They’re not throwing stones. They’re identifying with the helpless predicament many people under terrible regimes feel.

HK65 would like to change Hungary, but they can’t, but know people on the outside still expect they will change the system though.

The key word is “sincerely”. That turns the message from a dismissal of the nuance of how democratic a system is, to an understanding that people in other nations in a sense flatten the countries internal fights between regime supporters and opponents.

I think this is probably to a degree correct.

Nobody talks about Project 2025 anymore. Apparently the administration went right through that step by step, Heritage Foundation wasn’t built for Trump, but he did deliver them a lot of what they wanted. I find it hard to believe these Republicans associate themselves with Heritage foundation yet are that unhappy when that plan is in large portions delivered.

A lot of people wonder why the Republicans don’t push back more, usually putting it down to fear of being primaried. I can’t help thinking a lot of the talk about Republican lawmaker’s anger and hate directed towards the US President in the Capitol are crocodile tears, and they’re just saving face while they wave through the destructive changes they’ve always argued for.

You’ve misinterpreted why they stated they are Hungarian.

They’re identifying what they’ve experienced from interactions with another country’s people as a Hungarian with Viktor Orban in charge.

Stop fucking reporting every brainfart he has. Report it when and if he relaunches the Apprentice to choose. I’m sure every POTUS in history has said the same thing, but the press never used to report such inane crap, especially not as their headline. Surely this crap can’t still be driving click through rates.

What a great idea!

Ah! Oh cool, but this would take geolocation. I predict that being a hard sell for lemmings.

But as I type that i realise/remember your post here is primarily an introduction for potential instance operators, not so much a user base. So the geolocation as an ‘issue’ is likely far less important (not forgetting a user can just turn it off anyway).

Oh, I see. Why have you made that choice? I’d understand to keep the subjects towards more community oriented interests, but then, i’m not sure why federation of other community habitats would have any advantages over being separate.

For example, I imagine East Sussex and Alsace-Lorraine wouldn’t have a great degree of things to share between disparate instances like that.

Anyway, i’ve not had a chance to look at your instance yet, so maybe i’ll understand it better when I duck over there for a sticky beak. All sounds very exciting though! Well done!

How is it federation but not Activitypub specifically? I thought that was the only protocol that currently allows for federation. Are there others? Or other ways?

Middle powers need to come to a settled policy position around a bancor-like policy. I think its unlikely a major power would take the lead instead of favouring their own currency as reserve. After half a century the idea probably needs updating. Then they need to coordinate as blocs to make it painful for China and USA to resist.

If middle powers can peel one major away from their own more position of self regard, maybe in a moment of strategic weakness, then that could make it far more likely to be successful. So a situation not unlike what the USA did with the Russia-China partnership under Nixon.

Without the major economies of the world all signing on, i’m not sure if a bancor could be done with middle powers and developing nations alone. Maybe theres a model between this set of nations that works without setting off recurring imbalance of payments crises? I’m not sure.

Professor Steven Keen speaks very well on the bancor, he and Phil Dobbie get into it on their Debunking Economics Podcast.

Sorry u/dustycups, had to follow you along here and have a sticky beak. :)

Maybe. I don’t know. People have a lot less rights in other countries than their own. Theres a clear propaganda line I can see there, maybe it’d be flimsy, but it doesn’t seem to take much ‘justification’.

I think its not even the average football fan.

The peaceful suburbanite psyche of the average ‘western’ person hasn’t been penetrated yet, even with all thats happened. Thats in large part due to the media, and how they don’t cover the increasingly serious corruption, murders, and traitors.

A great current example is the sentencing and jailing of that national traitor from Reform UK. It caused barely a blip in the media, just phenomenal there wasn’t a classic british media circus around it, so phenomenal I find it suspicious.

But its surely more than the media, maybe willful ignorance? Simple lack of care, a sort of “thats their business, not mine” attitude? I don’t know, human behaviour is weird when it comes to inconvenience.

So much of this world seems to run on whatever is most convenient, (to be read as least mentally taxing), for the person in the decision makers position at the time. Be it a president, local cop, lawyer, teacher, or any other authority position, it always comes down to was it easier for that person to make that decision, or this decision.

Importantly, i think its the making of a decision not the outcomes of said decisions. So the easy decision could lead to harder to manage outcomes, but the decision maker at the time found that decision easiest to process as opposed a more complex option as the decision to go with.

And so do the US, and especially Musk. So what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable obect?

Yeah, i think this is right. I know a few people i worked with in customer service who were wankers before, during and after.

Well said

Sydney Metro – Gadigal Railway Station|Network Architectural

More pictures of the station for interest.

Man, i think Sydney does bridges the best in this country. This could be a cool project.

I remember spending some time in Paris walking down an old viaduct, done in much the same way that New York example has been. These disused places can be turned into such interesting spaces.

Its been two or three years now since i dipped out, the way you describe using the ‘don’t recommend’ and ‘not interested’ options seems to have a clearer result than when i last used them. If they’ve changed that functionality in the meantime i’m glad.

Yeah, some of peoples suggestions here are good. I liked that user who only looks at their subscribed channels tab, if i ever go back maybe i’d try that. Though the only youtuber i miss is adamsomething, one day i might jump onto his patreon.

I find old pictures so interesting to look at, trying to see the differences in how people lived, or pick out things or road patterns that are still present today.

Someone should run with their platform as, ‘Make Dog Rock Great Again!!’

They’d be named emperor of the Great Southern within weeks!

Oh cool, reminds me of the C&C underground missions in Red Alert, taking Tanya through the base. I always took so long with those missions, but i’m a natural turtler.