According to Goncharenko, who represents the city of Odessa in the Ukrainian parliament, Paris is considering deploying a military force to the Ukrainian regions bordering Belarus, discussions about which “are proceeding effectively.”

Ah, so that’s what is happening here. They don’t plan on seeing combat, but want to make sure Ukrainian forces can’t actually surrender or retreat because NATO forces are functioning as barrier troops.

Yeah, that’s what it seems like. People are just repeating “the election is fake” enough times that they start to believe it, because accepting that it isn’t is inconvenient to them.

Not sure why, but for some reason some people here and on hexbear seem to have fully bought into the narrative that Putin fakes the Russian election. It’s quite strange to see. We don’t have to like Putin, but that doesn’t mean he isn’t popular and his support isn’t legitimate. I too would like the Communist Party to be the most popular one, but just because my preferred outcome didn’t happen doesn’t mean the election is fake. I guess I try to avoid western media when it comes to this sort of thing, but western media has just been so complete and total with their “ELECTION IS FAKE!” screaming that even otherwise reasonable friends of mine just assumed it was true, because of how “matter of fact” every single western news outlet has been saying it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ_xWvX1n9g

It’s a full on documentary, not a short watch at all, but it is very entertaining and educational.

Yeah, if you’ve seen the Folding Ideas video on that, it explains a lot of the hype behind this stuff really well. I think his “Line Goes Up” video specifically talks about NFTs and by extension, the blockchain.

Ah yes. The US chucking a temper tantrum about China being self-sufficient and actually operating under the sanctions that the US imposed onto them will ruin the rest of the world’s trade with China, such an intelligent and profound thought.

I think you’re examining post-hoc quasi-worship of previous cultures and treating it as a concrete thing, instead of more of a vague national myth. It’s not that there was ever some kind of “missing link” in “European” culture, it’s that modern European culture looks back to the past to find culture to appropriate in order to explain their existence.

The blockchain is when you make things unnecessarily complicated because you mistake “complicated” and “using enough electricity to power a small nation” for “security.” It’s a vague techbro fad thing that they used to try and sell those ugly monkey jpegs. It has no real benefit on the consumer end, as 90% of all “hacking” is someone calling or emailing you and obtaining your passwords that way, not some guy in a V for Vendetta mask in a dark room stealing them. It claims to be more secure, but does nothing about the #1 security issue people face. and as I mentioned before, to keep something “on the blockchain” it requires servers to run 24/7 and consume a lot of power.

I haven’t mentioned what it actually is this entire time because it’s a waste of time. It’s techbro jargon designed to make it sound extra special and important, but what is important is the actual function and requirements of the blockchain, and whether it actually does the things it claims to do.

Thatcher always said her biggest accomplishment was destroying the labour party.

Maybe, but there’s a reason groups like that try to present mental illness as a weakness and personal failing. They don’t want their members to develop empathy, even for themselves.

It’s alarming how quickly libs have gone from “Russia is the big existential evil in the world seconds away from destroying everything” to “actually Russia is a mindless puppet controlled by China!” Literal nazi propaganda with the names replaced. Terrifying.

It is interesting how they will always state these falsehoods as if they were proven fact without ever investigating if they are true, or looking into the “why” of it. It’s always just “China bad, they hate free speech.” (with an implied “so it’s ok for the US to be hypocritical about their own values because of that.”)

If the west re-industrialises, they create the conditions for a people’s revolution at home. If they do not, they enable them abroad. Whatever actions the west takes (including inaction) will have consequences for western capital.

Back when the Genzedong subreddit was still active, I remember someone actually doing this and getting the exact response, posting the same building, but labeling one “China” and one “Japan”

Oh yeah, and mocking them for being just as dumb and ignorant as Trump supporters, and denying reality as much as them, once they’ve calmed down and are no longer furious you made that comparison, they might stop to think if that’s really a position they actually want to be in, even if they don’t consider it at the time.

I still don’t have access to a washing machine, so I wash my clothes in a bucket, detergent does 90% of the work in cleaning clothes, washing machines just save time because you don’t need to manually wash your clothes around.

It’s much less worrying than doing it while homeless though, it’s not fun hoping clothes will dry overnight before you have to leave the hotel, and going to work in damp clothes.

I should actually log off more often, I post more frequently here when I’m struggling to actually focus on my work, but since my Xibucks aren’t coming through, work is the only thing keeping my lights on, so I should probably do that more than this.

I have a problem, ok?!

Until he gets court astrologers to make the nation’s financial decisions for him, I’m not convinced.

Oh, don’t worry, they will. Still, it’s funnier to watch them run in circles trying to figure out how the New York Post or whatever is actually Putin propaganda or something.