andrew_bidlaw

joined 1 year ago

It's still so weird they don't refer to Ukraine in any quality, it's always about them fighting the EU and the US because it makes their struggles look less pathetic.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

This Carr deserves a lung cancer.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Most russian people haven't left their region at all, except on annual holiday trips. With current prices and the withering weight of rouble, it's unlikely someone who doesn't do higher mid tier wages can travel outside of Russia. I'd probably advocate instead on closing programs allowing to gain citizenship by investments and creating a business. That's how rich russians who have a significant econonical impact get their foreign passports.

I'm not sure how territorial\political losses or economical decline would make russians frustrated rn. With a total grasp on local media, Tzar can easily put a blame on other states and for his followers it works. They do sell the myth of capturing others is the way to go, and that it needs some sacrifices.

I think you've been caught in a trap of thinking russian commoners are somehow different to others. Vatniks aren't an unique occasion, and it seems a lot of countries are vulnerable to have them, especially if authporitarian states put effort to nurture a culture of useful idiots somewhere else like Russia does in bordering states.

Maybe my bias is directly opposite to yours.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 22 hours ago

Orange Man baths in social credits.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 47 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

Fasten your seatbelts. We enter the Hard R Zone.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Don't be so harsh on the second army in Ukraine.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They will never achieve anything if they keep playing dumb. There is no reason to choose a "putin lite" over the real deal.

They won't, unless something slaps them hard enough, maybe? But what would sober them up? Being denied the capture of Kiev - didn't. Denied on Kharkiv -didn't. Prigo's march - didn't. Prigo's murder - didn't. Whole forests burning and towns getting flooded - these didn't do much. And losing parts of Kursk region didn't do that as well. Where's the limit to them? What would exceed their tolerance to humiliation? Idk. They are still happy to suck someone's ass and direct their anger as the party says.

Russia currently has no culture, as many talents from Ukraine and other states left, as many conscious russian artists left too, TV programs are all about referencing and reproducing songs, movies, ideas of the past. There's literally a genre of shows based in nostalgic reproduction and it is the only thing other than propaganda that exists and thrives. The whole country is a human centipede that sucks it's own shit. And it's impotent to produce anything new. There won't be a russian Triumph of the Will because russian Leny Riefenstahl is too edgy, too different, too wrong to fit the strict borders of what's allowed. And you can see even russian fascists like Tesak (Chopping axe) got killed for they don't toe the line well enough. This fascist state is too afraid of their own creations.

Dead Navalny and opposition on social media are rather useless. They aren't interesting to anyone, not to the regular russians at all, and even harmful for they focus people's irritation on their non-existant causes. These rich libs just can't cut it.

There should be some person or multiple persons to first teach these people to be proud of themselves, to learn that they matter, that they aren't garbage. To get some self-esteem and disdain to how abused they are. Only then they'd start to form civil and class consciousness. Them laughing at ukrainians at Maidan is them just not getting they themselves do deserve better and can demand that.

Can't say much on national\race question because (1) I'm too white to feel and understand oppression myself and (2) if a region would like to break out, they'd know better what they want. But (3) I feel, like some of them just can't do so as long as set leader is supported by Kremlin. It's a question to solve.

Your reply is irrelevant to that exact conversation.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm ought to do it.

Hugh, that's more based than I thought it would be. I'd reply again when I have a break.

[–] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I hate crime

I don't hate them

What do

 
 

I've stumbled upon that in my feed.

 

As I always move fast I have a problem with feeling like I loosely strapped a brick onto myself when I put my phone in my pockets, including waist and knee ones. It chaotically moves at each step and I'm tired of that. To the point I take it in my hand when I'm in a real hurry.

I guess, Lemmy has a lot of people who either run or do outdoors activities and labor.

What are the best positions on the body to make it move less when you walk or run? Are there some great smartphone holders, straps that you can recommend? Can I use it with casual clothes without it looking weird?

I suppose the ones you place on the belt are obvious to suggest first, but I haven't seen them since the death of small button phones and current smartphones are kinda big for that to work. And no, putting it into a bag, a suitcase or a backpack wouldn't work for me for I prefer not to be dependent on carrying them on me.

 

alt textA picture of a group of first Christians praying in a circle. They are in the roman Coliseum. A lion slowly approaches them. The text added over the picture reads 'VEGAN DIET'.

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About the russian Memo (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works to c/interestingasfuck@lemmy.world
 

FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone posted it around a lot, and it sounds legit due to it being on the .gov site.

I wanted to dig into the original version since I'm a native and have some edge in using it over my homies. Even some rewards at that, kek.

Welp. Mostly it's an easily translateable basic vocab including media-specific words. I suspect it's an american or a russian-american person writing in Russian and sometimes\always using an automatic translator. And they are stupid at that, as they don't know how complex punctuation works or don't read what they post. The punctuation is kinda confusing, sometimes hinting that it's a copy paste from a translator.

  • отличается от таковой - is a rare turn of words that many russians fail at, just like americans fail at they're. I don't know many persons who can correctly put it into a sentence. That's probably a translated text since they can't handle the right placement of commas.
  • ставленником - is a weird archaic word that's sometimes used by nerds of polisci or other humane arts weirdos, it isn't used anywhere else. That's maybe a clue to who wrote it.
  • нового глобалистского социализма - sounds weird, like a direct translation from English.
  • Next, there is a division between the elephant and the donkey, both lowercase, without any punctuation to tell them they are referencing parties, not animals. It's fucking stupid. And not stupid as a result from an AI prompt that can produce a correct phrase, but from a literal translation of a literal translation that lost any indication of what it refers to.

That's just the first picture. All of that sounds weird to my ear, and my assumption, clouded by the US gov's decision to put it onto display, is that it can be legit, but it is written by a person with a political\media background, creating a draft in English, that they lazily translated into Russian. That may be on RT employes, especially international ones.

There are a handful of russian-speaking users on fediverse who can tell I'm wrong.

Ah, yeah, and it really mentions 'manga' although it doesn't make any sense.

 

Since Russia started to use DPI to block YouTube and other stuff, there arised a couple of solutions to fuck with it. I've come around this repository or, even better, the end of it's page for many cross-platform tools that may let you avoid DPI, and I've used some of them to prove they are working.

https://github.com/ValdikSS/GoodbyeDPI

They don't work for resources that are explicitely banned, it only undoes this one layer of blocking. As Russia didn't block YT (like Twitter) that's enough for that one usecase. It's no private VPN or something, but it may become useful in the future.

 
  • Babylon is in modern Iraq, one of the countries invaded by the US in the aftermath of 9\11
  • Both claimed to be the highest towers in the world
  • Both are in populated influential trade centers
  • The Babylon myth with different languages VS the War on Terror, affecting policies worldwide, growing tensions and fear in the post-USSR world, now - post 9\11 world
  • The pronounced reasoning behind the 9\11, told as a fatwa by Osama, starts as follows: All these American crimes and sins are a clear proclamation of war against God, his Messenger, and the Muslims. Not that far from what caused the abrahamic god to prank Babylon.

This connection is loose, lacks context and mixes very different things together, but I haven't got a pleasure to shower any longer than that to think things out.

How BS is it?

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A shitpost (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works to c/tenforward@lemmy.world
 
 

Making it 17+, changing cast and visuals don't count. Let's say it's live action with heavy CGI. What would be here for the main attraction, the plot, the cast of characters?

 

Durability-wise? Pain-wise? Covering or showing-wise? Where did you inked your first one?

 

I'd assume we want everyone to survive and carry on with their lives equally. Yet, if we can't, there's a choice of distributing our doctors' time and equipments towards some of patients rather than others.

Policies deciding that choice in general, if implemented, naturally smell like death. That'd organically lead to some marks for a cut-off, the obvious one is the age - like excluding 70+ patients from active treatment and supporting them as they are instead, while prefering younger folks, because they have more projected lifespan ahead of them (AND MORE VALUE TO THE REGIIIIME!). Then, there is a game of chances for recovery. Then there are biases against lung, stomack or skin cancer patients who neglected their bodies themselves etc etc etc. And we don't even touch the problem of these policies being sexist, racist or otherwise based on unscientific grounds.

But if not over-generalized policies that can mark some categories as not-worthy patients, we'd then assume the power to decide is in the hands of individual doctors who do have the problems in the last paragraph, but with individual power to decide as well as individual responsibility for that (but they can ask patients themselves if they want it?).

My question is: should we even seek a universal answer to that dillema? What is the beacon to navigate us here, balancing general policies and individual responsibilities? How'd we personally judge a party who'd make such decision (+ if we are their patient and we don't want to die)?

I've tried my best not to suggest any answer and not to instigate any sort of an infight, but if it's not ok, please delete it.

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