angrystego @ angrystego @lemmy.world

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Just like kitties 😍

Because they're besties with Russia now.

I think they're marrying it.

I'm neither and I'm having fun here. Lots of science, Star Trek, cute animals, shitposts, thoughtful commentaries, books and movies... And things are getting better. It's already so much better than when I first came.

This is unreasonably genius even for your high standard

Don't know. Last year I missed the opportunity to try it, hopefully I'll have another one this year.

That goes for history as well. In films with nice period-acurate costumes and sets, you rarely see anything old-looking with design from the previous periods.

You would hear the engines inside the ship. I always imagine the sound is from the point of view of the crew.

And there are also small cute pink self-peeling bananas (Musa velutina)

That doesn't mean there's no such thing as trees though. It means a tree is a growth form, a life strategy, just like a succulent, a geofyte or an epifyte. It's a group of plants that have a lot in common despite not being related, and they are well defined. And one of the important defining characteristics of a tree is true wood production, which is missing in bananas. The life form of a banana is much more similar to ginger than to any tree.

Well, you can chose to conform to your familly, I guess.

High quality stuff

Oh, sorry, I'm too depressed from the world situation to see humour in anything..

People are downvoting because it seems you think democracy is dying because a far-right candidate was barred from elections. If this happened regularly all over the world, there would be no world-wide decline.

The argument means that if there are severe systematic consequences to some things you say, then it cannot be considered free speech.

Oh, I've just read this article. It's depressing but important for understanding the European capability to defend itself - which is almost nonexistent without the US. I didn't know it was that bad. https://archive.is/GCWGk

Three years sound way too many. By that time, how many countries are going to fall victim to the same forces that got the US? Hungary and Slovakia are already lost. This year, it's going to be Czechia. And who knows which other elections in which countries are going tu turn out badly.

I wish Europe was able to act now and purge all the infowar actors, but I don't think that's going to happen.

I wish it was. But Europe is confused and not united enough. They still can't believe the US is on Russian side now, hoping for the best. And they're paralyzed, because every real action is bocked by the pro-Russian countries among them.

The gears were set in motion much sooner. The plan to destabilize the US from within using hybrid means seemes to have been there since Khrushchev and it got a lot of traction by the end of the 90s with publication of The Foundations of Geopolitics.

Well, if the US is now Putin's country, I don't think Europe is strong enough to take on both Russia and the US (with it's huge army that's actually functional and has bases inside Europe). Europe is fucked.