Nothing touches my library that wasn't discounted 60% or more. I'll see you on the Christmas of 2030 Ghosts of Tsushima!

In the Trumpverse the 1st amandment does not exist, also you can be forced to buy a specific brand of car.

Unsurprising, as the biggest party in the government is populist, autocratic and pro-Putin.

US military hardware is top notch. But the US has shown itself to be an unreliable ally. So spending that money at home, supporting the local economy where the money will ultimately flow back to the governments via taxes. Also there is almost nothing the US makes that we don't or can't make here with a few exceptions like the F-22 or X-37 (AKA the satellite snatcher).

I thought the whole point of Lemmy was that it didn't matter what instance you joined. Can I move my account, or do I need to make a new one on a new instance?

Hardly surprising considering the current funding climate and anti-intellectual sentiment of the current American administration. He will probably get an amazing salary and support to work on his project. Canada and Europe should set up something similar, easy visas and citizenship for American scientists and engineers.

If the Oligarchs and their families feel safe in Moscow, they don't mind bending over with the wind. But if the war comes to their doorstep, in this case as drones, they might reconsider that tune.

A common language serves common communication. As a happenstance of history that turned out to be English. Changing it would be enormously costly and hinder cooperation. Aside from that, learning English is useful as it's more or less commonly understood in almost every country in the world.

It was a "alternatives to American apps/sites" on Reddit that got me here

Reminder: you paid taxes in order to receive social security when you need it. If they negate on that deal, ask for your taxes back.

if ads were normal and unobtrusive. We wouldn't need ad blockers. Instead we get an almost unusable internet where ads take up more and more real estate. I had been running an ad blocker for so many years that when a friend (who doesn't use an ad blocker) showed me a website, the unfiltered experience was horrifying.

A common refrain from those opposing these protests was to protest at the oil companies instead of on the highway. But they did that already, blocked office entrances and even coal transports. But they were ignored by the media and politics. The companies in question were hardly inconvenienced. The new strategy of public disruptive campaigns was a result of this. Highly effective in gathering the attention of media and politics. But the push back as the article states is driving certain protestors into the next phase;

"He said new laws further criminalising disruptive protests had made traditional, accountable methods of activism increasingly unsustainable, and a clandestine approach increasingly attractive."

If you get 5 years for cutting data cables or sitting on the street, might as well do the thing that seems more effective.

2 years ago I was at a "Just Stop Oil" gathering nearby, mostly out of curiosity. The room was packed and outside a small group was discussing more escalating measures, which I won't repeat here. The reasoning was that disruptive tactics had been losing effectiveness and governments were still lagging behind their own unambitious goals. That more violent action could be justified because of self-defence. If companies are deploying violence towards our environment, why should they not defend it in the same manner.

From that moment it became clear, to me at least, that for some violence is not off the table. And that this kind of vandalism would just be a first step to more extreme action.