@PhilipTheBucket right, I see. It’s basically the same cycle of them following whoever pays the most. Kinda sucks tbh…

@PhilipTheBucket I did check CNN lately and I found their articles to be quite reliable (not very, but quite) - which is better than I expected (even though I checked them on Flipboard, via the Fedi). I wonder how their quality will drop in the following years.

I’ve noticed a few of them. Or some that simply also accept tankies on them.

@PugJesus Rule 2?

Oh, wait, maybe that doesn’t apply to them.

@Churbleyimyam This is great news! I always found a hassle to install it, yet it was such a useful tool. I’m glad this is going on the main project.

occupied

You know how Moldova gained this territory, right?

@cm0002 an e-ink phone is such a cool thing. Imagine the battery life.

Back when this part of Europe was behind the Iron Curtain, the communist governments were quick to label any dissent moves as being fascist or nazi. This was their way to easily dehumanize their adversaries. Want freedom of opinion? Fascist. Want democracy and political pluralism? Fascist. Want true free speech (i.e. be able to say anything on your mind if it doesn’t infringe the rights and liberties of other people)? Fascist.

The legacy of this behavior was continued after the fall of communism. I can only think of 2 examples: Romania and Transnistria.

Here in Romania, following allegations of voter fraud at the first free elections in the 1990s, large groups of people started protesting in big cities, including Bucharest. Ion Iliescu, the winner of the elections, claimed that the protesters were “huliganic elements, fascist elements, many of them under drugs” and called the miners from the Jiu Valley to come and restore order. The miners promptly came, went to the epicenter of the protests and beat people, injuring many, even killing some, burning cars, breaking windows and occupying the University of Bucharest. Basically, if they found you wearing a beard and glasses, you were fitted into the description of intelectuals and be shown a lesson.

Right across the Prut river, Transnistrian separatists also spreaded the propaganda that the Chișinău authorities were fascist and that they planned to unite with Romania without their agreement. Something that was not true.

This whole fascist/nazi talk seems to have been strongly inherited and integrated into the Russian culture of today, just like many things that were quite common during the Soviet period. So it’s not so weird to see this rhetoric also being inherited and integrated as well.

In fact, this whole thing just means nothing. Nazism means simply nothing to them. It’s just a word they use to describe whoever disagrees with them. Protesters? Nazi! Countries that are not Russia’s puppets? Nazi. Why? because a former KGB officer gone president said so.

What’s ironic is that Russia itself is objectively nazi. Yet they do not see the beam in their own eyes.

@fu RT is literally state propaganda of Russia. With lots of fake news and half coverage about anything. If you’d ask me to choose 2 news sources to get rid of from the face of the planet, they would be RT and Sputnik. They’re not just propaganda about Russia (which is what TASS and other state media agencies are), they’re simply Russian propaganda about anything.

It’s been a ride

Now that the US involvement is pretty much hanging, it’s great that other allies are stepping up instead.

Technically speaking, we’re pretty much at the same level we were with planes during WW1. Very rudimentary, just a few sticks and strings to hold everything in place.

I wonder what the future will bring to us regarding drone design

It would be cooler if Steam or GOG would bring their front-ends to Android and host games as Android apks too. Of course, that would mean that these are sideloaded, but that’s nothing any medium-tech-literate person wouldn’t know.

@late_night what vehicle? My train’s leaving, gotta go, bye!

@LaFinlandia I don’t get why are they insisting in shooting the already fallen ones. Think smart: wait for someone to show and help, then hunt them too.

@alyaza seems like this is no longer a fantasy.

It will be a huge blow to the world if America basically splits apart, with shockwaves going all around the planet.

I do not think that the states will hold their place on the global rank though. Most of the states economy is aided specially because of the fact that they are a part of the same federation. The fact that the “states” are basically just provinces of the same country and you can travel without internal border checks. Otherwise, in a scenario where states are going to be real countries, companies would also need a presence in each of the said state. And this is not something most will be likely to do, hurting the states economy in the process.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg!

Yeah, I also tell her to fuck off right away instead of flirting with her. Seems much more simple!

Guess the radar didn’t see that one coming

RuLe 1!!!

@fu As a Linux nerd, I go outside every day. How else would I flex to people that I use Arch, btw?

I mean, internet is cool and all, but still…

@Sunshine