Tuukka R

This is a ridiculous article. In practical terms, our current government has been slashing as much climate work as it has been able to do.

And Petteri Orpo is anyway a person who never makes any decisions. He always yields to all other ministers in all matters. Funny seeing the photo of him as if he was a person of power. He’s very purely a figurehead only.

Yes there is. There is no other police force than the national police. And they do choose what to enforce.

Not in Finland. Here the idea is that such inpectors cost money, and you don’t want to waste money.
They also refuse to hire more parking wardens because those would cost money – even if in the end there would be more money in the city’s coffers than before hiring them.

They can make a rule, but absolutely nobody will enforce it.

But a huge amount of autists also have ADHD. And vice versa.

Still, I agree this would better fit in an ADHD community. Because, those autists who have ADHD… Well, they have ADHD. And they can be reached in a community for ADHD people, not only here.

The only thing this petition can achieve is maybe getting a few people to move their donations to projects such as PieFed.

Beside that… Well, Nutomic and Dessalines are the two people who decide on how to act regarding this petition – if they should remove themselves or not. I find it unlikely that they will look at the finished petition and go “oh, people want us gone. Okay, we’ll do that”.

But yeah: Do not give money to Lemmy. There are other projects that are compatible with Lemmy and have use for your money as well, without being assholes :)

In 2022 it was impossible for Putin to use nukes, because launching nuclear weapons is one of the only thing in the Russia where the president really has no chance of deciding on things alone. Gerasimov is a professional soldier, and worked only because it’s his job. He has no actual values in play, except pride of being skilled at his job, and he will not allow his family to die just because of the Russia’s “honour” being violated. Similarly, Šojgu is a bootlicker who does everything for personal gain and the Moscow being obliterated by nukes is not something he sees as an acceptable price for anything at all. And in the Russia you need an order from the people in all of those three positions, or nothing will be launched.

Putin could never get Šojgu and Gerasimov to give such orders, and he knows that had he tried to, he would have lost his head almost immediately. Those people would have seen Putin as a direct threat to their loved ones, as would have most of who have any influence in the Russia. That would have been Putin’s end.

Now, the leadership of the military has been restructured to be more accommodating to Putin’s will, but it’s still not at a level where Putin can trust he’ll get both orders given by the other two people. And if he tries and fails … well, read above. His head will roll. Now he would actually have a chance of success, but he’s still maybe 80 % likely to fail if he tries. And actually… PACO.

Now is still a time when we can safely use military power against the Russia without a danger of a nuclear war. That time will not last forever, because Putin does want to use nukes and he is working to make it possible. He will, however, still need plenty more time for that. Luckily for him, especially Germans are giving it to him. Ironically, because they are afraid of nukes and don’t bother looking into how launching nukes works in the Russia.

It did, but much less severely.

Actually it was. But in much lesser ways.

I don’t think that’s really the case. The 700 000 soldiers will still wreak havoc if they return. They need to be absolutely clear heroes so that the people will accept the havoc, and they won’t be heroes if the Russia loses to anything, in any manner.

I believe the only reason the Russia is doing this is that they believe they can make NATO break that way.
But, it seems likely that the Article 4 discussions for Poland and Estonia will establish a procedure for behaving with further Russian incursions into NATO airspace. Once that’s in place and communicated to the Russia, we can react.

And in all analysis of the Russia, keep this in mind: Putin has never used Internet and is refusing to ever use it. He only accepts information from trusted news sources and his personal aides, all of which are liars. He is extremely strongly out of the loop regarding what’s going on around the Russia, and makes weird assumptions. I don’t think it holds water that this could break NATO, but it is easy to see why Putin would think it will.

It’s very largely Putin.

We know about how he made Ukraine’s far right stronger and stronger until 2014, but there’s less talk about how he has done the same everywhere in the countries that used to be under Soviet rule. And then, around 2014, he started seriously expanding the same to the west, as well.

Because Germany has made a big effort picturing Soviet Union as a hero country that saved Germany from Nazis, anything that would be somehow against the Russia has been traditionally seen as pro-Nazi. So, it’s extremely difficult to talk in Germany about how the Russia is doing evil things. In Germany the Russia has had exceptionally free hands to operate. And they’ve used the opportunity. AfD is an offshoot of Kremlin.

I don’t think there’s a way they can crack down. They can bark, but they won’t bite. And if they did bite, people would ignore them and vote for other parties in next elections. Would probably mean that the right-wing extremist party “True Finns” would gain a lot of votes and would probably become the biggest party.

But also, the bite would be so toothless that it probably wouldn’t really have the abovementioned effect. Here’s why:

The Finnish police won’t enforce a crackdown like that. They have a habit of deciding what laws they care about and what they don’t, and this is definitely one they wouldn’t care about. The government can tell them to do a crackdown of a kind, but the police will just ignore that. If they are asked about it, they’ll say “we lack the resources for that”. Which is true. If you go to Wikipedia and see how many policemen Finland has per capita, it’s about one quarter of that in Germany, for example. They really don’t and won’t have any resources for that.

It’s good to keep in mind that Lukašenka tried to take over the Russian Federation in the end of 1990’s.
That’s why it signed the very tight coöperation agreement. His idea was that Belarus and the Russia will become one state and its leader will be Aljaksand Lukašenka. Then KGB (FSB) managed to get Putin into power, thus blocking Lukašenka’s way to the power he had strived for.

However, now the Union Agreement had been signed, and the Russia suddenly had much of the power over Belarus that Lukašenka had planned to have over the Russia. Putin is absolutely aware that Lukašenka had tried that scheme, and they are not really very close friends to each other. Putin hasn’t been able to get Lukašenka sacked, because any follower would have been likely to be democratic, so he has had to tolerate Lukašenka. Lukašenka has been dancing on a knife’s edge for the last 25 years, trying to keep the Russia from taking over Belarus the way he had planned a takeover. At the same time be nice enough to Putin that he’ll need you in power, and keep Belarus as independent from the Russia as possible.

I see this merely as one thing among many where Belarus is trying to regulate the distance between itself and the Russia. This has never meant that it stops being tightly connected to the Russia, and I don’t think it means that this time, either.

Lukašenka also sees that the Russia is about to lose a war. He also knows that he won’t live very long anymore. Once the Russia is gone, it might be best for Belarus to be allowed to move into democratic hands. And at that point it’s important that the relationship with the west has not been completely soured.

No worries :)

You could just read from sources you have subscribed to and skip the “All”. That way you don’t need to bother with content filters :) You also aren’t really forced to follow the communities that are about US politics.

1. The multiple instances.

You only use one. You don’t need to care too much about this.

2. Multiple communities that are the same name.

This one can be confusing indeed. I hope they will ask if they encounter this. Then you tell them they’re on a different Lemmy, and that the two are interconnected. And that’ll help them understand a bit about federating.

3. What is exactly decentralization.

Not really important for using Lemmy. Nice to know, if you like being tech-savvy, but not necessary for using.

4. Federation

This was already mentioned as “2.” You can read and write posts without understanding this. You’ll get the point of federation at some point.

5. Difference instances can give different results

Different groups have different rules anyway. Some of them are derived from the instance’s rules, but whatever. Same end result. Not necessary to understand for basic usage.

6. How Moderation works is different than the usual platforms.

How is it different, actually?

7. Community discovery is different. Searching for something can be quite difficult on Lemmy.

I’ve never had trouble searching for something. Maybe that’s because before Lemmy I basically used only Facebook and there you cannot really find anything by searching anyway. For me Lemmy’s search works just fine for searching for what communities exist. Haven’t felt a need for something more.

8. Lemmy’s community has a lot of tech-jargon which non-tech savvy people might find difficult to wrap their head around.

You don’t need to understand everything on this planet. If you cannot wrap your head around something, then don’t. You don’t need to participate in every conversation.

9. How the banning system works on Lemmy is different than the usual platforms as well.

They’ll figure this one out if they ever get banned. Otherwise, it’s irrelevant for reading and writing.

All in all… Understanding federating isn’t strictly necessary for reading and writing in communities, but yeah, it is good to understand at some point. Everything else… Meh. Things that are nice to know, but you are able to follow communities and write in them just fine also without understanding those things.

Ah, a different “here” 🐳

What if I just give you my contact on Telegram and you throw me a video call and see that no, I’m just a person who has grown in such different environment than your that I cannot recognize the context in which you are making your basic assumptions?

I’m not stupid, literally, but I am apparently very inexperienced in the regards of many things that are absolutely everyday for you.

Heroiam slava!

Heroiam slava!

Uh, what? I have only ever used instances that block Hexbear, but I haven’t felt that there’s no good content. What would you describe I’m missing?