Tuukka R

Tabasco’s owners have been supporting the Russia in its war of genocide.

A company doing that is no way “good dudes”.

Uh, the Russia is doing that on every possible platform. Why would ours be an exception? What makes Lemmy so special?

Mathematics and languages have different rules.

In languages it is possible for one century to be a yewa shorter than all the others. Other centuries begin on a year divisible by hundred, but centuries 1–99 and -1–-99 don’t. They are both missing a year, and outside mathematics that’s just fine.

If almost all native speakers of a language say that a century begins in a year divisible by hundred then that’s how it goes in that language.

On working days before 16 o’clock bank transfers inside EU are instantaneous. After that, next working day. If the shop has the same bank as the customer, it’s always instantaneous.

But, the shop receives immediate confirmation that the money has been successfully taken from the customer’s account and will arrive soon.

…which is actually how it works with card payments as well. With card payments, the shop receives the money about a week later, but gets an immediate confirmation that the money is on the way.

Handling cash costs money as well.

I’d like to know who got the idea to name the system with a word meaning “tax” in Finnish, one of the official languages of EU… Both are related to money, so there is a possibility for confusion.

(We used to always use w, and had a reform some ~century ago to allow using v instead. Therefore, w is considered another form of v in Finnish, and thereby wero equals vero)

Online you pay by bank transfer. Instead of “credit card”, I choose “online bank”, click my bank’s name, enter my online banking login and password, give one of the single-use codes and press “transfer”. A bank transfer from my account to the bank account number defined by the shop is made, no money goes to USA.

Diplomatic immunity is in effect only for people invited to the country as diplomats. The ambassador of USA to Finland does not have immunity when he travels to Sweden.

What I wonder: what are the laws regarding a person coming to Greenland in order to work there as a worker of a foreign company/organization? Did Vance enter Greenland as a tourist? Since he was working from Greenland’s soil without a work visa, was he an illegal immigrant?

Three weeks with lights constantly on, amirite?

No visas are needed between Europe and USA. EU will very soon begin an ESTA-like scheme, but that’s not in effect yet. And, since Greenland is not in EU, probably it won’t come into effect either.

Vance could therefore simply appear at the border and the one individual border guard is then alone responsible for deciding whether to allow or refuse entry for USA’s vice president.

I spent two months in 2015 in Ukraine, then hitchhiked some weeks in the Russia. Almost all drivers kept telling me how Ukraine is a failing state, how their roads are full of bandits, how Ukrainians hate speakers of Russian language and torture them or how Ukraine “has been bombing Donetsk”. And when I told them I had spent that long in Ukraine because I found love there and that my Ukrainian girlfriend’s mother tongue was Russian and our sole language of communication both between each other and with the society around was Russian they kept saying the same:

" The Ukrainians only showed you what they wanted you to see". To me telling that I had been spending plenty of time alone doing shopping or whatever, and hitchhiked all around the western third of Ukraine, they tended to say “clearly they still didn’t show you their true self”.

It’s not something they were saying against their real knowledge. It was very clearly what they “knew” to be true.

They do a seriously big effort to actively maintain an illusion in their head that their country is in the right, and they are truly supportive of its actions. It’s not all of Russians, but it is 90 % of them. Or at least 70 % even according to the research most good-looking for them. It is a nation gone mad. If you read their study books for mathematics or Russian language and see how full they are of propaganda about Russian history, it’s clear where that comes from.

If they went to Russian school, their brain is rotten for good. Unless they are an exceptional personality. In which case they have already emigrated.

VoIP means any online call, including Zoom-to-Zoom or Skype-to-Skype or Discord-to-Discord.

Most VoIP programs don’t support calling regular telephone numbers.

Well, the word “automatically” is an exaggeration. For example, if it was a close call and it seems you were in the court fairly, then the losing side might not have to pay up, at least not in full. But often they do. Better settle if you think you’ll lose. It’s a lot cheaper that way.

When it is cleae it will otherwise come to that, the companies tend to just comply. The thing is, tge value of the seized property is considered to be hiw much it can be sold for, not how useful it is for the company or how much they paid for it.

When Tesla is threatened by seizing a machine used for car manufacturing that they bought for 250 000 €, but there is no other car factory that has a need for another one one of those devices unless its dirt cheap, then it might be the machine will be seized, its valued to have a resale value of 15 000 €, and after the altogether 4000 € of missing salaries to various workers are paid, the remaining 11 000 will be paid back to the company. Which can then buy another machine like that for 250 000 €. Or, if they are lucky maybe buy their noe dismantled machine back?

In any case, that’s such a horribly bad deal for the company that they definitely choose the 90 % cheaper option of just paying their debt to the workers. So, it doesn’t really ever come to actual seizing. Either they can pay the original debt or they can’t because they are bankrupt. Either way, no seizing. But it is absolutely possible to carry it through, should some company really want to be that stupid.

Nope. The goal is to call regular telephone numbers from your computer.

They were people who either were in support of the genocide of Ukrainians or angry that the attempt to conquer Ukraine was done in a manner far bloodier than they had hoped for.

There are Russians who aren’t in either of those two groups, but they are very few – among the ones I know, about 5%. Those who aren’t in those two groups cannot stand the rest of the Russians and would definitely choose a submarine ride where they are the only Russian.

In other words: since they were many Russians in the submarine, and not people from a lot of various countries with one or two Russians among them, they were definitely actively or passively supporting a war of genocide.

I would not accept hating all Russian citizens, because I do have a couple of very good friends that are Russian citizens and are absolutely unambigously against what the Russia is doing. But, those are a very surprisingly tiny minority among the people of the Russia 😢

China doesn’t need to push the transitioning. Juat like you said, the previous time that push was done by the west. The same west can do the same push again.

Why for the EU?

It’s much easier to produce military hardware than to set up a large trading network.

Remember, we only need to have enough to decisively stop the Russia. We don’t need to become another US military power.

I would be surprised if Donald hadn’t done precisely that in its childhood.

The original life-size mechanical t-rex from the first Jurassic Park movie.

Not me. Probably nobody? 🤷

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