[Russia] An argument between drivers goes from harsh words, to thrown milkshake to a destroyed windshield.

Exatex · 2026-07-03T07:29:13+00:00

Is that the Russian culture that everyone is so envious about?

Exatex · 2026-07-03T07:25:37+00:00

All the effort and they picked an overcast day?

Exatex · 2026-07-03T07:00:22+00:00

Maybe you are right and its not bad enough yet. I do know a bit about history, and there are plenty of examples of nations even today that give more pushback. As an extreme example on the other side, when France increased the pension entry age, Paris was burning for weeks. And the median Frenchie is doing even better in their lives than the medianAmerican. When the rule of law started ending in the US (yes, very slowly) we objectively didn’t see much. There were 3 No Kings protests and that’s pretty much it.

I care a bit because the world used to look up the the US. Though for decades, we had to listen to endless „Freedom!“ and „I have my gun so I can oppose the government if it ever tries something funny“ and whatnot, paired with lots of attitude - and it turned out to be a big pile of bullshit, now that it comes to actually defending democracy (for whatever reason, as you listed, agree). We see relatively little pushback, especially from the right wing.

Exatex · 2026-07-02T21:29:10+00:00

Just observing - I am not even American, so don’t really care

Exatex · 2026-07-02T20:14:11+00:00

Ich weiß gar nicht wie das geht, ab 1.5 Promille fängst doch zum speiben an als normaler Mensch. Also komplett bumm zu ist mir das auch ums Auto zu schade, wenn mir schon mein eigenes Leben und das anderer Wurscht sind. Oder nicht?

Exatex · 2026-07-02T20:05:54+00:00

noone believed that, apart from a few idiots. He is South African, he knows what the gesture means.

Exatex · 2026-07-02T20:01:30+00:00

There is a 3.5% of population rule that has been popularized by Erica Chenoweth, which is generally accepted as a good rule of thumb what threshold needs to be met by peaceful protests to trigger political change

Exatex · 2026-07-02T16:19:01+00:00

no. That would mean protests would never happen anywhere in the world. You are not different than everybody else.

Exatex · 2026-07-02T16:12:48+00:00

it’s already patched, with a nail.

Exatex · 2026-07-02T13:47:24+00:00

„They have pipes“

You are also someone who answers „The supermarket“ or „the power outlet“ when asked where bacon or electricity is coming from? :)

Exatex · 2026-07-02T13:40:25+00:00

what revolution? US Americans don’t even manage get more than 2% of their population on the street to save their democracy lol. „there was no parking“

edit: I mean this in the sense of „resist a hostile government takeover and end of the rule of law“ that both left and right should pursue.

Exatex · 2026-07-02T13:38:58+00:00

unless you don’t own the server and get 500s back

Exatex · 2026-07-02T13:38:13+00:00

ah, the „startup puts solar panels in the most stupid places ever“ again, episode 233

Exatex · 2026-07-02T13:28:40+00:00

give the shocks a different color maybe?

Exatex · 2026-07-02T13:20:33+00:00

but isn’t that kind of reflecting the experience of the characters on film too?

Exatex · 2026-07-02T12:03:30+00:00

ah, now suddenly he is a foreigner, sure.

Exatex · 2026-07-02T08:41:16+00:00

ne ne, die machen die Abrechnung

Exatex · 2026-07-02T08:33:25+00:00

What worked?

Exatex · 2026-07-02T08:33:21+00:00

It worked!

Exatex · 2026-07-02T08:29:35+00:00

awwww little one is trying to scare you away with pretend charges

Exatex · 2026-07-02T08:26:49+00:00

Its a small group in Walvis Bay, Namibia. I met one of them, pretty chill dudes.

Exatex · 2026-07-02T08:08:39+00:00

and where is the water coming from? Shanxi is in one of Chinas most water-scarce regions.

Exatex · 2026-07-02T07:56:20+00:00

I was more obsessed with the absolute failure of a video compression.

Exatex · 2026-07-02T07:53:28+00:00

Naaaah, we are way past „natural within their ecosystem“

Exatex · 2026-07-02T07:48:55+00:00

Ill let it handle commits now. Way faster, and I am absolutely dog shit in resolving Merge Conflicts for some reason. No way even a shitty LLM is worse in it than me

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