Owen did not answer, but I think I can.

I once wrote that genociding Uyghurs is bad, and that comment of mine got promptly deleted by the lemmy.ml admins. It being forbidden to talk about a genocide happening because it’s happening in territories held by China and not in the west is a very big red flag!

Another one is that you’re not allowed to talk about Holodomor, which was a genocide done by Moscow against Ukrainians about one century ago.

I am very surprised that at the same time they do allow talking about the genocide Israel is doing to Palestinians. The lemmy.ml admins are absolutely inconsistent. But, at least some genocides are bad even in their eyes.

The level of faking in all reports inside the Russia’s governmental apparatus is astonishing, though.

I cannot understand how they could avoid that regarding their nuclear weapons program when the faked reports are such an integral part of their system of governance.
If you don’t fake reports, you get fired by Putin for being inconsistent with the other aides.

The bribery of Ukrainian officials was the most important among Putin’s military projects, and Putin failed to recognize that even that project’s documents were all faked. Whoever has faked any documents regarding the nuclear program has received a lot of respect from Putin, and given more influence in the program. Since 1999, Putin has been hand-picking people who fake reports and replaced others with them.

The more important the project, the more Putin influences who is allowed to take part in it. And Putin has managed to fuck up his things big time by trusting fakers extremely strongly and assuming the others are giving diverging data because of disloyalty.
If something in the Russia is going haywire, then a project important to Putin, such as the nuclear weapons program is.

…which is why you sometimes see “Toni Virtanen”, " Mika Valtari", etc.

I’ve met two Wilmas and both of them get their names written as Vilma.

People k ow that W is deprecated and V is used now instead, and then when they hear that sound, they write a “V”. Just like you said.

Also, try reciting the alphabet. It ends “oo, pee, kuu, är, äs, tee, uu, vee, äks, yy, zeta, oo, ää, öö”, right? Where is “kaksoisvee”?

Yeah, it should have caused that debacle before they elected to let go of all the concessions they had.

But yeah, I think a lot of EU countries would revolt if UK was let in without having to join the Euro and Schengen. And yes, I believe this does indeed mean that UK is not going to rejoin within the next half a century at least. Also a reason it feels a bit stupid trying to integrate them into EU stuff – they’re going to prefer staying out anyhow (unleas they get concessions they won’t get) so why bother?

Of course, if they want to follow some EU rules, why not? And for each EU rule they proactively and reliably implement, they should of course receive the relevant goodies, just like Norway. But, at least I would not want the EU to spend our resources trying to pull UK into doing anything it’s not motivated enough to do out of its own accord.

How do you pronounce the name “Wille”? How about “Ville”?

Or that singers family name, Wirtanen? Not the same as Virtanen?

Or, in which way do you pronounce the word “wero”? The same as “vero”, or something different?

Can you give an example of a Finnish word with a “w” that is not pronounced the same as the Finnish “v”?

(Ja sori, tästä tekstistä tuli hyökkäävämpi kuin tarkoitin… Uudelleenkirjoittamiselle ei oikein ole aikaa, möh :( )

Yeah, it seems to have appeared again at some point. I’ll need to learn how to run it on Linux, but it apparently should be possible indeed! Or maybe I’ll find some place with a Windows computer to try it. Nice! :)

Oh, apparently Rockstar has made it playable again at some point. Nice! :)

Agreed, absolutely.

Well, okay, but the main point of why it’s a problem being mentioned in the files is that it means you are, at least to some extent, a supporter of sexual violence. And probably even paedophilia.

What I understand the post is trying to say is that these guys were all doing the same kind of horrible shit. It’s trying to hint that USA might have been rotten to the core right from the beginning.

The island is a symptom, not a cause.

How about GTA2? That’s by far the best game in the series! When are we going to get to play that one again?

And little boys?

“It’s wasn’t me that picked your butt, it was this hand of mine here!”

I’d imagine one could make plenty of art from that many metres of blue plastic cord. No idea how to find a suitable artist, but someone sure would have artistic use for your waste!

The table is able to function as such a container once the candles have burnt low enough, if there are ma y candles.

The shape of the candle plays a role as well. In order to boil, material must first melt. Beeswax candles are made so narrow that no pool of molten beeswax can form. And without it being liquid first, it also cannot boil.

You already joined the Eurovision.
But I cannot really see the EU capital being moved to Perth :D

There’s no insistence on UK adopting the Euro.

Any new member state adopts the Euro and joins the Schengen area. This is not something to insist, it’s just a rule that exists regardless of insisting or not insisting. Or insisting to not insist – whatever.

If the UK ever joins the EU, it will also join the Euro. It’s not really something that is up for debate.

I dunno… Why not? What’s so special about UK that they should stay out if Macedonia can join?

Maybe there should be an exception that the UK poll should have a 67,7 % “yes” instead of the standard 50 %, but otherwise I don’t see why we couldn’t apply the same rules we apply to everyone else around. They’re welcome :)