NoSpotOfGround

The eye of the bee-holder... ugh. This image actually made me sadder.

From a page about geometric percent decreases, explaining that that kind of graph represents an unchanging loss of a percentage of the measured value every interval:

The sequence 100, 50, 25, 12.5, … is a geometric sequence. The common ratio is 1/2. To go from term to term, you keep multiplying by 1/2 (i.e., dividing by 2).

The graph of the sequence 100, 50, 25, 12.5, … is shown below:

And after that?

The money shot is this graph of estimated stocks, which shows only about 6 months remain (but the attrition rate is already starting to diminish as the Russians have begun to hold back on risking their remaining stock):

That they're all having sex in a spontaneous orgy. It's... weird.

So how was your typing and such after playing them? Did they actually work?

Keelhaul them till they're sober!

(Early in the morning...)

That's a great example!

I discovered that the grouchy, irritable and angry part of me was not "just my personality", it was an emotional overlay that colored the rational self which lay underneath...

To me it sounds like you have low levels of serotonin. It made me irritable and easily angered too.

Medicine that helps with that are SSRIs (antidepressants). You have to ask a psychiatrist about those. Or, if you don't want to go full medical about it, try a 5-HTP over-the-counter supplement, which is a serotonin building block. And also ease up on masturbation... It drains your serotonin.

You don't even have to take these for very long. They have a side-effect of making you sleepy, because serotonin is processed into melatonin. Take them on and off just enough to get some perspective on how artificial your mood is, which is when you'll gain a level of control that will stay with you even after you've stopped taking the medicine.

It's on the image, not the paper.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special_Operations_Forces_(Ukraine)

Ok, I see... The land itself isn't the most valuable thing in Ukraine though. And Russia may be the country least interested in simple lebensraum. They want the benefits of that land, the people and resources on it. And what those two things produce and influence. And they can get those by subjugating the leadership of the country.

That's what he's saying, that they don't need or even particularly want the territory, as long as they can make Ukraine be weak, afraid and doing their bidding.