A human being from a Finland.
You forgot to read the end of my comment.
We are almost completely in agreement.
(Of course Trump’s rhyme and reason are irrelevant here. The president of Colombia is not known as a moron and there is a demand for him to act like a diplomat even when visiting a moron. But, Trump, Mussolini and similar make an exception: the charter of Human Rights is the most important piece of rules there is, and it basically requires everybody to behave that way. Therefore: unusual but acceptable.)
“Disobey Trump’s orders” is what he said. Disobey horrible orders whether legal or illegal.
A ballsy thing for a president to go to a demonstration in another country and tell its military to disobey their own president. If the president of Portugal did the same in Denmark, I would absolutely expect him to be expelled from the Danish territory.
Personally, if any country’s president was to do the same in Finland, I would see that as an actual act of war by his country.
This all having been said: whatever is done against Trump is done for USA. The president of Colombia did an awesome thing and I’m happy he did it!
You can of course remedy the risk of corruption by making several compressed files instead of just one. Then you will lose only part of the data in the worst case scenario.
“Some Europeans fear”?!
Some Europeans fear that water is wet.
Yes there is. There is no other police force than the national police. And they do choose what to enforce.
Not in Finland. Here the idea is that such inpectors cost money, and you don’t want to waste money.
They also refuse to hire more parking wardens because those would cost money – even if in the end there would be more money in the city’s coffers than before hiring them.
They can make a rule, but absolutely nobody will enforce it.
In 2022 it was impossible for Putin to use nukes, because launching nuclear weapons is one of the only thing in the Russia where the president really has no chance of deciding on things alone. Gerasimov is a professional soldier, and worked only because it’s his job. He has no actual values in play, except pride of being skilled at his job, and he will not allow his family to die just because of the Russia’s “honour” being violated. Similarly, Šojgu is a bootlicker who does everything for personal gain and the Moscow being obliterated by nukes is not something he sees as an acceptable price for anything at all. And in the Russia you need an order from the people in all of those three positions, or nothing will be launched.
Putin could never get Šojgu and Gerasimov to give such orders, and he knows that had he tried to, he would have lost his head almost immediately. Those people would have seen Putin as a direct threat to their loved ones, as would have most of who have any influence in the Russia. That would have been Putin’s end.
Now, the leadership of the military has been restructured to be more accommodating to Putin’s will, but it’s still not at a level where Putin can trust he’ll get both orders given by the other two people. And if he tries and fails … well, read above. His head will roll. Now he would actually have a chance of success, but he’s still maybe 80 % likely to fail if he tries. And actually… PACO.
Now is still a time when we can safely use military power against the Russia without a danger of a nuclear war. That time will not last forever, because Putin does want to use nukes and he is working to make it possible. He will, however, still need plenty more time for that. Luckily for him, especially Germans are giving it to him. Ironically, because they are afraid of nukes and don’t bother looking into how launching nukes works in the Russia.
It did, but much less severely.
Actually it was. But in much lesser ways.
I don’t think there’s a way they can crack down. They can bark, but they won’t bite. And if they did bite, people would ignore them and vote for other parties in next elections. Would probably mean that the right-wing extremist party “True Finns” would gain a lot of votes and would probably become the biggest party.
But also, the bite would be so toothless that it probably wouldn’t really have the abovementioned effect. Here’s why:
The Finnish police won’t enforce a crackdown like that. They have a habit of deciding what laws they care about and what they don’t, and this is definitely one they wouldn’t care about. The government can tell them to do a crackdown of a kind, but the police will just ignore that. If they are asked about it, they’ll say “we lack the resources for that”. Which is true. If you go to Wikipedia and see how many policemen Finland has per capita, it’s about one quarter of that in Germany, for example. They really don’t and won’t have any resources for that.
Looks like an interesting game. Thanks!
I like GNOME because it’s got everything I need and nothing else. I’ve got ADHD, so any distractions are really a problem.
With KDE I have the feeling that it’s kind of “full”. I have always been able to customize Gnome in whatever way I’ve needed, but that’s less in-your-face than in KDE.
It’s also a matter of what I’ve gotten used to. I started using desktop Linux with Redhat 5.2, and that came with Gnome. So, I got used to it, and KDE is different. And of course, KDE might have changed in the last 10-ish years, which, I think, is how long time ago I touched a KDE desktop at all.
But, since I’m happy with GNOME – and, this might sound scary – actually even happier with Unity that I’m using now, I don’t really have any need to venture to try anything else.
It works for me and switching to something else would require at least some amount of effort.
I’m already being less active with my children than I would like to, so I don’t like putting any effort into things that won’t really bring something useful for me or others. I prefer spending that effort for being a better father :)
The source is not trustworthy. There’s a good chance this article is an outright fabrication.
Just read the other headlines. They are very typical content for publications made by Russian troll farms.
This is weird.
And probably not true. The site the article is from has the style used by Russian troll farms. The article is most likely 95% fabricated, with a kernel of truth, such as maybe one MP in the parliament having suggested that.
Also, the Russia. They have done a good job inciting hatered between the users of violence, making sure there will never be peace.
Anything that slows the Russia down is a net-positive for the climate.
How is the stability on the highway from Chinese-controlled Uyghur areas through Pakistan’s north to its capital? How does it compare to the route from Burma through Manipur towards places like Guwahati?
It would be good knowing which land routes to India are safe and whuch not!
BBC News says it was said using a megaphone when talking to a large crowd: