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Who doesn't have a flathead screwdriver at home? That's like a "Living 101" level tool

This only goes for the movies. In the books they have arranged a house for Frodo on the eastern border of the Shire, where he will go lay low for several months before going to Rivendell. Merry, Pippin and Fatty Bolger have figured out the plan months in advance and made their own plans, in such a way that when the black riders arrive in the region, they leave within 5 minutes and have a route planned out already.

Also, it's tobacco as clearly mentioned in the books. They are probably quite drunk in this scene though.

Edit: and of course Samwise was also involved in the plans, he was the one who told them. Frodo was being played by all his close friends.

If you want some timelines, summer 2025 is where I expect Russia to run out of steam. That's when they will have gone through pretty much all USSR equipment they had and they are not producing nearly enough to keep up with the current rate of attrition. It will also be the 4th year of war, so also the 4th year of sanctions. Remember that when those sanctions were put into place, they immediately said it would take time before they started to really hurt. Well, they are hurting in a significant way already and the noose is only getting tighter. I think they might just make it to the end of 2025, but I don't see them keeping up the war into 2026 unless China steps in and starts supplying military aid.

There are a lot of aspects to this war, but I think the combination of running out of money, people and military hardware has to lead to some serious reconsideration of their approach.

But the regime won't survive not winning the war, so we'll see. Just don't expect that whomever replaces Putin will be less dangerous. They are more likely to be truly extreme, rather than only cynically so.

Don't humanize centipedes! That leads to strange and disturbing things...

Dutch, German, French, English and what starts to become passable Slovak.

Same for me. Started watching youtube videos in firefox with ublock origin, works perfectly fine.

On a side note, Smart Youtube for Android tv still works perfectly fine.

You're goddamn right!

Drip-o'dickus

Your heresy is forgiven because you used the superior spelling of the metal in question.

Ocon did manage podiums and even a win, so he's definitely getting the better deal.

Sailboats are a thing too, you know...

With Biden stepping aside and Trump being even dumber than he was (which to everyones surprise was possible apparently), I'm feeling a lot more positive about the US elections in November.