The Menemen

Did the meaning of “neoliberals” change? Didn’t that mean conservative economically liberal people like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney?

How can they justify unpaid mods when the sub is paid?

I just find reddit inconvenient nowadays.

The soviets saved the world, but Stalin was a monster ntl.

Old people in Russia will not remember the Stalin era, but the Khrushchev era (the post-gulag era, famous for de-stalinization) and the Brezhnev era. Old people also tend to romatisize their youth. And romatisizing the Soviet Union is mixed with ethno-nationalism in current days Russia.

I consider myself a socialist, but stalinism is dog-shit.

Ah, the Greek prime minister visited a wanted war criminal yesterday, Hungary invited said wanted war criminal yesterday and Germanies capital declared the capital of the wanted war criminal as a partner city yesterday.

That was just one day. The EU is also a rogue organization.

Hmm.

One of the notable issues is that this process also won’t delete all of your data — according to 23andMe’s privacy disclosure, your genetic information, date of birth, and sex will be retained for an undisclosed amount of time to comply with the company’s legal obligations,

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3 of these 17 territories are colonies of the USA (American Samoa, Guam, Virgin Islands).

When it comes to Europe the extortion of former colonies might be the bigger problem (the Franc Zone or the ongoing exploitation of African ressources).

Anti-imperialism would make more sense. The US is not the only asshole… (Edit: Just the current worst one.)

Paper, all metalls and glass. Collecting organic waste for either compost or, if your city does this, biogas plants is also good.

Reacting with “I agree” instead of 👍 in the reaction field can completely disrupt a conversation.

I use posteo.de/en for email and we use the calender as a shared family calender with my wife.

Works fine for me, but we don’t really use the calender to share events with others, so I am not sure how well that works.

Wasn’t this just to make grafittis on the seats invisible enough to determine potential teenage artists?

Cyber eyes. I have thick glasses and a lot of floaters, so many that I cannot even tell if my glasses are clean or not most of the time.

But naturally they’d need to look natural and be with zoom, infrared, night vision, a camera function and a video playing function (no wireless functions though).

In Germany real estate became significantly cheaper in many parts (not all, not e.g. Berlin or Hamburg). In my north German mid size city we had ~15 percent price reduction in the last 2 years. In our neighbour city they even had 25%.

On the other hand, I know people who sold their houses when prices where high, invested their money and are happy renters now. It apparently can be a lot better financially according to many experts (here in Germany, no idea about the US).

The UAE defintly showed that other countries can do this.

Russia also still holds a lot of their traditional soft power in many countries, including several EU countries. They also greatly increased their softpower by helping to get far right parties into power or at least signinificant influence in several EU countries (like Orban or Germany just 2 days ago).

On the other hand Russia manouvered itself into a very weak geostrategical position lately (Ukraine and Syria). Everyone noticed that and this will likely lead to some restructuring in several regions, unlikely to be in Russias favour.

I currently find it really hard to make assumptions about Russias role in the mid-term future. That is also, why I didn’t mention Russia in my post.

My guess is China will fill the void left by the disintegration of USAID in order to boost its global standing.

China will take large chunks. But I think we will also see a decentralization as china won’t be able to take it all. Countries like Turkey, Malaysia, Brazil and so on will probably increase their regional soft powers a lot.

This process also already started years ago, but will be catalyzed by this.

A water bottle with a sport cap is a sufficient travel bidet.