Barbarian

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[–] Barbarian 1 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Is this situation the same for support for Trump in the US?

I haven't gone too in-depth into this, but a quick search show a 50/50 split in favorable vs unfavorable opinions of Trump. Last time I took a look, serious pollsters who found interesting ways of measuring support for Putin in Russia without endangering those participating found generally a 33/33/33 split between those in favor of Putin, those against, and those with no opinion (part of the intentional depoliticizing of the Russian population).

So, I guess it's vaguely accurate to say there's more people that dislike Trump in the US compared to Putin in Russia, but also more people that like him.

[–] Barbarian 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

He only brought a plucked chicken carcass to forum once

"We know that man is a featherless biped..."

"BEHOLD! PLATO'S MAN!"

"Fucking Diogenes."

[–] Barbarian 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yup. MAGAs are just as American as any other American. If they really want to deal with this, just whinging like elected Democrats isn't gonna help. They've got to actually organize in meatspace.

[–] Barbarian 10 points 1 week ago

Wouldn't have mattered even if true. Physical access trumps everything. Worst case scenario, if they really wanted to, they could reverse engineer the primer & guidance system, then replace the originals with their own.

Keep in mind that Ukraine was a massive hub for military industry in the USSR.

[–] Barbarian 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (8 children)

It's gonna be interesting watching to see if all the "All Russian people are complicit because they don't rise up and kick Putin out" crowd actually put their money where their mouths are and show them how it's done, or if it was all bluster.

To be clear, I hope it's the former but I think it's the latter.

[–] Barbarian 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As far as I'm aware, originally it was a horror-themed critique of mindless consumerism (which is why malls are the most common backdrop). Could be wrong, but that's what I remember reading.

[–] Barbarian 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Barbarian 8 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

What's stopping him making an executive order claiming he can do it, use that as an excuse to run a clearly illegal campaign, use his control of the FEC to win and dare anyone to do smth about it?

[–] Barbarian 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Has there been any progress on dropping tarrifs between provinces?

[–] Barbarian 17 points 3 weeks ago

Support networks are so incredibly important to parents. Don't have kids of my own, but am helping with my sibling's kids. Babysitting and just general support split with my parents. Thankfully, they don't need financial help but that'd be on the cards if it came to it.

Support networks like this, whether it's family, neighbours, friends or some combination is almost mandatory if you're not very wealthy. It takes a village to raise a child, after all.

[–] Barbarian 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm sure some large percentage are bots, and another percentage are trolls.

[–] Barbarian 4 points 3 weeks ago

Wow, it's almost like there might be people with different opinions that use Linux and Linux users aren't a single hivemind.

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I tried everything, from Esc, Ctrl-C, REISUB, even ctrl-alt-delete.

I gave up and held down the power button

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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Barbarian to c/main
 

Imma preface this by saying that I'm not an admin or mod here, these are just my thoughts & advice on the matter.

You've noticed that a community doesn't exist on Lemmy. I'm going to assume you've checked the community browser, and seen that that specific community doesn't exist. So, you've gone to communities, typed in the name, and are about to hit create.

Well, hold up a second. There's an INSANE amount of community spam going on in lemmy.ml, and it looks like it's starting here to a much lesser degree.

Some questions you should ask:

  1. Are you creating this community just to create it? By that I mean, are you willing to put in the work as the moderator if it does take off?

  2. Is it a niche community of a larger subset that has a thriving community or a completely new category?

  3. Are you willing to regularly post stuff to start seeding comments & advertise it in the relevant places?

If the answer to any of these is no, get your cursor off that create button and go join the bigger communities. It just makes it harder to find communities that aren't 100% dead when half of them are dead-ends created just because 'they exist on Reddit'. Once there are enough people are visiting [email protected], they spill over into [email protected] if they want more focused TTRPG stuff. Once there are enough people on [email protected], they'll spill over to my Shadowrun group. Lots of communities are fractal in nature, and people are skipping a few steps. The userbase needs time to grow and mature.

Please think before you make a community.

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/12397

The crazily developed world of German Shadowrun

I hope it's ok if I cross-post this. I understood that /c/[email protected] is also for TTRPG, and Shadowrun German lore is pretty wild

 

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/12397

The crazily developed world of German Shadowrun

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