It still beats dying in a foreign land for an evil dictator.

IIRC it was because Ukraine didn’t want to trade them for their own drone tech. The real reason might be more nuanced than that though.

Hurt people hurt people. It’s a phrase I’ve heard since forever. Nice to see scientific research is catching up to this bit of common wisdom.

This might be a good use case for those fancy plane mounted high intensity lasers the military has been playing around with.

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I think defederation speaks volumes of the quality of the content in the instances that are blocked, wouldn’t you agree? I wouldn’t want to listen to genocide apologists or astroturfed propaganda. Yes that means the echo chamber gets a little more closed off but it’s a prevention of exposure to some bad actors. I certainly wouldn’t want to put up with people who do Charlie Kirk or Tucker Carlson moves by “just asking questions” all the time.

You can always go to another instance that wishes to associate with them. The idea of the fediverse is you get to pick the experience you want.

Do you even know why the vote to defederate from Feddit came up? It’s because there are quite a few Palestinian genocide apologist accounts from there. It’s like the Nazi bar problem, you tolerate a few hanging out there and suddenly everyone else leaves while it gets full of them. I’d rather not hear that shit myself.

Things are done there by consent. I see that’s something you don’t approve of.

We vote on who we want to defederate from. Our vote threads even have cool pirate themed images and stuff.

Laughs in @lemmy.dbzer0.com.

No way so many Republicans can remain this delusional. There are so many “I didn’t vote for this!” videos floating around.

American expat girl

So, an immigrant?

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This is one of the most French stories I’ve ever heard.

Makes perfect sense to me. Fascists from different nationalities will always eye each other with suspicion. If only there was a way to play off that paranoia of each other to the benefit of all. Say, make Musk appear to only support American interests to European fascists so that he may be discredited among them.

That pretty much sums up the Russian army at this point. Can’t wait to see what happens when Russia loses this war and Putin’s eventually overthrown by the surviving oligarchs.

Canada, Greenland, Australia, and Japan should totally recognize Palestine. It’s not like they need to keep pleasing the US now that it’s actively spitting in their face.

The first Switch still seemed like a good purchase because you could own the physical cartridge of a game so it’ll still be available long after its servers shut down. The Switch 2 just gives you a physical NFT with which to download the game with. Anyone who purchases this system will be very disappointed a few years later when it cuts off access to their library.

When you’ve been relying on a free source of defense for decades, it’s attractive to divert investment into something more directly beneficial to the citizenry. Better late than never, at least.