if you give $20 to a homeless person, they might spend that money to buy a hit of crack. but if you give that $20 to a crack manufacturer, then can make a dozen hits for the same price. efficiency is the key to effective giving.

Serbian holiday takes: -- WW1 ought to be 13 November (shut down everyone whining about 11) -- WW2 20 October

D-Day lowkey should be a bigger holiday. Literally the line em up and cut em down holiday of all holidays lol.

OG Anunoby looking different these days @rattatatouille.bsky.social @snowden.st

“My Mayor is Muslim, my bagel is Jewish, my Christian’s Dior… Knicks in 4!!!”

"Anti-Zionism isn't antisemitism" but I can make anyone a Zionist with a bit of red string, that's something everyone from the ResistLibs to the Hamsics are doing these days

random question: in medieval towns how could people tell who was local and who was passing through?

Honestly the idea of being "provoked into starting a war" is pretty much always pretextual bullshit.

this may not be popular but in actual fact quite literally /nothing/ in Russo-Ukrainian relations was caused by the United States of America as the primary cause

the truth is that none of us /actually/ believe in "if you're exonerated then you didn't do it" it's just that we conveniently pretend that's true when it's people we want to trust. maybe it would be better if we all admitted we are lying to ourselves

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As an Eastern European, I am an Eastern European first, a Lithuanian second, and a white person a distant last. Take our names out of your fucking mouth.

i think it can get touchy for some folks (not in small part because we have a huge pop/perma-youth culture industry in our world), and I don’t want to really focus on the taste/consumption part, but: a whole lot of people in our world practice a kind of death-denial that doesn’t let them respect ⏰

You want to appeal to the modern young man? You want to distinguish yourself from the toxic manosphere shit? It’s showing that it’s masculine to serve, that there’s dignity and strength in helping others or supporting the community. Self-centered masculinity is rotten.

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Incredible run of bangers here btw

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I'm reminded how the "clanker" pejorative, while 90% of the time coming from people who are well-intentioned and have good reasons opposing the rise of generative AI, has also attracted the kind of people who really want to say a slur that ends in a "hard R" but in a socially acceptable manner

one would have hoped that the people who champion him as brave principled anti-war etc. would reflect on how proud he was of his callous dehumanizing attitude towards murdered Iraqi civilians, but everyone handwaves it all away as a learning experience that he’s grown from

The razzmatazz

when the conlang has a merge conflict

at last, we created spiders georg, from the classic tumblr post “spiders georg is an outlier adn should not have been counted”

Nope, not getting baited into a discourse about a hypocritical political activist from USA. Not today, Satan.

Heretic: Guy that believes you should kill the Emperor so he could come back to life and do the things Apostate: Guy that turns to Chaos worship Heathen: Guy with Pre-Imperial contact religion This isn't hard come on

a sufficiently motivated pigeon

even if from the micro perspective of a fledling national liberation movement the two big sides just look like two fighting cows to a fly caught in between, we are allowed to make judgement from the bigger perspective and say no actually one of those two big sides were much more evil

37 years ago was the most important political event of my life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Po...

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One thing has led to another, and now I have a folder full of news headlines about people getting beaten off. I offer no apology at all.

Ah yes, the "Thdpsssps"

Balkan taxi driver is the ultimate level in any political PHD dissertation Thats the final boss. After you've successfully defended your thesis to the panel, they send you outside to take a 60min cab ride with Slavo If by the end of the 60min you come out of the car alive, you have gained your PHD

You can't fool me, "Serbian taxi driver", that's clearly Jacques Chirac wearing a fake moustache.

of course, what people will not say is that there /is/ a one weird trick to growing the economy rapidly enough to offset popular rage and it involves quadrupling immigration rates

I know nothing about Basketball. What do you mean its game 1. I thought this was the final.

It's crazy that an accidental Pavlov process has made me and a few others irrevocably think of @dov.bsky.social whenever Lithuania is brought up by anyone

Now this is landback

Her bio reads “35th Generation New Mexican”, just an incredible flex on the United States as a concept

If Platner loses against Collins, well maybe *one* person will admit to having been wrong about him.

If I knew nothing about the world and you tried to get me to guess which colors are primaries and which are secondaries based on a quick glance, I'd definitely make green a primary.

I don't know how to explain this but orange feels like a mix of red and yellow, purple feels like a mix of blue and red, but green does not feel like a mix of yellow and blue.

reading fanfics of the man from uncle is very funny bc it's one of presumably only a few fandoms where you can scroll through ao3 and see in a fanfic's summary that it was originally published in a fanzine in 1988

I mean, the UK government barred me from speaking to a conference that they literally invited me to speak at and tried to ruin my career because I retweeted SuperTanskii, called Nadine Dorries a car crash, and called Rees Mogg a haunted pencil. Bit nobody can ban Farage from inciting violence?

The practicality of landback of the expulsive kind is completely irrelevant, arguing on those grounds is just giving it legitimacy IMO

Small domino: Russia loses the war in Ukraine so bad the intl community does a thing for once and starts negotiating for the independence of new republics Big domino: North Ossetia is now recognised but South Ossetia is not, and Ossetian unionism vs reconising Georgian boundaries become a thing

Getting people's haplogroups provides factual biological data but it's not at all germane to defining identities that precede that technology's existence.

Between those guys and the Crusaders, it's quite funny how much Christian nationlist imagery is drawn from the idiots who repeatedly got shown up.

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