You love to hear it.

They’re also potentially in sight of a ⅔ supermajority, which would allow them to overturn Orban’s laws.

you can add Orban and Erdogan to that list

Just making public transport free without increasing funding for it will only turn it into a soup-kitchen service that only those with no other options will use. The well-heeled bourgeoisie will stay in their cars; they have podcasts to listen to and cruise control to crawl through traffic jams for them, and anybody who regards strangers’ body heat and odours as anything other than a celebration of common humanity will avoid it as much as they can. If they can’t, then once fuel prices drop, they’re out of there and not going back, instead talking about the dark days of packed trains in the way that refugees talk about regimes they fled.

If the Russian Mafia can do it, theoretically so can you.

Mark Fisher’s KPunk blog/Capitalist Realism. That and/or play Disco Elysium.

I hope Ukraine lets NATO join

And these Polish patriots would rather have a border with Russia?

Crimea river

Quite careless of them

The lack of phonetic information is a challenge. If you see an unfamiliar English word, you can guess the pronunciation, and usually be pretty close (sometimes you’ll get a phoneme wrong or stress the wrong syllable, but listeners will be able to infer what you meant). With kanji, as well as not knowing what it means, you have no information of how it’s pronounced. It is theoretically possible for kanji to exist which not only lack meaning but also have no pronunciation, and indeed, there are about a dozen meaningless, soundless “ghost kanji”that ended up in Unicode due to bureaucratic errors at the Japanese standards agency.

The heart-shaped targeting reticule is a nice touch

Are there reasons drone feeds are unencrypted? Would encryption add unacceptable cost/battery drain/latency?

* Viipuri, temporarily occupied Karelia

Vibe coding, the crystal meth of software

Indeed, it is said that John Mastodon himself is German

the meme of the goose chasing the boy. Caption: “freedom to say what, motherfucker?”

A rare sighting of the legendary dildo of consequences, which is said to never arrive lubricated

“Our god has balls”