They were a Stalinist dictatorship throughout the Cold War and built tens of thousands of bunkers around their landscape, spending a large part of their economy on preparing for the inevitable invasion by the capitalist imperialists and/or ideologically degenerate socialists. Then, afterwards, they gave the world Dua Lipa and a few other successful pop artists.
Is “Newpoll” a typo for “Newspoll”, and has this been verified? “Noticer News” looks like a new outlet of uncertain reliability, and what’s to say that it’s not some kind of disinformation operation (possibly to build up One Nation as a viable major party, or just to destabilise things)?
This must be the resistance to tyranny the NRA go on about
(crying soyjak face) “No! AI is The Future!!!”
Do they use electric pumps as Britain does?
I think that’s meant to be an English-German pun
Being able to set up personally hosted RSS feeds would be useful. If the feeds are fetched periodically, that could also allow archiving of accounts.
Or even if it could provide RSS feeds of accounts, for following in a RSS reader.
Though excellent work!
We do, but the lower house is not elected proportionally (as the Senate is), resulting in the two major parties having a disproportionate share of the vote.
“Ronnie” has a nice midcentury vintage feel, if that’s of any value to you one way or the other.
What happens when the Russian embassy claims that expressions of support for Ukraine are “Russophobia”, and thus hate speech under the law?
There’s an entire howling void of unspeakable instances nobody will federate with, presumably sieg-heiling, shouting slurs and/or trading CSAM among themselves in the darkness. One more won’t change things.
If it was a bear selling that lamp, none of this would have been necessary.
Good point, but look at the catapults it’ll have for launching fighters. Proper traditional steam catapults with analogue warmth, none of that modern digital rubbish.
Cory Doctorow once gave the hypothetical example of a phone company doing a deal with Domino’s so that every time you called a rival pizzeria, you got “press 1 to be connected to Domino’s or wait 30 seconds to be put through to the number you dialled”
He printed and distributed the Tsarist-era antisemitic forgery Protocols of the Elders of Zion in the US, as well as a book of his own writing titled The International Jew.
Some people are tropical rainforests, others are arid wastelands.
A contender for the least surprising leak ever
I’d classify it as kafkaesque, due to the revealed origins of the artefact (though one could argue that that is, in its own way, liminal, emerging from neither here nor there).