People that have no opinions of their own and have personalities that are shaped entirely by the things they consoom.

Bold of you to assume that they have a lower cut off at 18

Hyperfocused nerdism does that to a mfer. Whatever coding aspect people are interested in, will get improved, while all the rest stays untouched.

They are worlds apart yes. Russia actually has an amazing academia network that is suffering greatly from Putins politics. Most recently seen by hundreds of academics having to stop their collaboration with CERN because of the war. Compared to NK, Russia is just a normal country with lots of IT and science nerds.

However if you look at the US and their rural MAGA population, it shows that there can just be a massive rift within the population. And thats what you have in Russia too i would assume.

Stop giving insane people hope that they will ever be able to realize their insane ideas.

They dont have brooms, they only have bulldozers. I would prefer my living room un-bulldozed.

I dont really endorse this blog, but this is an interesting post about the compounding pharmacy situation:

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/the-compounding-loophole

It is chemically indistinguishable. This is usually not the case for imitations or knockoffs in other market sectors. So it should be highlighted to prevent a misleading narrative.

Yeah because they dont want their families to go to reeducation camps, so they stay silent.

Middle mouse clicking posts to open them in a new tab, when? Mastodon web is unusable for me until this gets implemented.

These are not civilians, they are clearly armed and usually trained in combat. They are active military combatants and they should be called that. Replacing “settlers” with “militias” seems like a good start.

And how does that have anything to do with the current political siuation mr troll? People declaring independence is a thing that has been happening everywhere since forever. You think the US should be taken back by the British?

Eh i wouldnt worry about it too much. That number would change very quickly if it came to an actual situation.

No thank you. I would prefer if they had as little influence over anything in the world as possible.

Yeah good point. When things arent easily sorted into “good” and “bad” then getting people to put together an organized resistance is much much harder.

I think generally most people are willing to defend their home against foreign invaders if it is at all realistic/possible. I have heard people say about refugees “Why dont they defend their homes, then they wouldnt have to flee”. But this obviously only makes sense if there is a chance of winning. When your enemies are overwhelmingly more powerful and you have no allies, then what is the point in dying for nothing.

With Taiwan they know that they have a decent military and worldwide support. So this makes sense to me.

I mean historically it was founded on the basis of a genocide, so from that point of view sure.

This would never have not been news. Its sad that it has to be, but it does need to be on the news.

I love that we were able to decouple this meme from peterson even tho he popularized it iirc.

Its a good science meme.

There are honestly much worse groups he could be selling weapons to yeah.