Honestly, I’ve gained a whole new level of appreciation for Jadzia’s character in recent years, largely in light of how absurdly politicized gender identity and trans rights have become.
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Surprise… and fear! Our TWO chief weapons are surprise and fear!
Wow this may be the most cursed thing I’ve seen on Lemmy, and that’s saying something.
Maybe initially, but the vote balance actually seems pretty fair now
Not German, but I feel you, and I agree.
But it seems a lot of people are listening to the tribal/populist siren song of AfD. I hope you guys can get that straightened out, and soon. I know the former GDR tends to be very fertile ground for that sort of rhetoric for a variety of reasons, so from where I’m standing, trying to address the root causes there is probably going to yield the best long term results.
By no means do I want to diminish the historical wrongheadedness of the US, but using that as a justification for letting Russia just have at it without any response is just categorically asinine.
We’re already in the Second Cold War. It’s here now.
I was making a reference to a classic Colbert Report meme
To be perfectly blunt: yes, but not “war” in the traditional sense as most think about it.
It’s war in the sense that Russia is currently waging against the US and the EU, which is a much broader context than traditional military conflict. So: NSA, CIA, FBI, MI5, MI6, DGSE (France), AW (Poland), (n.b. Germany conspicuously absent, as they’ve allowed an LOT of Russian influence to get into their institutions in a LOT of places, and that is going to take a while to root out) etc. take the gloves off, as the FSB has been doing for literal decades. If they want to fuck around and pull the “little green men” bullshit on NATO territory, help them find out what happens by responding to any incursions of that variety with a division or six of armored cav lined up on the borders. Massive increases in air defense; likewise for marine and submarine threats - specifically, figuring out and catching up to very interesting and surprisingly capable non-acoustic submarine detection and tracking technologies that the Soviets devised later in the Cold War, and that the Russians continue to use and refine.
More simply: this is the Cold War 2, right now, today. We’re in it. We need to fucking act like it.
Desktop CPU, with a 170W TDP.
Granted, the comparison is an extremely specific synthetic benchmark, but still, I agree: utterly wild.
Yeah they traditionally just get the truthiness level by looking it up in their gut.
Well actually, now he can. “Official act, fuck you.” (per Trump v. United States, No. 23-939)