When I was younger, I naively believed that if the genocides of the past had occurred in our age of developed social media, the world would have stopped them sooner.

​And then Ukraine was attacked in this very age of developed social media: an era where everyone has their own "version of truth";

From my perspective outside the US, it was a big story in 2013, but now that it happens every few years, it's "nothing new, the US doing its usual political ritual". Same for the debt ceiling / impending default every few years.

Switzerland, canton Aargau. Green fields. Houses behind the fields. Mountains in the background. A few trees between houses. Early spring. No leaves except for the few conifer trees.

Switzerland, canton Aargau
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Швейцарія, кантон Ааргау

I'm a SWE, and the one colleague I've seen get a non-negligible productivity boost from it uses it as a kind of "accessibility" tool to offset the effects of their neurodivergent condition.

2022: it's a wake-up call for Europe
2023: it's a wake-up call for Europe
2024: it's a wake-up call for Europe
2025: it's a wake-up call for Europe

І це чудово

Russians dropped a glide bomb on elderly people who were waiting in line for their pensions. More than 20 dead.

Please. Don’t look away and don’t be silent. This is all I could ask for

The delusional Russian dictator has apparently forgotten to take his pills.

Putin: "We withdrew troops from Kyiv because the Europeans asked us to."

Those troops:

OTD in 1939 Adolf Hitler began his special military operation to protect ethnic Germans from persecution by Poland.

Imagine such a bullshit excuse today

EU and the US imposed direct sanctions on russia back in 2022, but those are not good enough as russia just sells its oil to China and India instead. As a Ukrainian, I'm rooting for secondary sanctions - those can save lives. The caveat is that I doubt he'll do it - TACO.

Coming from a poor background, I've seen plenty of both. Poor kind 1 is exactly like you describe, and my parents are of this kind. Poor kind 2 won't give a f and would drink, do drugs, and gamble, even if that means their kids literally freaking starving.

I have googled (before Gemini) something similar. Because normal rest heart rate is allegedly 60-100, but my watch says mine is ~49-52. Apparently it's both common and _probably_ fine. I'm too fat to call myself much of an athlete though.

We might already be seeing some of that. The Tea hack, the vulnerability is so dumb that many people suspect it was vibe coded.

Musk ordered shutdown of Starlink satellite service as Ukraine retook territory from Russia A previously unreported order by Elon Musk to cut satellite communications over a portion of Ukraine disrupted a counteroffensive by Kyiv in the autumn of 2022. Reuters investigated the billionaire's order and its implications for countries increasingly reliant on his Starlink internet service.

As Ukrainian forces were advancing in Kherson province in September 2022, Elon Musk cut off Starlink
www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Просто пиздець, а не день

This is what Russia does to Ukrainian nature.

I still see people in media and elsewhere referring to Igor Girkin as the "former Donbas separatist" or "leader of Donbas separatists". He is neither. He is a Russian intelligence agent. A Russian mercenary. And a wanted Russian war criminal.

PySide - Python with a Side of SIGSEGV and having to think about objects' lifetimes and dangling references. Lovely.

This should be pushed in the face of every uneducated scum that praises the ussr. But I doubt it will work because those idiots can't read.

#UkrainianView

Though looking at the video, that's not particularly relevant as the guy uses public bicycle, where bicycle bags that attach at the back are not usually an option.

For cycling specifically - meh: once it's 30C+, your back will be sweaty, and your backpack will be covered in white salty stains. Upgrading to a bicycle bag that attaches at the back of the bicycle was 100% worth it.

Amerikanere stemte dørklokker i Nuuk før aflyst besøg, siger Steinmetz Repræsentanter for den amerikanske regering har i de seneste dage stemt dørklokker i Grønlands hovedstad, Nuuk, forud for det nu aflyste besøg fra USA's andend...

American officials in Greenland went door-to-door to find people willing to be photographed with Usha Vance. No takers. Which is wise – who wants to look like a collaborator?
nyheder.tv2.dk/live/2025-01...

If you ever wondered how the KGB manipulated foreigners and got them to repeat Soviet propaganda, spend some time listening to Steve Witkoff talk about his wonderful conversations with Vladimir Putin.

I’m the Canadian who was detained by Ice for two weeks. It felt like I had been kidnapped I was stuck in a freezing cell without explanation despite eventually having lawyers and media attention. Yet, compared with others, I was lucky

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

As a language learner, I'm happy that they choose to document "irregardless" and all the other WORDS that are controversial and maybe incorrect but commonly used.

The loophole is that skincare products are not normally considered medical products.

There's pressure from the UK and Europe to, and maybe there's hope to get some of the intelligence and aid back. I suspect it's kinda futile though, similar to the negotiations with russia in Istanbul in March 2022.

Ukraine is negotiating with the US, Saudi Arabia mostly just hosting the talks. I think Saudi Arabia is the US' choice.

The world must never forget what Russia did to Mariupol.

He's already older than life expectancy in the US. Nature might just do its thing.