Second hand embarrassment is just as bad as first hand embarrassment for me.

That’s what makes it so great!

Yeah I just kept thinking that this renfair thing isn’t for me

Light is never late, nor is it early, it arrives precisely when it means to.

And like modern reproductions of cassette players, I would expect this to be way shittier than the originals

I’ve seen them being criticized a lot for branding anything anti-Israel as antisemitic and using that accusation of antisemitism as a tool to silence criticism of Israel.

Lemmy and getting jokes. What a tough combo.

I guess I’m lucky since I enjoy spending time with my family and haven’t had to consider things like in op

It was bizarre reading that

Note the lack of citation.

Do you think people just made up the referendum or are you under the impression it was about something else…?

They had already been negotiating a new treaty for a while and after difficulties with the republics Gorbachev put it to the people to gain popular support. What did you think the “renewed federation of equal sovereign republics” was about?

Yes, that renewed federation was what the New Union Treaty was supposed to bring about before being stopped. That’s what they voted for.

Did you not read the article? It’s right before that referendum text…

The new union treaty should have been stopped based on the results of the referendum, which overwhelmingly supported the maintaining of the current federal system.

Huh? People voted for the NUT (heh).

“The referendum asked whether to approve a new Union Treaty between the republics, to replace the 1922 treaty that created the USSR. […] The referendum’s question was approved by nearly 80% of voters in all nine other republics that took part. However, the August coup attempt by hardliners of the Communist Party prevented the anticipated signing of the New Union Treaty that was due to take place the next day.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1991_Soviet_Union_referendum

People voted for the treaty in the referendum, hardline communists stopped the signing because they didn’t like it.

It died because after a referendum for its dissolution failed, there was a power struggle as the communists tried to prevent Yeltsin from doing it anyway, and Yeltsin ended up ordering tanks to fire on the parliament building until the communist pro-democracy forces surrendered.

I thought it was a hardliner coup that tried to stop implementation of the New Union Treaty that people voted for. Funny that they wanted to prevent the decentralization and ended up causing a total decentralization by way of making even this new union unpalatable.

Soviet Union had a single referendum and it immediately caused a coup and destruction of the whole Union. No wonder they didn’t want to have them before lel

Didn’t it die because everyone including Russia wanted out? Closest to the will of the people for keeping it they got was having the only referendum they ever had be about if USSR should be basically replaced with some other form of union. Which is not great.

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They’re struggling to moderate it right now, so you can’t really say what their content policy is from what they’re doing right now, especially with foreign content. Longtime Chinese users might know

Did people really think they’d be different?

This would be great for a “how women see men’s height” joke

But there’s skiin, skating and places just look nice with some snow. I like it

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Maybe you just have good and fresh ingredients. Don’t want to cover up the flavour of those, you want to just enhance them