To continue the above: The amount of civilian prisoners held in the torture facilities around the occupied territories is crazy. And they go through daily torture, including electric shocks to their sexual organs and breaking finger bones, and other “fun” stuff. Ukrainians absolutely do not want that to happen to them.

Because the Russia is committing a genocide in the territories it has occupied from Ukraine, and Ukrainians are fully aware that the same would be done in all of Ukraine if it was to surrender.

As long as Ukraine does not surrender, the Russia will keep bombing their cities and many will die.
If it surrenders, there will be much more Ukrainians dying than just that amount.

Not surrendering is a way for them to stay alive.

They know they cannot surrender without getting an extremely strong punishment from the Russia, so they won’t.

Learned today about the band Shaman having a record, called Idja, where all songs are in Sámi language!

Nice music. I could not directly find it on Tidal, but when I looked for all songs with Jonne Järvelä mentioned in the credits, Tidal did show it!

Ok, that’s a shocking thing to hear indeed!

Most of Fiskars scissors have a plastic-covered (orange) handle. Ones that don’t have them are very rare. And yes, when you see them there’s no way to tell whether they were made in the 1980’s or in 2020’s, because they will work the same and look the same either way.

different stance to how blocking is handled, one far more abuseable

How is it more abuseable?

What things do they handle differently? I mean, PieFed has an equivalent of Multireddits and Lemmy does not, but Lemmy is about to have them if 1.0 comes out some year. That’s already been declared.

The same with flairs. Yeah, PieFed has them, Lemmy doesn’t, but Lemmy will have them if 1.0 comes out.

I wouldn’t say it’s “handling things differently” that one has implemented features that the other one is still in the process of implementing, but has already decided it definitely will implement them, at some point.

PieFed is essentially just future Lemmy.

Oh, so Stellaris 4 is out already?!

I’m apparently currently running Stellaris 4.2.3. I didn’t even know it’s not Stellaris 1 anymore!

It’s… Weird. If they consider there to have been already Stellaris 2 and Stellaris 3, meaning they see it as a different game, then… Why just delete Stellaris 1?
But also, I do need to try downgrading to 2.1.3 and see how it feels now that I’m used to the ways of Stellaris 4!

I think the 1.0 build is still available on steam

…wut?! How?

Okay.

Just wanted to point out that PieFed and Lemmy are the same thing. There’s a reason to fight between Reddit and Forumverse, but whatever makes Lemmy grow is good for PieFed and vice versa. So, the meaning of the word “alternative” is very different when comparing Reddit with Forumverse, and when comparing various Forumverse softwares to each other.

Reddit is kind of “against” us, while PieFed and Lemmy play in the same team.

options are essentially PieFed, Reddit, or Lemmy

Reddit is actually a whole different system. Yes, it’s alternative for the whole of fediverse, as it is completely unfederated. It’s basically just one instance. Being a PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin alternative, it of course shares a lot of features with them (much more with PieFed, but a very reasonable amount with Lemmy as well!)

With PieFed and Lemmy and Mbin you have access to all the same posts and all the same communities, so they are alternatives to each other, and it mostly doesn’t matter a shit which one you go for. But Reddit is a different thing altogether.

You can check what Reddit ise over here: http://reddit.com/ . Try searching for any Forumverse posts there and you will see it’s not part of the Fediverse. You will not find any of our content there, unless someone who has created a user account also on Reddit has copypasted something to Reddit!

I hope this information was of use for you! 👍

Is there actually a way to get to play the original? We now kind of have Stellaris 2, and Stellaris 1 is some kind of abandonware?! Although officially they are both Stellaris 1, of course.

Snowing isn’t possible without clouds, and clouds warm up in the same way a blanket does. It might be something like -20°C on a clear day, which is uncomfortable indeed, but a snowy day seldom gets colder than -10°C, might be more like -7°C or so. Not all that bad, really :)

I hate the electric toilet flush handles used in Tesla, but I must admit it did feel impressive when I encountered it the first time. I was hitchhiking and was allowed in a car. The door handle was kind of visible but… not really a handle?!

So, I kind of put my hand near it in confusion and “bzzrt”, it came out of the door, allowing me to open the door. It was a cool experience.
Still not one I’d be ready to risk my life for, though.

This photo was apparently made in 2017.

Israel was already committing a genocide back then, but its magnitude was far lower than in the past few years.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Đorđe_Martinović_incident tells: “The collapse of this taboo in the coverage of the Martinović case heralded the growth of nationalism that was to lead to the country’s collapse in 1991.”

Luckily one of the devices later broke down and was replaced by another one. It didn’t come from Sweden, but speaks English instead of Finnish all the same.

Sorry, got a bit too creative with that one.

Part of the idea was to say that billionaires and trillionaires are extremely good in using their money in extraordinarily inefficient ways. Trickle-down, or whatever they call it…

Well, one could argue that it’s lunch that includes travel as a part of it :)

But good, let’s say that the lunch must be prepared of zero-gravity grown ingredients only, cooked using atmospheric friction, and delivered by parachute right at the table. 100 million might not be enough for this lunch, though.