Tuukka R @ Tuuktuuk @sopuli.xyz

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Here's an article that includes a picture like you asked: https://www.orla.fm/a-disturbing-message-on-the-lithuanian-border-do-not-travel-to-belarus-you-may-not-come-back/

Portugal was lucky to get quite late aboard the F35 ship, as they decided about it as late as April 2024. Finland, where I'm from, was one of the earliest ones, deciding about the procurement in late 2022. Some other ones, as told by Wikipedia:

Canada: Jan 2023 Czechia: Jan 2024 Germany: 2023 Greece: Delivery 2027, so ordered probably in late 2023 or so? Poland: 2020, apparently some already delivered? Romania: November 2024 Singapore: Early 2024 Switzerland: delivery from 2027, so probably ordered in late 2023?

The further the procurement process, the more money might get wasted if the order has to be cancelled. Would still make sense to cancel, though, because a weapon you are free to use as long as there is no war is just a heap of scrap metal. It does not matter how much money we've already spent on the scrap metal, we should not put a cent more.

Water in a Tesla results with fire, though, which is why the Tsla3456 is nothing but an alias for Tsla3356.

That's what wise people say. And with that attitude, you're likely to get both the good relationship and the respect.

But yeah... I've never been to USA, or anywhere in America for that matter. But I've visited the Russia several times, and even spent a month living there. And the MAGAts are looking pretty similar to the vatniks, and the vatniks (MAGA-analogues of the Russia) have not budged to sense, and have instead consolidated their position to the point that currently 70 to 90 percent of people in the Russia fall in that category, and most of the rest are still supporting their Ruler's way. (I wonder if "Ruler" is the best way to translate "Vladelets", the phrase Putin asked to be used of him)

There is still much hope, because in under two years there are the congressional elections, and they seem to have been designed in such a way that Trump will have a hard time trying to either prevent or fake them. But until that... I don't know... It tells a lot that none of the US products you can buy in Europe have any no-slavery-certificates such as UTZ or Rainforest Alliance. It gives me an impression that people absolutely don't care about right and wrong there at all. If they don't, why would they protest in a way that matters to Trump?

Ukraine, back then under Putin's rule, was shooting protesters in 2014. The people stood firm. A hundred people got shot, the other 42 million avoided slavery.

This assumes that USA can be repaired. It's entirely possible that their people have crossed the line of no return, and are no longer able to start behaving in a civilized manner on average before crashing spectarularly.

If you don't trust in the US citizens' ability to repair their country, there's not much sense in trying to build a nice relationship with them. And I'm not saying USA cannot repair itself. Maybe it can. What I'm saying is that it is plausible that many people do not believe USA has what it takes.

And do what Lithuania did at the Belarusian border: There are signs telling pretty much the analogue to what you're suggesting. On the roadside while approaching the border. As physical signs.

There is a log in button that is very difficult to notice on the opening page of Voyager. It's easy to accidentally press "Create a new account" on that screen instead of the login button everybody is looking for.

Try again and you'll be able to sign in. You just have not been noticing the button for that :)

I don't think it matters whether after those hours of travelling and queuing you need to press buttons on a touch screen or scribble two or three numbers on a piece of paper.

Neither case makes the drive any shorter.

Paper ballots make cheating much more difficult than electronic ones do. I'm not sure why Trump demands paper ballots, but in my opinion they are the only sensible option.

Where I live, all elections are always strictly 100 % paper ballots, and it is isn't really a problem. Yeah, you need people to count them, but those people are reasonably easy to find. And the ballot counting scales easily from a few hundred votes to several hundred millions of votes.

How much would this actually increase the load of a Lemmy instance?

I'd imagine that when I'm actually browsing Lemmy, I consume so much data that the polling probably wouldn't cause even a tenth of a percent of that load. But, I don't know the technology, so I could be completely wrong with my understanding of how much it would strain the Lemmy instances. How big would the strain be in proportion to how much a Lemmy user strains the instance's server anyway?

There is a workaround used by Element and Telegram FOSS. They have notifications without using Android's standard notification system.

For example Telegram FOSS and Element use a workaround to avoid using the google tool for this: If you make a permanent notification that is visible in Android's notifications menu, you can make this feature work. It's a bit stupid that there is constantly the Telegram logo and the Element logo visible on the upper bar on my phone's screen, but in the end that doesn't really matter.

If there will be a serious large-scale attack directly against EU as a whole, the politic will will appear.

True! Then the company that no longer sells fuel to USA will make less profit when selling fuel to USA! What a punishment!

Selailen läpi Ylen Tuoreimmat uutiset -sivun aina välillä: http://yle.fi/uutiset/tuoreimmat .

Possibly, but unlikely. There is a more likely scenario:

If the Russia wins in Ukraine and manages to take over the whole country, it will be emboldened and will attack another country quite soon. Maybe we will let the Russia have that country as well, after which the Russia will attack once another country. Each time it will be more experienced and stronger. At some point we'll decide we have to stop the Russia, and then we're likely to have WW3.

Putin is a master of bluff. But a funny thing is that that's the only thing he's good at. And that's the only thing he does. Which means that we know that everything he ever claims is always bluff. He is very afraid of taking actual decisions, and any red lines he claims to have are all just bluff. He won't react to anything.

The only way to escalate with the Russia is to be inactive. The more inactivity you show, the more the Russia feels safe to attack. The more activity you show against the Russia, the less it dares to act.

Thanks!

Is that kind of utterances why he got reelected? 🙃

Anybody should be able to join "her" Matrix space and do that. Including you :)

I don't think the right-leaning EU citizens recognise this as a problem with the right. It's too easy to say this is "an America specific problem" and "We'd never vote in a dumbass such as Trump."

I honestly think this kind of learning will happen here absolutely not at all.