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As part of their efforts to combat draft evasion, authorities earlier this year launched an electronic register of conscripts to serve online summonses in some Russian regions. They also introduced a series of legal restrictions for those who ignore the summonses, including banning their bank transactions, suspending their driver’s licenses and blocking foreign travel. (AP)

dude I’ve been reading about the ukrainians running kidnapping squads grabbing kids off the streets for like two years straight but uh yeah sure it’s russia having manpower issues

I love the cold, fuck me up with that shit. I’m getting hot? oh thank you I’ll take a layer off, just the way nature intended

the only problem is it’s probably going to kill my lemon tree tomorrow… I’m gonna put a bag over it but it’s going to dip to 18F (-8C) and uh let me just say it really didn’t like it when it was 25F for a day

I’m hoping if it does damage it it continues to fuck it up from the top down (the top foot or so of leaves are yellowed and withering, kinda like a nutrient problem but I assume it’s from the temp) and maybe some lower foliage will survive until spring

I know it’s possible because my boss said he drives past a house with two lemon trees on his way to work and they’ve survive multiple winters…

p.s. I know i could put lights on it and stuff but tbh I ain’t doin’ all that, I have a clone in my closet surviving the winter

OH FUCK KROPOTKIN USED EM DASHES

There is not even a thought, or an invention, which is not common property, born of the past and the present. Thousands of inventors, known and unknown, who have died in poverty, have co-operated in the invention of each of these machines which embody the genius of man.

Thousands of writers, of poets, of scholars, have laboured to increase knowledge, to dissipate error, and to create that atmosphere of scientific thought, without which the marvels of our century could never have appeared. And these thousands of philosophers, of poets, of scholars, of inventors, have themselves been supported by the labour of past centuries. They have been upheld and nourished through life, both physically and mentally, by legions of workers and craftsmen of all sorts. They have drawn their motive force from the environment.

The genius of a Séguin, a Mayer, a Grove, has certainly done more to launch industry in new directions than all the capitalists in the world. But men of genius are themselves the children of industry as well as of science. Not until thousands of steam-engines had been working for years before all eyes, constantly transforming heat into dynamic force, and this force into sound, light, and electricity, could the insight of genius proclaim the mechanical origin and the unity of the physical forces. And if we, children of the nineteenth century, have at last grasped this idea, if we know now how to apply it, it is again because daily experience has prepared the way. The thinkers of the eighteenth century saw and declared it, but the idea remained undeveloped, because the eighteenth century had not grown up like ours, side by side with the steam-engine. Imagine the decades that might have passed while we remained in ignorance of this law, which has revolutionized modern industry, had Watt not found at Soho skilled workmen to embody his ideas in metal, bringing all the parts of his engine to perfection, so that steam, pent in a complete mechanism, and rendered more docile than a horse, more manageable than water, became at last the very soul of modern industry.

Every machine has had the same history — a long record of sleepless nights and of poverty, of disillusions and of joys, of partial improvements discovered by several generations of nameless workers, who have added to the original invention these little nothings, without which the most fertile idea would remain fruitless. More than that: every new invention is a synthesis, the resultant of innumerable inventions which have preceded it in the vast field of mechanics and industry.

Science and industry, knowledge and application, discovery and practical realization leading to new discoveries, cunning of brain and of hand, toil of mind and muscle — all work together. Each discovery, each advance, each increase in the sum of human riches, owes its being to the physical and mental travail of the past and the present.

By what right then can any one whatever appropriate the least morsel of this immense whole and say — This is mine, not yours?

weird because I haven’t seen that level of delusion from Russia, just projection from weird ass liberals

Yeah we need [insert western source] which reveals the truth, that Russia has collapsed 27 times already and definitely isn’t winning this war despite even western news admitting that NATO literally doesn’t have the manufacturing capacity to keep Ukraine supplied, and has been saying that same shit literally since the outset

also unfortunately has taken for itself the label of libertarianism in the american adjacent cultural sphere so people don’t even know about niche left libertarian shit like market socialism or like that guy who did the Cincinnati Time Store, further solidifying capitalism as “the only system” that makes sense to them

no, we should arm the homeless

I think being a professional cook inculcates or at least intensifies an already present hyper vigilance because there’s always something else I could be or should be doing and it’s a nearly constant list of tasks and any moment not filled by a task is filled with thoughts of what am I not doing right now that I should be.

At least Christmas music doesn’t fill me with hate anymore

moron shit, go back to reddit

Cool story, did you realize literally everyone seemed to interpret your “sarcastic” comment as liberalism? Maybe work on your “jokes”

24 days later get the fuck out of here liberal

I’ve just been ignoring it all, did something happen, my windows is still windowing

and more money and guns to israel

I think if you’re a milquetoast shit liberal whose politics are at home with /r/politics there’s literally no reason to be here but hey that’s just me i guess, maybe we do need 27 identical websites with the same dumb fuckers posting the same stupid shit

liberals and republicans

cool story

How does mocking their leader even translate to economic growth or what ever metric you are using?

how many citizens in how many countries do you know readily mock their leaders when shit is going good, and what would you think would motivate them to do so?

I’m not talking “shit is going good” like in America for the last XX years where “the economy” is “doing well” but wages are stagnant and costs for basic goods and services inflate exponentially year over year, I’m talking “the government planned on insane infrastructure investments that would take 5 years but actually got it done in 3, now you can go across the country in 4 hours on a high speed train, 90%+ of the country owns a home, and wages and real benefits are increasing exponentially at the same pace you see their depreciation in western countries”

which like no fucking shit, they actually plan for the future (which western countries have literally used as propaganda i.e. 15 years ago the “ghost city” bullshit where they alleged China built fake cities to juice their GDP. Surprise 10 years later people fucking live in them!) and aren’t beholden to the golden principle of “nothing can happen unless it makes the already ultra rich ultra richer”

anyway, going back to you backing up your claim that “it seems huge” in China to “mock Xi Jinping” as being Winnie the Pooh, yeah, you wanna do that? Or are you just a bloviating piece of shit shit-lib two steps away from becoming a fascist?

my understanding is that China’s population is largely satisfied with their government, and I can understand that since I’ve seen nothing but endless improvements year over year for the last ten years now, despite constant “china’s about to collapse” and other actually insane propaganda about China so yeah pardon me for thinking you should back up your claim that “calling xi jinping winnie the poo is huge in china (even though the GOVERNMENT will KILL YOU FOR IT)”

Also, this seams to be huge within China