Per NATO rules, Ukraine was not eligible to join due to the 2014 invasion by Russia as that was considered a border dispute. Prior to that they weren’t really trying due to Russian influence/ corruption of Yanakovich etc.

As far as avoiding the conflict, Obama absolutely should have taken a harder stance on Crimea and Donbas. Before that Bush should have taken a harder stance against the Russian invasion of Georgia. They were essentially taking an appeasement approach and trying not to get pulled into war with Russia.

Why? Did he make some roadkill racoon tartar again? Good thing he refused the rabies vaccine!

“Trump and his supporters don’t care if you’re Black, white, gay, or straight,” Amber said. “And that’s when it hit me: These are my people. This is where I belong.”

LOL

Its not like I was going to take political advice from someone with a tattoo on their forehead, but still… this is comically stupid.

That’s why my favorite composer is Edgard Varèse

Damnit Christopher, why you gotta be all misogynist?

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/

One thing that doesn’t seem to get brought up is the AI porn angle. Gonewild is pretty big on reddit still. A lot of OnlyFans creators, and general perverts (respect). Reddit wants to commodify this content, so those people are selling the images of their bodies so AI can make porn of random strangers. Kinda fucked when you think about it.