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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Đorđe_Martinović_incident tells: “The collapse of this taboo in the coverage of the Martinović case heralded the growth of nationalism that was to lead to the country’s collapse in 1991.”

Sorry, got a bit too creative with that one.

Part of the idea was to say that billionaires and trillionaires are extremely good in using their money in extraordinarily inefficient ways. Trickle-down, or whatever they call it…

Well, one could argue that it’s lunch that includes travel as a part of it :)

But good, let’s say that the lunch must be prepared of zero-gravity grown ingredients only, cooked using atmospheric friction, and delivered by parachute right at the table. 100 million might not be enough for this lunch, though.

Spending 100 million on lunch is absolutely possible. What would it cost to organize a lunch on low Earth orbit? And do that so that you are back on Earth as soon as possible, for important employee span business duties.

In the video you can see that this didn’t happen in reality.

They can put anyone in the “detention centers” if they have suspicion that the person is illegally in the country.
Of course the person can show passport or other sort of ID, but the SA goons can just decide they never saw it. Then that person is an unidentified alien in a “detention center” and will stay there until they disappear.

Comms are created on whichever instance you are using when creating them.

Hm, I should have actually quoted just the sentence “I respect and appreciate Lend-Lease, I can’t tell if it saved the war” because that’s what I was actually referring to. Sorry :)

Because it is very clear that it did save the war. Having lived in Germany, Finland, the Russia, and Ukraine, I hear a lot of that “~Soviet Union~the Russia did it practically all by itself”, which is extremely contrafactual. And hurts the Russia, as they don’t understand what their “možem povtorit’” actually holds to it…

But, it does seem that you and me very largely agree about things, so all in all things are just fine, no worries :)

I respect and appreciate Lend-Lease, I can’t tell if it saved the war, but it certainly saved hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives by providing much-needed humanitary assistance in hunger-struck WW2 USSR.

Almost all of the trucks used by the Soviet Military were US-made trucks delivered through that lend-lease program. I would guess that the ability to bring fuel and ammo to the front did help the Soviet Army quite some bit!

It is of course possible they could have won bringing the ammo to the front with horses instead of trucks, but honestly – I doubt they would have made it.

And obviously you respect especially Belarus and Ukraine, because it was them that did the heavy lifting in that, as you already somewhat mentioned, right?

https://video.echelon.pl/c/ua_war_videos/videos is good. And there’s interesting stuff about urban development.

This video, as others published by the same person, a is good: https://video.canadiancivil.com/videos/watch/30b3139b-070c-45f5-823e-dae3f82efdd4

There are more in my saved videos, but these seemed the best things to select out now.

I’m sometimes using Mbin, but everything that is good about it, is also good in PieFed. It’s been nice that Mbin has support for following Mastodon with the same account you use for following the Forumverse, but since some of Mastodon’s features are unsupported, I still find it more comfortable to just browse Mastodon separately. Quote posts are not shown properly, for example. Also, pictures in comments in Forumverse are shown as links.

I find Mbin much nicer than Lemmy, but PieFed even nicer. For now, at least. Nobody knows if Mbin suddenly invents some killer feature :)

You know that piefed.world exists? Its admins are the same people that are also admins of your current home instance, lemmy.world.

It strikes me odd that Heroic doesn’t want to be available with apt, though! It’s even advertising that it is intentionally packaged in a way that duplicates pre-existing libraries – apparently to just take some extra place from my hard drive for fun?!

Doesn’t really wake much trust in them caring about how to use a computer’s resources. Whether one wants to be afraid of two applications sharing a library file or not should be left for the user to decide… And it’s not very nice that there an increasing number of ways applications can be installed, and these clever people are supporting that development… How am I supposed to have any overlook over what’s installed on my computer? This is starting to feel like Windows :(

I don’t really believe it’s very good for computer security that applications are installed without anything in the OS keeping track of whether they need security updates or not!

I tried that some time ago, and at least at that point it needed configuration to get up and running. It was a hassle. I have family that needs a lot of my time at the moment. Between August and December I could find less than 10 days where I was able to decide by myself what I do after workdays or on weekends.

I’m not going to spend those precious minutes configuring any damn thing. Steam works out of the box. Now someone was just mentioning something called Heroic launcer. Sounds good. Wonder why Gog is not linking to it very visibly on its site if it works?

Okay, in other words: I won’t be buying any more Steam games 🐳

Got enough stuff in my library to last until GoG starts working nicely enough on Linux 🐧

Ah, good point indeed!

Hah, have you ever noticed that the meaning of “quite” is quite different depending on whether the person saying it is from USA or from England? :) On one side of the pond it means the same as “somewhat”, while on the other side it means “very”.

I am able to follow an American movie by just listening to it, but if I do turn on the subtitles, I get a lot more out of it! I need to spend less of my brain capacity interpreting the foreign language and can use more of it for understanding the social context shown in the film. Or the scenery. I understand more meanings and can read better between the lines when I can see a decent translation into my mother tongue in the subtitles.

But also: Netflix and one of the Finnish TV stations save extremely much in their translations. That means the translations often contain gross errors or leave things outright untranslated. Even then the subtitles often help, because if my understanding of what was said and what I can read in the translation are about the same, then everything is probably fine.

In any case: My English is not all that bad, as you can see, but I still turn the subtitles on whenever I can, and I am much less interested in watching a foreign film without them.

I am largely unable to enjoy song’s lyrics in English if I cannot read them at the same time. In song lyrics the difference is much more noticeable than in movies. I can get about 75 % of the enjoyment of a movie even without subtitles, but lyrics in songs almost become just another musical instrument if I cannot have the lyrics in text format to follow while listening to a song in a foreign language.

Also, if I try to write something beautiful, it is usually best that I write it in Finnish and then translate it into English, because I can express myself so very much better in Finnish than in English! Takes more than twice the time compared to just outright writing the text in English, but the plot of a story becomes much better if I’ve written it down in my mother tongue. There will be more nuances in the people’s behaviour, and that translates into a more interesting text overall. Even after translation.

Largely true.
But the ambassadors don’t really have the luxury of that. Their job is to represent the United States and they are required to generally support what their country’s leadership says. So, their job is to make some semblance of sense of what Trump is saying. Or, alternatively, they can quit.