“Losses” does not mean deaths. Losses includes wounded, even those that will fully recover fairly quickly, right? If you blow out someone’s eardrums for example, they are “lost” as a soldier on the battlefield, because they are no longer available to the enemy.

And the phrase “up to” is doing a lot of heavy lifting, especially when it comes to troop numbers. That means the absolute maximum possible by their account. Like if they hit a building with artillery and their estimate is that there were 30-50 Ukrainian troops there that will count as up to 50 lost troops, despite the fact that they know very well that they probably did not wound/kill everyone in the building.

The real number of dead will be significantly lower. The number of wounded/sick/deserters will be high, but it is anyone’s guess exactly how high.

Won’t the boulder roll back to the intersection anyway?

What an awful person. Just like Laddy Mr. Lennon and Moo The Dong. He was from the European Union you know. That’s why he acted like that and killed all those people. They cannot help themselves.

I did some math real quick and in order to make this fair you would have to sentence the CEO to 450 million years in prison. Or the homeless guy to below 1 second in prison. Or if you want to be a centrist about it lock them both up for 225 million years.

Ok, that’s a new one. Calling you a fascist for saying Lenin was a Marxist…

I can usually take these liberal takes in stride, but this is like they invented some new kind of weapon. I feel this weird itch to engage with them somehow, and that’s not healthy.

Me too! What’s your destination?

So let’s just ask Mr. Putin what he would do in a desperate situation and then do exactly that. The solution is both clever and for some reason incredibly clever.

I’m not really up to date on the modern movies, but didn’t they spend several movies exploring who bad milk blood robot is? This synopsis really nailed the big unanswered question.

I am a bit bothered by how the modern borders of Croatia seem like they are designed just to prevent Bosnia and Hercegovina from having a coast. I get that you can have a thin country, but they are really pushing it. Give them one beach!

I can’t be too hard on him. In hindsight I guess it’s easy to say he shouldn’t have died in prison, but I’m sure he had his reasons.

Have these cowards never heard of ramming?

He looks like he discovered that his girlfriend was actually just a pile of lit dynamite sticks assembled into the rough shape of a woman.

Bring back the version of Germany where every single outlined municipality was ruled by their own haemophiliac grand baron shaped like a snowman and they all made a living by shaving the precious metals off of each others’ coins. Have the pope pick the one with the most impressive gout as the new emperor of the EU and make Ursula von der Leyen wait by their toilet around the clock to push the flush button when they are done, which is now the highest attainable office in the EU for someone with no Habsburg blood.

Silent reading is actually a shockingly recent invention. Because the letters “make sounds”, the natural way to process a phonetic alphabet is to make the sounds of the letters as you read them and listen to yourself speaking the text. This goes on way later than many people realize. Being able to do silent reading at all was still a pretty remarkable skill in the time of Shakespeare. Being unable to read something without speaking the words was common probably well into the 19th century. Actually, as someone who works in education I can tell you that I will still recommend kids to read things out loud if they find something difficult. It’s what phonetic writing languages were designed for, and it increases accuracy and comprehension.

I’m gonna thorw myself out there and be brave today.

I will say that both neo nazis were wrong and should quite honestly change their opinions. I’m really brave like that.

For the benefit of those of us who are not great with geography:

Xinjiang is so absurdly landlocked that “to the sea” might seriously mean you end up somewhere in Europe.

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In fact, considering how much control over their national resources and economic policy they are going to give up to then IMF, Ukranie doesn’t need any of its territory to win.

Did they actually move him to the North Pole or are they having fun with the word “Arctic”?

The Toungue map.

The idea that different parts of the tongue are responsible for feeling different tastes. This blatantly false idea was made up in 1901 out of thin air and then made its way into biology classrooms somehow. It was taught to schoolchildren (including me) for about 100 years as a biological fact, even though every human being in that time proved it false by experiment thousands of times by eating things and tasting them with the “wrong” parts of the tongue. It doesn’t quite count as an example of this happening today, because we finally realized that it simply wasn’t true and have stopped teaching it, but still: 100 years is a long time to realize that something is false when every human being in the world is confronted with physical evidence several times every day.