I recently moved from Voyager to Blorp, because Blorp also supports PieFed’s distinctive features, while Voyager can do only what Lemmy can do.

Well, you have Orbán. That’s what an autocratic leader causes. There might of course be other reasons additionally to that. Wonder how it currently goes in Poland, Czechia, or Romania?

But has that been happening more in this time frame than before?

I don’t think that explains what we see on this map, even though what Keskusta is doing to our countryside is horrible indeed!

This looks like a very good thing, actually!

It means that costs of living, and, hopefully without a very big delay, also the income, are getting closer to one standard level around the EU.

This looks like the gap between “eastern block” and “western European countries” as they were in 1980’s is being bridged.

Only NL worries me here. What the hell is going on over there?!

What woild you say shows better what the emissions of one person living in a country are?

Because that’s the only number you can use for comparing countries. The climate won’t be aaved by splitting China into one hundred independent countries. The largest producer of greenhouse gases would disappear from the statistics, but nothing about how much if those gases there are in the atmosphere would be chsnged.

In Turkish, French, or Finnish it is a different letter. In English it’s a subtype of a certain letter.

Different languages are different. Turkiye should be just fine, shiuld that feel better to you.

I could imagine wanting to disable this on a per-community basis.

I really like the idea, but eventually some community I’d otherwise enjoy is bound to invent a personalized style that is, for reason or another, not good for mybuse andbI will then have to disable the feature for all communities :(

(As a workaround: will this be doable as additional CSS?)

Same here!

The main job of a parent is to produce experiences of safe disappointments for their children.

Show limits, show love. Make an effort to be interested in whatever is interesting to them. And then make a bit more effort in that, yet.

I guess that line is there. Either in the middle or as a part of the edge?

The article ends: “You know they shouldn’t be there.”

I’d correct this into “You know they shouldn’t have been there in the first place.”

What the article describes is simply how Dubai works and has always worked. The only way to not know about it is by being willfully ignorant about human rights issues. The only way not to know is to be okay with it.

Since the people are okay with, I cannot understand why they suddenly act as if they were against the human rights abuse when it touches them. If you’re okay with it, then be okay with what you are okay with, for crying out loud!
And if you’re not okay with then… Don’t be okay with then, damnit!

…and Iraq, true.

Though, at least Finland sent the absolute minimum to both of those shitstorms, and that only after being blackmailed by USA. But zero conscripts were sent to either one. Especially the shit about Iraq is something I am really angry about.

USA is only waging wars of aggression. It would be horrible forcing people to that shit, IMO.

In Finland or Germany it’s very different because our armies exist strictly for self defence. When the US military should see military action, is decided in D.C.

But when the Finnish military should see military is decided in Moscow.

If your wars are something you fan decide about, it would be extremely immoral having compulsory military service.

In countries that cannot decide when to not have a war, it’s immoral to not have compulsory military service, as that would mean only the poorest having to bear the brunt of the war.

Well, the purpose is to be denied by the foreign country. Or, to be accepted by it, depending on your perspective.

Typically your own country doesn’t (shouldn’t) care of shit about your passport, because according to the declaration of human rights, you are allowed to come and go to/from your country as you please. But other countries don’t have to give you that privilege.

(I do think they should have to, though!)

I think it does. At least I kept hearing “als ich mein Zivi gemacht hab” when I lived there. Most people elect to serve in the form of civil service instead, but civil service is a type of military service (as weird as that sounds).

But maybe it’s very easy avoiding the whole thing altogether? I don’t know all that precisely, really. My “military service” was done in the form of civil service in a children daycare centre by the time I moved to Germany. And I’ve never been a German citizen anyhow.

That’s a rather standard thing in any country with compulsory military service. Typically you get that done with right when you’re 18-year-old and then you’re free to travel.

In Finland it’s handled so that you cannot get a passport before you either finish your military service or have turned 30. That meant that when I wanted to travel with my brother outside the EU before they were 30, we were limited to countries such as Albania and Georgia that allow entry with just an ID card. (And also, had we wanted to destroy the climate by flying, we would have needed to fly the flight out from the Schengen area from some other country than Finland!)

You get to choose which country you serve your military service in.

After that, you are affected by the laws regarding military service that that country has. But not of the other one.

Imagine if this picture was taken in Ukraine. The church would have been bombed, because in the opinion of the Russia, churches are always a military target. Just like blocks of flats are.

Aaaapuaaaa. Kauppalehti ei halua kertoa, onko tää lehdistötiedote julkaistu 1.4. vai 2.4. vai milloin, joten yritin katsoa kurkkufirman kotisivulta.

…mutta, kun riittävän pitkälle skrollasi, alkoi kajareista soida suolakurkkufirman mainos! Hitä melvettiä?! Jumalauta Rasvis, nyt tarvitaan Supermarsua. Tää on aivan levotonta touhua!