It is now.

The media across countries is referring to the proposal as if it was a serious peace plan. Because of that, it is now widely seen as a serious peace plan across the international community.

Well, it has a kernel of truth.

But yeah, the nazis were funded by Kremlin. Because of losing their main source of income in most of Ukraine, after 2014 the prevalence of far-right extremist attacks has decreased everywhere in the rest of Ukraine, but risen in Crimea and the occupied Donbas. In 2014 Ukraine’s armed forces were a joke, because they figured nobody will ever attack Ukraine and even if someone does, the Russia will come for help. Therefore, the main function of their armed forces was to be free workforce for the highest officers. Almost no useful training in use of weapons took place. The only people who really understood something about fighting were the Russia-funded nazis. And, being nationalists, they then refused to allow the Russia to take over Ukraine in 2014. After that, Ukraine began a sllloooowww process of dismantling the nazi organizations, which was extremely dangerous, because those organizations were stronger than Ukraine’s armed forces and were dreaming of taking over Kyiv. But, by around 2018 all of those units had been integrated into Ukraine’s armed forces and watered down so that new recruits could join them without having to encounter nazism.

Ukraine has done an extremely good job neutering the nazi organizations implanted there by the Russia. It’s beem a huge error by the western press that this process was not written about between 2014 and 2022. There were articles about it – at least in Finland – around year 2005 when Putin originally started funding nazis in countries tied to the Russia, but after that… Nothing.
It’s true that the Russia was stopped by its own nazis in 2014, but it’s untrue that those nazis were connected to Ukraine’s government.

They’re in the process of untangling it, though! if only they can convince the white car on the rightmost lane coming fromt he upper side of the picture to turn some 30° right, one of the directions will be able to move. Once all cars from that side of the city have passed the intersection, the ones coming from the lower right of the image can go. And once all of them have gone, maybe in a day or two, it’s the turn for the truck carrying liquid concrete to move onwards!

Norwegian is just Swedish with a somewhat hot potato in your mouth. Plus you need to be jumping up and down while speaking.

(And Danish is the same but with a scalding potato in your mouth, but no jumping.)

The picture is of American drivers, though.

Seems they do. That’s what the yellow markings on the road are for.

Ah, so the object slides a very little bit, causing printed filament to be in a spot where there should be none yet, which produces a tiny hill that might even slide another quarter a millimetre and gather even more filament on top of it, at which point the object to be printed touches the extruder?

DeepL makes very good translations. Maybe consider using that?

Well… BRD considered DDR an illegal occupation whose decisions never took place. For example in the ID cards people born in Karl-Marx-Stadt suddenly said they are born in Chemnitz, because the reunified Germany considered that the city had never legally changed its name.

So, if we take that interpretation, then the 1972 should not be mentioned at all, because it was not done by a legitimate state apparatus but was more like a wild murder instead. This, if we take the BRD view to the situation. This has the nice effect of censoring a bad deed DDR did.

We could of course also claim that the last execution in BRD took place in 1972. But, ehm… Does that really make more sense than just letting all reunified countries be shown in their pre-reunification form so that the deeds of murderous regimes won’t get whitewashed?

Good to see what the everyday life around the trenches looks like.

Englannin ylivalta on tosi haitallista pienimmille kielille. Kun esim. kaikki yliopistotutkimus on englanniksi, suomesta meinaa tulla jonkinlainen vaillinainen kieli. Tää on kehitys, joka täytyy torjua!

Täällä oli tänään miinus kaksi. Kaksitoista ei ole lainkaan paha! Oon kade! :))

I’d assumeits biodegradation takes 5 years instead of something like 10 000 years of conventional plastics

In English language, I presume.

No aspirated occlusives.
d, b and g sometimes get replaced by t, p and k respectively (but without the aspiration!)
s, sh and z sometimes get conflagrated into s, ch sometimes into ts.
Generally, the rich English inventory of different sounds is reduced to a bit over 15 sounds.
The stress is usually on the first syllable.
S and t are pronounced from a slightly different part of the mouth than typical in English.
Then… You can also hear that I used to be talking quite a lot with Scottish people. It’s funny how that sometimes makes itself visible.

This lead me to wondering: Do the Fahrenheit people talk about sub-zero as well?!

I had never thought of that possibility. 0 degrees is just generally cold, but -17,778 degrees is already in the area of “seriously cold”.

Where the hell did he shoot at? Just horizontally along the street?! In the centre of a city?! I’d assume a warning shot is shot upwards so that it will most only be able to hit someone if they happen to be standing in one specific spot and not so that everything in the next couple hundred metres, including people inside the buildings behind the windows, are at risk.

Okay, the dude was pissed drunk, but shouldn’t he still have some instinct of what the hell NOT to do with a gun?!

Just use something where you compile everything from sources in a way that just works, such as NetBSD. Not technically a distro, but whatever, should do the job just fine :)

Klarna can also be used for payments directly from your bank account. They probably didn’t have another platform for handling that internationally. Much nicer than using a bank card for the payment!

(Well, okay: That site has elected to disable that feature. I tried choosing Helsinki, Finland as delivery location and payment by Klarna, and all I got was this:

Kiitos kun harkitsit Klarnaa

Arvostamme kiinnostustasi fiksumpaa maksutapaa kohtaan. Valitettavasti joustavat maksuvaihtoehtomme eivät ole juuri nyt saatavilla tällä alueella tai tälle valuutalle.

Tiedämme, ettei tämä ole paras mahdollinen tilanne, mutta toivomme pian tarjoavamme maksuvaihtoehtojamme useammissa paikoissa.

So, they don’t want to use Klarna for what would actually be a fair and sensible thing, only for the bad stuff. Heh.)

Why does this work?

Or, more precisely: Why does the dirty plate cause this balling-up?

Nah, we in Finland tend to disagree.

My grandfather was evacuated from Karelia because Soviet Union occupied his hown town. And he would have deserved to get back to his childhood sceneries.

But now he’s dead, of old age.
When I visited Karelia, I saw how everything was destroyed. It is one of the poorer parts of the Russia. Everything is incredibly derelict and rotten. You can kind of see some Finnish roots here and there in the architecture, but all in all, it’s no longer reasonably salvageable. It would drain mad amounts of money to get Karelia into a condition suitable as human habitat. Countries have had different borders during the centuries. There’s a certain time after which a change of borders is a fait accompli. I’d say that time is when the people who were at least 5-year-old during the beginning of the occupation have died of old age. So, some 80-ish years.

Also, we wouldn’t be able to get Karelia back without its inhabitants. Because of the status of Swedish language in Finland (6 % speak it, and it’s official an equal language with Finnish over here!) it would be almost impossible to not have tri-lingual street signs in Helsinki if we got all those Russians. The first parliamentary elections after the new territories would have joined would look completely alien to what we are used to.

It used to be the heart of Finland’s industry. Viipuri used to be the cultural capital of Finland, more important for Finns of 1930’s than L’viv is to Ukrainians of 2025. But the industry has been destroyed decades ago by mismanagement and the vibrant culture of Viipuri is dead for good.

I don’t think much more than maybe 2 percent or so of Finns would want that land back. Maybe, if we only got some forests and fields and wouldn’t need to think about what the hell to do with all those derelict villages? But otherwise: A strong no!