For context, LRTK is an oddly authoritarian institution which, for example, tried to make every Lithuanian content creator and also others to register as a television network and every online commentator to adhere to journalist’s code of ethics.
Lithuanian 30+ year-old shitposter who works as a programmer.
For context, LRTK is an oddly authoritarian institution which, for example, tried to make every Lithuanian content creator and also others to register as a television network and every online commentator to adhere to journalist’s code of ethics.
Surprise Anschluss
It lacks a second panel to look like loss.
More like a Steve, I’m going bald-ner.
My instance refuses to post the full one, but I cropped it better if the original is too small.
This summer hasn’t been that bad yet, I swam in a lake on Sunday at 28C but have to wear an extra layer today at 22C. Frequent rain helps too.
Not only are Baltic people traitors, but they did a non-violent revolution against their beloved much more violent revolution and that just doesn’t work within their worldview, so they try to either take away their agency (USA did it!) or they try to pretend like we don’t exist.
The one with “No speed limits” doesn’t mean that you can go 200 in a 90, it just means that previous speed signs no longer apply. So if you had a speed sign of 70 in a road that typically allows to go 90, you can do 90 again.
“Of the 12 apostles, 18 of them are buried in Spain.”
I like eugenics in my games. Just a little of them, as a treat.
Also, shower water
And plant water
Freshly washed fruits and vegetables
I should try that train to Krakow this summer…
Many buyers are hoping for a market capitulation.
šãškė - somewhat like shash-keh, with the emphasis on the a.
She is sometimes naughty but also a very sociable cat.
some buses
Trolleybus: when you need a cheap moustache ride.
Poland is the China of Europe. Everything you can do, they can do cheaper.
Also, Poland is much less corrupt and the privatization in the 90s worked a bit better than in Russia, at least it didn’t create a powerful class of oligarchs due to less mineral resources. Most of their major companies are relatively young though.
The largest predictor of divorce is a commute longer than 45 minutes.
I blocked the instance and my enjoyment of Lemmy has improved.
You switch cause and effect, realism tries to describe the word as is and not as it should be and then bases policies on that.
It’s less of a linear relationship and more of a feedback loop. The more politicians buy into this political theory, the more effect it has on the world and vice versa.
yet the world is still made up of poker chips and superpowers.
Iran is a good example of being neither. There are also a bunch of non-state actors who challenge the status quo. Realism fails to explain Al Qaeda, Taliban and ISIS joining the poker table.
Commercial actors are also become more and more powerful and their interests often do not align with those of the state. Google and Meta have a higher revenue than several countries and is capable of influencing public opinion.
Realism fails to explain how all superpowers fall apart from within or from outside forces eventually. Where is the British Empire? Where is the Dutch Empire? Where are the Romans?
Of course the policies you choose based on realist principles can be used to increase your power as a country
It can also be used to lose your power, destroy your credibility and sabotage your economy. Realism also doesn’t take soft power into account. You can easily trade your soft power for hard power but it is very difficult to get soft power back.
(given the limitations of the natural anarchic state of international politics).
But international politics are governed by international law and various treaties. Just because some countries can break international law and get away with it, doesn’t mean that the law itself is meaningless.
As a Dutch person I accept that the US can decide to turn the Netherlands into a nuclear testing ground whenever it wants and there is nothing we can do about that, but given this fact we should still try to create a peaceful world.
You can do a lot about it, from petitioning other governments to cease diplomatic relations to terrorism. Even a small country, like the Netherlands, is a complex social system with it’s own interests and guiding principles and not just a chip in political games of giants.
And then it gets hot and it unsticks at the worst possible time…