@theangriestbird he probably showed him the sanctions are in fact working.

@downpunxx

A post by @raduhossu (still not on fedi fwiw) on Xitter:

3 Shaheds have hit Romanian (NATO)!

I tweeted last night after receiving the near real-time images (first imagine) from a friend in Tulcea (Romania) that Izmail (Ukraine) is being hit by russians.

The Ukrainian press picked up the images, asked the Ukrainian authorities if a drone had crashed on Romanian territory and they, at least on sources, confirmed it.

During the day yesterday, several Romanian journalists went to the scene to investigate whether or not what the Ukrainians say is true. Well, guess what?

It is true. I'll be using the images from daylight from Romanian journalists: Don Dorel Alex Alex Costache Dragos Stoian. It's Shahed-136 most likely. There are 3 that fell on Romanian territory.

The government has not given any information about the fact that Romania's territory was AGAIN hit (involuntarily?) by russian drones.

The Romanian government is in an election election mode. Sile t on the subject. The Romanian President is absent, but would have wanted to be NATO Secretary General. The Deputy Secretary General of NATO, Mircea Geoană, who is on the election campaign, is also silent.

Source

@Minarble ikr, at least that's what the generals in the military are complaining about.

Idk, Romania is just incompetent politicians that are voted by stupid people unable to look for an alternative to fix their problem for 3 decades already and regulations that are half stuck in the previous century, half poorly adapted to modern standards, so I wouldn't be surprised if this would be true.

@0x815 It will keep getting away with it, as the military is not able to shoot down drones unless we are in a state of war. And if we do that, we might as well activate article 5 - which is something we do not want edit: okay, I might have exaggerated with this one, but that's what they are complaining (as mentioned below). Here's an article from the Romanian version of RFE/RL about this topic. So what is the solution they proposed? Air raid shelters and messages through RO-ALERT on people's smartphones about "objects falling from the sky".

Same

Donald Trump Jr. attacks Harris as "even more liberal (sic) and less competent" than Biden [...] "Kamala Harris owns the entire leftwing policy record of Joe Biden. The only difference is that she is even more liberal and less competent than Joe, which is really saying something."

The only thing that's saying is that the old man now seems even more scared of any potential countercandidate.

If I was Dems rn, whether it would be Kamala or not, I would just leave the GOP boil for a little (only a little), bring a bit of uncertainty to the table, and then announce the candidate. Not too much, as it would make them seem weak, but just enough to let the GOP consume themselves. That would be quite a move.

Whatever the outcome will be, I am sure the campaign will become hotter. I think the Dems will bring someone with a more radical speech than Trump, and they better do - Trump has shown what he can do during his 2016 campaign.

And the age is not doing a service to Trump either.

@FiskFisk33 never had this problem. Probably because I got used to eat anything with bread, so bread gets finished in a few days.

This is 2024 Russia. Actual reporting counts as espionage, while propaganda reporting is considered fine journalism

@memfree I see. I never had this problem fwiw

@memfree I'm keeping my bread in the fridge, but in the bag I bought it in. This way, water has no place to evaporate to.

@clark I used Notally at first, but I wanted cross-device syncing at some point. So I discovered this app by a developer called Bill The Farmer, which this is insanely small (just a few KB). I keep my notes in pCloud. I'm not sure how private it is, but I am thinking of storing them inside a veracrypt container, synced with pCloud instead, and I am also keeping an eye on other options that have the ability of storing notes as Markdown files.

I'm keeping an eye for now on Quillpad ver. 1.5 but I'm open to other options as well. 😁

A really great presentation. And quite astonishing to see that even there streets are getting widened and houses are getting bulldozed to make room for more cars!!!

@best_username_ever too bad they did.

@ModernRisk Not really Mastodon, but I'm on Friendica and I receive posts and comments from db0 just fine.

You can also follow communities from here just like you'd follow a normal person (e.g. @communityusernamebellowthetitle@instance.domain. For this it would be piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com)

@SexualPolytope kill them all! Along with all their male born who can come to the throne!

(edit: /s in case anyone was taking it literally)

@neme So you can scan any document in Google Wallet, and scan any document in the Files app as well, and in Google Drive. Thanks, Google, for another round of service duplication!

You are seeing states do those things, and presuming (I'm guessing based on where you live) that those actions are therefore the actions of states. They're not, they're the actions of a community.

They're clearly state actions where I live, the organizations they do are politically represented, they get funds from the state budget, they function according to politically voted legislation etc.

The same politicians that vote for them can also reallocate parts of the budget to and from the military, the police force or any other fields.

We do have private initiatives as well, supported directly by the community with money, who govern themselves, who are responsible for every penny they spend, but they're different from the state controlled entities. The legislators generally do not vote dedicated legislation for them, but for the category they fall into (e.g. non-government organization for that matter). You rarely see legislators adopting laws for one specific private entity, if ever when it comes to smaller such entities.

Are you under the impression that the only alternative to "Modern Western State Governments" is "individuals work[ing] by themselves"?

Anything that involves private initiative is individuals working for themselves. If it's not voted by the elected officials, paid from taxpayer money, it's called private initiative - so there is an individual/some individuals deciding the finance and governance and other sensitive issues of the organization themselves.

I hate to break it to you, but states are just very large armed groups, the legitimacy of which is entirely determined by their strength of arms. [...] Israel is a "legitimate" government because they have enough guns (and enough friends with guns) to force others to acknowledge them as such.

That is the way the international system works, of course. But on the other hand, this legitimacy they are provided allows them to worry less about their security and spend their money on the actual social services needed for a state to function. There are, of course, rogue states (yes, you can safely call them that way as well), that choose to terrorize their people instead. But politically motivated violence, whichever side it is coming from, in a country that calls itself the leader of the free and democratic world, does not help in making them less likely to do so. Quite the contrary.

@t3rmit3 So political violence is justifiable when democracy is at risk, right. What happens if the side abolishing democracy decides that political violence can be justified for them too? How can you save democracy this way? We legitimate political violence in order to justify democracy? Will it still be a democracy if the elected candidate can be gunned down legitimately? What about if the candidate has the biggest chance of winning?

And also, how can you justify democracy as the better option in front of non-democratic states that are also making use of political violence to repress their opponents? Don't you think these countries would be more determined in their suppressions when they see that the good guys are also doing it?

And last, but not least, does that freedom to self-determine as a group also involve becoming politically violent against your opponent? To which extent is this still a democracy and not a fight for power by all means?

It's true that those very people condemning the shooting are specifically those that are growing an unsafe environment, a climate of exclusion against minorities of any kind and people who do not agree with them. But on the other hand, any act of political violence, especially against a running candidate, is a threat against democracy itself.

In a democratic system, the election system has this very purpose of preventing violence of one pretender against the other, by forcing them to peacefully convince as many people as possible instead of turning anything into a bloody battle for power, like it was in Europe in the 1700s for example when one monarch died. Thus, it could even prevent a situation where a bunch of these pretenders could attract as many followers and/or buy as much weaponry needed to start a civil war - and bring the state itself in conflict in the process. The elections are the best way of insuring a peaceful transition of power, one that would not affect the regular folk, the business environment, the economy, basically anyone who doesn't want to involve themselves into politics to such an extent that it would affect them personally.

Once you turn to murdering candidates/politicians, no matter how white the candidate is, how poor the candidate is, what gender they are, their profession, anything, you are committing political violence. And once you are committing political violence, you strain away from democracy, and you're incentivizing a return to a system where the power should be won by force instead of by belief.

And the amount of blood one leader has on their hands from killing civilians, bombing countries etc. would not be lower in such a system, but instead it would add up with the blood of probably other innocent civilians from their homeland whose only mistake was their political affiliations.

Would you prefer to go to fight in order to support your candidate instead of going to the ballots and placing a stamp on a piece of paper? I'm sure most of you would not.