This is, as I've mentioned before, if accurate, nearly 50% of the loss in the Afghan war for USSR (for ten years): 14,500. And about the official death count (which might be too low) for the Chechen War of 1999-2000. It's very hight.
Quick thread:
I want you all to meet Vladimir Bondarenko.
He’s a blogger from Kiev who really hates the Ukrainian government.
He also doesn’t exist, according to Facebook.
He’s an invention of a Russian troll farm targeting Ukraine. His face was made by AI.
Do Republicans still think holding up Ukrainian defense equipment until the government agree to investigate his political rival's son was a great idea?
Everybody loves a good Universal Studios Florida billboard post so here's a thread of all the material I've found about them online, starting with the *first* Universal Studios Florida billboard, optimistically swearing it would open in 1989.
If you can watch the slaughter of innocents in Kyiv tonight and equate that with your not wearing a mask to the grocery store - you’re not worthy of the freedoms handed to you.
Only in America do service workers have to find a replacement when they get sick.
They have to spend unpaid time begging people to fill their shift - all for the privilege of getting an unpaid day off at home, unable to go to the doctor because they don't have health insurance.
The "I only watch it for the ads" attitude towards the Super Bowl is an artifact of twenty years ago when Super Bowl ads were very funny. Now it's more like "we reunited the cast of The Office so Jim and Pam can sell you Doritos"