sudneo

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[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 16 points 2 months ago (7 children)

Not to worry, the mainline of hexbear and .ml regarding Ukraine is completely messed up. They have a completely west-centric view and lack any serious context whatsoever.

Unfortunately stalinists can't accept that the Soviet Union had plenty of flaws and oppressed people, including workers, in many ways. Instead of learning the lesson to avoid repeating past mistakes they just double-down.

I had a conversation once when someone called all the baltics "Nazi hotbeds" and to support this claim they linked a law that is gradually removing Russian schools in favour of having Russian as a foreign language. Someone was telling me that "people have a right to have education in Russian" and failing to provide that is a human rights violation. I asked to show me a country in which education in foreign language is a right, but sadly didn't get any answer. I have also then linked soviet laws that forbid teaching in Ukrainian, and surprisingly I didn't get any answer either.

I have also provided some interesting sources from Ukrainian leftists, one specifically was from a historian. But obviously the American fella on Lemmy - who doesn't speak a word of any language which is not English, never read anything from a non-western source, lacks cultural context etc. - knows better.

I think life is too short to deal with silly things, and even shorter to deal with idiots. I - a communist from Western Europe - ended up blocking both instances because I have no interests in being associated with zealots of a Stalinist cult.

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Pizza a taglio is actually something almost exclusively found in and around Rome.

BTW even regular pizzas have various toppings, they just need to make sense (for example tuna and onions is a possibility).

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Tbh, I have been to Iceland twice and I have managed to eat very well! (Italian here)

There is no much variety, but I have eaten very good lamb (as you are saying), stews (both mean and fish), even baked goods (there was a tiny house with very good cakes in the middle of nowhere in Westfjords).

My favorite probably was a fusion sushi place (I.e. sushi with local fish) in Seydisfiordur (the town where Ben Stiller arrives to in the Walter Mitty movie BTW). I don't think the place exists anymore (that was in 2018) but it was very good.

Sometimes you can find very good food in unexpected places (for example, I have never eaten better Mexican food than in Rovaniemi, in Finnish Lapland!).

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

I like Estonian Kelluke, a local carbonated lemonade. Probably mostly meant for kids, but hey...

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago

I drank it straight from an old soviet tank sold in a parking lot. It tasted exactly like I expected.

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 5 points 2 months ago

I personally can't stand it, but chinotto is either you love it or you hate it.

Fun fact: the picture is for chinotto Neri, with the motto: chi beve neri, neri beve. (Literally "who drinks Neri, Neri drinks" but "Neri beve" sounds like ne ribeve "drinks it again").

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I used to do this, but then why revealing even my domain. I have bitwarden integrated with simplelogin, and I get service_garbage@aliasdomain.tld

This way I can easily filter with prefix matching (if I want to), but don't reveal anything at all about me. Also much easier to be consistent, block senders etc. Plus, I can send emails from all those addresses if I ever need (e.g., support).

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Looking at how this started, it's even more depressing.

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

I understood what you meant, not sure why you would assume otherwise. My point is that there is no need to invent new business models. Your proposal is similar to "pay with your data", a new business model that has negative consequences for the collectivity.

In case of these types of games, a flat rate for the game and potentially a pay-per-use without margin to cover hosting (minimal, can be factored in the initial price) and API calls (gMaps) could be an option. Or none of this, and they factor in the cost already in the initial purchase. Either way, to come back to the topic of discussion, asking a one year subscription for a game sold for free (to lure people in) is IMHO predatory behavior with no excuse.

Anyway, tl;dr money already exists and people can pay for that, we don't need to waste more computing power to find an alternative. The use of crypto incentives the overall crypto market which causes even more people (or companies) to waste energy for nothing.

[–] sudneo@lemm.ee 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This feels like a technical approach for a solution to a political problem. We shouldn't normalize a solution to a predatory approach that companies have, we should regulate so that the approach can't be taken by companies on the first place, we should foster competition so that those who do are going to be outcompeted etc.

Wasting even more electricity to compute numbers used in an unstable speculative market with no clear future is IMHO a completely wrong approach to the problem.

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