The same three friends come over every weekend for game night. Between them and my roomies, they are my only friends who have lasted through the pandemic.

Scare quotes would have been appropriate. As someone who struggles with sarcasm myself, I should have noted that :)

Ahahaha I wish.

We started dating when I was a baby commie and bonded over non-political stuff. This shit came like a couple years in lol

You mean Tankie Sargon?

I'm tryna explain that Russia invading would be very bad, but that also we never make things better.

But this time is different I guess. We can't just let Russia run uncontrolled.

"out of context"

Sounds pretty tankie idk

"They always take him out of context. If you just watched a couple seconds later..." when I mentioned his repeated justification for underage sex.

InRangeTV. He seems like a decent fellow.

Sounds like pro-Russia traitor talk. Why do you love Putin so much?

I remember feeling so proud when I realized that 吗 and 妈 both had a 马 in them and I finally figured something out about the language that wasn't just rote memorization.

It's in season right now! Discovery channel every Thursday night, with a bonus fight uploaded Sundays. If you don't do tv people are also really good at uploading the fights on youtube, but then you miss all the fluff in between.

It's more fun to believe he was a sock puppet that Engels used to troll Marx, therefore that is the truth of the matter.

Omniwheels are cool. Shatter from BattleBots uses them to flank opponents while keeping their hammer on target. https://youtu.be/ZPOd-DxTbcc

They're more complicated and fragile than conventional wheels (so you need to spend some weight on wheel armor), and they get less traction, but they're really neat and I wish more bots used them.

I look for useful resources online, or sometimes do online training for my continued education requirements. Or get really anxious and spend hours refreshing hexbear dot net.

I get to work from home once a week. Not wearing pants and petting my cats is awesome. I just also get anxious when I run out of productive things to do.

I've always assumed that hating trots was just a leftist in-joke. When was the last time they split The Party?

You can be the most lefty anti-authority anarchist to ever exist, but if you don't hate all of our cold war enemies, that makes you a tankie.

Some of my earliest memories were seeing the news about tanks in Yugoslavia.

Then the wars just never stopped. We moved to different countries, but I am in my 30s now and I don't think I've ever known peacetime.

Massive shame what happened with the company. This was a neat design. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjGcsYH0lOs