Those were Russia and the Russia-backed “separatists” doing that in the areas the controlled. There’s not a shred of evidence of Ukraine doing anything like that, and plenty of evidence of Russia doing this.

If you were told otherwise, you were lied to. Putin loves telling these sort of lies in order to mislead people lile you.

I think it’s generally true for any situation. It holds for Israel, for Hamas, for Russia, and for any country or organization that seems to enjoy bombing their neighbours.

Does it still run 30 year old apps? I was under the impression that a lot of DOS and Windows software from the 1990s ran better under Wine than on Windows.

Over 60?! Can we please classify Friendica as over 50? I feel old enough as it is.

As stupid as this is, I see mostly positive consequences coming from this: either they’ll oppose TSA, or they’ll refuse to fly. Both sound like a win to me.