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One of the benefits of living in the Nordics is tap water that can literally be of higher quality than bottled water (assuming you don't have bad pipes.) The only time I'll ever buy bottled water is if I get really thirsty when I'm on the go and don't have a bottle of tap water with me

More cost effective solution: space (verb) billionaires (noun)

I don't know why but people who call themselves the "mom" or "dad" of their pets somehow creep me out. It's just so… weird.

That's certainly a take. So eg. Finland is an imperialist country because we have a military, which is definitely not meant to just keep the Russians from rolling over the border and doing a Ukraine / Georgia / Chechnya to us. I take it your view is that if we or the Georgians or Ukrainians didn't have a military, we wouldn't be in any danger?

The same thing is happening globally, and it's becoming clear that moderate conservatives are very much in the minority. It worries me to no end that fascism seems to be winning, and there doesn't seem to be much we can do about it

You are a nerd and your back hurts

You are a nerd with a CS degree

Yes I suspect that indeed was the joke

You're assuming that Russia doesn't have any imperialist aims and will simply magically turn peaceful once the evil, evil west stops manufacturing weapons

See my other comment on this thread, I think it applies to your comment too

Beehaw was around much before the current "population explosion" of the Fediverse, though, and by all accounts was doing just fine. Naturally it didn't have as much content as it currently does, but the sort of reddit-esque content flood that some people seem to need really isn't a requisite for sites to thrive.

I'm on a small lemmy/reddit -like content aggregator / forum that has maybe a few hundred users, and while it's certainly quiet compared to Lemmy nowadays, it's got a small active community and nobody feels like it would need more "volume" to be a nice place to be.

I don't think the goal of Beehaw is momentum or growth, or at least that's the way it's seemed to me

So not manufacturing weapons will somehow stop Russia?

Because it turned out so damn well for the UK when they did let the average person decide on policy that they have no fucking clue about, didn't it?

Don't forget accelerating global warming that will get catastrophic in just a few decades, even if we went carbon negative right at this second

But if a change for the better is to come, it will come from the kids.

Here in Finland, the under 25s are much more conservative than Millennials or even Gen X. The most popular party of that demographic in our last parliamentary election was a right wing extremist one – and I do mean extremist: they have multiple literal neo-Nazi politicians, and our Speaker of the Parliament who's from that party has publicly fantasized about murdering gay people.

I've given up any hope of things getting better in my lifetime. I'm actually somewhat thankful I've got a medical condition that means I've only got about a 50% chance of even being alive in 20 years; dying from multiple organ failure is not something I look forward to, but it seems much more attractive than where we're heading

And at least here in Finland, the under 25s are actually more conservative than millennials or even Gen X, which is highly alarming. They voted for an extremist right wing party in droves in our latest parliamentary election, something like 30% I think

Wine works pretty well for a large percentage of Windows programs

Cloudpunk is nice, although it's more of a "walking simulator" than a fully-fledged RPG. It's a cyberpunk-ish indie game in which you're a delivery driver, although with a flying car and a sentient dog.