It's a bit like Finland and Russia; we're the one country they wouldn't nuke because St. Petersburg is too close.
It's almost poetic, really.
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Just because I'm curious: I have chronic sarcoidosis in both lungs, and lifelong asthma. I've by some miracle survived 4 years, but at the cost of almost all the stamina I used to have. COVID still circulates around the daycares, youth clubs and workplaces here and I have children.
I don't have an option to not wear a mask when I leave the room I've spent these 4 years in. Does that bother you?
Be honest and tell us you don't give a shit about the people around you.
Edit: Not surprised at your lack of an answer.
Similar. Åland is predominantly Swedish-speaking (we're a minority on the mainland), and they have fairly extensive legal autonomy as well.
In practice Åland is also a legally demilitarized zone, though I doubt Russia would give a fuck.
From someone who studied graphic design using Adobe products ~15 years ago but just can't stand what they've become; thank you, sincerely.
Krita is pretty awesome, but I've had trouble getting rid of Lightroom.
I've had this sinister feeling in the back of my head ever since I saw Extrapolations that it was far more of a documentary of what's to come than even the creators intended.
It's been a year since I watched it the first time, and that feeling has only gotten worse since.
Åland is still a part of Finland, even though they have a certain degree of autonomy.
I sincerely wish you were wrong, but it's easy for anyone living in any relatively developed and safe country and scoff at people risking their lives for amounts of money they'd never be able to earn otherwise.
Doubly so if their family gets a payout if they fall. People might wonder why all these russians seem to willfully subject themselves to this shit, and this is probably the answer more often than not. Likewise with the convicts in Wagner. From their point of view it was probably a decent deal, even if it is complete insanity in our reality.
Nobody's fucking happy about any of this. They killed a person for speaking up about something that affects almost everyone.
Oh for fucks sake..
Relatively early on (can't remember the date) Himmler gave a somewhat notorious speech about eventually recruiting far flung "true Aryans" from the US into the SS, much like they eventually did from several other countries.
Luckily history played out a bit differently.
I agree completely. I could see an argument for one instance that is shown globally via screens or whatnot as each year passes, but other than that it is such an enormous amount of unnecessary wastage.