toothpaste_sandwich

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toothpaste_sandwich,

While I’m not a fan of Russia and its dealings in the world, I can’t help but feel sorry for these guys, some of whom must surely just have been forcefully conscripted into this.

Don’t forget the humans, I guess.

toothpaste_sandwich,

Right? It seems very easy to put the blame on all individual Russian soldiers, it’s not as if they have much choice. Of course, there’s a whole bunch of them acting like assholes in their role, but I’m sure there’s a whole bunch more of them who don’t particularly want to be there but are forced to.

No notifications from Signal/Whatsapp until I open the app

Has anyone else come across this? I’m running 21-20240419-NIGHTLY-panther and I don’t get notifications until I open the app, at least in Signal and WhatsApp, and I suspect Gmail too. I already set the apps to unrestricted battery usage (including the hard-to-find extra setting when you press to the left of the “Allow...

toothpaste_sandwich,

Meanwhile, the new government in the Netherlands (the richest parts of which are beneath sea level) has vowed to cut spending on climate issues. Yay for right wing governments.

Met z'n drieën fietsen: hoe? Dutch

Een klassiek Nederlands probleem: je bent niet met één maar met twee vrienden onderweg op de fiets. Met z’n drieën naast elkaar fietsen is zowel gevaarlijk als illegaal, maar hoe zorg je dat er niet één persoon is die de hele rit “waaat?” moet roepen terwijl-ie wanhopig toch aan het gesprek deel probeert te nemen van...

toothpaste_sandwich,

I mean—humiliation is not very neutral, either.

Taiwan's outgoing president says boosting her country's military was the only way to defy China's threat - and that 'democratic countries need to support Ukraine' (www.bbc.com)

When Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan’s President who soon leaves office after eight years and hands over to her successor William Lai, swept to power in 2016, she was dismissed as a dull bureaucrat. But she stood up to an increasingly authoritarian and aggressive China under Xi Jinping; she held on to a vital US alliance under Donald...

toothpaste_sandwich,

What an interesting read. Well-written, it really gives you a sense of some of yhe deeper currents underneath the opaque goings-on in this faraway bastion of democracy (as it seems).

toothpaste_sandwich,

Yes, I was afraid of this being a gift to Russia… Reichstag fire situation here.

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