If only they didn’t pay Yandex, a company affiliated with Russian govt

I get that, it’s just that they didn’t do it because they were the good guys, just because they got fucked over by the other group of bad guys, and slaughtered lots of their own people doing it.

After starting the whole WWII thing by allying with them, and only turned on the nazis after the nazis backstabbed them. And afterwards, occupied half of Europe.

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How do you like FSB spyware on your phone?

Aah I see there are depths to the Dutch spirit I’ve yet to uncover. All my encounters with the Dutch have been at a pre-canal-swimming drunkenness level.

Is it the one where you pretend to deepthroat a frikandel?

No over the whole screenshot. Open the full image, it’s a lot of text

What the hell are those faint watermark looking things on the image?

Because making sense is so 2010, grandpa

Bro is a cognitive dissonance junkie

Mercosur-EFTA-CA-SEA global free trade regime let’s go

Some beliefs are more antifragile than others

You can’t have a rainforest in Brazil without cutting it down either, but that doesn’t seem to stop people

Hehe .ml user being defensive

I think that’s that old mobile OS. You’re probably thinking of Symbian.

Sure, but I’d wager it goes beyond the singular manifestation of power as money. Plenty of other manifestations, and all lead to similar places.

At this point, anything remotely near bare-metal material reality triggers such a cognitive dissonance in a lot of folks, on account of all of the bs they have in their heads, that all of that bare-metal material reality is discarded as too painful.

This kind of stuff never happens overnight. It happens slowly, incrementally, and the people are never mad enough at too much sudden change to be motivated enough to do anything. People should feel good about the imposition of boundaries, and it helps that for the average user, the boundaries often result in a better user experience.

Fun speculation: we are CPUs for the information systems we inhabit, like scientific method, political ideologies, etc.