If history has taught us anything, a few Finns with some rusty old rifles could clear up this conflict in a couple hours.

In fairness, I would much rather that than governments directly controlling access, creating an additional form of direct censorship.

Not saying what we have now is great or anything though. I’m not exactly defending it.

I wish lawmakers had some balls on this subject. If there’s gambling, they should have to register as a gambling company and comply with all the other restrictions on gambling advertisements in each jurisdiction.

And that’s just the ones collapsing from malnutrition

Glhf

So this is the long overdue “no u” from Putin’s warrant from the ICC I guess.

I’m sure that judge will be very upset about not being able to visit Russia.

I’m in the process of being diagnosed as an adult, and I feel very validated as I relate to this very much.

Yikes

The censorship on Tiktok is crazy. The AI based comment removal is completely arbitrary - for example, I once had a comment removed for calling a public figure a walnut. Meanwhile, the comments are absolutely packed with the most vile comments. In particular, for content relating to my country there are thousands of comments openly celebrating and glorifying the deaths of migrants and some seriously explicitly racist rhetoric. It leads to people using silly workarounds to content filters that must be trivially easy to identify automatically, but aren’t, raising the question of why bother with such extreme censorship in the first place?

It’s interesting to see how the mental gymnastics attempt to avoid this. I sometimes look at Tiktok and if you go to the comments on anything Russia/Ukraine related it’s very clear to see which accounts are bots/stooges and what their narrative instructions are.

Their favourite thing to do is to equate the West and Russia. That both do the same thing, and Russia is just more honest about it. Which I can sort of at least understand to some extent from a foreign policy perspective. But these accounts will earnestly say that the West does the same. including assassinating political rivals and this sort of shit. They also equate Ukraine wanting to join NATO as equivalent to Russia invading the country.

Goodbye, sweet prince

I’m in my 20s and always thought I was aging pretty badly but jeez yeah he fully looks mid to late 40s. A good mid to late 40s but definitely no younger if I were to guess.

…okay fine, I have a lump around my ass ring and maybe this convinced me to finally get it checked

He’s even force choking those ones in the background

My understanding is that “persons” refers to people in discrete groups, where what separates those groups is pertinent to the topic being discussed.

For example - ‘indigenous persons’ refers collectively to indigenous people, but acknowledges that there are separate subgroups of indigenous people within that. You could equally say “indigenous people” and it would be correct but you lose that nuance by not acknowledging that there are internal divisions within the group you are referring to.

Not saying that’s the dictionary definition, but that’s how it’s generally used in my field.

Ur… Yeah?

I think this tips it over the edge for me to switch to Firefox