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Balancing

Not an American so I don’t really know ADL, but while it’s important to listen closely to organisations working against racism, they’re not always right and don’t have the final say in all matters.

Elon heiled for everyone to see.

Correct. I am a bot which only get my news from the tankie triad so I know it is unbiased, factual and objective. Beep boop.

brilliant

Nice dodging of all points in the previous post!

Just a thought but in democracies people don’t tend to emigrate when the “other side” wins the election.

How so? The US is supporting Ukraine in the same fashion as the rest of Europe and other parts of the world. They are hardly engaged in a proxy war against Russia?

I believe a big difference is also that the US offered evacuation in the beginning of the war, but lent help instead when it became clear that the Ukranians wanted to defend themselves

Thank you!

The same Trump who supported bombing the shit out of Gaza to “finish the job”?

Bus drivers can be dictators as well. It’s less about the person and more about the political situation. In Venezuelas case oppression of the opposition and unfair elections

The European states closest to go to war is maybe Turkey and Greece, but that’s highly improbable

<i>Finland making active land claims to Russia (actively reoccupying disputed land with troops)</i>

I can guarantee you that there is no territory the Finns would try to reclaim from Russia. The Continuation war pretty much sated any future thought to regain territory seized by the Soviet Union

The war in Ukraine in absolutely not a proxy war. Also, that description is neither of proxy war since the whole point of them is to not engage your own troops.

You are probably overexaggerating.
There are increased conflicts over the world but no signs of a world war.

First there are no willing candidates for it. Not even Russia which is engaged in a war is willing to make the push to engage NATO, which is the closest to a world war we would get.
Neither is Iran willing to go into war which was very obvious after their actions when Israel made ample opportunities for them to escalate conflict.
And for China… well war is bad for business, and China really likes doing business.

However the US with Trump at the helm. 🤷 Who the fuck knows. Maybe not world war but I am adding military occupation of Panama and Greenland to my bingo just in case.

That was a lot of cookies to deny just for an emoticon. But fun tool!

lol

Except the terminal and a few other places.
While it’s very good looking, it’s not extremely practical with no difference (almost) between lower case and upper case letters.

Protomolecule for that scifi feel

Oh I agree. It’s not an easy read at all. Took me for sure three times longer to finish Neuromancer than a another similarly long sci-fi book.
Language without explanation and a plot that you view from a frog perspective is really confusing.

I can’t say it’s a master piece but I enjoyed it for it’s uniqueness and would probably read it again …sometime in a decade or so.

Currently trying to read through Count Zero, but boy is it hard. Mostly because I don’t feel for any of the characters.

How is this even possible? Aren’t sentences supposed to come with the verdict?
The punishment might come at a later date (it might in my country where you can be told that in 3 months you will serve jail time), but the sentence?

But have can you delay a sentence?
I mean it sounds so foreign to be told in court that “Yeah you’re deemed guilty… but we’re telling you your punishment later. Maybe.” instead of just BAM guilty, straight to jail it will be!