@LaFinlandia from behind it kinda looks like a coffin with a boat engine, which is kinda fitting for its purpose.
@Enkrod I see where you are going, but Eastern Europe generally has a lot to go in order to get inclusion right. Like, right now, one of the two larger far right parties in here (yes, we have two and we sent them both to Brussels) are heavily promoting an initiative to add into constitution the fact that a family can only be composed of a man and a woman, as well as the right to pay with cash (yes, I know how crazy that sounds, it doesn't matter what happens in reality). And we're already in both the EU and NATO.
First the USSR crushed Poland, then the Baltics (the last one still in one piece in the pic is Lithuania), then it's Romania. Then you know which ball is the big blue one, then all previously crushed states join NATO, then in the last pic the ball in the right is Russia.
@Ulara the US and pretty much everyone in the world became spoiled about how warfare should be fought. Probably there's also the memory of WW2 when entire cities were leveled to 0 in bombings and shelling, so the alternative of carrying an urban fight became more desirable. Despite this, Russia seems to not care about this fact and actually bomb and level entire cities and other settlements to the ground instead.
@0x815 at this point no one willing to live a civilized life (i.e. in the city and just about any sort of settlement) has any reason to stay in Russia whatsoever. There's no point in living like a fugitive, like some sort of a criminal just to avoid drafting.
It's sad that it happens this way though.
@CoderSupreme This would sadly also be easier for any interested party to block it. i.e. ISPs could block it easier, copyright holders could have an easier time suing the platform owners and have it shut down and if the platform gets big and popular enough (like, for example, how YouTube is for videos of any sort) some content that would be hosted exclusively on that platform would likely be gone for good.
For a platform this big to survive and serve its original purpose, unhindered by DMCAs and stuff, it would be really, really hard.
Plus, the internet now is more regulated than it was 20-30 years ago when nowadays popular names like Piratebay first appeared.
And I personally don't mind going to a few dozen websites that only a handful of people on the internet know in order to get my stuff. If any of that website gets too popular, it risks closure. Better to only have 1 website of these closed instead of all these.
@0x815 I always when I see news like this I sit and think whether in a similar situation it would be worth risking my life, my integrity, my career etc. just to make a statement against the government.
I don't think I could resist after some point.
I have huge respect for such people!
@Kuro I came across this post from the federated feed and I was unsure why there was a post telling Jerboa to die. Then I realised I was reading a post in German, lol.
@neme So you can scan any document in Google Wallet, and scan any document in the Files app as well, and in Google Drive. Thanks, Google, for another round of service duplication!