>You also seem to have no knowledge of US interventions and military actions over the last 100 years..... you know how long the list of regime change is with the US? Installing right wing dictators?

More what about

> SPOILERS, UKRAINE IS ONE OF THOSE COUNTRIES. WE BACKED A COUP AND HELPED THEM INSTALL THEIR CURRENT RIGHT WING AUTHORITARIAN REGIME.

Should be easy for Russia to walk in and remove an unpopular, foreign placed regime. Oh wait, the population has supported the current political establishment in Ukraine with armed resistance to the invaders. You've eaten Russian propaganda in your rush to "America bad."

The Ukrainian people have agency in their actions. They chose their political establishment and they are defending their country. We are doing the right thing by supporting them and I hope we send more aid.

I'm done, god speed on being such a contrarian that you oppose helping people defend themselves against a hostile invasion.

> They just ignore all history and keep screaming

I have a degree in history.

There's no honest way to spin this to make us the bad guys. We have done nothing but provide weapons to a country defending itself from a hostile invasion. Your position is nothing more than "America bad" despite the majority of the world backing Ukraine as their neighbor literally invades and tries to annex them.

This equipment would be fired in training, expire, or need refitting at some point anyway. It was going to get replaced eventually regardless this way it kills an aggressor. It doesn't hurt us at all to defend the vulnerable with the weapons they need to defend their home.

Leaving the weak to get run over by a revanchist power is disgusting.

You're ignorant about how the aid is supplied. The majority of it is stockpiled military systems. I guess we could give the homeless each some 155mm arty shells but that's not gonna fix their problems.

Why carry water for Russia? They invaded their neighbor unprovoked in a war of conquest. The world has united against them and condemned their baseless aggression.

Without crying "what about" why are you carrying water for them?

Russians getting himarsed for being in Ukraine will not be greeted with a shrug and a yawn from me in 10 years. I'll still be cheering.

I do wish it would be different.

I wish we would double what we are sending to Ukraine. Particularly some Abrams.

Even if it's not the majority of homeless it is the problematic homeless. The ones who destroy everything, erode good will and make services ineffectual. We just don't have a good solution to people addicted to hard drugs.

Homelessness is a hard issue. It's not as simple as just showing compassion and providing these services. Other places have tried to provide services to help the homeless and they often end up completely destroyed. I lived in Seattle for a few years and every new initiative to help just ended in complete disaster.

The working homeless who aren't on drugs aren't really the hard group of homeless to help, or the ones who cause problems. It's the ones who are on drugs who will strip the wires from a house you provide, or completely ruin any apartment on a drug binge. It even got so bad in Seattle that ports potties provided to camps were completely and irrevocably destroyed by the homeless.

I wish the issue was as simple to solve as "provide services and show compassion" but it isn't. We do a disservice to everyone by not acknowledging the full scope and difficulty of this problem and boiling it down to simple ineffective platitudes.

There's some debate about how much Chamberlain actually mattered. Caveat he's certainly a state hero and I love the guy.

But there is debate that he gets so much attention because he was really good at publishing and advocating his successes whereas other, perhaps more impactful, individuals weren't.

If anyone makes it down to PA check out Gettysburg. You can walk the area where Chamberlain and the Maine boys were positioned and it's amazing to see and feel the history.

Extended cut or bust. If I'm sitting down for a three hour movie I'm going all the way.

If your counselor ignored your documented medical requirements and forced you into a job you were not cleared to do (something they can't do mind you) then you have a legal case and should contact a lawyer.

If your work is making you do work beyond the agreed upon limits that you're approved for you need to talk to HR or quit and get back into vocational rehab.

There's a hierarchy to this whole thing and a lot of rules. I don't know your situation fully but something really doesn't add up and I tend to think it lies in what you think you can do, and what a doctor says you can do.

Voc rehab is bad because they push you into low paying jobs if it fits your limits regardless of your financial needs. It doesn't ignore those limits if you have medical documentation stating those limits.

I'd be curious to know more about your case. Maybe I could point you in the right direction? I see hundreds of voc reports a month and know a decent bit about it.

Were you in voc rehab or medical case management? Both come with a Case manager.

If you were released to voc rehab then your care is between you and your doctor. Voc rehab doesn't do anything for you medically. It strictly exists to find you a job within your restrictions so you get off the insurance company checks.

Walking out of voc rehab will have no impact on your treatment. In fact the counselors must work within the restrictions provided by the treatment providers. You could have gotten screwed through an IME favorable to the insurer, but that's not the voc system's fault.

I'll also say the voc counselor will be very aware of your medical treatment and what the doctor has released you too. They won't work outside of those restrictions because it opens them up to issues. Disability is a very litigated field so everything is pretty by the book. You may just be having a disagreement with what you believe you can handle, and what a doctor believes and has said you can handle.

Voc rehab is bad everywhere. I work in voc rehab for an out of state company on the back end. These people work for the insurance companies, not you. Unfortunately you have to go along with them or else you're screwed.

I don't know the full details of your situation but if voc rehab has been unsuccessful, and they didn't settle you may be able to get back into active voc rehab. While they don't work for you they can be helpful in finding you some entry level transitional work for your new physical capabilities.

The USSR after WWII was a super power. This isn't a case of a more advanced powerful society wiping out a small indigenous one. This is a case of a political, and economic system being a complete failure.

Communism doesn't work, all it does is bring suffering to the millions who have been unfortunate enough to be its victims.

Good luck, not gonna waste anymore good time after bad. I imagine you'll grow out of your edgy communist phase one day, most of us do.

That's why the USSR is still thriving and China is still full on communist. The system just works so well. Meanwhile all the capitalist countries have collapsed and no longer exist.

I get it, I had a communist phase as a younger man too. But it's something you need to grow out of. It's a failed system.

With their horrific record of mass murder I guess it would reduce carbon output.

That's not a machete, that's a kukuri.

I've never known a stable person to own one.

About thirty minutes outside Bangor. So the area I am in is decently populated, I'm just way back dirt camp roads. About ten to fifteen minutes drive time back here It's just us as full time residents and only one other house even back this way.

I'm near Bangor actually, so it is fairly populated within about ten-fifteen minutes of me. It's just where I am is 10 minutes back windy, dirt camp roads.

The chickadees are great friends. More lonely in like of other people life around me.

Driving to town despite living miles away is quicker than getting downtown when I lived in a major city. Traffic's never a "real" issue. Stores aren't packed to the gills

The negatives is it can be a bit lonely where I am. I go whole days without seeing even a car go by. Maybe it's the SAD hitting me but I've been feeling the lack of life recently.

This would be an issue with generating too much electricity, not washing too much

Storage options for solar are incredibly expensive. It's not a matter of a few dollars here or there, even a small battery for an off-grid cabin runs around three grand. Scale that up to a grid level and you're looking at a massive amount of money.

In addition to the concerns with lithium mining. It's just not actually a clear cut easy problem.

Yes the ancient 30 year olds...