These ones:

Kerbal Space Program
Morphblade
Dicey Dungeons
Fallout 3
Endless Sky
/usr/games/sol

(Plus on my phone Feudal Tactics and Shattered Pixel Dungeon)

Nobody has said that’s a problem.

What was considered a problem by the post is saying “Lemmy is a Reddit alternative”.
Saying “Lemmy is Reddit but better” is a whole different kind of phrase!

You can of course remedy the risk of corruption by making several compressed files instead of just one. Then you will lose only part of the data in the worst case scenario.

Africa: Cameroon and 2 other countries?

Seen several occurrences of Somalians fighting for the Russia.

In year 2000 Ukraine knew there will never be a war in Ukraine. In 2013 it still knew the same.

In 2013 Ukraine knew perfectly well that Poland will never attack it. Nor Hungary or Slovakia or Romania. And the most ridiculous thought was that Moldova would attack. Heh.

In 2013 Ukraine knew that if it was ever attacked by the aforementioned countries, the Russia would come for help.
In 2013 Ukrainians knew that the Russia has a powerful army.

Because they knew this, their army was a joke. They had tanks, but everything inside the tanks was stolen and sold on black market. “Military training” consisted of building huge “summer cottages” for the highest ranking officers. This made sense because there was no war to be seen. The only war there would ever be would be some Russian expeditional war, and the worse Ukrainian soldiers perform, the less likely they are to ever be sent to one of them. It became a virtue for the army to be bad.

There was no need to prepare for a war, therefore they didn’t.

And then the Russia attacked Ukraine in 2014. It could do that because there was nobody to oppose it (except far-right extremists funded by the Russia itself, which is otherwise a hilarious turn of events, but made less comfortable by the fact that far-right extremists are a very bad thing in the long run)

But yeah. It’s good that Sweden has now decided not to be Ukraine of 2013, after all.

I don’t think he does thinking as complex as you describe.

I actually can.

The thing is, Vance is the same but without being a complete fecking moron. And if Trump dies, Vance will be POTUS. The same will continue, but in a way that is consequent. And horrible for the west.

I don’t think he said U.S. would back them up.

What he said was that it’s okay to do something bad to the Russia. I don’t think he has said anything like that since year 2019 or 2020.

He’ll flip-flop from it anyway, but like a curve that goes up and down and up and down but still has a rising trend, this also means that the lowest downs will be a bit higher up, and the highest ups will be a bit higher up as well.

It’s a promising trend. And still: The wave will soon reach another bottom. That’s how it goes with Trump.

Heroiam slava 💪

Each threadiverse community is visible as a single user in Mastodon. All the comments come into one pile, not organized into clear threads. It’s a very rudimentary support. But yeah, you can join a threadiverse conversation from Mastodon, but you cannot share any Mastodon content in threadiverse.

From within Lemmy, there is zero possibility to utter anything on Mastodon, except as a reply to a message a Mastodon user has made in a threadiverse community.

It’s actually very easy checking how this conversation looks from within Mastodon! Just go to any Mastodon instance (such as http://mastodontti.fi/ ) with your web browser, click the search tool and search for a “user” called @fediverse@piefed.social .

I wonder why he says that?

The Kursk operation made a huge difference in the Russia’s diplomatic position.
Without that, they could have done “an act of goodwill” and “agree to” a ceasefire with the front line as a de facto international border, then gather their strength for a year or two and attack Ukraine for good.

This would have enabled Trump to drive home a “peace” in under 100 days, at least if he had gotten Germany and France to join the plan. And there was a high likelihood that they would have done that, “in the name of peace.”

They couldn’t do that when part of the front was inside the territory of the Russian Federation.

I always understood the Kursk operation as the most crucial part of Ukraine’s front because it tied Putin’s hands diplomatically, making it impossible for the Russia to convince the west to stop arming Ukraine claiming that would be “in the name of peace”.

Now Trump has been president long enough that the momentum of “I’ll get them to make peace within 100 days or at least only a bit more” is gone, it’s not so important to have pieces of the Russia under Ukrainian rule.

Although, there’s also a secondary reason why that territory was good to have:
While the Russia did use its inhumane tactics of obliterating people’s homes even in Sudža, the intensity of that tactic was very visibly lesser than in Ukrainian villages. That meant, the Russia had to expend more soldiers in the fight than they would have expended in Ukraine. And then, when they do obliterate parts of a village, it’s a thousand times better that it’s a village in the Russia, not an Ukrainian village. They do that obliteration with all available resources and all resources spent for obliterating homes in the Russia are away from doing the same to Ukrainian homes.

I believe Zalužnyj has political reasons for saying it cost too much.

A container container container? Obviously, the planet Earth is a container for the oceans.

Or, to be more specific, a container container.

(Yeah. Just let the buffalo buffalo. Whatever.)

You still can ;)

It also contains containers!

Actually it’s Euros to a barrel.

It does take a while to join all the communities you were subscribed to from your old instance, but I don’t think it took close to an hour. Of course, my new instance accepting my application did take its time. And I think that was several hours. But still: You give a few details today and continue tomorrow by subscribing to a bunch of communities.

I mostly agree with your comment, but want to nitpick about this part:

Fediverse is what it is because the people running the servers choose to do things a certain way.

This one is something I must disagree with. I’m using the instances (servers) I am precisely because the people running those servers choose to do things in a certain way. If they did them in a different way, I would be on a different server. In the Fediverse it is extremely easy to vote with your feet. The admins have very free reign over their instances, but that doesn’t mean that they have a free reign over the users of their instances.

And, while this is a bit off-topic, I also want to add an anecdote from around year 1998 or so. Back when they decided the name for our currency, Euro, the European Central Bank also decided that when speaking or writing in Finnish, it should be forbidden to say “For the Euro”, “From the Euro”, “Along the Euro”, “Behind the Euro”, “Without the Euro” or any sentence that includes both the word for “no” in connection with the word “Euro”.

Of course it didn’t mean to make such an absurd rule.

But in Finnish those words such as “from”, “for”, etc. come after the word and without a space in between, so they technically count as parts of the same word. And the ECB declared that “Euro” is a word that cannot be declinated in any manner in any language. There is no way of saying “from” in Finnish without adding an ending to a word, so this was something of a very shitty ruling. Obviously it was simply ignored. But it does showcase a situation where Finland had something that was completely unique in EU and got completely overlooked. Back then Finland was the only Finno-Ugric speaking country in the EU, and in Indo-European languages the decision made sense, but in the one country with a language from a different language family, it didn’t. The Finnish language got completely overlooked because Finland was so small, peripheral and insignificant. Maybe not a problem for the EU, but definitely a problem for us people living over here in our insignificant and unimportant corner of the Union.

I would prefer the veto rights being reduced strongly.

At the same time, being from a small country, it also worries me that small countries such as Finland can get trampled by the bigger ones. Finland has very close to 1 % of EU’s citizens. There is already a system where smaller countries get more places per capita in the European Parliament than bigger ones, but in the end it changes little. In the EP, Finland has 15 places out of 720, meaning we have about 2% of all the places. And therefore, about 2% of the political power. Assuming the MEPs who are from very different parties could even unite as one front in the first place.

It is a bit scary if Finland only has a 2% weight in any decisions made in the EU. There are already things where we are getting accidentally trampled: There are EU rules about having to add an additive to diesel fuel, to make it less polluting. However, that additive freezes in temperatures that are commonplace in winters in Lapland, at least in nighttime. This means, it is de facto illegal parking a diesel vehicle outdoors during a January night in Lapland. I do not think this was ever the intention of the lawmakers, but that’s the law they ended up writing.

But still: I think it might make sense that there would be some way of getting around a veto, but it should be made in some manner unappealing to use unless really needed. And also, the power should, in general, be moved from commission to EP, thus reducing the number of cases where the veto right exists.

I wonder if some kind of “emergency brake” could be deviced for situations where the parliament is about to make a decision that will disproportionately damage a member state. Maybe this could be organized as a law, so that a court could decide if something of exceptional national importance is being overlooked by the EP?