Too Many Cooks will always get an upvote from me.

Sorry but billionaires are the root of the problem here, rest are just their lackies. Go to the root.

I would not go quietly. After receiving this note, I would go full Mr. Creosote.

We had an IA building at my high school. It stood for Industrial Arts.

These guys were so right about humanity devolving.

Nixon was bad but super tame compared to Tangerine Palpatine.

I always used PNG where I would have used GIF. Other than that I use JPG still. I’m guessing webp is more on the JPG side of things than the GIF side?

Did it go away? I still use it as my go to format for small lossless images.

Good point.

I’d take a star and just bounce on outta there.

No, saying absolutely nothing of substance is what made you wrong. Being from .ml just makes the fact that you say nothing of substance expected.

.ml is leaking again

The US has done many of these things, it’s true. A few differences IMO are:

1. The US of the last century has had no ambitions to conquer countries militarily for the purpose of ursurping their land. These kinds of wars are the ones that cause the most death and destruction as we see in Ukraine.
2. The US doesn’t require nearly as many “puppet regimes” as Russia does. The US has had some in the past, but generally in most cases are happy as long as there are democracies in place. Russia requires near complete control of their puppet states like Belarus and Ukraine when they controlled it.
3. The US doesn’t directly commit genocide as we see happening in Ukraine or in almost every terriory Russia has ever brought under it’s rule.
4. Countries allied with the US generally become more prosperous and free, whereas those under the Russian umbrella tend to experience the opposite.

So, given the choice between being under US hegemony or Russian imperialism, I personally would choose to ally myself with the US. Though, as a resident of the EU, in a country formerly a Soviet sattelite state, I would prefer to be beholden to neither. In a small country as this one, I would prefer to have a strong united EU with it’s own strong military.