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It’s dead in a similar way to Latin where nobody learns it as a first language. Everyone who learns it does so for a specific purpose.

In Canada there are large organizations (including many in the government) who subsidize college courses on Cobol just to be able to get some fresh talent to learn it. In some cases they’ll pay the tuition for the course entirely. Huge systems at the center of critical government functions still depend on Cobol .

It’s a better opinion than “US in decline because TOO MUCH democracy”.

Literally no one said that. Read better. It’s not the amount of democracy that was the problem, it was the actual choices made.

Lmao. You just witnessed this last election Dems suing third parties to stop them from running, Dems not even pretending to hold a primary, republicans saying its the last election ever.

What did the voters who actually voted for Trump choose?

The US isn’t a democracy though, it is a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, where every election we get to select which group of oppressors will wield state power against us until the next one.

Yes that truly one of the opinions of all time.

No, I really have no clue what you mean by that because you’re implying Putin’s role is far larger than it actually is.

I’m asking a very simple question. Were there words in there that you didn’t understand?

When he steps down, it’s most likely that it’s going to be Medvedev that replaces him.

This already happened. Putin was still in charge, and came back when the pretense of not being in charge was no longer necessary. What reason is there to believe Medvedev is next in line and that everyone else will just go with that when Putin is dead? Yes I’m saying dead because dictators don’t have retirement plans lol.

You evidently have absolutely no clue about Russian politics.

Ah yes, the last refuge of the loser who can’t answer a simple question. You’re dancing around the question because your ridiculous claim that Russia is “stable” falls apart immediately when the fact that this question has no clear answer is considered. It’s your ridiculous opinion dude. You can change it for free.

Not sure what you mean by that.

You know exactly what I mean by that. Who runs Russia after he dies and how will that person be selected? Until you can answer that question, your claims of Russia’s “stability” will remain ridiculous.

Here’s my plan to stop the war in Ukraine. Start up a massive industrial effort to mass produce printed copies of that photo. Absolutely absurd numbers of them. Cut down forests if necessary. Load them into B52s and drop them on the front lines from high altitude to get a good scatter. Keep doing this every day for 6 months. Like 50 tones of that photo dropped every day.

I will now take exactly zero questions.

All of that is true if you assume Putin is immortal.

Democracies grant immense power to the electorate. Including the power of suicide. Democratic systems are inherently capable of ending themselves because ultimately their survival depends on enough people believing in the system and holding the integrity of the system to be more important than any particular democratic outcome. That is lost in the US. Most voters don’t care.

That truth alone makes a decent argument for US being in decline. It will take a long time , but it’s beginning.

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No one knows what you’re talking about.

I remember the first time I used MapQuest and I was absolutely amazed that it could just figure out the route automatically.

Flour is flammable and light. If the fan makes a bunch of it fly around in your oven the heating element could ignite it. Search YouTube for “flour fire”.

Probably not super dangerous at if you’re just baking a sheet pan of flour, but good to be safe.

If you bake dry flour , remember to NOT use convection.

You can make safe edible cookie dough pretty easily . The eggs aren’t the only issue, it’s the flour itself. If you bake it at like 275F for 30 mins in a sheet pan it’ll sterilize it. For edible cookie dough that won’t be baked you don’t even need eggs.

Having said that, I too have eaten my share of regular cookie dough.

I know it isn’t like this in the books but if you killed every single orc and glassed Mordor, and Sauron doesn’t have a body and can’t retake one without the ring…what’s he going to do? Turn his shitty eye and shoot bad vibes at your forever? Just don’t live near him (you glassed it anyways ). Pretty funny to think of Sauron still alive but utterly impotent because all his servants are dead and he’s still disembodied.

The part where that matters. Your discourse is directly counterproductive to your stated goal.

If you cared about genocide more than how you look, you might actually say or do something productive towards stopping it

You can keep denying the truth of what you’ve proven all you want. You know your conclusion is nonsense.

This is vibes-based. The DNC will not cease support for Israel because the US State needs it for its Imperialist ambitions.

They can be made to cease unconditional support for Israel which is the only reason Israel has no incentive to work for peace.

Why do you believe organizing and building outside pressure has zero chance of success?

Probably because you and you guys have never provided a plausible possibility for how that would happen?

Why do you think the DNC will magically work against their material interests?

Unconditional support for Israel can be made to be against the DNC’s interests. But you have no interest in that. You just make noise.