Ah, I see, this is a "just post" community, and you carefully follow the rules by just posting and not actually reading the content you post at any point. Hats off to you.
Well, I know, but don't tell my ADHD brain that! This has forced me to listen to some tracks I wouldn't have otherwise and made me appreciate the art of album composition. Even if I don't particularly enjoy one of them, it still still combines with the others to become more than their sum.
Oh, also, there are turntables that allow you to skip tracks at the press of the button. But that ruins half the fun of vinyl for me.
Yea I forgot how the USSR going away meant that russia which ran the USSR didn’t side with the Nazis.
Both the west and USSR made deals with the nazis all the way until the war. Many US capitalists invested or outright donated to the reich.
Once the war began, USSR was the principal country which defeated nazis, look at the numbers of nazi soldiers who fought and died on western vs. eastern front. The US meanwhile sheltered nazi war criminals after the war.
The fuck are you on about, the US hasn’t been around long enough to pull hundreds of millions of deaths
US has been around for almost 250 years, and involved in a genocidal imperialist war (or at least a fascist coup) of some kind for almost that entire time. The hundreds of millions of excess deaths figure is a lower bound.
On top of that you’re suggesting that it’s murdered over half the population of the global South…
Currently, Global South is ~6 billion people (depending on which countries you count in), what are you on about...
Wait gaza is on us now?
Yes, guess who's providing all the cash, weapons, intelligence, diplomatic and military support to the genociders? US is directly responsible for the ongoing genocide, stop sending money&weapons and it ends in a week.
To be honest, Ukraine war is like 30% on US too, they supported outright nazis during Maidan which led to some real discontent in the east, which was abused by Russia to start the war.
All of these dictators are on russia…assad is in the list
Still magnitudes less bad than US shit. Look at the list of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_regime_change, except for like 5 countries during WW2 it's mostly fascist dictators being installed.
Sounds kinda like you are excusing them
Re-read all my messages. I am not excusing russia. I am just clarifying that the issues with the US are not due to Russia, they are due to the system of surplus value extraction and imperialism which has been around for its entire existence. Focusing on russia and russian influence will not help you at all, in much the same way as deporting immigrants won't help the MAGAts.
Current russian dictatorship is the shittiest since late-stage stalinism, but trump and republicans were not elected "on behalf of russia", they were elected on behalf of your own billionaires trying to gain influence and extract more profit.
this entire thread has been you excusing them with whataboutism of the USA
This thread is about a meme blaming neocon fascism, the most american thing in existence, on russia.
Your culture is so obsessed with the red scare bullshit that a twisted version of it now percolated into liberal or even progressive circles, which is really convenient for the ruling class. Open your eyes, know your main enemy.
NGL I'm currently super busy with the life main quest line. I promise I'll be back to my 25000 side projects whenever that's done!
145 megs is a lot NGL. You used to be able to do all those tasks (sans the autocomplete) on a PC with 64 megs of ram.
One literally sided with Nazis and has killed millions via famine
The other is USSR
The USA has some atrocious imperialism but we’re not russia level of murdering.
How delusional do you have to be to believe that is beyond my comprehension. I guess this is the end result of the american education system.
The US is directly responsible for hundreds of millions of deaths from famine, horrendous working conditions, or just outright war, all around the global south. Heck, it was founded upon genocide of immense proportions (96% of native population eradicated), which was so bad that nazis used it as a blueprint for the holocaust.
Russian war crimes in Ukraine are horrible but are nothing compared to the hell on earth created by your fascist country in just the last two years. Compare the civilian death tool in Gaza vs Ukraine to see for yourself. In absolute terms, your country is the single most evil entity on this planet.
This does not excuse putin and his cronies, I hope to see them all do hard labor in prison for the rest of their miserable existence, together with all american presidents and their accomplices.
Haha, stupid donald, ikr? The US military servicemembers will follow illegal genocidal orders for free, as long as there are brown people getting maimed or killed. The cheque would be a nice bonus at most.
I semi-agree. A phone is better in any practical way.
But there is something magical about interacting with mechanical (and electromechanical) stuff.
Sometimes I really love putting a record on a record table, flipping a switch, and gently lowering the stylus into the groove. There's no track skip, no fast-forward, you just sit there and listen to an entire album at once. The quality is worse than what I could get from YouTube or something, but it feels so much more engaging.
And it's not nostalgia either, my childhood music was on cassettes and later CDs, and I feel less attracted to either of those.
I would probably absolutely hate it if it was the only music format available to me. But the contrast with modern digital music blasted from a depression rectangle is what probably makes it so appealing to me.
At this point, I can't see any other reason you'd stick to blaming "the russians" for the state of your country. Even if putin has kompromat on trump, putin is not the reason republicans hold all three branches of your government.
Face it: whatever threat Russia poses wasn't a major factor in getting trump elected. It was paid for by US oligarchs, not putin.
This is my daily driver at the moment - X201s modded with a 51nb motherboard with i7-10710u (a.k.a X2100). A lot of geo nerd cred to whomever can guess the location by the mountains :)
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/33203710
Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.
Sunrise in Wadi Rum desert. Taken from my phone with OpenCamera's stacked HDR.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32177363
Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.
Moon rising during sunset. Taken from Gombori mountain. Nikon D700, 85mm, cropped.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31830215
I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly :)
This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.
The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.
I liked posting a picture here so I think I will try to do it weekly :)
This is what the dawn of January 1st 2025 looked like for me. We've slept in my van through the night to get this view. The temperature was about -20℃ but it was worth it in the end.
The flats in the picture is the frozen Lake Paravani and the mountains are the Samsari ridge.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/31459711
Since today is my first cake day, I've decided it's time to post instead of commenting. This is a picture I took last month on my phone through binoculars. Taken from Gomismta, the mountains you see are the Main Caucasian Ridge.
Since today is my first cake day, I've decided it's time to post instead of commenting. This is a picture I took last month on my phone through binoculars. Taken from Gomismta, the mountains you see are the Main Caucasian Ridge.
Yep, if this is in the US I think they also have some crazy rule about tipped workers getting a much lower minimum wage, $2 per hour or some shit like that. I'd tip them if I could afford it.