[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 47 minutes ago

I imagine him falling from a pole and breaking his neck on a first try. Makes it bearable.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 5 points 13 hours ago

It's because they assume some absolute power holder already exists and it's not their one, but black, jewish, deep state etc, so they want their own. The actual weakness of Democrats not holding 100% of all offices is probably the go-to talking point when trying to deprogram vulnerable believers of said conspiracies.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 20 points 13 hours ago

With how weirdly their army works, I doubt they have any chance in active warfare. Even if they didn't plan fleeing, they are worse than cannon fodder, and deserting is the only thing they can probably do.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 13 hours ago

If they are sent to (or have chosen to be sent to) active warfare they aren't the top crop and probably already in the lower caste. And, if you think about it, if the dissenting mood took place in their particularly caring family, they'd be happy to disown and carry a burden of their child who fleed. And if they aren't, their boy can allow himself to stop giving a fuck.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

Partially, but most goes through grey channels and would do so. Intel 13k, nVidia 4k, they all happen to get there from China but with more and more variable locations on the way.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Russia doesn't export high tech into China if I read you right. And it doesn't produce much for it's authonomy in spite for the move for импортозамещение or replacing exports. It still depends on things they import, including chips for military production and some casual things like home devices, ingredients for brewing etc.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

They also sent garbage to SK to no repsonse and no purpose.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

I have a hard time remembering it from the time I've seen it in cinema in late 00s I think. It was something about alien concentration camps? I can't remember much now.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago

That's also the key to understanding russian pre-war chauvenism against middle-eastern and asian immigrants. Construction businesses can buy and kill everyone who disagree with them abusing foreign workforce for pennies, and the problem is migrants themselves somehow, them reduced to animals living in stationary train sections and working 12h shifts only to send their income home. That's to no one's surprise they aren't well-integrated into society.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

These processes are slow and they put their heads on the table to make sure some gray alternative channel still works. If something, these measures would take effect somewhere in 2030s for the big players. Yet, Gazprom reported negative balance recently, and other resource-oriented conpanies too, so some effect already took place.

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Is Uzumaki cursed? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works to c/anime@ani.social

That's not just second episode and it's dorky animation, the first one is dogshit too. I feel like Uzumaki just can't get a proper adaptation. And it's probably a curse we won't have a chance to lift.

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I've stumbled upon that in my feed.

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As I always move fast I have a problem with feeling like I loosely strapped a brick onto myself when I put my phone in my pockets, including waist and knee ones. It chaotically moves at each step and I'm tired of that. To the point I take it in my hand when I'm in a real hurry.

I guess, Lemmy has a lot of people who either run or do outdoors activities and labor.

What are the best positions on the body to make it move less when you walk or run? Are there some great smartphone holders, straps that you can recommend? Can I use it with casual clothes without it looking weird?

I suppose the ones you place on the belt are obvious to suggest first, but I haven't seen them since the death of small button phones and current smartphones are kinda big for that to work. And no, putting it into a bag, a suitcase or a backpack wouldn't work for me for I prefer not to be dependent on carrying them on me.

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raw men cuisine (sh.itjust.works)

alt textA picture of a group of first Christians praying in a circle. They are in the roman Coliseum. A lion slowly approaches them. The text added over the picture reads 'VEGAN DIET'.

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About the russian Memo (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works to c/interestingasfuck@lemmy.world

FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone posted it around a lot, and it sounds legit due to it being on the .gov site.

I wanted to dig into the original version since I'm a native and have some edge in using it over my homies. Even some rewards at that, kek.

Welp. Mostly it's an easily translateable basic vocab including media-specific words. I suspect it's an american or a russian-american person writing in Russian and sometimes\always using an automatic translator. And they are stupid at that, as they don't know how complex punctuation works or don't read what they post. The punctuation is kinda confusing, sometimes hinting that it's a copy paste from a translator.

  • отличается от таковой - is a rare turn of words that many russians fail at, just like americans fail at they're. I don't know many persons who can correctly put it into a sentence. That's probably a translated text since they can't handle the right placement of commas.
  • ставленником - is a weird archaic word that's sometimes used by nerds of polisci or other humane arts weirdos, it isn't used anywhere else. That's maybe a clue to who wrote it.
  • нового глобалистского социализма - sounds weird, like a direct translation from English.
  • Next, there is a division between the elephant and the donkey, both lowercase, without any punctuation to tell them they are referencing parties, not animals. It's fucking stupid. And not stupid as a result from an AI prompt that can produce a correct phrase, but from a literal translation of a literal translation that lost any indication of what it refers to.

That's just the first picture. All of that sounds weird to my ear, and my assumption, clouded by the US gov's decision to put it onto display, is that it can be legit, but it is written by a person with a political\media background, creating a draft in English, that they lazily translated into Russian. That may be on RT employes, especially international ones.

There are a handful of russian-speaking users on fediverse who can tell I'm wrong.

Ah, yeah, and it really mentions 'manga' although it doesn't make any sense.

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Since Russia started to use DPI to block YouTube and other stuff, there arised a couple of solutions to fuck with it. I've come around this repository or, even better, the end of it's page for many cross-platform tools that may let you avoid DPI, and I've used some of them to prove they are working.

https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI

They don't work for resources that are explicitely banned, it only undoes this one layer of blocking. As Russia didn't block YT (like Twitter) that's enough for that one usecase. It's no private VPN or something, but it may become useful in the future.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
  • Babylon is in modern Iraq, one of the countries invaded by the US in the aftermath of 9\11
  • Both claimed to be the highest towers in the world
  • Both are in populated influential trade centers
  • The Babylon myth with different languages VS the War on Terror, affecting policies worldwide, growing tensions and fear in the post-USSR world, now - post 9\11 world
  • The pronounced reasoning behind the 9\11, told as a fatwa by Osama, starts as follows: All these American crimes and sins are a clear proclamation of war against God, his Messenger, and the Muslims. Not that far from what caused the abrahamic god to prank Babylon.

This connection is loose, lacks context and mixes very different things together, but I haven't got a pleasure to shower any longer than that to think things out.

How BS is it?

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A shitpost (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works to c/tenforward@lemmy.world
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Making it 17+, changing cast and visuals don't count. Let's say it's live action with heavy CGI. What would be here for the main attraction, the plot, the cast of characters?

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Durability-wise? Pain-wise? Covering or showing-wise? Where did you inked your first one?

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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works to c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world

I'd assume we want everyone to survive and carry on with their lives equally. Yet, if we can't, there's a choice of distributing our doctors' time and equipments towards some of patients rather than others.

Policies deciding that choice in general, if implemented, naturally smell like death. That'd organically lead to some marks for a cut-off, the obvious one is the age - like excluding 70+ patients from active treatment and supporting them as they are instead, while prefering younger folks, because they have more projected lifespan ahead of them (AND MORE VALUE TO THE REGIIIIME!). Then, there is a game of chances for recovery. Then there are biases against lung, stomack or skin cancer patients who neglected their bodies themselves etc etc etc. And we don't even touch the problem of these policies being sexist, racist or otherwise based on unscientific grounds.

But if not over-generalized policies that can mark some categories as not-worthy patients, we'd then assume the power to decide is in the hands of individual doctors who do have the problems in the last paragraph, but with individual power to decide as well as individual responsibility for that (but they can ask patients themselves if they want it?).

My question is: should we even seek a universal answer to that dillema? What is the beacon to navigate us here, balancing general policies and individual responsibilities? How'd we personally judge a party who'd make such decision (+ if we are their patient and we don't want to die)?

I've tried my best not to suggest any answer and not to instigate any sort of an infight, but if it's not ok, please delete it.

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