futatorius

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[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

His dithering, weak, incoherent performance in the debate? Or is that already forgotten?

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 7 points 2 days ago

Seriously, there's better eating on a pigeon, and they're easier to catch.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

One Big Union.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The problem is that all voting systems have undesirable corner cases and anomalies. The voting system isn't really the main problem, it's the political culture, corruption and the inconsistent application of rule of law.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Fascists don't have the foresight to think of consequences of climate change. They're also in denial that climate change is a thing at all, since one of their sources of funding is fossil-fuel extractors, including a certain large Eurasian nation-state.

Their real motivation for being anti-immigrant is that they are racist scum who are always looking for vulnerable populations to victimise.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I had a Japanese-American girlfriend for a couple of years who would gladly dispose of the prawn heads for me. I tried them ("how bad could they be?") but it was a taste I could never acquire. And I'm open-minded about food-- tried natto and got to enjoy it, same with uni, even managed to have Taiwanese stinky tofu. The only other food I could never stomach was balut.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 0 points 3 days ago

It's a lot easier to build when you can tear down people's houses anytime you like to make way for the train tracks.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 2 points 3 days ago

And until that long-lead-time investment in public transport pays off, we'll still need cars, and the choice is gas, hybrid or electric.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

How convenient for them.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 29 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That's good. Those goods are straight from factory to landfill, with only a brief operational life.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah, the Russians are winning at the rate of 1000 dead or injured Russians per day and are having trouble press-ganging more young Russian men to be thrown into the meatgrinder. Their own manufacturing capability can't keep their troops supplied, their losses of artillery and tanks exceed their ability to replenish them, and they're buying ammunition and light armaments from Iran and China with money they don't have.

And their three-day war is well into year 3.

If Russia is rewarded for its aggression, they are not going to stop with Ukraine. You're not getting peace by appeasing them, you're getting a guarantee of more war, more massive civilian casualties, more refugees, increasingly close to currently secure Western countries. Russia will not stop until it is forced to stop.

[–] futatorius@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

That's what he did (and more) for the Taliban.

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