<p>Some men can&#39;t stop thinking about the Roman empire; meanwhile, I can&#39;t stop recalling the Pantheon every time I&#39;m in the Providence train station.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> i don&#39;t know very much about the period but it seems like the collapse of the soviet union was a very fluid time and would have been a bad time for anyone to start an argument about the custody of nuclear weapons. i&#39;d also wonder a little whether simply *having* some nuclear weapons without an active nuclear program to e.g. maintain and eventually replace them is practically useful.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mcc" class="u-url mention">@<span>mcc</span></a></span> i would have said &quot;they should&#39;ve kept the ones they could&quot; but i also don&#39;t think that, realistically, they could have; the Budapest Memorandum, as far as i can tell, was more of a concession to a more orderly transfer of the weapons than any meaningful negotiation of power</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@gamingonlinux" class="u-url mention">@<span>gamingonlinux</span></a></span> This sits in the uncomfortable space between &quot;I am not an artist&quot; and &quot;I need an artist to complete my project but am unable to pay them.&quot;</p>

<p>the other day i saw &quot;PLANT BASED RICE&quot; on a shelf, stood there, and glitched out for a minute</p>

<p>I wrote some extended thoughts on Bluesky about the War in Ukraine and how it fits into other world politics stuff. The thread mighta been more appropriate for here than there, but I&#39;m mostly posting politics there, so I posted it there.</p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3li3hbcq2rs27" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/dryad.technol</span><span class="invisible">ogy/post/3li3hbcq2rs27</span></a></p><p>The TLDR is: I believe that the United States has abandoned Ukraine&#39;s side in the Russian war against Ukraine, and Ukraine understands this, and a result of this is that Ukraine is going to build nuclear weapons.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span> Calli-brace (calligraphic curly brace)</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://labyrinth.zone/users/Rairii" class="u-url mention">@<span>Rairii</span></a></span> oh right uni/multiprocessor</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://donotsta.re/users/mei" class="u-url mention">@<span>mei</span></a></span> (which doc system is this?)</p>