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Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition Philippines soldiers.
Ce să vă zic, mă, bine ați venit? bine ați venit, rău ați nimerit. La locu’ ăsta îi zice șerpărie, de la șerpii care umblă pe-aicea. Dracu’ știe cum au ajuns…
Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition Philippines soldiers.
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There is none, indeed, but the mentalities change hard. And we are also struggling with issues that you have already dealt with long ago, such as corruption or trains that go slower than snails.
@LaFinlandia from behind it kinda looks like a coffin with a boat engine, which is kinda fitting for its purpose.
@Enkrod I see where you are going, but Eastern Europe generally has a lot to go in order to get inclusion right. Like, right now, one of the two larger far right parties in here (yes, we have two and we sent them both to Brussels) are heavily promoting an initiative to add into constitution the fact that a family can only be composed of a man and a woman, as well as the right to pay with cash (yes, I know how crazy that sounds, it doesn’t matter what happens in reality). And we’re already in both the EU and NATO.
I think it’s the better option, I guess…
I mean, this wasn’t even asked so far afaik, and for a landlocked country this small there’s little it could do to help it, especially if it doesn’t really want that like now. It would be actually less beneficial for Hungary if Ukraine falls, but for the Putler simp in Budapest, this doesn’t really seem to be a problem.
OTOH, how can the EU help Ukraine if its member states (including Hungary) don’t help?
@barsoap I see. Thank you!
I think this means allowing the listing of third party app stores inside the Google Play Store - so you could search for F-Droid in Google Play for example instead of downloading and installing the .apk
manually.
Does Ukraine have any “prosummer” type legislation (i.e. allowing people that are producing energy via their own means - generally solar - and sending it back into the grid to have their bills cut/be paid) in force? I think this will incentivize some people to install these solar panels where possible, so the power supply can be decentralized.
@graphito motivational
@tal oh, okay, thanks for the news!
I’m wondering, how did the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant get over unharmed after the Kakhovka reservoir was emptied? How does it still get the water necessary for cooling?
Also, it’s cool that wildlife is returning there, but isn’t there a demand for electricity that was previously supplied by hydroelectric power plants like at Nova Khakhovka which are now destroyed?
And what about the villages and towns downstream of Khakhovka that were flooded when the dam was destroyed? Are they liveable again or did they become part of the river bed?
@LaFinlandia it once again shows how that Western help is paying off.
I know this whole thing is tiring and frustrating. I just explained how things look like in this side of the world, where in the current young(er) democratic regimes people are still nostalgic over the older despotic regimes where the economy was flourishing (spoiler: it was not) and basic human rights were systematically violated by the state.
I respect your opinion, and if there are any elections where you live, I urge you to go out and vote for the best option you may find. Be on the lookout for what every political force is saying/doing, corroborate all the information as good as you can, compare them, and choose the person you find less likely to turn your country into something like I described above.
Democracy is, after all, the power of the people, and if any politician/party is threatening to take away this power - or even erode it - then that one is not fit for any seat that is running for.
Power is what they are fighting for and they are getting it.
Indeed, they are fighting for power, that’s what every political force does. But what I was referring to was the way they do it - they put excessive emphasis on “traditional values” in their campaigns (whichever those might be). They picture an idilic image of these and sell to the public, so they can get the votes, while in reality, the stuff these mean is completely different. And it is not just the “traditional values” - history also plays a part in this.
In my country, the AUR party makes heavy use of medieval rulers like Vlad the Impaler (yes, that one that is known in the Western pop culture as count Dracula) to stirr nostalgia for a past most people don’t know. Or their Facebook pages post lots of ex-communist propaganda (messages like “before 1989 we were masters on our own lands, now we’re slaves to the foreigners” or “we had an industry back then, we had factories, we were producing our own stuff, now we sold everything and we no longer have shit” etc.).
They are basically romanticising the past in order to get to power, and maybe blur the line between the democratic institutions afterward - just like in Russia, but also in Hungary or even Poland.
I mean, those are the traditional values they are fighting for - a traditional family made up of only one man and one woman, where one of them (usually the former) is aggressive with the other as a normal way of life.
This is also what the Putler-backed far right parties in Europe stand for.
@e_t_wright well, that gas was due to be burnt by Russia anyway 😁
@veroxii fair enough, that’s pretty much an invisible shield for Russia to strike Ukraine without repercursions. I think the US and other states supporting Ukraine should also draw a red line and condition their opposition for Ukraine striking inside mainland Russia to Russia no longer using its land as a launching ground.
I.e.: if Russia keeps striking Ukraine from its own land, they will allow Ukraine to strike back.
@LaFinlandia
Is that a job posting about AI written by ChatGPT?
@Protoman64 Kbin has a separate interface for microblogging and groups, that’s why it’s not that obvious. For Lemmy, well, there’s no type of blogging to begin with.
Friendica really shines in this regard, as it has the ability to interact with both groups and regular people in the same feed, while the posts are also clearly marked as such. 😁
@testing777