GenosseFlosse

joined 2 years ago
[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 2 points 1 hour ago

White Tights, White Pantyhose or White Stockings[1] (Russian: белые колготки, beliye kolgotki; Lithuanian: baltosios pėdkelnės; Latvian: baltās zeķbikses; Estonian: valged sukkpüksid) is a Russian urban legend about female sniper mercenaries fighting against Russian forces in various armed conflicts from the late 1980s.[2] The legend describes these women as blond Amazon-like nationalistic biathletes turned anti-Russian mercenaries. They come predominantly from the Baltic states, but subsequent variations of the legend have diversified the ethnic composition of the snipers, including Ukrainian and Russian women in their midst.

Sounds like a plot for a Stephen Segal movie...

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Can someone explain to me what goods would be affected by this deal? From my understanding the main exports from us and India are very different, so which US products would now be imported from India into Europe because of lower taxes?

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 11 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Another win for electric cars, huh?

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 4 points 3 days ago

You need about 6 working people to financially support 1 pensioner. Can you see the problem in a society that is getting older, has less children and outsources jobs to either robots or overseas countries?

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 2 points 3 days ago

Bold to assume that could afford an Nvidia card with more than 512MB video ram in 2026.

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 40 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think enshitification is a product of public traded companies promising infinite growth, not necessarily a problem of US only companies.

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This seems like a problem that can be solved now that everything is connected to the Internet and has a computer inside. Turn on the water boiler only when the price is less than 10ct/kw. Run aircon or heater only when it's cheap, and insulation will keep the temperature constant for half a day.

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago

Trump: Ill make my own NATO, with black Jack and ~~hookers~~ little children!

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Start by pretending not to speak English when interacting with Americans.

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In the past, people assumed computers would get much easier to use. But instead you now need a comp sci degree to turn off all the BS Microsoft intentionally added to make your PC experience worse.

[–] GenosseFlosse@feddit.org 1 points 2 weeks ago

Which PC had a 2mb hard drive? Smallest 286 PCs I can remember already had 20MB, and a floppy disk would hold 720kb or 1.44MB.

 

It seems to me that this could be equally profitable compared to street drugs if you take the inflated price for common prescription medicine and health care in the US into account. If you source prescription medicine from let's say Canada or Mexico to undercut the official street prices in the US your risk of getting cought or run into trouble with law enforcement or rival gangs seems much lower. Also neighbors would not call the police on a guy that sources cheap insulin for the old guy living next door, or what am I missing?

 

Comrades of the European Internet Forum,

enough is enough!

For decades, we have placed ourselves in the cultural shadows - well-behaved, conformist, as if we were the ill-educated child of the great American moral uncle, who must not be too loud, not too naked and certainly not too independent. While half-naked shoulders are censored at high school graduation ceremonies in the USA, heads are thrown around like bowling balls in TV series. All normal, all ‘entertainment’. But woe betide you if you see a nipple - then the censorship hammer screeches louder than a Trump on Truth Social.

I ask you: What has become of Europe?

We, the continent-born of the Enlightenment, the revolutions, the renaissance of nudity on canvas, in stone and on film - we have allowed a country that bottles cheese in cans, of all things, to tell us what is ‘moral’!

It's not moral, it's demurely stupid.

Why are depictions of violence in mass media allowed to flow freely like American fracking oil, but natural, aesthetic, tasteful nudity - which has been part of European art and culture for centuries - is algorithmically filtered out, demonetised and labelled with warnings as if it were uranium?

No more prudish double standards!

We need a cultural return to what we have to offer:

  • Enlightenment instead of transfiguration.
  • Pleasure instead of violence.
  • Nudity as an expression of naturalness - not as a moral offence.

I call on you: Banish pixelated prudery! Let's tear apart the corset of American moral dictatorship like a badly programmed DRM protection! Save the freedom of the breast - for Europe!

Stop aligning your films, games and series with a market that beeps ‘fuck’ five times but completely waves ‘shoot him in the face’ through.

We are not Hollywood's post office box. We are Europe. We are culture. We are naked! - So, metaphorically. And sometimes literally. And that's okay.

Thank you for your attention!

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