Oh, I’m looking forward to hearing the mental gymnastics behind this one

Why do you think NATO was created? Would the Russians have stopped in Berlin if they were free to advance further? Of course not. Where other nations measure their success in GDP per capita or in providing social services and job security to their citizens, Russia has from its conception measured success in only one way: territorial expansion. The human cost of this expansion on either side is irrelevant. When Moscow was looking to expand their influence in every direction imaginable, the only course of action for Europe and the US was to band together to have a strong enough opposition to keep the Russians at bay. The past decade has shown that NATO is still relevant and needed by all member states.

El Estepario Siberiano. I think he’s from Valencia. Anyone else thinks he looks a lot like Oscar Isaac?

Wait, people have to censor the word Nazi now? How far down the drain of fuckedness has the US swirled? Has anyone read 1984? This is as close to newspeak as you could possibly get.

You’re right, or at least mostly right. About 5% of Vivaldi’s code is closed. Yes, I understand that people don’t like that, but the point of Vivaldi is to be Opera if it had continued to follow the original vision of what Opera was. If they’re gonna stay on that course and be able to earn a living doing it, then I understand if they feel the need to keep some of it secret. I support open source, but among the vast amount of browsers I’ve tried, Vivaldi was the only one that truly sang to me after Firefox decided to go evil corpo. If people want to get their pitchforks and downvote me to oblivion for that, that’s fine.

Try Vivaldi. I’m very happy with it so far.

What are you talking about? Look up Althea Reinhardt, the picture is from a training match during which she got injured in December '24

I’ve noticed on the radio that drum & bass is making a sneaky comeback. Usually not entire songs, but some modern songs will have a bridge or finale with a clear drum & bass beat. I like how younger people creating this music must’ve gone: “wow this ancient form of music has a sick beat, it’ll be cool in my song”. Same way as 90’s music often has references to disco.

Harboured a lifelong passion for computers. Having it as my job for 13 years made me lose much of that passion. To the young’uns: if you love something, consider whether you want to separate between what you do to pay for food and bills, and what makes you heart shine.

This is fucking ridiculous. People breaking free from the cages of the privatised web, only to forge new shackles for themselves.

ORGY!! It’s an orgy, where lots of people have filthy sex with their penises and vaginas. Maybe they’ll even bring out a dildo. People planned those, and they were ORGY PLANNERS! Whew, I feel better now.

Yeah, but this is not really a shitpost. It’s just a post that’s shit.

Gives new meaning to the Norwegian term “morrabrød” (morning bread), which is to wake up with a hard-on.

Because “a Russian”=gopnik from outside Moscow, right? You do realise Russia has 190 different ethnic groups within their borders? Sure there’s racism, but would you say a black guy feels any safer in certain parts of the US? Or let’s put aside petty US and European racism for a bit and look at racism in Asia. Malaysia? Racism is baked into the constitution. Philippines? Oh god, the ridiculous stereotypes. Japan? Don’t tell me you haven’t heard of racism in Japan. India is Olympic level racism. There was no merit to your original statement, and I find it ridiculous that everything has to be turned into a race issue.

If you are “freely” embracing newspeak for fear of getting banned or in any other way to appease the corporate masters of the Internet, you’re about as free as the old farts in Russia who are longing back to the good old Soviet days when everything was so much better. You’ve become a part of the problem.

Gave you one more downvote for the completely unnecessary asterisk. The censorship hysteria on the Internet has to stop, this was supposed to be the arena where people can speak freely.

The world has to be in an utter state for people to voice contempt for a person who’s simply walking around.

Have you heard of a thing in Australia called walkabout?

Monks devote their lives to one thing. Many craftsmen devote their lives to one thing. Activists, philosophers, doctors, diplomats, bakers. Devoting your life to a specific thing can be enriching.

Not much difference between the Zionists and the MAGA cult. Many of them probably don’t even know who Ms Rachel is. They’ll just jump at any opportunity to impress their fellow cult members.