Don't listen to the naysayers. This is fun and people like seeing similar-minded dorks out and about. Having said that, I wouldn't put some business logo on my computer. But a community distro, why not? Been there done that.
gnuhaut
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Ich wäre dafür, aber wenn das scheitert hilft's denen
There was a massive dip in all those places in the 90s with shock therapy. A lot of people are still worse off in a lot of ways and angry. Hence AfD, Orban, PiS and all those other angry nationalists.
Also, if you want to be fair, you should compare for example Poland to west Germany. Polish workers toil for German capitalists, and yet, somehow, they're getting exploited way more than the German workers. Less pay, worse services, worse infrastructure, less worker's rights. That whole arrangement is super-exploitative. Meanwhile foreigners bought most of that country. Treated like a colony basically.
The Russians got fucked even worse than Poland in the 90s, which resulted in a backlash which Putin made himself the head of. What Russia is doing is self-preservation. Any state with the means to preserve it's sovereignty from a hostile takeover would try to do so, it's not just something an imperialist state would do. Hence Russia is not doing an imperialism here.
That's because you don't understand what imperialism means. US/EU capital is looting and exploiting the former socialist block and controlling it through western capitalist media, NGOs, and military bases. That's imperialism. The Russians preventing Nazis from doing ethnic cleansing along their border and demanding not to be threatened with a gun to the head is not imperialism.
Genau. Die Banken machen da wahrscheinlich auch mit (wegen Security-Theater-Brainworms), aber jeder der Werbung schaltet, wird das einführen. Die müssen sogar, weil die Werbeausgaben insgesamt eher nicht großartig steigen werden.
Adblocker gehen nicht mehr auf manchen Seiten ⇒ insgesamt mehr Werbung bei gleichbleibenden Werbeausgaben ⇒ Einnahmen pro Anzeige sinken ⇒ restliche Seiten müssen mehr Werbung schalten ⇒ Wie? "Wir könnten es wie die Konkurrenz machen und die Adblocker sabotieren!"
Das ganze werbefinanzierte Internet wird das einführen, sobald der Marktanteil von DRM-fähigen Browsern über einen gewissen Prozentsatz liegt.
Works for me. That site is sometimes a bit slow.
NAFO is a Nazi propaganda op. Literally. The founder, Kamil Dyszewski (aka Kama Kamelia) is a Holocaust denier who adores Hitler. I call this the SS type genocide denier. That's actually the most common type.
In case anyone thinks the rest of NAFO distanced themselves from this guy: Lol no, he was just on stage at the NAFO summit in Vilnius.
People also use a trailers. You can tow stuff with most types of cars no problem once you fit a tow bar.
Chinese Cooking Demystified is 
Biden asks Congress for $40 billion to support Ukraine, replenish US disaster aid and bolster border
Yes, Russia is not primarily motivated by gaining resources, they're motivated by self-preservation and public pressure to stop the ethnostate Nazis next door from doing ethnic cleansing and having the civil war spill over. Whatever land the Russians take isn't going to be worth their losses for a really long time. That doesn't obviously mean they're unhappy if they capture anything of value, but it's pretty clear they were trying to avoid this situation.
That civil war in Ukraine was potentially going spill over, plus a hostile military force (and/or NATO troops) there is great lever to threaten Russia into submission. They could use any instability inside Russia (fueled by them) as a pretext to move weapons or troops into Russia proper. Just the threat of that could cause Russia to cave.
The US and EU look at eastern Europe as a great opportunity to exploit and plunder, and were trying to increase their grip on the region. In the case of Ukraine, they supported pro-western libs and Nazis to install thoroughly pro-western regime that would allow them to loot and plunder and station troops there.
You could argue that this became so big and generated so much blowback, that the US empire is now also looking at this as an existential problem (not existential for the US state really, but for the empire), but it didn't start out this way. They were just in the usual "crush resistance, expand influence, loot resources" mode, but they could just as easily have chosen to just wait and see and back off for now, without this causing any existential problem for them.
They're not in NATO and they haven't tried to attack again, have they? Do you think Georgia is some kind of terrible example? Because I'd rather be in Georgia than Ukraine. I don't think they're making Georgians run into minefields right now.