“Switzerland will do its best to ensure these benefit the Venezuelan population”

Doubt

Good point. Thanks comrade.

This is a physics question. But the current laws of physics do not allow for going backwards in time, certainly no way for anything to interact with a past version of itself, so even if, IF it was possible under some future model that will replace the current one, there’s no way to predict what would happen with the current model because the current model says it doesn’t happen.

It’s like asking pre-Copernicus physics to calculate the movement of different star systems around a galaxy.

UN worker

uses “”“normal people”“” to refer to the imperial core

Checks out

Don’t wanna be the kind of person who says “yet you live in jsociety”

Yet you chose to be that kind of person.

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it’s homogenous

Ah so the US will be even more of a common enemy.

Dear American libs: Think about what you’ve been saying about Russians and please start saying all of those about yourselves. Think about how much you wished every Russian to suffer and it’s only fair to wish the exact same amount for yourself.

Remember how little you were willing to distinguish between the people and the government and I better not see you give any more leeway to your own country.

I don’t want to hear any “but i don’t support it” bullshit out of you after the vitriol you spewed about the Russian ethnicity and culture using the Ukraine war as your cover while getting all high and mighty about not being racist. You deserve as much empathy and sympathy as you give to others.

And don’t forget to carry seeds in your pockets so useful things grow out of you when you die :)

Because US regime changes have such a high rate of improving the lives of the people.

“I develop customer retention algorithms for gambling apps.”

Talk is cheap. No brownie points until something actually changes.

Ah fuck he’s going to drag the other NATO countries into this isn’t he.

Seriously I hate the holier than thou “we['re the only ones that] care about cultural and racial rights” attitude the West has almost as much I hate the actual racism and cultural erasure that goes on here. I hate how people will bend over backwards twisting every fact and theory to justify this as “not about anti-Russian racism” and then in the very next breath twist everything the other way to justify how any amount of criticism of Israel’s genocide is “antisemitic.”

The “people” vs “government” dichotomy people have is also infuriating. Any Westerner when confronted about the West’s atrocities will instinctively say “oh but that’s my GOVERNMENT that’s like that, I’m just little old John Nobody who didn’t get to choose the society I was born into or what the elite of my country does, I don’t like it either.” Which could be a valid argument if they didn’t then go “oh those Russians are all Asiatic orcs, every single one of them personally wants to kill every Ukrainian so punishing average Russians is absolutely the way to punish Putin’s war.”

They consider incompatible with their values to mandate foreign actors indentify as such.

Lol so they’re so incompetent they can’t look past “does this guy speak Russian?” In their foreign actor counterintelligence?

This is cartoon level shit, like something you’d see from American Dad. Also they’re in for a real surprise when they learn about modern pre Caesar espionage tactics talking about choosing actors fluent in the language of your target.

Silver lining I guess

I’ve heard reasons for it like "women’s bathroom needs places to dispose of pads/tampons but, like, it’s a box on the wall. Put one in both.

Also heard reasons along the lines of “men are faster at using the bathroom so why should we need to share with women” (even though with single bathrooms the washing your hands part is the time bottleneck, not the peeing part) or just general disgust at the idea of sharing a bathroom with the other gender (have heard it from both genders).

Reside: Vancouver. Biased because I mostly grew up here and am lucky enough to still live here but I really do think it’s something special.

Vacation: Probably Qing Huang Dao. Gorgeous Chinese beach city that I’ve only ever been to twice in my childhood, but it’s also really nostalgic for that reason.

Party (hardest one for me because I don’t party): Wanted to say New York or Vegas because nothing in Canada really compares to those, but with current events and my skin colour I’m going with Toronto instead. Like to not end up at a concentration camp while partying, but more generally because I know the laws of my own country better than somewhere else which I feel is a benefit if you want to party.

Then that’s not Lemmy. That’s Voat or any of the other first wave Reddit alternatives.

Not trying to say you don’t belong here, but that the cross reference stuff are the foundational principles Lemmy is built on.

I don’t drive so it has more to do with the quality and reliability of transit going to a place than how many traveling minutes it is. Taking a train cross region feels faster than taking a bus cross town even if they take the same time because the train is more frequent, much more reliable, and generally has a lower mental barrier and therefore lower perceived distance.

Transfers also add significant perceived distance even if they don’t add much actual travel time, because it’s more annoying than just sitting or standing there. The timing of your next bus is also another thing that can go wrong and significantly delay your trip. I often find myself choosing physically longer routes that have fewer transfers.

Generally, if I’m near the train system, everywhere on the current line is “close” because it’s a one seat ride away on the highest quality transit mode. If not, I’d say 10 stops in either direction on the bus lines that directly serve the street I’m on is similarly “close.” Relatively, I consider one train stop to have the same “closeness” as two or three bus stops regardless of distance, but only because I would just walk if it was one or two bus stops away.

Also, because I’m walking for my last mile transport, everything feels significantly closer when the weather is favourable. Rain adds some distance but I live in Vancouver so I’ve mostly stopped caring. If it snows though, everything outside my house isn’t “close” anymore because of the gauntlet of death Vancouver streets turn into when snow or ice is involved.