“hello we are not with Putin. Do you support the war with Ukraine?”

(Russian looks around nervously) “of course, I support Putin in all his decisions”

Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel

Shaka when the walls fell

This is fantastic news for Ukraine and really bad news for Russia.

“Are you Sarah Connor?”

What does it depend on?

What’s the remedy when anyone steals anything?

That’s a tough one … I think I’ll go with they’re all culpable.

No I meant that only half joking. I know it’s horrible. Am old friend got them because her apartment building got completely infested. She told me she threw out all her furniture and washed all her clothes and linens with some special soap. The look on her face told me it was a nasty experience.

So anyone’s who’s even just a little bit better off than you is fair game? If you have a bicycle but your neighbor has two then you can freely steal his bicycle?

How do you know olive oil farmers are rich? I know a few farmers here in the US and they are not rich. Most of them are barely making it. Most actually work a job on top of farming because farming doesn’t cut it on its own. What if stealing their olive trees breaks them financially? What are they supposed to do then? Go steal someone else’s livelihood? Your logic is fundamentally flawed.

They aren’t stealing food to eat. They’re stealing someone else’s livelihood and damaging those trees so much that they could take years to bear fruit again. Some of the trees are being cut down completely, taken away, and sold for firewood. How would you feel if someone stole your only means of providing for yourself and your family? I’m willing to bet you wouldn’t be saying, “oh it isn’t their fault. Unemployment is high. That’s okay that I can’t feed my children anymore.”

If you’re really interested in doing the research, there’s an entire black economy on bootleg olive oil and the mafia is a big part of it. I wouldn’t be surprised if Italian organized crime is involved in this somehow.

RIP Steve Irwin

PT-BB-D

I think the people cutting down 150 year old tress are pretty clearly the ones to blame for cutting down 150 year old trees.

Weird I wasn’t aware of that. I’m so glad I’ve never had to deal with bed bugs. I’ve heard they are a serious scourge.

I think London just had or is having bed bug troubles too but I didn’t hear anything about Paris.

The very last line stuck out to me:

Markou, the grower, said of the tree-cutting. “You kill your own history here.”

“so where do ya think it came from?”

" I dunno mate… The ocean? I’m going on break."