Politicians without cops become blowhards real quick.

Cops aren’t the root cause of evil, they’re just actively standing in the way of making progress (in theory).

The root cause of evil might actually be in most of us not cooperating when that’s needed.

Greenland: 🇬🇱
Isle of Man: 🇮🇲
Papua New Guinea: 🇵🇬
Albania: 🇦🇱

• Autumn and Winter
• Music festivals
• Savings for a cheap bicycle and better clothes
• Making life choices

Creative debt bondage

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Grab your populist talking point for only 3 seconds of thought at your nearest mouth.

Cheap hardware solution for a software problem.

I hope so, but remember that they were like
“You haven’t said thank you”
just weeks ago

Choose life.

How is this The Onion-worthy?

3L glass of pickled cucumbers, an electric lantern, oversized terrycloth towel

No, I am not ready to take a picture of what you have in mind.

The point is that languages without large speakerbases might consider barging in with the most recognized languages rude, while languages with similar status might find it normal.

No taxation without representation, but in reverse.

Better add that to the rider conduct

Unless you’re a first- or second-generation US-citizen, please think this and from where you’re arguing this from through.

As to why the EU and its members did not react and support this sufficiently, there are many excuses brought forth, but I’d concentrate on one point: Ideologies of foreign relations.

Many people in the (Western) EU prided themselves on the idea that Europe has been so peaceful for oh so long, especially if one doesn’t look thoroughly. They taught that this peace came to be through peaceful revolutions and disarmament diplomacy.

Nothing of this is really true, but there is certain underlying truth to it: If both sides are roughly in an power equilibrium, sufficiently scared of each other, war might be unlikely if both sides remain calm (Putin and Trump are perversions of all that).

Europe was split so long that it has no unified history. Imagine the American Civil War or German-Russian War froze for half a century. 1940s to 1990s, Europe was split and now the EU is made up of culturally rich, but distinct splinters.

Marshall plan, NATO, Comecon, nuclear shields always made sure that Russia and USA are involved.

With USA and Russia going mad after losing influence, EU and Europe is still thinking that if it behaves that there won’t be consequences or the stress of autonomy.

EU is still split enough that its members are unsure how to proceed. Commission has not enough power to speak an overriding word of authority (Machtwort), and West European members like Germany, France, BeNeLux or Italy are too split internally to send strong long term support.

I believe that many politicians think that if they do strong short term support, Ukraine will lose the war, they won’t be reelected and Europe, their country stands weaker against Russia, USA and China.

I think your anger is justified. Europe needs to grow up.

While mostly rich people problems, privacy is not the opposite of expression.

I don’t how much skill there’s involved in that, but him getting shot in the hands, might’ve been the one ‘disarming’ thing that saved everyone involved from death or further injury. I’m not sure he would’ve surrendered otherwise, but on the other hand, he was thirsty AF and left out.

Profits are a bit like internal taxes on wages.

Co-op NPOs should use these taxes to further the company’s goals instead of crude extraction into the goals of the owners.

Those aren’t perfect, because once they reach a certain size any form of corruption can have big bad consequences. The Fediverse approach to this is “decentralisation”, but all decentralisation efforts have an API vulnerability - there needs to be a central body that develops the “language” between the actors.

On the other hand, you might not have an ear for any of this, because you might be dependent on your business’ profits.

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