[-] SamirCasino@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, it's always been the lynx, officially. But indeed it's not a well known fact, nor is it used anywhere really.

You can google "romanian national animal", all you'll find is the lynx, everywhere. However, i'm unable to find the origin of it.

[-] SamirCasino@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago

I never used it, but damn are people here judgy. I don't understand how it's a personal insult if someone used it in the way you're describing. As long as your actual thoughts and emotions are what you send, who cares you used a tool to express them.

Anxiety is rough. I wish people were more understanding.

[-] SamirCasino@lemm.ee 19 points 10 months ago

I love you for that joke.

[-] SamirCasino@lemm.ee 14 points 10 months ago

After a 10 second google search, i've found it's idaho's Enhanced Concealed Carry Weapons class. Which you have to take to carry a gun around.

[-] SamirCasino@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

There's dozens of them i tell you! Dozens!

[-] SamirCasino@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Ah yes just rolls off the tongue. Totally the same as, an increment of one is equal in both.

[-] SamirCasino@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

A man of culture, i see.

[-] SamirCasino@lemm.ee 32 points 1 year ago

People who grow up almost anywhere else on earth can also tell how big something is based on their experience with metric. That's not something inherently based on the imperial system. The same way you go "oh that's about 3 feet", we go "oh that's about 2 meters".

And of course, switching systems overnight is insane, people are used to imperial, you're right. But at the very least do what Britain did, and have both systems in parallel at the same time, everywhere. And in time, people would get used to metric too.

[-] SamirCasino@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

Nono, you're fine doing that, just make sure you're bleeding hard enough so that the manure can't get in the bloodstream.

[-] SamirCasino@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I made absolutely no mention of Ukraine and i would have written this comment with no changes ( and i probably have ) years before the invasion. It's a strawman on your part to assume i uncritically support Ukraine ( or the US or EU for that matter ), just because i'm criticizing Russia. And if anything, i feel like we echo the same sentiment in both our comments, that just by criticizing one side doesn't mean that the other doesn't have flaws.

It just doesn't mean they're equally bad either.

[-] SamirCasino@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

At the very start, i point out that this worldview of all politics and politicians are dirty and corrupt is being pushed by Russia in many countries. I didn't think i need to mention that i'm including Italy.

[-] SamirCasino@lemm.ee 44 points 1 year ago

This attitude of "all politics and politicians are equally dirty" is straight out of the russian propaganda playbook. This is the narrative they've pushed in my country for decades, and it's chillingly effective. It closely resembles whataboutism, whenever you criticize a politician, people yell "AS IF THE OTHER SIDE IS BETTER."

Why push this narrative, you ask? So that people become so disillusioned and apathetic that they don't vote, so it takes less votes for Russia to get the parties it wants into power. It also breeds internal dissent, malcontent, instability, leads to low voter turnout.

Russia also pushes a version of this at home, and in allies like Belarus. The gist being, all politics is dirty and corrupt, don't get involved, don't vote, nothing matters, it doesn't concern you.

So yeah, sorry about the rant, but when i see variations of that quote "if your vote mattered, they'd make it illegal", i get really annoyed. If your vote mattered, they'd make you think it doesn't so you don't vote.

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