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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨He is cooked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Back in my kid days, SMS was too expensive to just text around. If you had a prepaid card, the provider would offer to send one asking for a callback if you ran out of balance. We would use these to communicate, like after school one callback SMS was “yeah I’m coming to hang out” two was “no time today, sorry”.

  The upside is that when 3rd party messengers and wifi became a thing, everyone ditched SMS, so the green bubble / blue bubble Apple insanity is a non-starter since nobody uses iMessage anyway. Also no peer pressure to buy iPhones from it.

  We also used to send memes to each other by infra port, we would hide the phones in someone’s desk next to each other, one meme transfer took a whole class.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaders of growing BRICS group gather for Rio summit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  And I’m thankful for it. Not like Russia has much to contribute to BRICS nowadays anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaders of growing BRICS group gather for Rio summit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Obligatory fuck Russia, but BRICS and dedollarization is not necessarily a bad idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Albania’s for Sale, and Jared Kushner’s Buying⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I hope he moves there. The Balkans is a great place to put these people in, because while the people there are not much better at picking out who is holding them down than most, their solution tends to be to start killing randomly until the problem solves itself, and sometimes they even hit the right people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spain ruling party bars members from hiring sex workers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They aren’t banning you, they are just banning party members, which is fine IMO.

  I mean in some clubs you can’t have sex at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah but on the other hand the dumping business model where you sell stuff below cost to kill competition has been a staple of Silicon Valley.

  Amd I’d rather the studio earn more money than the publisher in any case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would still download a car if I could. 🚗⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t really, or IDK how else those subscriptions work where you pay monthly to use the seat heating

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It might get the EU to make a law.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thank you, Thor!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is not just a random petition, it has legal force to compel the EU to officially hear the issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Opinion] Europe Puts Social Programs on Chopping Block to Appease Trump on NATO Funding⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It is specifically mandated in the new defense spending act that it has to stay domestic

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is WW3 more likely to accelerate or slow down anthropogenic climate change?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It has been tried many times in history since the first tanks. I wonder if modern battery tech makes it more feasible than it was 100 years ago.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is WW3 more likely to accelerate or slow down anthropogenic climate change?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are hybrids, even in WWI there were French tanks with hybrid drivetrains, then WWII Germans also had super-heavy stuff with hybrid engines, and the AbramsX is supposed to also be like that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is WW3 more likely to accelerate or slow down anthropogenic climate change?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The tools that would kill enough humans to matter would hurt the biosphere much worse than it hurts humans. Otters and bees don’t have gas masks and nuclear shelters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is WW3 more likely to accelerate or slow down anthropogenic climate change?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, because after the war we’ll need to start rebuilding stuff we just destroyed, so the people remaining will increase their emissions many times. Also, hypernormalisation after a war might just render public opinion towards climate change indifferent.

  So imagine if the problem was deforestation and people heating with chopped wood. War means that we’ll burn all their wooden houses down, and then see them cut down even more trees to rebuild them.

  Also, large wars cause baby booms.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nexus Mods are set to introduce adult mod age verification for UK and EU users soon⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are no current EU age verification laws on file, the DSA does not require anything like it. There is a solution in the pipe which lets people verify their ages without giving away personal info in the pipe, but it’s not even close to being implemented.

  So what the hell, Nexus Mods?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨morning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a Hungarian citizen, so do I!

  Pls send help

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Harbinger of the Dystopia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The place was a part of my early youth, I was sad to see it go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Harbinger of the Dystopia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK it was part of a larger restoration of the whole building complex (this is the Budapest Nyugati railway station), and the global redesign of McDonalds. They justified it by saying that the architecture is closer to the original - the lower level only became part of it when they built the McDonalds in 1990, before that it was a separate diner for the poors in third class. The furniture is default McDonalds.

  The overall restoration on the building at large is not bad per se, but they basically destroyed a symbol of the Hungarian 90s - 00s. This was the place where if you lived in Budapest and got wasted, you could get some nutrition in the city center, and it wasn’t full of tourists because they didn’t think that the railway station buffet was so good.

  BTW the local franchisee is trying to cater more to a “fast casual” crowd rather than the bare minimum, so a McDonalds in Hungary has a menu three times as long as one in the Netherlands for example. All I’m saying is that it was a nice place considering. Sic transit gloria mundi I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Harbinger of the Dystopia⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We used to have the only McDonald’s (that I know of) that was in a building designed by Eiffel.

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  They “modernised” it last year.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Now, do you have any sources of rape statistics by Nazis in Belarus, or by Americans in west-germany?

  I guess the Belarusians do. About the Americans, I (and to be honest the whole country of Hungary) has no love lost for them either. Our family lost relatives in American bombings. One could say our country deserved it for going to war, but Hungary wasn’t really a free democratic country back then, it was at best a military dictatorship. You could also say Hungary is exploited by corporations today and has a bad case of neoliberalism, but that’s coming more from the Germans than the US. Fuck Merkel BTW.

  My focus is on Russians because the troops raping and robbing throughout the land were ordered and supervised by Moscow. There is literally no difference between a Russian, an Ukrainian a Hungarian or an American with regards to whether they would rape people or rob people. Those people were also kids taken from home and sent against German machineguns to die. Btw I also don’t subscribe to the “human wave” BS if you want to know. The difference on whether an army will rape everything in sight or if they act as a “decent” occupying force is decided when an officer rapes someone, will it get overlooked, or will that person end up being shot. In the Red Army, it was mixed, and depended on their superior. Plenty of Red Army soldiers got executed summarily by their superiors for rape and murder, but the Red Army in general did not care.

  The result is a deeply sick society in these “liberated” countries that you can see in Hungary and Poland where people are overcompensating in politics, and we get idiots like Orbán elected. There is a measurable regression in women’s rights as well in Hungary compared to the neighbours, which started when people coped by treating rape as “not a big deal” in the 40s, since the alternative would have been that they have been powerless to protect their loved ones from the unspeakable. Many people committed suicide as I’ve mentioned. And now we have the only EU country that is not a signatory to the Istambul agreement. This has been extensively studied as well, by communists as well.

  I’m not even anti-communist BTW. I just think that condoning rape and murder, a cult of personality and a lot of what was coming from Moscow was not good for communism as a whole either. The stupid thing was that communism was actually popular in Hungary after WWII after people witnessed the horrors of fascism first-hand. But that turned sour when the Soviets tried forcing an idiotic economic plan (heavy industry on a country that is basically one big grainfield with no minerals), and when the resulting economic hardships and friction resulted in a local communist-led revolt against the Soviet occupiers, which the Soviets brutally crushed, leading to brutal repression and a perpetual occupation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  1945-46, not 1941. There were no Russian troops in Hungary in 41, nor were there any in Germany for that matter. These missives were sent by the Communist Party officials in Hungary, same people who executed Szálasi Ferenc.

  So this is a pro Russian government collecting the data, and the study is literally just collating the data and it doesn’t even make conclusions, it’s just a collection of data so you don’t have to fish for it in the Archives.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a serious study published just a few years ago, titled “Törvényes” Megszállás, by the Hungarian National Archives. It is basically a compilation of the official letters sent around by the administration in that era.

  Here is a link so you can purchase the book if you are actually interested, it’s in Hungarian though, full of archaic 1945-contemporary phrases:

  libri.hu/…/l_balogh_beni.torvenyes-megszallas.htm…

  Widespread rapes happening is not and never was a disputed fact, not even by the occupiers. In fact, the Stalinist leader of the Hungarian Communist Party was petitioning Stalin to rein in his soldiers, as the atrocities committed by the Red Army were weakening his election chances. The Budapest Council after its establishment at the start of the occupation had its first order of business to make abortion legal and free, temporarily.

  There is indeed a discussion on how many rapes happened, but the low number admitted by the authorities back then is 50 thousand victims, with many of them being raped multiple times, just in the capital. The reconstructed number from official descriptions that were never collated during the occupation is 200 thousand, meaning more than a third of all women living there. Other missives from doctors in Budapest complain about that it’s not just that they were overwhelmed by the wave of female patients who were seriously injured from the violence inflicted upon them, but that there was a wave of fungal infections following the rape wave, which was then followed by a wave of syphilis patients, as symptoms became apparent. Syphilis medicine was in short supply, as the Red Army confiscated most of it to treat their own men.

  This wasn’t confined to Budapest either, on Nagyszékely, the local doctor reported that 60% of the female population had an STD, aged from 16 to 78. On Kecskemét, the (Soviet-installed) mayor reports 193 civilians were murdered by Red Army soldiers in half a year, and people were unwilling to do any overtime since they wouldn’t leave their families alone after dark. The mayor also complains of a notable uptick in suicides specifically among men unable to cope with their daughters or wives being raped and murdered.

  There was also widespread robbery. The train on which the attendees of the Congress of Civil Engineers were travelling back home was robbed, to the point that they even took their clothes away from around 50 people. The Pest county Union Secretary has been robbed of his bike by Russians three times in a row. Red Army troops were going around the countryside, confiscating carts and horses from peasants working their fields.

  And then there was the Malenkij Robot, which had, similarly to when the German occupation rounded up Jews and took them away to death camps, this time it was the Soviet occupation rounding up Germans to take them away to death camps. There are widespread reports of them not being selective, in Vencsellő, the Russian lieutenant ordered everyone between 16 and 45 rounded up, threatening the local council secretary with summary execution if they missed even one person.

  All in all, 300 thousand people died in forced labour camps.

  So, fuck Russia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good boy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess TikTok as the watermark says

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good boy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  these devices were absolutely used to prevent masturbation for several decades in the U

  …what? I thought it’s a fetish thing exclusively.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So how did they get from 1918 to 1968?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Get your bullshit startup valued in the billions by Wall Street

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does America feel the need to control the world? Do what they say? Instead of taking care of their own problems at home? When did the US become police officer of the world and enforcer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And it did so by means of rape and genocide. Our Soviet aligned government took 2 years to get rid of an epidemic of syphilis after they were through.

  It was just another conquering imperialistic power

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reminder that you do not own digital games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not just your opinion, it’s the law in some places.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brand awareness⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, if you want corps to piss off from using your code, you don’t need to GPL it, just name it dick-wiggler or something

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oranges? In this economy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pomelo cannon or bust