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Yikes. They seem to really be in trouble with how many Nazis they're allowing to hold power. Economy Minister resigned because he's a Nazi. Finance Minister is at least a horrific racist but likely also a Nazi. I wonder if it's just a return to the good old days of Finland allying with Nazis and helping Nazis murder Jews.

Finland’s ‘most rightwing government ever’ to cut spending and immigration

Despite being officially "banned" in Finland, the Neo-Nazi Nordic Resistance Movement[^1] seems to be only one-step removed here: both of these Ministers are part of the right-wing "Finns Party" which has direct ties to the Nordic Resistance Movement.

Edit: I said Prime Minister when I meant Economy Minister.

[^1]: Which, rather creepily, has ties to the terrorist Neo-Nazi Azov Batallion that Ukraine has no problems supporting

It’s literally on par with sentencing guidelines for everyone else.

But it's not. It's on par with treatment for other people like her. It's not the case for the vast majority of prisoners in the USA.

The real annoying thing is that this kind of crime should be higher on the sentencing guidelines because the victims are far reaching.

If your argument is that the sentence should be longer than the one given, how do you also say that you have no issue with it being shortened? Those are opposites.

why you think that the reduction itself is a bad thing

In general, I'm not. But I'm extremely against unfair application of the reduction to people like her, leaving others to suffer needlessly.

Absolutely disgusting. Any facade of justice in the USA is just that, a facade.

Inmates in the US can have their sentences reduced for good conduct, including completing job assignments, following orders, and completing substance abuse programs and other rehabilitation courses

She's been in a bit over a month. 42 days.

Do you have any sources for these estimates?

That doesn't seem like an accurate statement at all. The methodology they used looks like it could be applied to any country that has public its analgous National Probate Registry. I'm not going to bother to check, but I'd be surprised if Ukraine didn't also have this. So in theory, the exact same analysis could be used on Ukraine.

I'm sure some style guide(s) have hard and fast rules but being called out for it in everyday conversation doesn't (shouldn't) happen for something like that. English also isn't French, it doesn't have a regulatory body, and so attempting to pin down certain things as definitively correct or definitively wrong isn't always a reasonable thing to do.

Huh. I'm getting a ERR_SSL_VERSION_OR_CIPHER_MISMATCH error on that link. I was getting the same error when I tried to do it myself with archive.is (archive.ph is down and I get a cloudflare page).

Anyone have a non-paywalled version? It would be nice if you would post the entire article contents as post body if you're going to post paywalled sources, @HowRu68@lemmy.world.

If they use them purely on open battlefields then it’s not such an issue.

What is an "open battlefield" during a war is no longer a battlefield after the war is over. After the war is over, if you've littered what used to be a battlefield with unexploded bombs, you've ruined that area of land and made it extremely dangerous to civilians.

It is indeed surprising, but it's just words. He'll say this, then continue sending financial and military support. Nothing will come of this.

Liberalism in the USA is a right-wing ideology.

Oh it's absolutely understandable why a good camera (and subsequently a good screen to view pictures on) would matter to some.

It just doesn't to me, at all, and so it's not even the first thing that comes to mind when I think about a phone. I don't like tablet-sized phones because I don't use it all that much and when I do, there's no added benefit of a larger screen over a middle-sized screen (or some higher-resolution display). I don't use the camera at all, and so its quality doesn't matter to me. I don't use a stylus because I'd rather use a pen and notepad.

I'm not criticizing someone wanting those features, I just sometimes need to be told what features are important to other people.

In the USA there’s due process required for authorities to gain access to your private data

This is only the case when the data is being obtained by traditional means. As we've seen recently, authorities buying data from data brokers completely circumvents any sense of due process on a technicality.

Yeah, always invoke your right to remain silent. [...] It baffles me how criminals will sit there and let police interrogate them until they confess. Maybe it’s because they think they can talk their way out of it, but then why confess.

Oh absolutely. Even if you are entirely innocent, the police use psycological manipulation as routine part of interrogation. They'd sometimes rather you get confused as to whether you actually may have done something wrong, and eventually admit to something you didn't do, than to let you go as innocent. There is absolutely nothing good that can come out of "cooperating" (such a loaded and innacurate word in this context), whether you're innocent or guilty.

They're both acceptable in English. The rule is generally "an" if the following word starts with a vowel. But, it gets a bit tricky with initialisms (like URL) because URL is normally pronounced something like "you-are-ell", and not "earl". So the spelling starts with a vowel, but the pronunciation doesn't. Nobody would fault you for using one or the other in a situation like this.

Jesus, that's a rough read. What a horrible person.

So the fact that you didn't answer that but just skirted it and decided the conversation is over is rather telling. How do you justify his behavior? How do you claim that he isn't racist? How do you claim he doesn't have a lack of self-control and anger restraint? I'm genuinely curious how you can see what he does and think that there's a disconnect where repeated bad actions don't reflect poorly on the person doing them.

better cameras, larger displays, better battery life

Gotcha, that's exactly what I was asking. I can see how that could matter to some.

Why not? If the phone is physically still functional, and receives software updates, why does it matter if its 7 years old?

I'm not sure if you're constructing a strawman or if you think you're replying to someone else.

I didn't say whether or not it's abusive.

All I said was that your logic of "if their user count doesn't go down it's not abuse" is bullshit. I went on to bring up the "boiling the frog scenario" to further explain how users can become accustomed to abuse.

So what is he then? If he acts like those things, repeatedly, why is he not those things? Is he doing them for show?