Lemmytools is what I was hoping to find. Thank you! Installed and working great. I’ll never have to see another Trump post again.

Not to mention that the vote was boycotted by Armenia, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Moldova.

They were sooooo keen to return to the Russian embrace (/s).

Is it was so great, why did most of the conquered nations run west as fast as they could as soon as they could? Must have been because the USSR was so ‘progressive’.

Sorry, I don’t.

I saw some documentary that suggested that they used to chip straight through fossilized feathers and skin to get to the bones because they didn’t realise what they were.

The number of people who have been released after decades in prison after modern forensic techniques (e.g. DNA analysis) have proven the convicted person was innocent shows why execution should never be used. Better that a guilty person spend a life in jail instead of be executed than an innocent person be executed by mistake.

Russia has repeatedly shown itself to have imperialist ambitions. Just ask Georgia and Ukraine.

Reminds me of Mathcad and Calca

Australian companies being shit at cyber security again.

The bible apparently.

Look up biblical cosmology on Wikipedia.

I notice that the IDF doesn’t actually say that they didn’t hit the hospital, they just say that Hamas is ‘responsible’ for it. That could mean that they are saying that it’s Hamas’s fault for launching rockets from close to the hospital and making it look like a launch site. IDK, everyone lies in situations like this.

THIS! When those in power start dehumanizing others, you know there’s killing coming. Hotel Rwanda is a great history lesson on this.

It feels like a great time for everyone to take a massive chill pill.

Kudos for your wholesome response.

I remember seeing a talk by Bruce Pascoe where he described how the published journals of the early white explorers had been censored to remove references to the extensive agriculture, grain silos and aquaculture except where they painted them in a negative light.

He also told off one journal entry where a cake given by a First Nation person was described as the softest, sweetest cake he had ever eaten. He made the point that this was a comment coming from an Englishman!

I have to admit that while I’m old enough to remember VIM from days of yore, I never found the love that everyone had/has for it. Is it really as good as modern IDE’s?

I see what you did there!

You are the one who did the whataboutism

Fair point.

not me.

Not a fair point.

You replied to my comment that highlighted American bully language by saying that Russia acts like a bully.

Correct, I did, and russia does act like a bully.

If you go back one leval on the thread, the commenter was making the point that “Russia only understands one language: violence.” This statement is correct. Don’t interpret this as me agreeing with everything that followed, but the reality is that Russia is more than happy to impose its will on it’s neighbors (and its citizens for that matter) using violent means, including invasion. This is not OK.

You can’t blame modern russia for things done by the Tsars for example.

I don’t agree. It is evidence that Russia has been invading other countries for a very long time. Cultural norms persist across leadership changes. Russian culture has been one of domination, control and exploitation for centuries, and remains so. Until russia does some cultural introspection it will remain a bully.

being a soviet state doesn’t count as occupation

Wrong! It absolutely was occupation. So-called soviet states (occupied countries) were not given a choice and did not want to be part of the glorious union. They were invaded and forced to join at gunpoint. Civilians were shot, Russian language was imposed against the wishes of the population, culture was banned, environments were destroyed and resources were extracted. It’s no surprise that all of those countries that managed to escape the russian ‘sphere of influence’ (read sphere of domination) are now more prosperous, free, happy and keen to join NATO to ensure that they never have to be part of the russian ‘sphere of influence’ again. Again, the solution for russia is to start being a good neighbor. If you aren’t a threat, then you won’t find your neighbors joining mutual defense organizations to protect themselves from you.

It’s pretty telling how dishonest you are.

It’s pretty telling how quickly you are switching to playing the player rather than the ball. I wonder if you are FSB, GRU, or something else, not that you will ever admit it.

you don’t come out looking good

Who’s this “you” you speak of?

I don’t even support modern Russia

Lol. That’s why you are defending their behavior so vigorously. Sure. Whatever you say.

except critically on the specific grounds of protecting Donetsk/Luhensk/Crimea from Ukrainian fascists,

The idea that the current russian illegal invasion of Ukraine has anything to do with protecting Donetsk/Luhensk/Crimea and nothing to do with preventing yet another previously invaded country from joining NATO to protect itself from russian aggression is laughable.

and killing nazis is always great of course.

Is that why russia shot down the plane with Utkin in it? Why’d it take so long to kill that particular Nazi? You know, the one with litteral Nazi tattoos who fought on the side of russia for years. The one who who established a russian backed mercenary company named after Hitler’s favorite composer.

Can you not see the parallels between the behavior of the actual nazis and russia? Lie, invade, suppress, murder, control, extinguish. I’ve got some news for you. The ww2 Nazis were bad, but the russian invaders were much worse. Ask anyone who experienced it. And yes, I have asked. The answer I got included a lot of swearing about the russians.

Shut the fuck up about Ukraine Yankee.

Is this “America invaded Iraq, so that makes it OK for russia to invade Ukraine” or, “stop bringing attention to our attempt to illegally invade a neighboring country”. I can’t tell.

Or how about this one? Gee, I wonder why everyone wants to join NATO?

Don’t know, and your question is whataboutism.

Russia invades its neighbors and acts surprised when other neighbors want to join NATO!

If Russia doesn’t want other countries to swing to the west, then all it has to do is stop behaving badly. Easy.

Just for interests sake, here’s a map of all the countries that Russia has invaded. It’s pretty telling really.