Haven't regretted it for a second.

What I'm saying is that stretching is going to give you a very good defence against back problems. Been totally life-changing for me.

Five to ten minutes a few times a week, and I've not had a back problem in years.

It's a simple and easy way to keep a healthy baseline. Good for all sorts of physical and mental issues. I feel like shit if I've not done them for a while.

Does this mean the war continues till he dies? We could yet wait a long time.

Say he does fall over tomorrow, there's no guarantee what comes next is any better. Defeat in WWI brought about Nazi Germany. A Marshal Plan would more likely come from China.

He's had attempts on his life made. Do you think Russia will fall over if that's successful? Look at what's happened with Iran. Would Russia believe he had a heart attack if he had one?

It would be in everyone's best interests if this war was frozen exactly where it is, now. A continued war in Europe is bad for everyone, and could get much worse.

Russia is reflexively anti-NATO as NATO is reflexively anti-Russia.

NATO is an alliance that was created in opposition to the Soviet Union. NATO has absorbed parts of the former Soviet Union.

Western companies pillaged Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union. Rightly or wrongly, Putin owes a lot of his original popularity to dealing with the aftermath.

Russia, rightly or wrongly, sees colour revolutions as intelligence operations, and territorial conquest.

Russia cannot accept NATO forces on its borders.

NATO is providing decisive material, political, logistical, financial and intelligence support to Ukraine, precisely to bog it down and drain it.

These are all pretty normal perspectives for most Russians. They're arguably pretty based, and not necessarily a product of internal propaganda campaigns.

The thing that westerners don't get about Russia, and the reason we're stuck in this Godforsaken conflict, is that we personalise things around Putin. We think that if Putin dies, everything will magically improve.

The decision to invade was Putin's, but the rationale goes much deeper and will outlast him.

Have been on some good stuff recently: Whitt by Iain M. Banks was nice, lighter than a lot of his other stuff, and genuinely funny at times.

Best book this year was The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Couldn't put it down.

I barely drink these days, but wine production is great fun and pretty damn easy. I've done it a couple of times, it was super rewarding.

It's much more straightforward than most booze (e.g., beer). You just need clean gear and mashed up grapes, and some sulphites on hand if things get a bit wonky. There's very little else to it.

I think anyone who drinks should make wine once in their life.

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All my friends have moved to vapes, and they vape harder than I smoke, and I was on 20 a day before moving to roll ups.

I need to quit, but don't see vaping as viable.

Groups of people in the West are benefiting massively. Most Ukrainians are not. Most normal citizens of Western countries are not, we're shouldering the cost in rising cost of living, elevated military spending.

We have a hot war on our continent. I repeat, this is very fucking dangerous. WW1 was a brutal, grinding land battle with immense costs for all its European participants. It also led to WW2, which culminated in the absolute decimation of European cities and the eventual use of nuclear weapons. This is the path we're retreading.

You continue to personalise this around Putin. It is incredibly naive to think that Putin disappearing will resolve the problem. It will not.

Most urgent intervention required in the UK, IMO. We're choking to death on the cost of housing.

It's based on several flawed assumptions: that Putin's death will happen soon, that Putin's death will lead to a leader with a radically different and more amenable geopolitical vision.

Do understand that the popular narrative in Russia mirror's the ours exactly: "We can't just roll over and let the West have Ukraine".

I'm sorry, but "keep fighting until Putin has a heart attack" is stupid beyond belief. The only way to safely end this conflict is to freeze it. Continuation risks catastrophic escalation.

We've had this stagnant wound festering in the middle of Europe for a decade.

No one is winning. No one can win, except those who are benefiting from it.

There's a menu for a place in my town and it's completely illegible. They printed the same thing in three sizes, and you need a magnifying glass to see the text on the smallest two.

Accessibility matters, and is part of the job of a designer. The problem with AI tools is that by skipping the expert, you risk making some horrible mistakes.

It's dangerously out of control. We should be seeking de-escalation for our own sakes. The last two major European wars destroyed empires. We're playing with fire here.

I do not want to live through, or die in WW3. I'm worried it's already started.

We are in a perilous position right now in Europe, very close to a major escalation of the Ukraine conflict. This would entail direct conflict between nuclear-armed powers.

I find it deeply troubling that no mainstream party in most European countries seems to think this is a bad idea.