crtdaydreams: bbl also
vex: I could give her back later
vex: 16 hands high
gregorynyssa: asciilifeform: Odessa was the hometown of Nicholas Cage's character in Lord of War (2005).
gregorynyssa: https://youtube.com/watch?v=dbbPJ9rHZmM << this person slightly reminds me of someone.
gregorynyssa: ... and he is indeed the Jeremiah of Game of Thrones commentators.
asciilifeform: gregorynyssa: is hometown of 'over9000' folx, large and small. population ~1e6 even today
gregorynyssa: asciilifeform: I thought you were a Russian American, though you may not have said that explicitly. was this a mistaken assumption on my part,
gregorynyssa: or do you choose to identify as Russian American instead of Ukrainian American?
asciilifeform: gregorynyssa: will happily clarify. asciilifeform was born in ye olde su; in a historically ru town, with little connection to 'tru ukrs' (w/ exception of, lol, 2 grades of ukr school)
asciilifeform: ... identifies as 'home', again, ye olde su, and not usa, where was moved like suitcase, nor any of the bantustans which presently squat on the map where su usedto be
asciilifeform: fwiw.
asciilifeform: gregorynyssa: ukristan as currently advertised fwiw is a kind of 'taiwan', i.e. provincial shithole massaged into delusions of nationality by interested foreign powers
asciilifeform: ... or, charitably, a sort of 'altcoin', largely self-defined by 'what it isn't'
asciilifeform: it aint a nation like e.g. france.
mats: don't you know that's a toxic putler narrative
mats: ukraine is a real country!
asciilifeform: hopefully soon scotland, texas, also remember they 'real countries' lol
asciilifeform: and let's not forget catalonia
mats: still amazed at how much shit the french and germans have been willing to eat on behalf of american foreign policy... again
asciilifeform: mats: dunno why amazed, they have 'managed moocracy' neh
dulapbot: Logged on 2021-07-11 15:28:11 mats: sg (and ru) has the much maligned, managed model of democracy usa is destined for
asciilifeform: i.e. nobody gives half a rat's arse what 'the french' etc think
asciilifeform: they get a reich-appointed gauleiter erry n yrs who follows the script. ditto germany, et al
mats: you might be right there
asciilifeform: elementarily
mats: so obvious
asciilifeform: 'high living'(tm) of eureich was powered by, initially, bleeding colonies; then by bleeding su, then, afterwards, its corpse
asciilifeform: when nuffin remains to bleed, will self-digest