Jimmy_D

There’s a difference between ‘knowing of’ and ‘actively thinking about’. There’s no doubt that acts like this help fund research through donations, and also lead to people seeking diagnosis and treatment for symptoms earlier. With dementia, acting earlier really can make a huge difference, and with the UK’s ageing population, it’s only going to become more important to be able to deal with it better.

I know. It’s a huge sample size too.

I am. It’s not aimed at me either.

People watching the football match who are less aware than you.

Not everyone watching the football match is you.

Guess it wasn’t aimed at you then.

Looks like it’s successfully raised your awareness.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-europe-60853404

One of the few people that could have been on stage with Grohl and not make you wish it was Grohl was on the drums, he’ll truly be missed. Can only imagine how tough this will be for the rest of the band, especially considering the reason Foo Fighters were formed in the first place.

They must think they were hiding among the civilians they’ve been targetting.

Yeah, at this point, even a complete military victory tomorrow would have cost far more than Putin wanted it to, but if reports of the Russian army’s morale are anywhere near to accurate, continuing the same way as they have been would end up even more costly.

Need to remember this probably isn’t aimed at an international audience, but at a domestic audience that has so far been given a story of very few Russian losses, surgical strikes against Ukraine military targets, and aims of ‘denazifying’ and demilitarisation of Ukraine without specifying what that actually meant. Social media and the internet has made that less effective than it would have been in the past, but this entire war has looked like Russia using old out of date tactics.

Russia claiming the first phase of the war has successfully been completed. To me it seems like they’re starting to deem taking the whole of Ukraine either too costly or not possible, and are laying the groundwork to make scaling back as palatable as possible.

No, you’re right, it was the player going down too easy made it a soft penalty.

It was a soft penalty at best. Calling it stonewall is ridiculous.

I notice you didn’t actually contradict me with that one.

At the other end you know they spend at least five minutes with VAR looking for a reason not to give it.

Well it certainly wasn’t the challenge that knocked him over. Dean couldn’t wait to give it.

Dalek, is that you?

Almost certainly. Almost every developed country in the world has biolabs for the purpose of researching defence against bioweapons. It's extremely unlikely, however, that they're being used to research bioweapon technology that's ever intended to be deployed in battle.

For what it’s worth the ICJ at the Hague has ruled that the invasion must be immediately suspended. Can’t see it making any difference at this point with the war crimes already being committed, but it does mean that continuing the invasion at this point has been deemed illegal.

Do you think Russia's actions are justified?

https://www.reuters.com/technology/apple-says-it-halted-all-product-sales-russia-2022-03-01/ https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/nike-makes-online-sales-unavailable-russia-2022-03-01/ They’re already giving up a huge amount of profit. Moving away from manufacturing centres isn’t as easy, admittedly, but I bet China won’t be thinking it's impossible.

This is off at a tangent, but there was a mountain of evidence that Russia supported Trump with a huge range of activities. It was Trump or the Republican party being aware of it and being an active part of it that wasn’t proven.

You can say this much, if Putin planned for this to happen like this, it doesn’t seem like it was a very good plan. It’s already gone on long enough that, even with a well planned and executed logistics operation, Russia’s forces would have been stretched, and all signs point to it being a long way short of that. Russia way well still have enough forces to claim a military victory over Ukraine, but it’s looking more and more likely to be a Pyrrhic victory at best, leaving Russia bogged down with massive sanctions and a drawn out guerrilla war, even if they claim to control the country.