m0xEE @m0xee@librem.one

@p @lainbot
For some reason I can't view the animation in the opening post, but AFAIR it was not only bad cable management, but leaky liquid cooling too 😅

@kaia
In Russia this problem was brilliantly solved by making large packs of butter less affordable 🤭
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-butter-prices-soar-testing-putin-pledge-supply-both-guns-butter-2024-10-31/

@nyanide
One more anime woman covered in bandages on my TL and I will kill you 😈

@not2b
I think this assumption is based on the information that these are not average recruits, but some sort of special unit, their training is based on harsh discipline bordering on violence — none of this seems possible to verify, due to secrecy, but if that is true, it indeed might be the case.
@kevinrothrock

For some reason I kept thinking that Eric Rohmer is still alive and well, I didn't know he died in 2010.

Rohmer was a devout Catholic, monarchist, and "ecological zealot". For years he had no telephone and refused to get into cars, which he called "immoral pollutors". For many years he was known to jog two miles to his office every morning. He was well known for his need for personal privacy and sometimes wore disguises, such as a false moustache at the New York premiere of one of his films. Rohmer's mother died without ever knowing that her son was a famous film director 🥺

@Hyolobrika
> Who do Ukrainian (and Russian) neo-Nazis hate?
At this point — mostly each other 😅
> What does "black people" mean then.
That is quite funny actually! In Russia those coming from the broader Caucasus region are being called black, so e.g. in US on pedestrian level Caucasian means white, but in Russia it means black 🤣
@nicholas @softwarepagan @toiletpaper @lizzy

@Hyolobrika
But the worst part — with Pootin having done this, in a way he confirmed that those hating Russian had been right the entire time, and of course I expect this to get worse, younger Ukrainians would naturally be more hostile, unlikely to treat Russians in a friendly manner any time soon.
@nicholas @softwarepagan @toiletpaper @lizzy

@Hyolobrika
So yeah, lots of Russians have been played here, the reason — they've never been in Ukraine. I've been in Kyiv several times and I was always treated in a friendly manned, at times better than I could be in Moscow even, by random people who never knew me. I knew that people who are hostile do exist — they do everywhere, but I also knew that this is far from common and I was never buying the Nazi thing.
@nicholas @softwarepagan @toiletpaper @lizzy

@Hyolobrika
And with Ukraine in particular — sure, right-wing groups always existed, there are those openly adopting swastikas fighting on Russian side, despite the state adopting the whole WW2 rhetoric and claiming fighting Nazis — don't look for consistency here 😩
Some were extremely hostile towards Russians, but these groups were hardly as numerous as Russian state propaganda had been putting it, and they were never influencing the state politics.
@nicholas @softwarepagan @toiletpaper @lizzy

@Hyolobrika
I mean they do hate "black people" — but these people have nothing to do with Africans, AFAIR Hitler himself wasn't hostile towards those, it's just a US thing 🤷
So it's to each their own — in each country these groups pick their own "outsiders", e.g. I can imagine far-right groups in Poland being tolerant towards Jews, but not Gypsies or Arabs.
@nicholas @softwarepagan @toiletpaper @lizzy

@Hyolobrika
> But they have a Jewish president
Not everyone being labelled a Nazi, even those accepting it and adopting swastikas hates the Jews, every group picks their own target as enemy. E.g. this crowd in US often hates black people, but e.g. here in Russia those who love swastikas — they don't care about them, they don't see them much here.
@nicholas @softwarepagan @toiletpaper @lizzy

@admitsWrongIfProven
People who underwent normal socialisation still get into cults at times, imagine children being preconditioned with religious or otherwise ideological dogma from the get go — this can be catastrophic, nearly impossible to undo at adult age.
@Hyolobrika

@admitsWrongIfProven
This is in theory where homeschooling might come to the rescue — but in practice most parents cannot afford it.
And give or take, I think even this is better than some of the cases of homeschooling gone wrong as it still implies socialisation — interacting with all sorts of kids.
@Hyolobrika

@admitsWrongIfProven
Yeah, that is normally true — when the state is serving the society, but there are all sorts of corner cases, such as this: https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/24/europe/russia-schools-pro-war-parade-grounds-intl/index.html
The article is from 2023 and I don't have children, but from what I know — it's got much worse since then and now they are planning to extend this to kindergartens. Most teachers partaking in this aren't just resource-constrained, they are part of the system which is evil.
@Hyolobrika

@admitsWrongIfProven @Hyolobrika
> it is easier to notice with public schools
Besides, children being raised this way might not even be realising that something wrong is going on as they don't interact with the rest of society much. Some very wrong shit might be going on behind this. The state might be pure evil, but it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone opposing it is a good guy.

@PurpCat
From what I know, it is still a major problem, they've made Superjet 100 before any major sanctions, but it failed internationally because they couldn't handle the logistics and make spare parts available.
I'm not an expert on military jets, but it also seems to be the problem — AFAIK MIG-31 wasn't a bad fighter design and spec-wise, especially for its time, but it was demanding in maintenance and they couldn't handle it properly, that is why it failed to see wider adoption.

@xianc78

@PurpCat
Ha-ha-ha, I do remember Soviet civil planes from childhood — sure, they were clunky, but compared to other Soviet things (especially cars 😏) not that bad!
I suspect most of the issues were not due to poor design choices, although I can't exclude that too, but due to not being able to service them properly: keeping a spare part in the warehouse and getting it installed by a qualified serviceman — impossible, it's always "scavange repairs" of some sort 🤦

@xianc78