Yes, but this is why you break bad laws along with another 199,999 people for good reasons.

As a complete military noob: how does this affect the current conflict? By my naïve guess, it slows down the advance for a while, but ideally a well organised army has someone to stand in very shortly to minimise the effect. I understand it might lower the level of expertise, but considering such a large force (as in, many to pick from) I expect around the same level of competence from a substitute. Is it actually more significant than that? Are there other aspects I missed?

EDIT: Thank you all for the insights! It seems like it does have a tangible effect, and it actually takes longer to replace leadership than I anticipated. A life is a life, and nobody should die like this (especially when some power hungry megalomaniac sends you to), but you all helped me appreciate this news more, regardless.

He is copying Orbán in Hungary. He also “starved” the capital city because they elected an opposition mayor. The city is near bankruptcy at the moment. But hey, mini Trump also wanted to ban the Pride march there last Saturday, and as a result he made it the biggest mass event of the past 10 years.

So if things happen similarly, Trump might be able to actually do this, but it might just ruin his chances at the next election - provided there will be another one, according to him.

If the next year’s elections fail and Orbán stays in power then we can start calling it Western Belarus from then on.

Around May next year. Might not be the right thing we’re both thinking of, but at least there will be elections in 2026.

So is that the same reason agent Krasnov was so hesitant?

Nice! Just make sure it has a flared ba… I mean, I’m happy you found a use!

A bit cliché and it might not look great around the handle, but wash it and wrap it (trim it?) around a tall+wide enough mug?

You don’t even need to have emotions while using a scented body wash. You can just go “ah, roses, cool” and get on with it.

There is a legitimate reason to prefer something else. I would also want something that provides freshness in a minty/salty/whatever way. Roses do smell nice, but I would rather have something associated with icy/sporty freshness. But assuming it’s feminine just because it smells like flowers… consult renaissance folks.

I… I was today years old.

I honestly thought LibreOffice was some rebranded name. It’s been a while since I’ve used any of them.

Also, there has been more than a few days’ worth of data proving that he can’t really be taken for granted for more than one and a half minutes.

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TIL there are italic emojis. 🏠

Maybe, but how long do you have to count for your eyelids to touch?

Their home security IT system is a mosquito net made of paper with a post-it note saying ‘no hack pl0x’.

They had been caught letting the Russians take a quick comfy look around and promptly doing fuck all about it. I guess the Russians assume that it’s the same reason half of the EU/NATO would also know if Putty decided to take a walk in that country.

And this is where unregulated capitalism and the constant craze for GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH comes into the picture. With a failing demographic AND an aging society, economic collapse is inevitable. I mean, it could be just a long, smooth slope in theory, but not with this dystopian economic system where you have already spent the money you’re getting back in 10 years’ time, with the greedy shareholders dictating everything.

I mean, these demographic changes will happen regardless, but the effects of currently having such a flawed and short sighted system will be painfully drastic.

the joke is it’s painted on the actual route 67.

I couldn’t find it in the linked article either, but unfortunately it’s less jokey, as in, the vocalist that also sang this song passed away tragically early in 2011, and apart from the systemic corruption, it was also made as a tribute to him.

Nice, we also have the backline dodgeball thing with teams!

Wait, does it mean that your version of dodgeball is literally ‘burnball’? Or does poltto have two different meanings? Either way, I love the word already.

I hate the vile stuff that the Hungarian government has/had been doing in the past fifteen (!) years, but if there has ever been a chance to overthrow them, it’s now(ish). I know that a year is still a pretty long time, and I’m sure they will switch to overdrive now that they feel it might be their last year, at least in the 2/3 majority, but there’s another election coming in April 2026. I would hate it if the country got expunged juuuust before a possible change of regime, even if that change probably won’t be Earth shattering.

I just hope the EU comes up with some creative solution to keep these evil autocrats at bay for the “little” time until then.

I’m the kind of person who reads step 1, does it, and then goes on to read step 2. I’m happy I’m not OP.