During the summer of 1995 in Minsk I did homework to better understand why so many Belarusians were accommodating dictatorial rule. Every night for two weeks I forced myself to gulp down two, sometimes three, award-winning Dark Prince beers from Lidskoe Pivo in Grodno and watch attentively the hour-long evening news broadcast by Belarusian State Television (Belarus-1).
This was inspired by the Ludovico Technique from A Clockwork Orange1.
Donald’s two-hour Cabinet meeting reminded me of my aversion therapy. I imagine people who watched The Apprentice (willingly) during the early 2000s were also turned into a clockwork of oranges.
Just skimming through the above video was as enlightening as a Servant of the People episode or Телемарафон or a Public Disgrace skit on Kink.com.
Scott and Yuliia the UAH millionairess signed the minerals deal yesterday. According to Scott, the deal shows Team USA is committed to Ukraine. Har, har.
I won’t comment until I read the fine print.
Yuliia earned her millions, reportedly, by doing “work” for Kyiv School of Economics, which yesterday announced the purchase of a golf course outside of Kyiv for $18 million2.
Russia continues sending dozens of Shahed drones into Ukraine to kill us.
The Kyiv Post sez Ukraine bought $50 million worth of something defense-related from Team USA the other day. That’s equal to about 1,000 Browning M2 .50 caliber machine guns.
In other news, more running.
This was the state-sponsored experiment that forced Alex, the protagonist, to watch violent and pornographic films while under the influence of drugs that induced severe nausea and physical distress, rendering him incapable of acting on his previous impulses.
$18 million is worth about 36,000 kamikaze fpv drones, approximately. The per-drone cost varies between $300 and $700, depending on components.