Don’t tell me Putin lied… Wow, this must be the first time Putin has ever lied about anything.

Russia is an empire. Straight up, 100%. It should be called the Russian Empire—not the Russian Federation.

(Reminder: “empire” is a bad word lol.)

There is no good android fork. Android is garbage. You wouldn’t believe how difficult it is to contribute to the OS or port a fork like lineageOS to a new phone. Even just compiling android is a massive pain in the ass. Mobile linux, like postmarketOS, is the clear way forward. And not on former android phones, but on phones with open hardware specs, specifically designed to work with mobile linux.

Fake as hell, from an immensely disreputable site. What in the hell is this still doing here?

Trump is sabotaging the US on purpose, for the benefit of his handlers.

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It is vague, but it does rule out “man in a dress and wig”. I mean men in dresses and wigs is great and all. They are free to do what they want. They just aren’t women, and I will never call them such.

21 billion euros

teehehe

This would be terminally shameful to anybody who wasn’t completely immune to shame.

I actually don’t care about IP copying. I just wish China would publish what they copied.

I can’t believe I’m saying this, but thankyou, CCP.

Finnish happiness is derived from actively not being under the control of that certain fully crazy empire to the east, and enjoying every minute of it. Every new day of independence from the Russian Empire is one more chance for Finland to say to their neighbours, “Nananana na na, hahahaha ha ha.” Some of them even say it in Russian: “Нананана на на, хахахаха ха ха. Нас не ебет.”

You may need to examine your opinion of the role of taxes in a functioning country.

You’re right about corruption, though.

A billion dollars in fines might make twitter unprofitable. In a regular company, that would coerce the owners to make changes. But Musk doesn’t own twitter because he wants to make money off of it, at least not directly. What Musk uses it for is control. A billion dollars a year in fines will be worth it to him, as long as it gives him more control.

The only way to deny him this undue influence is to ban it outright or fine him a lot more.

I guess nobody told the EU how many billions Musk has.

That is some church right there, cous’.

What do you think the money should be spent on?

It would probably blow up the port doing the laundering, which is unlikely to be happening in the EU.

But it would even more likely blow up an Indian or Chinese port.

It doesn’t matter. Like I said, I think this is a really bad idea. Mainly because it is collective punishment, and almost all of the thousands of victims would have had nothing to do with their corporations’ and their governments’ decision to buy that oil.

Throughout the deeply stupid and shameful invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and this is true, the US never detonated a cargo ship sized bomb killing ten thousand people in a busy port city just because they bought sanctioned oil.

Afghanistan and Iraq were terrible mistakes. And many (most?) NATO states had nothing to do with Iraq. Not that it matters right now. I’m talking about Russia’s imperialism right now.