you guys need to get your shit together and police your own continent.
We do? Increasingly we're having to secure it against US threats and meddling, though. And of course our actual police aren't as corrupt and murderous as yours, and our legal system offers far more basic human rights and protections than yours does (I've heard you don't even get the most basic rights like mandatory holiday and sick pay? Wild. You need to start fighting against your government for your basic rights).
we can start to take care of ourselves and our needs instead of blowing billions on places we destroyed
Have you tried not destroying places? You might not have to spend quite so much on reparations if you pace yourself a bit.
The world doesn't revolve around your country, and all of your nation's current major problems (oligarchy, late stage capitalism rot, poor citizen rights, poor/absent social services, poor education system, large class gap, poor environmental protections, etc etc) come from within, not - as your fascist self-proclaimed Dictator would have you believe - the evil foreigners trying to oppress/abuse you.
Nobody's country is perfect, mine isn't, yours isn't. We all have problems, and it's difficult to admit that our problems are more often than not of our own society's making...
Don't believe the oldest fascist trick in the book though - being told it's all somehow the fault of foreigners - to rally the people against a common foe whilst stripping away your own rights and building an authoritarian state bit by bit, destroying your own freedoms and eroding the moral core of your nation, all in the name of fighting that foe.
At this point if you're still working there knowingly building a powerful fascist gathering platform after so much time available to leave, taking dirty Nazi money as payment for your services...
I dunno man... should I feel bad for the staff, or are the remaining staff complicit enough at this point?
We must strengthen NATO's defences against the aggressive USA and significantly improve border defences, lest they catch us with our pants down when the time comes.
Given that he was the one that called for it to be banned extremely vocally, and he's not been able to keep it banned for more than a few hours even as the now leader of that country, seemingly caving under pressure to flip his stance on the matter (showing off the bat that he's very politically weak)....
I don't see how this makes him look anything but weak, or inept.
I've never even looked at it. Vine was pretty cool but then it died, Periscope was neat, but I dunno, something about Tiktok feels predatory, how addictive it is (from what I've seen of others using it).
Plus while they're all as bad as each other, I still trust China less than Microsoft with my stuff, so yeah. I'm just not interested in it and don't really see the appeal for myself. But I see why it's popular and it's not like, terrible, as a concept.
They left retroreflective mirrors there when they visited, you shine a light at them and it bounces right back at you, and that's what we do with a laser at an Observatory, it's pretty cool! :-D
I consider that another piece of evidence, in a big pile of evidence, but I suppose crazy people can say we sent the mirrors up with a rocket on their own or whatever idk. Crazy people gonna crazy.
You know what's really crazy? Some people think the USA is real and not just a TV show and 300 million AI bots. Had anyone ever actually been there? No, of course not, it's all Hollywood movie magic! (Hollywood's a secret propaganda studio based out of Cuba, which is real obviously because we get rum from there)
Everyone? Are you sure? I can think of a lot of truly, deeply evil people we wouldn't want anywhere near anything we're involved in.
There's inclusivity and freedom of expression, and then there's groups of people that do things that are so evil and illegal and so on that I might get told off just for mentioning what those things are by name, so I won't.
But yeah, in principle I completely agree with you of course, that there shouldn't be barriers and limitations to who can interact with who and such, but in practical application we have to realise there are groups that absolutely should be ostracised for our own safety and to limit their growth and power over our society, sadly :-(
I don't know what feudposting is though, but I can take a guess. I've never taken part in any sort of beef between instances, I don't really notice what instance stuff comes from much at all, I just join communities that I think look cool and trust the mods and admins to handle what's appropriate and what's not. It's worked very well so far, touch wood! :-)
It's a small handheld grater, you can use it to grate a little parmesan over your food, or a little zest or whatever, without needing to mess with a bigger grater.
That wouldn't make sense though right? 10 bits is barely more than a single byte, if we can only process the equivalent of a single text character per second, how do we.... exist?
Ooooooooohhhhhhhhh, I was confused when I heard all the news articles on this, which were using bits as a reference, and I was confused how the brain was thousands of times slower than dial up haha, that it's way more interesting now that I get it!
I've not heard anyone take umbridge with calling Russians "orcs" or "ruskies" yet, to be fair, not with calling our German and Japanese enemies during WWII Jerry or Japs respectively. Jap is just a handy shortened single syllable way of saying Japanese. For another example of this in peace time, people from Great Britain get called Brits. It's not a race thing, just a slang thing.
The war slangs aren't terms we'd use today of course, as they're no longer our enemies and such slang carries the unspoken "We call them this because they're our enemy and they don't get to decide what we call them" connotation, but for the moment in 2024, Russia and North Korea are the enemy of Ukraine, so they're fair game.
I see your point though, but I don't believe this is a race thing at all, not in my eyes anyway, I think it's just a "They're the enemy and we need a simple, easy and quick to pronounce slang nickname for them that is functionality useful, watch also sometimes shows our current hatred of them as our mortal enemy and as a way to help unite us against a foe, in the case of 'orcs' for example".
But yeah, if people are using these terms to be racist or whatever, screw those guys, they suck.
or have they