Imma be honest, the only reason I learned anything in school was because of homework

I do think teachers often give too much of it though, with little thought given to how much homework kids are getting from other classes

just saw someone saying the Rolling Stones are better than Nina Simone, this should be an offense punishable by death im literally shaking rn

yeah as I say this is something I did when I liked the owners. Seems like you’ve had a tough relationship with the owners. Thought it might be something to try since you felt guilty, but if you don’t want to, then honestly do not feel guilty about leaving. A job is a job, you don’t owe these people anything, especially if they’ve ignored their business themselves. Part of running a business is dealing with turnover, if they can’t deal with you leaving then that’s on them.

I didn’t go through that document, but there’s also the question of what it means to be vaccinated. Like if you got vaccinated in 2021 that’s probably not doing a whole lot for you now. The graph at the top is comparing unvaccinated to at least one booster shot. I got my first booster at the end of 2021, and I know some people got it earlier in the fall. That’s probably not doing a whole lot now. Less and less people have getting boosters afaik.

I once had to quit a job where I really liked the owners. At the end of the day it’s your life, and this is just a job. I liked them though, and it was a very small operation. I was also quitting with no plans for what I’d do next, so I told them I’d stay on until they found someone to replace me. Took them like a month or two to find someone and get them ready to start. Maybe you’re able to do something like this. Although I had other reasons that I had to quit at the time that weren’t just I hate the job or I found a better job so idk.

idk I’m not disabled myself so I’d feel a bit odd doing this. Unless it was some sort of advocacy group I guess, although I’m not really looking to get involved, just how to meet people.

I heard something about it only being offered to 65+, is there any truth to that?

thank you for your service

nation states are a fuck

also why’d they have to kill them?

Gamers rise up

Institute for Study of War on fate of Wagner after Prigo’s death

The Wagner Group will likely no longer exist as a quasi-independent parallel military structure following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s almost certain assassination of Wagner financier Yevgeny Prigozhin, Wagner founder Dmitry Utkin, and reported Wagner logistics and security head Valery Chekalov on August 23. The death of Wagner’s central leadership disrupts Wagner’s ability to reverse the effects of the Kremlin’s and the Russian Ministry of Defense’s (MoD) campaign to weaken, subsume, and destroy the organization following the June 24 armed rebellion. The Russian MoD has reportedly established private military companies (PMCs) that have been recruiting current and former Wagner personnel to assume control over Wagner’s operations abroad. Russian sources claimed that the Kremlin refused to pay the Belarusian government for Wagner’s deployment to Belarus and that financial issues were already leading to reduced payments that were causing Wagner fighters to resign. Satellite imagery from August 1 and 23 shows that Wagner had dismantled almost a third of the tents at its camp in Tsel, Asipovichy, Belarus in the previous month, suggesting that the effort to weaken Wagner may have resulted in a notable flight of Wagner personnel from the contingent in Belarus. Some milbloggers denied claims that Wagner fighters are dismantling their camp in Tsel, however. The Ukrainian Resistance Center reported on August 23 that an unspecified number of Wagner personnel at camps in Belarus began preparations to return to Russia following Prigozhin’s death. The central Wagner leadership had brought Wagner to the height of its independence during the offensive to capture Bakhmut and was attempting to retain some semblance of that independence in the aftermath of Wagner’s rebellion. The elimination of this central leadership likely ends any remaining means Wagner had to operate independently of the Russian MoD. It remains unclear whether the Kremlin intends for Wagner to completely dissipate or intends to reconstitute it as a much smaller organization completely subordinate to the Russian MoD. A third option—restoring Wagner as a quasi-independent organization under a new commander loyal to the Kremlin—is possible but unlikely.

Says Redut is likely candidate to take over Wagner operations in Africa and elsewhere

I’ve seen this theory floated, where it makes sense is that France/USA wanted to re-exert influence over the Sahel and taking out Wagner leadership was a way to weaken Russian influence over that region

I know nothing so take what I say with a grain of salt, but it just doesn’t make sense to me. The Wagner rebellion was because the MoD wanted to subsume Wagner and bring them into the Russian Armed Forces. Prigozhin knew that would undermine his influence and so rebelled. When the rebellion ended, part of the deal was that those who did not participate could sign contracts and become regular troops. So the goal seems to still be to end Wagner and make them part of the Russian Armed Forces. Prigo as an oligarch who feels betrayed and upset with Putin - Putin knows how much the US/west would like to regime change Russia, Prigo with military contacts, and remaining loyalists could give the US a pretty dangerous way in. Prigo had already tried a coup once, which was fortunately sort of disorganized, who knows if he wouldn’t try a more organized coup this time with US backing. The entire leadership being gone makes sure no one can really fill Prigo’s void.

It’s also a message to other oligarchs who might step out of line. Prigo tried to fight the state, Putin needs to send a message to any other oligarchs who might try this, especially with the US clamoring for regime change. See “he made serious mistakes in his life” from his speech yesterday. Putin had to seem strong, and he couldn’t send the message that if you fight the state and lose you can just walk away no consequences, lest someone else attempt it.

Surovikin is also gone, so it looks like there’s a larger attempt to remove any Wagner sympathy from the military - it’s not merely contained to killing Prigo.

it literally says in that story

thanks to his obsessive fascination with the history of third Reich – [he] had received the nom-de-guerre “Wagner”.

maybe I am not understanding because of the translation, or I’m just dumb and don’t understand how the WHO works

The Cuban Ministry of Public Health received this Wednesday in Havana a donation…through the World Health Organization

So Russia gave money to the WHO to send medicines to Cuba or something?

alright so I traced the neopagan thing back to its source, and it looks like it ultimately came from Radio Free Europe, an interview with a Wagner commander. Obviously not everything that RFE publishes is false, but it’s not really my favorite source to rest my claims on. It seems like all other reporting on Utkin being a neopagan comes from there. If you want to take a look, here (it’s archived).

I think the neo-Nazi stuff rests on more solid ground though

I think it’s the one stickied

The neopagan religion stuff (which is a pretty good signifier of neo-nazi ideology) and Wagner stuff does not come from the photo. There is evidence that he is a Nazi that has nothing to do with the photo. Idk, I feel pretty confident saying he’s a Nazi.

everything I can find on Utkin says he was into Nazi and pagan shit, and that the name Wagner came from him

You know what, I don’t care what anyone says, I like him, he tells it like it is (says what I want to hear)