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db0 is actual nazis?
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The main job of a parent is to produce experiences of safe disappointments for their children.
Show limits, show love. Make an effort to be interested in whatever is interesting to them. And then make a bit more effort in that, yet.
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I guess that line is there. Either in the middle or as a part of the edge?
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I really like the ability to downvote. It enables me to say "this was badly argumented and a waste of my time" without spending too much effort for that. I'd write it anyway, but probably using impolite words that would be worse for the Fediverse than my downvotes are.
I dont remember where I've seen the stats, but I make about 10 upvotes per one downvote. I strongly believe at least my downvoting behaviour does more good than bad for the Forumverse.
When I was looking for a good instance for myself, Blåhaj seemed like an excellent fit, but when I noticed the downvote button was missing, I changed my mind. I would be annoyed if that feature disappeared altogether.
At least on PieFed's Matrix chat there has been very constructive conversations about whether and how to allow downvoting. To my eyes, the solutions they came up with seem very good.
Not that I'd remember off the back of my hand what the hell they decided in the end. Maybe someone will tell? :) @rimu@piefed.social @wjs018@piefed.social
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I find that a good thing. It's a bright red flag that tells me to direct my attention to other people who are able to behave themselves.
It's good that exceptional-level bigots have a way to visibly out themselves as bigots!
Break the egg on a plate,add a little salt, break the egg-yellow and mix it with the egg-white. Put the the plate in a microwave for one minute. Stir the egg on the plate with a fork, put into the microwave for another minute. Repeat until ready.
Doesn't get easier than this.Just remember: if you let the egg-yellow stay whole, it'll cause a mess. And if you let the egg warm for much longer than a minute without stirring it in between, it will cause a mess.
The closest thing is Friendica, and it's very buggy and the UI would need to be completely remade. Also, its groups are not the same thing as Facebook's groups.
It has a lot of potential, but fails to really fulfill it.
I've come to the conclusion that the closest thing to a Facebook replacement out there is... PieFed. Which you are using right now. You do need to combine it with Mastodon to get all you were doing on Facebook, but PieFed and Mastodon together do actually fulfill what at least I had as my purpose to use Fecesbook.
There is a plan to "some day" add good support for Mastodon style messaging here as well. But that might easily take a year or two.
"Oh, that's a big one!"
If that was here in Finland, I would of course be scared because you need a lot of explosives to produce a mushroom cloud, and that would probably mean that:
- our military has been storing a sizable part of its munitions in one place AND
- one our eastern neighbours has apparently developed a will to rid our army of its munitions.
...which would mean that some country would be planning to attack us soon.
So, I would probably start preparing for a war. Maybe go buy a lot of food, at least?
In some country further from the Russia I would probably assume it's something non-military. Maybe some form of a very large fertilizer storage? It would be kind of less scary, but of course that would mean a decreased farming output for the next season, and that would be shitty.
What I was missing on KDE was a way to switch between programs without going through a bazillion windows. At one point I had five Firefox windows open, plus four file managers, and getting to GIMP ended up requiring a lot of keypresses: Firefox -> Firefox -> File manager -> Firefox -> File manager -> GIMP. I would have much preferred just Firefox -> File Manager -> GIMP. Is there a way to switch directly between programs and not between individual windows until I happen to land upon a window belonging to the program I actually need and can then Alt+Tilde to the correct program?
(Also, I think "Tilde" here does not really mean "AltGr+^ followed by space", but instead some other button; probably the one overneath Tab?)
It is absolutely clear form the demeanor of these three that those experiences should be associated with these three. If they weren't, these three would be speaking of some completely different subjects altogether. Plus, they would not be in the Russia.
There are non-genocidal Russians, but these three have still been pro-genocide at least a month ago. Let's hope they've changed their position recently, but that doesn't really excuse their earlier evils.
I mean that if I have four Firefox windows open, three file manager windows open, GIMP open and Steam open and press alt+tab, I get cycled through four things: Firefox, File manager, Gimp and Steam. If I want a specific Firefox window, I first Alt+Tab to Firefox and then use Meta+Tab to cycle between the different windows of Firefox. That is incredibly convenient!
On my other computer I'm currently trying OpenSUSE, and its version of Gnome does not have the option for enabling this in the keyboard shortcuts. Not really sure if my Ubuntu really uses Unity or something else, but anyway it's something that has a feature that makes the workflow much better.
I'm talking about the experiences of a couple hundred people I've talked about this war in the last 12 years. I'm a fucking talkative person :)
Like you say, those three do not make the connections. And that does tell a lot! And even if they now do, and even if they now are against the war, they were not against the war just a month ago. If they had been, they would not see any sense in complaining about this. Instead, they'd be loooong gone from the Russia.
At least from 2014 to February 2026, these three people have been supporting the war against Ukraine. They've wanted their nation to FA, now they are FO.
And yet, the regime has stronger support in the Russia than it has abroad. As absurd as that is.
Just ask any Russian who lives outside the Russia and have visited their relatives in the Russia since 2022.
They made some very clever polls about this in 2023. What they did was first interview a large number of people with four claims such as "homosexuality is an abomination." The only thing the people had to tell was the number of claims they agree with. They could answer "0", "1", "2", "3" or "4". Nothing else.
Then they took a large number of other people, and did the same again, but this time with a fifth question: "I support the war in Ukraine". They did not know about there having been that other poll with one question less. And again, the only kind of answer they could give was a number between zero and five.
By comparing the results of the two polls, they found out that 70 % of the people had chosen the "I support the war in Ukraine", even though nobody answered anything else than one single digit. At the same time, Levada had made a more traditional type of poll, resulting in 80 % saying they support the war. So, for Levada 20 out of 100 people told truthfully that they are against the war, 10 out of 100 lied that they support it, and the remaining 70 out of 100 told truthfully that they support the war.
...and then, I've met those anti-war Russians and asked the question "if that would end the war, should the Russia completely leave all parts of Ukraine, including Crimea", and they basically exclusively say that it should not. So, they are anti-war, but with the condition that the war should end in a Russian victory of at least some sort. If there wouldn't be any victory at all, then the war should not be ended. My experience is that less than one out of twenty "anti-war" Russians think that the Russia should end the war even without gaining any sort of victory.
Most of Russian culture is "borrowed" from other cultures. If you visit Ukraine, Georgia and Kazakhstan, you'll catch all that you fear you might be missing by not visiting the authoritarian hellhole.
Same with me. I had lived 2 months in Ukraine in 2015 when I hitchhiked several thousand kilometres in the Russia. And every driver I talked anything about Ukraine was telling me how the roads are full of bandits now and how I was lucky to make it out of Ukraine alive. And then all these same stories about Russian-speakers being in danger there. I told them that I ws living together with a Russian-speaking Ukrainian, that in the capital 70 % of people speak Russian as their main everyday language, that almost all of my friends in Ukraine speak Russian as their mother tongue, and that none of my friends had never encountered what I was now being told about.
And their reaction: "They only showed you in Ukraine what they wanted you to see". No amount of "hey, I've been walking the streets completely alone, going to various parts of the city. Plus, my girlfriend would have no reason to lie to me about something like this."The reply was always some form of "still, they clearly did not show you everything." And then to my "How did they manage to hide that stuff from me?" they said "I don't know."
Again, zero percent of drivers I talked with said anything deviating from the above. I soon learned to avoid talking about Ukraine, and instead made haste to get the hell out of the Russia, as there was nothing I could do to help those people, and speaking up agitated them in a manner that did not feel very safe as a hitchhiker. Kazakhstan was much better.
Year 2022 got me very disappointed. I live in Finland, but can still do something less than 2% of people here can do: I can speak passable Russian. And I've had to change my view on people from that country because of that.
Just go and ask her: "If that would end the war, should the Russia leave all of Ukraine's territory, including Crimea?"Her answer will be either "No, it should not" or "It's complicated". The "It's complicated" then turns out in further conversation to be a form of "No."
Even those who are "against" the war demand that the Russia must be allowed to have at least some sort of victory. If the Russia returns back where it came from, then these 12 years of war would have been in vain. And the people there do not want for it to have been in vain.
I have met Russian citizens who really are against the war. But those people now also absolutely refuse to speak Russian. No matter how bad their Finnish, or even just English, they will refuse to speak a word of Russian. Because, by their experience, their country is so thoroughly seeped in propaganda, and has been that way for centuries, that they cannot find a way to be against the war and still feel like Russians.
Those Russians who are really against the war are extremely rare, and they would not complain the way this person does. They would be fully aware of why all this is happening.
The person in the video was too young to vote when a vote could have made a change, but she is absolutely in support of the war continuing until the Russia gainst victory of some sort.Before year 2022 I would have been againt this kind of view that I am expressing here, but I have had conversations with so many tens of Russians since then that the case is absolutely clear. There are people who have grown as Russians who are not genocidal, but their number is extremely low. And they consider it insulting calling them Russians. It's something akin to calling someone with their deadname if you do.
The person in the video is in support of genociding Ukrainians. And she is in support of abducting Ukrainian children. Putin has incredibly thoroughly destroyed the nation in his country with the propaganda he started around 2003 or 2004 or so.
She wanted this shit, and she still wants it. She would just not want to have all the bad sides it comes with. She is against how the Russia is invading Ukraine, not against the Russia invading Ukraine. And does not want the Russia to retreat from there, so in the end the how is within limits of acceptable to her as well.
So, is the phrase "zero governance" the problem here? What does it refer to?