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Fleetwood Mac's Rumours album. Not really my kind of music, but they were a part of my 'growing up' and the passing of Christine Perfect/McVie has knocked me a bit off kilter. A tear in the eye when I listen to 'Songbird'.

You suggest that the 'stick' of sanctions and retaliation is ineffective because it only affects the common people, while the despots and their oligarchs are insulated against them. You suggest the 'carrot' approach of diplomacy and negotiations, but why would the despots negotiate if you don't have any leverage ( lack of 'stick' ) on them ? What you are in effect proposing is appeasement. Give away parts of Ukraine, and have her people enslaved for your 'peace of mind'. And this will work exactly the same next time V Putin wants to annex more territory. Not everyone who does 'evil' things does so because they are hungry or oppressed. There are evil people in this world ( not on yours ?? ). Of all the evil people of the last century, Mussolini, Stalin, Mao Zedong, Pol Pot, Putin and KJU, all looked well-fed to me; maybe Hitler could have used a sandwich.

Am sorry for the mental fart. The title I wrote shows 'FBI' and seems it is 'CIA' Do a correction if deserved.-

Burden of proof is with the people claiming aliens.

It's not the element carbon but dissolved carbon dioxide, CO2, that makes drinks fizzy. And it's not exposure to oxygen that makes them go flat, but the reduction of pressure on exposure to the atmosphere. When you open a bottle of fizzy drink, the pressure above the liquid drops. Since the amount of gas the water can dissolve depends on the pressure of CO2 above it, you then have a supersaturated solution, which is why it fizzes. Any nucleus for bubbles to form on will accelerate the rate at which the CO2 comes out of solution. A classic way is to put in a sugar lump. This has a large surface area with many sharp edges, which promotes the initiation of bubbles. Sand would also do the job, but not so good if you want to drink it later. The reason why you need a nucleus to start the bubbles off is because of the energy needed to pull apart the water molecules. The excess pressure inside a bubble is 2T/r where T is the surface tension of the liquid - a measure of the strength of the intermolecular forces - and r is the radius of the bubble. From this you can see that the smaller the radius, the higher the pressure, so in the limiting case this formula predicts an infinite pressure is needed to blow up a bubble of zero radius i.e. at the start. While this formula is not accurate at very small radii, it gives an idea of the problem. Sharp edges reduce the intermolecular forces in their vicinity, as the water molecules are not entirely surrounded by other water molecules, making it easier for gas molecules to push them apart and start off a bubble.

Lazy is as lazy does. Lazy is in the eye of the asshole who thinks things should only be done one way.

I know exactly what you mean. Those Nazi Ukrainians, and their jewish President, will stop at nothing in an effort to implicate those innocent Russian victims and make them look bad in the eyes of the World. Those well-intentioned Russians should just leave the Ukraine to their evil ways, and stop trying to help and denazify them.

You're in luck, since I've heard some very convincing arguments lately that laziness, at least the way we typically think of it, never existed in the first place. It's simply a way to judge people who aren't doing something you think they should. The idea that people would rather do nothing than anything else is patently untrue. What we've always thought of as laziness is often just smart people refusing to do something in which they see no value, or smart people doing their jobs with the least amount of effort. Some jobs have been so dumbed down that they're almost insulting. Personally, I've always bragged about working smart rather than working hard. Does that make me lazy? This is one reason why I think the term is being misused. Right now, lots of business owners are screaming about lazy workers bringing conflict and problems, but I know a lot of those folks are just fed up with being underpaid. Productivity has been through the roof for the last 50 years, but wages have stagnated for workers and they're sick of working for a pittance while the rich sit on fat stacks of cash, waiting for the worker to falter so they can buy up their assets at twenty cents on the dollar. Again I think you're off by a bit. It's not the comforts that makes us less smart or want to work less, because historically, saving up for the comforts made us work harder to earn them. I think it's the convenience. Convenience seems to promote an attitude where people should do dumb things in order to save time. Spend an extra 25% on items from a small store so you don't have to spend the time dealing with a bigger store. Or shop online thinking to save some time but end up researching 20 products and their comments sections for three hours. Convenience lets you drive on fresh asphalt AND ensures you'll have potholes next year. I think "lazy" is a pejorative whip used by those who want us to work harder on their terms. Humans in general aren't lazy at all. We're ultra smart and curious, and we all prefer to do the things we want to do as opposed to the things we may HAVE to do. Nobody teaches us when we turn 18 that we have to parent ourselves from now on, and the real job of parents is to get us to do things we don't want to do. Practically everybody wants to do things as opposed to not doing anything, but they often don't want to do what everyone else thinks they should be doing. I remember being called lazy once because I arranged my work area to where everything was a bit closer to me. The boss hired me to make fittings and put them into boxes, not walk around unnecessarily, but when I tried to do a better job he called me lazy for not wanting to walk those extra steps. I pointed out that it saved me a LOT of time, but he still thought it was lazy. Said a young man shouldn't mind a few extra steps. I thought he was crazy.

Right. The Germans were also trying to develop nuclear weapons during WW2. We should have just capitulated, and averted a possibly disastrous nuclear war. Many more would survive; except the Jews, Poles, Homosexuals, disabled, mentally ill, all the oppressed people of Europe, ...

I acknowledge the possibility of being wrong. You, however, are asserting not only that he ordered it, but had nefarious intent when doing so. Only one of us is spreading fictions and conspiracies, and it ain't me. But nobody other than you and Russian propagandists think that's the case... IF THEN ELSE... The IF was never validated, hence there's no THEN nor ELSE in your algorithm. The statement can be safely ignored. They are everywhere, you just have to start using trustworthy and validated information sources to inform your worldviews. Are you familiar with the fallacy of personal incredulity? If not, it's worth looking up.

Young, strong, energetic people dropping like flies. This is happening all over the world not just in the United States but people refuse to believe the fact that COVID-19 vaccines are dangerous. This has to be the most wet behind the ears generation of people in the history of mankind. The democrats are counting on us to get dumber and dumber by the minute. It's very easy to brainwash and control people who are not well-informed. You say?