There are countless examples of the people doing something about it even when the tools provided by a democracy aren’t available. I agree it’s significantly more difficult, extremely so, but we shouldn’t pretend it is completely out of the question. It isn’t given enough desire by the people to do it.

Also a reason to fight for your democracy when you still have it ofc. The Russians had that option too but they didn’t do it in time…

well IIRC what he said is that if they (enlist in the military to take part in an invasion and) come to Ukraine he will have to kill them but yeah.

strongly disagree with this message making an ukrainian soldier an asshole but I will say this is maybe effective propaganda for those who are pro-Ukrainian but not so effective in speaking to a russian audience. I imagine what could have worked better for them for example would have been for him to speak at length about the horrors of war and question the point of it all from the Russian invading soldier’s POV before revealing himself as Ukrainian.

Great to see, as it helps with one of the main sources of friction with third-party libraries on the Deck.

ainahan se Naton uskottavuus on riippunut täysin siitä onko uskottavaa, että muut mukaanlukien Yhdysvallat on valmiita tulemaan kovan paikan tullen apuun. Se ei vaan ole koskaan aiemmin ole ollut näin epävarmalla pohjalla.

I don’t think it’s exactly that. With normal administrations you can usually believe then when they say they’re in talks and close to reaching an agreement. Here it should be very clear by this point to even the most gullible that Trump is just lying about it constantly. Someone suggested it’s algorithmic trading looking at news articles that still tend to present Trump’s every proclamation as serious at play

I’d suggest NeoDB too. It is great for keeping track of not just movies but also books, video games, music and books. https://eggplant.place/ is one of the main instances.

For getting recommendations and looking at ratings I do also like Movielens.

Most people weren’t even on the internet yet in the mid-90s so I’m curious about what kind of enshittification of IMDB did you see in the late 90s? That’s the time I remember it being good still but I don’t really recall when the horrible redesigns started occurring.

I doubt the first poster who mentioned was talking about that. It’s a pretty common misconception about the Budapest memorandum.

they’re not really breaking Budapest memorandum (not that they wouldn’t break any treaty in a heartbeat) because it did not say the other signatories would have to defend Ukraine from anyone else. It’s still a bad precedent for nuclear disarmament of course but then again the Trump administration has done every fucking thing they can to make literally every country in the world want nuclear weapons now because they’ve completely broken the old order where countries had at least some faith in USA mostly upholding and abiding by international law and supporting their supposed allies.

Been broken all day

Finally more on this. Very interested in how well they’re able to implement auto-spatialization.

En usko että tässä on kyse Trumpista tai geopolitiikasta. Vastaavia rajoituksiahan on Yhdysvalloissakin lukuisat osavaltiot ottaneet käyttöön tai puuhaamassa. Ymmärtääkseni tässä on aika voimakasta lobbausta lastensuojelujärjestöiltä taustalla.

I don’t know about that. I think they were pretty unapologetic about and certainly provided (bad but clear) ideological reasons for all the murdering they did, even making them official government projects. Don’t remember reading much about handwaving except in the context of certain types of salutes.

Nowhere in that comment was I equivocating the two. It’s not like the only two options are “USA bad, Iran good” or “USA bad, Iran bad”. That’s just a false dichotomy and more of the kind of black and white thinking I was criticizing. I also don’t have to find ways to not feel uncomfortable about it simply because I am not an American.

Yes, Nazis famously made nuanced moral judgements and never sought to demonize or thought certain groups were unequivocally bad at all. LMFAO.

Ah yes, if only we’d let moral absolutists like you take the wheel, we’d finally have a world where every conflict is solved by pointing at the other side and yelling “No, you’re the baddie!”

Heaven forbid anyone try to classify things at a level above a kindergarten playground.

It’s not naive, it’s absolutely essential that one is able to assess differences even between two bad actors. What I would suggest is naive is to deny this. Coincidentally such thinking also played a part in electing Trump instead of Kamala because people suggested there was no difference.

worth noting this was apparently a Leopard 1 which is from the era of German tank design where it was thought it’s pointless to have lots of armor because it would be penetrated by anti-tank weapons if hit anyway.

As I said. “Analysis” only based on a theoretical framework with zero supporting facts is not analysis, it’s dogma.