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And it's not like Putin is going to the front, or will be impoverished.
So many great songs! Glad to see my man Boy Golden making it through to the International Lemmyvision!
The real treasure was the ~~friends we made along the way!~~ new music we were exposed to along the way! I had never heard of Angine de Poitrine before this years Lemmyvision nominations, thank you for the nominations, and the discussion!
Came for the tunes, stayed for the discussion on normalized vs inverted Borda Count.
Putin still has minions in the EU post-Orban, but no doubt the Russian position keeps getting worse and worse.
The US no longer sends any aid to Ukraine I understand, they simply are delivering equipment that EU countries have bought on behalf of Ukraine. This was a big win for Putin, but nowhere big enough. Add in EU shell manufacturing capacity growing so fast, along with just the general revitalization of EU arms manufacturing, I think the US' support is becoming less and less critical. Given the broad support Ukraine enjoys in the US, I would expect this to reverse in a few years, so there is another clock ticking for Russia.
Honestly, putting myself in Putin's shoes, it's one of two things. First, he has so successfully insulated himself, he has no idea how things are going. Second, he's just continuing to attack because to stop would mean his ouster and likely execution.
So long as Russia continues the war, Putin has an easier time of fending off potential internal enemies. Thousands of ordinary Russians will suffer and many die, but that's a sacrifice he's willing to make to keep holding on to power.
The longer he can hold on, the more chances subverting can change for him.
I think it's more of an "ESH" (everyone sucks here) situation. Falun Gong is a cult, and their Epoch Times "newspaper" is pretty much trash, but China has engaged in an extensive transnational repression campaign, and one of their targets is Falun Gong.
This BBC article from 2023 focuses on an incident in New York, but touches on others.
Glad fellow Dan Mangan fans are on top of this!
Did you play 1st edition, circa 1989? The original decking rules are pretty well represented in the recent Sega Shadowrun game from 1994, just a few years ago.
It's an entire solo dungeon sort of experience, while the rest of the group watches the decker and GM play a one on one game.
It was radically streamlined for 2nd edition on, but it took me a while to notice, since Deckers were always NPCs and decking was just exposition for years.
Forgive the formatting, I'm feeling fragile, probably from my advanced age.
I've got lots of time, I'm only… oh sh1t.
Okay, technically late, but I'm surprised no one nominated The Beaches - Last Girls At The Party (English). It's probably a little mainstream for Lemmy? Seems to be getting lots of radio play, and fairly popular (or at least Canadian popular).
I'll nominate them, if an exception can be made, even though I already nominated a couple of other songs. Otherwise, add them to the playlist and jam out. The real prize is the music we listened to along the way.





Now that you say that, I did set up another RSS reader to display a Lemmy RSS. Thunderbird sports RSS, therefore…