the road. Make them pay the money. It'll stop toot sweet.

Put a cage around them so no one can hurt them and come back in 48 hours and see what they need.

Merveilleux!

@hurumdara2 Kokemukseni mukaan? Jäätyy. Ikävä kyllä, lukutaidon heiketessä myös sanavarasto kärsii. Joitain se hävettää, toisia suututtaa. Jos käytät sanaa, jota toinen ei tunne, sinua saatetaan pitää jopa koppavana.

Suomen kielessä on suuruusluokkaa 50 000 sanaa mutta englannin kielessä noin 2 miljoonaa. Mitä natiivisti englantia puhuva tekee kun hän törmää äidinkielessään sanaan jota hän ei ole koskaan kuullut? Kahdessa miljoonassa sanassa on paljon törmäämisen mahdollisuuksia.

The USDA has kept raccoon rabies out of the central United States for over 30 years by air-dropping fish-flavored ravioli from helicopters. Each one is a small packet coated in fishmeal with an oral rabies vaccine inside. Raccoons, foxes, coyotes, and skunks find them by smell, bite through, and swallow. Many animals that consume the bait develop immunity, helping build a protective barrier across populations. The bait is generally considered safe for pets and tested in many non-target species. The USDA's Wildlife Services has been running this since 1995. Without the bait program, raccoon rabies very likely would have spread much further west. A federal program you've probably never heard of is protecting your pets and your kids by feeding wild animals ravioli from a helicopter.

@hiilinen Taitaa olla jokin julkisen keskustelun luonnonlaki, että mikä tahansa lasketaan maalitukseksi.

Vornasen ykköskaveri, jokaisen karaokebaarin kauhu, lähti mikki kädessä laulaen Frederikin Kung Fu taistelee -kertsin vikaa säettä: - 🎶Sua kaikki kunnioittaa🎶 Lensikin mikki nurkkaan, kun tuli vastanäpy. Kova uho, paska sietokyky. Voikukka hajosi tuuleen. Voi reppanaa.

@chiroaz2024 @tuuu28283 Still best to use lowercase k to mean kilo, as K might get confused with Kelvin.

@tuuu28283 K=kilo. Kilo = 1000

アメリカの兄弟達 one thousand＝1000 1K=1000 頭文字とるなら1Tじゃないのはなんでなんだ

@Romy_Holland Cultural essentialism is a thought-terminating cliché, it seems. A really common claim is that civil society, personal liberties and political pluralism are somehow inherently "Western". In reality, liberal democracy is a fairly new idea everywhere.

i just learned that a whole subset of people turn sort of rabid when taiwan comes up. really strange to make contact with the propagandized pro-china crowd. years ago i saw the dalai lama speak, and a bunch of chinese students were protesting. i stopped to talk to them and they were adamant that he was a terrorist who had led mass bombing campaigns. i was like “you have access to the open internet, surely you can see that the chinese government made that up?” and they were like “what makes you think your internet is real? the chinese internet is actually the real one full of true things.”

@TimoKataja Myös aika ikävää, että Suomessakin uskotaan "siemenöljyjen" myrkyllisyyteen. Uskookohan joku edelleen muuten väitteeseen, että soija feminisoi ihmiskehoa?

E-koodien kauhistelu ja "puhtaan ruuan" trendipuhe olisi ehkä fiksumpaa, jos siksi puhtaaksi ruuaksi ei aina ehdotettaisi sitten sianihraa, voita ja kermaa. Olen alkanut epäillä, että tämä puhdas ruoka -homma on vain sianpersemiesten uusi iteraatio kasvisruuasta valittamiseen.