Bluetreefrog @ Bluetreefrog @lemmy.world

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It’s a helico-pter “spiraling wing”, not a heli-copter.

TIL

OP, please keep our modbot happy and use a '?'.

etymology

Give us your best word origin.

OP, please end your question with a ?. Thanks.

You are the one who did the whataboutism

Fair point.

not me.

Not a fair point.

You replied to my comment that highlighted American bully language by saying that Russia acts like a bully.

Correct, I did, and russia does act like a bully.

If you go back one leval on the thread, the commenter was making the point that "Russia only understands one language: violence." This statement is correct. Don't interpret this as me agreeing with everything that followed, but the reality is that Russia is more than happy to impose its will on it's neighbors (and its citizens for that matter) using violent means, including invasion. This is not OK.

You can’t blame modern russia for things done by the Tsars for example.

I don't agree. It is evidence that Russia has been invading other countries for a very long time. Cultural norms persist across leadership changes. Russian culture has been one of domination, control and exploitation for centuries, and remains so. Until russia does some cultural introspection it will remain a bully.

being a soviet state doesn’t count as occupation

Wrong! It absolutely was occupation. So-called soviet states (occupied countries) were not given a choice and did not want to be part of the glorious union. They were invaded and forced to join at gunpoint. Civilians were shot, Russian language was imposed against the wishes of the population, culture was banned, environments were destroyed and resources were extracted. It's no surprise that all of those countries that managed to escape the russian 'sphere of influence' (read sphere of domination) are now more prosperous, free, happy and keen to join NATO to ensure that they never have to be part of the russian 'sphere of influence' again. Again, the solution for russia is to start being a good neighbor. If you aren't a threat, then you won't find your neighbors joining mutual defense organizations to protect themselves from you.

It’s pretty telling how dishonest you are.

It's pretty telling how quickly you are switching to playing the player rather than the ball. I wonder if you are FSB, GRU, or something else, not that you will ever admit it.

you don’t come out looking good

Who's this "you" you speak of?

I don’t even support modern Russia

Lol. That's why you are defending their behavior so vigorously. Sure. Whatever you say.

except critically on the specific grounds of protecting Donetsk/Luhensk/Crimea from Ukrainian fascists,

The idea that the current russian illegal invasion of Ukraine has anything to do with protecting Donetsk/Luhensk/Crimea and nothing to do with preventing yet another previously invaded country from joining NATO to protect itself from russian aggression is laughable.

and killing nazis is always great of course.

Is that why russia shot down the plane with Utkin in it? Why'd it take so long to kill that particular Nazi? You know, the one with litteral Nazi tattoos who fought on the side of russia for years. The one who who established a russian backed mercenary company named after Hitler's favorite composer.

Can you not see the parallels between the behavior of the actual nazis and russia? Lie, invade, suppress, murder, control, extinguish. I've got some news for you. The ww2 Nazis were bad, but the russian invaders were much worse. Ask anyone who experienced it. And yes, I have asked. The answer I got included a lot of swearing about the russians.

Shut the fuck up about Ukraine Yankee.

Is this "America invaded Iraq, so that makes it OK for russia to invade Ukraine" or, "stop bringing attention to our attempt to illegally invade a neighboring country". I can't tell.

Or how about this one? Gee, I wonder why everyone wants to join NATO?

Don't know, and your question is whataboutism.

Russia invades its neighbors and acts surprised when other neighbors want to join NATO!

If Russia doesn't want other countries to swing to the west, then all it has to do is stop behaving badly. Easy.

Just for interests sake, here's a map of all the countries that Russia has invaded. It's pretty telling really.

You Americans talk like school bullies lmao.

As opposed to Russians, who act like school bullies.

lead is far far more toxic than depleted uranium

Looks like that might not be correct. https://lemmy.world/comment/3108233

Maybe if Russia stopped invading their neighbors, then other neighbors wouldn't feel the need to join NATO as protection from Russia.

No problem. In AskLemmy your post should be a question (end with a ?)

OP, please correct your post to comply with rule 2.

Support question. Locking.

Locked as OP has made it clear that this post is not really an open-ended question.

I came here thinking it would be a Reddit alternative. I stayed because I realized it wasn't Reddit 2.0, it was something better.

Firefox with containers for day to day use. Chrome for google docs. Safari for sites where I don't want to have to go through the login process every time I open a page.

I bought a Synology NAS with 4 bays and set up Raid 6. This provides 2 drive failure protection. All files on my computer are automatically sync'd to the NAS via Synology's self hosted cloud drive service. This provides the additional benefit of version history of files. The NAS is backed up to a single large drive on a regular basis. That drive is stored off site.

I got burned by WD's secret SMR drives in my home NAS and they sucked! They were marketed as NAS drives, but the performance was abominable, the failed sector count grew steadily from day 1 and it felt like they failed 1 early. Once the whole sordid fiasco came to light I switched to Seagate CMR drives and everything has been mostly OK since then.

Gold!

From some reason I feel like I'm playing The Outer Worlds while reading this discussion.