Unhinged bullshit like this did more to make people support Putin than any propaganda he could spit.
Unhinged bullshit like this did more to make people support Putin than any propaganda he could spit.
Crassus would be proud.
I was born.
Trump is literally the harm reduction candidate now.
Graeber in Debt has made an interesting point that honor historically meant an ability to reduce freedom of other people.
Counterpoint: undermining the West’s power is a necessary requirement for further progress.
The fake is of far greater value. In its deliberate attempt to be real, it’s more real than the real thing.
What would you think of our civilization based on the Internet?
Cats and porn.
Please explain how is North Korea a right-wing fascist state.
‘Stochastic brigading’, better known as ‘replies I don’t like’.
People treat nations as some primordial entities, but they form and disappear all the time.
Mine had 500 MHz AMD K6-2 processor + 256 MB RAM + Windows 98.
A civil war simulator, where you make your policies to appeal to as much of the population as you can so they would support you and fight for your side, and if you fail to secure significant militant support you get couped or defeated.
There was also a very similar meltdown at Leningrad NPP in 1975, except there the situation was recognised earlier and the reactor was shut down before everything went to shit completely.
They were introduced in 1960s, IIRC.
Raccoons now have a stable population in Pripyat Marshes, don’t know much more.
IIRC, USSR experimented with acclimating raccoons in Belarus.
Physical except when I need to quickly search for something, in that case digital.
The Big Mazovian Sausage Grinder.
For first several months the war was extremely unpopular, but sanctions and discrimination against Russians did orders of magnitude more to make people think of the West as the enemy than the dumb state propaganda.