Dozzi92

Plant a tree. Volunteer at your local food pantry. I am a full believe in tackling smaller problems more local to you. Trying to tackle the world's problems will only end up with you feeling angry and sad all the time.

The EU can barely fight the US. Do they want to get into a costly war with the US over Greenland? That's it. That's literally the only way the heads of government think, in dollar signs. Is the cost of going to war with the US worth more or less than Greenland.

Russia, the US, and China are all making their moves to define the world for the coming century. World War 2 ended 80+ years ago. It's unfortunately natural for humans to want to fuck shit up again.

It makes me sick to think about the US invading Greenland, and Canada is literally unthinkable. But if you believe for a second the US will be made an example of, I'm sorry but you're just mistaken. As much vitriole as we might have toward the current leadership, the US is very strong and very capable, and the rest of the world knows that, and I'm not sure anyone wants to bear the cost of going to war with the US. They'll have to decide if the cost of losing a Greenland, for example, is greater or less than the cost of a potential war with the US. And realistically, it's less. Which is concerning.

Yeah, I have no problem with government investing in industry, I have always liked nuclear. Where my concerns lie is in the obvious cronyism and the myriad government investments that have ended up not bearing fruit for anyone but the rich.

But this one may be different!

But I can't watch the Godfather and doomscroll at the same time, so it's objectively bad.

Plain and pepperoni are two different things!

In a similar vein, I'm a sausage pie guy. Give me some ground sausage on pizza and I'll eat that for life. Anytime I get together with people, there's always the "what toppings" discussion, and people bring their fucking bullshit to the table, and I say get sausage, and people go mehhh mehhh mehhh, and you know what? Everyone eats the goddamn sausage, and were left with olives and mushrooms, and peppers and onions, and fucking Hawaiian.

So I appreciate it. The classics are classics for a reason.

I've always talked about The Rolling Stones like this. I respect what they did, but I was born when rock had really gone beyond it. The Beatles too for the most part. Even a lot of '80s punk. I wanted faster, heavier, more technical. All the old stuff just felt basic to me, but I know it's a matter of perspective.

I used to throw westerns on if I'd had one too many drinks and going to bed was not recommended. I was trying to turn off my mind, but also not get into watching something, and a boring ass old spaghetti westerns was it. Lots of silences, strange noises to keep me from really falling asleep, it was perfect.

Ended up really getting into the genre because of it. Fistful of Dollars trilogy is fantastic. Once Upon a Time in the West is amazing. The Shooting is a lesser known acid western starring a young Jack Nicholson that was just weird.

I think a reason I like them now is a lot of them are really well directed with these sprawling desert shots juxtaposed with in-your-face views of the characters. The movies don't tell you what's going on, you just watch.

What is it, $100 a year for office? Been a long time, don't even think about it anymore.

We're all dumb, I guess.

I was hoping your last sentence was a replacement for Excel. I use Excel to maintain the books for my business. I've built a really nice book for keeping track. The thought of migrating it to something where certain functions may not work keeps me paying my subscription fees.

I feel that way about Linux.