A human being. From a Finland.
Huoltovarikko Torniossa tai Haaparannassa voisi tosiaan olla hyvä idea! Tietty se on hirveän lähellä Oulua, jossa on jo iso varikko.
Oikeasti tämä toki olisi syy VR:lle lobata 1435 mm radan vetämistä Oulun varikolle asti. Parantaisi se VR:n asemia Ruotsin Lapin kilpailutuksissa varmaan ihan kivasti.
The Internet Archive rewrites people’s home instances?! Wut?
Germans
Mehr als ein Fünftel der Einwohnern in der EU sprechen Deutsch als Muttersprache. Durchwegs zu erwarten also!
Jedoch sind gar nicht alle deutschsprachige Deutscher! Calling all German-speakers German is like calling all English-speakers American.
Liberal and Liberalist are two different terms, though. Very few liberalists are liberal.
If you support basic human rights, liberalism is diametrically opposed to your thinking. You can’t have human rights if Nestlé is allowed to own all the ground water underneath your village.
Here’s an article on where the Proton checkbox is in the Steam settings. Just now I’m playing CIV4 and I had completely forgotten to think that it probably doesn’t work on Linux. Because it does now, absolutely fine :)
(The original FFVII doesn’t, though. But that’s the only Windows game I’ve encountered to not work!)
If you use Steam, there’s an option in the settings to always enable using Proton to handle Windows games. Works very well! Many games work faster than on Windows, but sometimes there are minor bugs.
I find that vertical panels are inconvenient because text is horizontal so less text gets shown and font sizes get smaller.
Another solution is to simply switch to using the Mongolian script.
Kattoo ny…
Toi “Palveluntuottaja” on nimeltään VR.
Toisin sanoen: ministeri, jolla ei ole tältä alalta juuri mitään aiempaa osaamista, on törmännyt “byrokratian käppyröihin” VR:n kanssa keskustellessaan. Tarkoittaa, että VR yrittää vastarintaa, joka on ainakin jossain määrin toimivaa. VR:llä on tosi paljon vähemmän vaikutusvaltaa muihin puolueisiin kuin Vasemmistoliittoon ja SDP:hen, joten VR ei välttämättä saa tahtoaan läpi, mutta harmillista joutua lukemaan, että sitä vastarintaa on olemassa.
Hieman olin elätellyt toivoa, että nyt kun Venäjän suunta on pitkäaikaisesti kiinni, VR kokisi ihan omista lähtökohdistaan tarvetta aloitella länsi-integraatiota. Mut, eipä näköjään. Toivotaan, että ministeriö onnistuu pitämään pintansa!
Homosexuals are not against Uyghurs. If someone is against homosexuals, then fuck them. Regardless of where they are from.
If someone leaves because of seeing the Uyghur flag, then good riddance.
If someone leaves because of seeing the rainbow flag, then good riddance.
If someone leaves because of seeing the Tiber flag, then good riddance.
It doesn’t look like the instance suddenly lost any notable part of its active users. After all, there are very few assholes on this instance. And if some left now, all the easier for the moderators.
In any case, staying neutral in the face of human suffering is against what makes us human. If we did that, we wouldn’t be full-fledged humans.
Ha, so Albania is authoritarian? And Kyrgyzstan? Or East Turkestan, actually?
Kyrgyzstan is known for having a strong democracy by the standards of Ex-USSR countries.
The Christians in Egypt or Lebanon are not really less authoritarian than the Muslims there.
But okay: You are telling that women in Albania and Kyrgyzstan have very limited rights compared to men. I would like you to give some examples of how that shows there, because that was not my impression in either country. I mean, yeah, women have worse rights than men, but is it worse in Albania than in, say, Armenia, which is the oldest Christian country on this planet.
BTW, currently the logo is the rainbow flag. Funny reading your comment complaining about it not being there when it actually is. Now. You are arguing that LGBT being banned in the Russia and Palestine means that Christianity and Islam are religions against LGBT. I would like you to elaborate on that view, please!
Where would you say the slippery slope is leading to?
Nää aikoo siis ilmeisesti käyttää jotain kaupungin ulkopuolella sijaitsevia asemia. Saa nähdä, miten toimii. Jos saavat hinnan olemaan paljon matalampi kuin kilpailijalla, niin toki sitten matkustus halvennee Eurostarillakin?
Missähän vaiheessa Chunnelin rakennuskustannukset on kuoletettu? Periaatteessahan siinä vaiheessa sen todella korkeiden käyttömaksujen pitäisi madaltua?
This makes it very important for the various regions to cede from the Russia.
“China, you’ve got their bonds, but none of ours. You can get territories from the Russia in exchange for those bonds, but obviously not from us.”
It’s not about what China wants or doesn’t.
These bonds are sold to Russian civilians. Their idea is that they are a bit like tax, but the state will pay them back after the war – state bonds are a very secure investment. You give the state one million Rubbles and you know you’ll get back the same one million Rubbles plus a tiny tiny interest atop it. A very secure place to save your money.
It is a very interesting, and surprising, thing that they elected to denominate those bonds in Yuans instead of their own currency! Basically this means that people in the Russia don’t trust the stability of their country’s currency and would not buy the bonds if they were denominated in Russian Rubbles. They would believe that when they get their money back by selling the bond back to the state, the money will not be enough to pay a quarter of a loaf of bread, even if when they invested it, it was enough to furnish a home.
If the bonds are denominated in Rubbles, then the state will never be in trouble with them.
But now, with these ones being in Yuans: If the Rubble collapses, the bonds will retain their value. If the bond is worth 10 000 Yuans, then you pay their current value in Rubbles, which is a bit under 1 000 000 Rubbles. Then, if the value of the Rubble collapses, you still get 10 000 Yuans plus a very small interest back, but in the newly devaluated Rubbles that might be 1 000 000 000 Rubbles and ABRACADABRA: you have multiplied your money by one thousand. Good for you.
Except that…
If that happens, then how the heck is the Russia supposed to pay back those bonds? If you get one million and you need to pay back one billion, you’ve done a damn bad deal. And you will go bankrupt and you won’t pay back a thing.
So, if the Russia assumes that Russians won’t want to buy the bonds if they are denominated in Rubbles, why would they buy them if they are nominated in a foreign currency? It’s a safe investment because you know you will get your money back for sure. But in the case of the Russia, you don’t know that.
Of course, those bonds can be bought by anyone, not only Russian citizens. If China buys them, they can use those bonds to blackmail the Russia in the future: “If you don’t do as we say, we will sell you back your bonds and you will go bankrupt.”
So: All in all, it makes no sense for Russians to buy these bonds, but for China it does make sense.
So… If the Rubble loses much of its value, then the Russia won’t be able to pay these back at all?
If you use violence to build a system, you end up with a system with violence built in it.
Soviet Union had the idea of “Proletariat’s dictatorship”, which is so far detached from the core reasons that are used to justify socialism, that to me it looks ridiculous that people ever thought it could work.
It could be that the mass killing take place because people are trying to use force to install the new system.
They used to have a specific strategy for accomplishing this:
The USA provided military security for Europe so that Europe would not have any need to spend money for military. The USA’s goal was to minimize EU countries’ military spending so that USA would remain an uncontested military hegemon. That gives it a lot of influence that can be translated into actual cash.
At the same time, EU countries saved several percents of their GDP and could use it for the good of their own populations. It was a win-win situation.
But then the Russia organized this movement called “MAGA”, and that movement successfully cancelled the arrangement. (Funnily enough, the abbreviation “maga” comes from “make America great again”, which would suggest strategies for increasing USA’s influence, not diminishing it. But what do I know.)