The old USSR gulags are more like Guantanamo if anything. Today's Russian prisons correspond to today's US prisons pretty much.

Of course not, only people on this side of the legal system

Lemmy and the fediverse at large is barely governable in the current EU framework

Can you make an argument instead of doing random ad hominems?

Up the ra

His lawyer being called Cheese bro

And he was shot as soon as he stopped being useful.

The downvotes are most likely because people think you agree with the guy you quote.

Feet pics apparently

Or the curvature of the Earth

Account linking from ad ids, and social media profiles.

There is a big difference as of now. Who knows what's coming.

Small propeller planes give an adequate view below. They actually do still need to be able to navigate by looking at the ground.

Ah don't worry, Texas will get Saharan weather in exchange.

This is the one issue where it really is both sides though. Other issues they do differ on, but not this.

I'd rather have the Turkish on our side against Russia rather than Cyprus if it comes down to it NGL

I was once one of those Microsoft guys with 2000 certs, and I'm not gonna lie, I liked working with MS stuff.

It's usually inane, stupid and expensive shit on the one hand. But they were wasting company time and company money. I also worked in the banking sector, so it's not like we would have been making the world a better place if it was more efficient.

Certs gamified the whole work environment. The whole thing is that they are not that hard to get if you get into it, it's kind of a game. However, they cost a fuckton to get and maintain, but if you are in a good place, that's on the company as well. Actually, the company is paying to make you more valuable to it, so that's nice.

And since everything is so fucking inefficient, other departments will be moving at a sloth's pace as well, so if you are half-decent at automation, and you can get a WFH job, most of your workday is basically playing video games.

Most people on here don't mind being exposed to different viewpoints. If you ask me, even some - or even most, IDK - tankies are fine to talk to, even argue with, as they are usually civil.

The problem is that there are a lot of users on the *.ml instances who are not interested in debate, they just keep repeating the same 2-3 slogans over and over again in smug superiority as a reply to everything, and mods ban people randomly the same way.

When you meet some users who reply "you are misled by Western media" to anything you say as a final and incontrovertible argument, that's not a good faith debate I'm willing to participate in.

The problem is not the differing opinions, but the differing norms for polite conversation and good faith arguments.

Well, Google sure is trying to take us in the direction of "you have to log in to Chrome to use the internet".

It's manageable through GPO and off by default in Enterprise and Education like the other unconscionable shit I guess.