I’m saddened to hear that there are still an appreciable amount of Spanish people talking about us that way, but I’m not upset at the dictionary for recording the way the language is used.

I’m guessing it’s approached in something of a similar way to how English language dictionaries handle the word gyp, which is to give its definition and note that it is offensive.

I mean, if folks were making fun of their housing I’d agree but this is the equipment they’re buying to threaten their neighbors with, instead of feeding their starving population

Yeah probably Ukraine though, he’s a legitimate military target within their operational range and currently was not on putins shit list

Fucking ballsy to just be hanging out 300 yards from the border of a country you’re at war with like, “This lawn ain’t gonna mow itself!”

Pretty sure this was Ukraine. Hard to keep track, it’s dangerous to work for Putin

Some people think if you hate the same people hard enough, you’re on the same side – and the Proud Boys were happy to have someone brown as their front guy for a while there. “See? It’s about values!”

The reality is that plenty of them hate his guts for not being white, I remember these guys split into two factions a while back based ok whether they would accept brown people who hated other brown people hard enough or not.

I listed them in another comment in reply to the question… i wasn’t even including the Lisbon protocol, wild.

Yes of course… Russia acknowledged Ukraine’s borders and territorial integrity when:

• Ukraine was admitted to the UN in 1945 with its current borders (which Russia could have vetoed).

• Ukraine’s sovereign status and territorial integrity were guaranteed in the Belovezha Accords in 1991, which recognized the dissolution of the USSR and the borders and sovereignty of the former member states.

• Ukraine agreed to transfer control of its 4,700 nuclear weapons to the Russian Federation in exchange for guarantees by the US, UK, and Russian Federation that they would not threaten to use (or use) military force against Ukraine… in the Budapest Memorandum in 1996.

• Russia specifically recognized Ukraine’s sovereignty in Crimea when Ukraine agreed to lease it military bases there (and split the Black Sea fleet, stationed in Crimea, 50/50 in 1997) in the Partition Treaty.

• The two countries agreed not to declare war on one another, to treat each other’s territory as inviolable and to prohibit the use of military force to resolve any future territorial disputes in the same year’s Treaty of Friendship.

• Russia agreed to “final borders” in January 2003 (which include Crimea, Kherson, etc)

• As you know, Russia invaded Ukraine in 2014; they signed a ceasefire in 2015 once again confirming Ukraine’s territorial integrity, but this was almost immediately violated, so I’m not sure I’d even count it.

Hope it helps. The three that were top of mind for me were 1991, 1996, and 2003.

I mean… I can’t see any issue with NATO not stopping Ukraine from invading its own territory… the territory the UN recognizes as part of Ukraine… and which Russia signed three separate treaties promising to respect as part of Ukraine.

Yeah, prickly pears are tuna fruit, from the tuna cactus

Yeah, I did a bit of poking around, check this out. Till the tuna canneries started showing up in the early 1900s in California, “tuna” was just as likely to prefix “cactus” as “fish”.

Mystery solved I think

There is, yes … that’s the main Spanish name for prickly pear.

Up until around 1907, your odds of encountering the fruit by the name “tuna” were about the same as the fish, when the first commercial canneries started to pop up in California… hence, a habit of clarifying between the two that stuck, even though most folks outside of the southwest had never heard of a tuna cactus.

I order a tuna salad sandwich or a tuna sandwich, but I grew up hearing tuna fish… specifically in reference to the stuff that came in a can.

Both were equally common years ago but over time, “tuna” sans fish has won out… likely because fresh, non canned tuna is very common.

I read an article a while ago that theorized the reason for Americans calling it “tuna fish” was that it rose to prominence as a canned staple good in the 1940s, and many Americans who didn’t live on the coasts had never heard of tuna before. Its light meat, when canned and cooked, was very mild and chicken-y compared with the heavily salted, oily canned fish folks were familiar with, hence both “chicken of the sea” and the precaution of labeling the can with not only tuna, but “fish”.

I think an alternate explanation is probably more likely… the 1919 Oxford English Dictionary describes “Tuna” as an alternative spelling of “tunny”, the old name for the fish (still used in a culinary sense in Britain) … not coincidentally:

• Californians would also have been familiar with the other tuna… tuna fruit, the prickly pear.

• Possessed of both a fruit and a fish of the same name, distinguishing one from the other when canning fish seems reasonable

• The largest canneries of tuna (e.g., the one that ultimately became Chicken of the Sea) were all based in California.

I’m a very hairy dude with a thick, thick beard. I use a new blade every other shave. Recommend using a safety razor, it’s much cheaper and better

Iirc this fine started at $50k and each day of noncompliance. Another fine 2x the size of the prior days fine was added.

So noncompliance for another day would have cost another $400k, then $800k, then $1.6m, and so on. By day 30 of noncompliance, the fine would be over $5 billion.

I am blessed, in that I tan easily to become quite dark, and so I don’t burn often.

…but no amount of sunscreen protects my bald head from eventually burning. Luckily, hats!

Yeah… this article is propagandistic nonsense. The author sets up a strawman and by golly, knocks it right down!

At no point do they consider Russia’s desire to be / remain a military hegemon, or their willingness to repeatedly invade their neighbors to achieve it.

On the other hand, “the west” hasn’t invaded any of Russia’s neighbors, even a little bit.

Me too, I’m beginning to think my taste in movies is suspect because I liked a lot of these

Ditto, I genuinely enjoyed watching that

Genuinely surprised Sherlock Holmes was rated that low, I really enjoyed it.