1. I have some real issues with Booking.com. It feels like their interface for listing properties involves a bunch of checkboxes that hosts just randomly click on, so that a modest studio apartment with a twin bed and an electric hot plate suddenly claims to have an oven, a jacuzzi, and a doorman.

  2. I'm almost afraid to ask, but why would Ukraine still lose a war of attrition even if it had access to this hypothetical $1 trillion in funding?

  3. Obviously Ukraine is at a disadvantage in terms of population, but it has already been able to hold its own against Russia even while receiving foreign funding and support in dribs and drabs. Again, taking this $1 triillion figure literally - since I assume your implication is that no amount of financial support would allow Ukraine to succeed - I can't see how having access to $1 trillion of military hardware would fail to offset this population disadvantage. And considering how cautious Ukraine is with the lives of its troops compared to Russia's meat grinder approach, better hardware would also allow them to do a better job of conserving limited personnel.

  4. What tripe! How do you think he would have been “forced”.

  5. Residential housing is actually a huge sector of the economy in the US AND Canada . And pissing off homeowners by taking away their “wealth” isn’t a good strategy to win votes

  6. Why the downvotes? The quotation marks suggest

  7. It must be his diet of no fruits and vegetables.

  8. Because there is no info structure to depose of rubbish also lots of poor people with few to no resources. Staying alive probably beats out keeping the place neat and tidy.

  9. I personally don't think we have the right to depose democratically elected rubbish, anyway

  10. Most Ukrainians don't agree with this war any more. They're being rounded up in the streets, vans are getting stopped with 20 men crammed up in the back because they don't want to go die in the mud for nothing.

  11. Sure, most people want the killing to end, but the question is, what will the borders be after it ends? And will there be any reparations or other lasting consequences for the aggressor?

  12. Both Zelensky and Putin have had numerous peace accords drawn up. The west wants a war so they pressure zelensky (who the Ukrainians can't even vote out) to dismiss the peace and continue the decimation of the Ukrainian people by tossing them up against a superior opponent.

  13. Russia will not agree to any accords that return to 1991 borders. Then the question becomes how much of their internationally recognized territory Ukrainians are ready to give up to save lives, or how many lives they're willing to give up to have a chance at reclaiming their territory. I personally don't have my finger on the pulse of the Ukrainian people, but I doubt they're ready to give up all of their occupied territories just yet.

  14. I thought the way they shoehorned the title into the script by having a character say "What are you, some kind of Godfather?" was a bit on the nose

  15. I like where you're going with this. But I think to really set the box office on fire, the movie soundtrack needs to feature hit songs from top artists like Off The Meds. Plus, the '90s are really cool right now - Maybe Dr. Morbius needs a catchphrase that's a parody of a piece of '90s pop culture? Something like Ninja Turtles or Power Rangers? I dunno, just spitballin' here. But I really think if they do it right, it could make a "Morbillion" dollars at the box office. Heh heh, get it? Just a little joke I made up myself.

  16. I don't like the Black Eyed Peas and I also don't know their entire discography. I will say that if I ever give them a chance it damn sure won't be post-2005.

  17. I mean, after they stopped trying to be actual rappers they made some effectively dumb music to dance to. Their hit songs might be terrible as works of musical art, but I think they were too good at what they set out to do to be considered the worst.

  18. 100% Yes they strayed far away from pure hip hop but MILLIONS of people loved their songs for them to be considered the worst. I'd rather be Black Eyed Peas caked up with millions in the bank than Dilated Peoples.

  19. Maybe it's just me, but I understood OP's question as "Who made the most horribly failed attempt at pandering to the clubs?" as opposed to "Who makes dumb catchy dance music that you personally don't like?" But I guess some people here have interpreted it the second way.

  20. *Ferris Wheel, named after its inventor George Waddington Gale Ferris Jr. (I just learned that fun fact while confirming - I didn't want to end up on

  21. And Rio wasn't cheap either. Not sure how bad Mexico has gotten (it's been 6 years), but Brazil ain't no heaven for penny pinchers.

  22. I found Rio notably expensive compared to other places I visited in Brasil. Compare the cost of a meal in Rio to Foz do Iguaçu, where you can have a pretty damn good buffet for 18 BRL.

  23. OK, "extremely" was admittedly a poor word choice - you're right that even at its safest, Brazil is certainly not Japan. Funnily enough, my only really bad safety experience in Brazil was in Floripa, where I went up the wrong hill near downtown and got accosted by a teenage gang who wondered what I was doing on their turf. But then, in spite of the city's reputation for safety, downtown Floripa felt a bit dodgy anyway. Did you feel unsafe in the small beach towns outside the centre? Maybe I'm just naive, but it's harder for me to imagine someone pulling a gun on me in one of those places or in, like, Juiz De Fora.

  24. I live in an area that has many Filipinos and have a few Filipino friends and they seem to make a lot of Filipino food at home or they enjoy it at large family partys where they make massive amounts of food and everyone brings Tupperware to take leftovers home for later. I think we do have restaurants here but whenever I’ve had it it’s always been from a friends mom or camping when it’s made for everyone to share and enjoy.

  25. Hope I wasn't a jerk about it! I get it, though - it's easy to mess it up when the country is called the Philippines, the people are called Filipinos, and the adjectives "Philippine" and "Filipino" have slightly different meanings - one refers to the nation, the other to Filipino culture. For bonus confusion points, Filipinos can be quite specific about how you need to refer to the Philippines in the singular (as in, "the Philippines is a country with many islands", not "the Philippines are...").

  26. Why would the ozone layer hate golf? Do flying golf balls leave chemtrails of CFCs, or something?

  27. Have you listened to Fan-Tas-Tic Vol. 1 and 2 by Slum Village? Sometimes I think Vol. 2 is Dilla's best production, which might also make it the best-produced hip-hop album of all time.

  28. I actually like how cookies are going to shit because it's easier to stop eating them. Bought two packs of chips ahoy while stoned a couple weeks ago. They're still in the cupboard because they taste like nothing. My waistline is happy

  29. Although I'm pretty upset about corporate greed so badly affecting Canada's food supply, I do think that junk food shrinkflation is probably the least bad part of it. I'd rather get a smaller quantity of something unhealthy and tempting than pay more for the same amount. (Of course, we are often paying more and getting less and having the quality of the product reduced...)

  30. Isn't the joke just that he'd give him cream from his pockets with his hands?)

  31. Are we to assume these are some sort of 'magic' pockets?

  32. I also appreciate the speed bumps that can be maneuvered past on a bicycle, although I suppose the downside is that it's hard to make them circumventable by bicycles without also allowing motorbikes to zoom around them.

  33. Oh boy, Skinner's kitchen! That's where fire is Aurora Borealis.

  34. Oh no, being awake! That's where I bent my wookiee.

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