grus

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[–] grus@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

China is most definitely looking at how western countries (and not only) respond to Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine and taking notes, preparing for the future.
It's one of the many reasons why a bad response to Russia's invasion could lead to a bigger conflict in the future, possibly a world-war scenario.

[–] grus@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I honestly don't know either, what I did to "crosspost" was actually just double posting. First posting to kbin.social own magazine /m/Ukraine and then I accessed beehaw.org's /c/news community through our kbin instance by going to https://kbin.social/m/news@beehaw.org and did another identical post there.

If anyone has an easier way, please let me know lol.
Also, I think a crosspost button of sorts should be useful in he future, or a button to show in which other communities a certain link was posted - that'd actually help spread word of certain communities and could be quite useful.

[–] grus@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago

In regards to the hatred/animosity/bigotry that we see today against Russian people, I've been saying this for a while: this is nothing in comparison to what the future holds, at least that's the feeling that I get.
And the reason why I think that is rather simple: the children will grow up. The children that had their parents raped, mutilated or killed, the children whose houses and cities were bombed and pillaged.
And its not going to be like how it was in the past when post-war children grew with nothing much but stories from their family members, eventually some newspaper articles or some movies sprinkled here and there. No, these children will have readily available hundreds of thousands of videos, pictures and media on top of the all the stories they'll hear from people around them, not to mention the mass-media that will most likely talk about this for decades to come on a daily or mutiple-times-a-week basis.
Like I can't even begin to fathom the level of hatred these children will feel and I do really hope Ukraine finds a way to diminish that, because that level of hatred can't be healthy for a society.

Germans efter ww2 were easy as they still knew what decency was as they had the weimar republic right before things went south.

See, I don't necessarily agree with this point. The main reason why the post-nazi German society changed was because it was forced to do so, they were quite literally under occupation.
I don't think Russia will be occupied and as such I don't have much hopes for the rehabilitation of the Russian society. On the contrary, I think it spiraling even deeper into fascism/imperialism/revanchism is a valid concern.

[–] grus@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] grus@kbin.social 16 points 2 years ago

Hope she's not going away, I need her to trigger more right wing chuds just by breathing in their general direction.

[–] grus@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's people like him that made me choose kbin over lemmy. Awful, awful people.

[–] grus@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Disappointing but not unexpected.

[–] grus@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Jesus Christ Almighty.

[–] grus@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

yeah, the Americans went to sleep, lmao
I've noticed that when it's like 9/10/11 PM for me and 2/3/4PM for Americans the server starts to throw errors.
That schedule works for me tho, lol. Whenever the site starts becoming slow I know its time for me to go to sleep.

[–] grus@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

@maynarkh
Romanian here: correct, but not in a way that Americans might think of.
Here's how it went. When I was young (in the late 90s - early 2000) computers were becoming more and more of a thing. We were poor as shit so we got really crappy ones, Pentium 486, 586, I, II, that sorta stuff.
Now, being dirt poor meant that we could barely convince our parents to get us computers, there was no way in hell they would be convinced to pay for an expensive internet connection.
So what we did instead was we chipped in and bought network gear and then drew cables from one apartment to another, from one bloc to another and form tiny local networks in between us so we can share pirated movies/games/music/porn and also play network games.
Then we chipped in money so that one of us got an internet connection and share it in our tiny little local network (unless you had a rich neighbor who could afford it by himself and you could beg him to let you use his internet connection).
Of course, the primary motivator for that was: piracy, gaming and porn.
These local networks happened in every city, all over the entire country. Lucky for us, the government didn't intervene at all, they just completely ignored everything that was happening.
Gradually those tiny networks started communicating with one another and some entrepreneurial people saw that as an opportunity. All sorts of neighborhood companies sprung up and started offering cheaper internet connection using as a base the existing infrastructure that we created with those tiny little networks.
The competition between these companies was so fierce that it became ingrained in the culture, cheap and good became such an expectation that people had that it carried over to mobile phone services too. And even though nowadays we no longer have small companies competing with each other, but a handful of large companies, that expectation for cheap and good services is there.

That's how you get 1Gbps internet connection for $9 (tax included) - the idea of a data cap on a broadband connection is not even a thing, doesn't exist.
You'll get data caps for mobile internet, for example Orange's current offer is for $6.6 you'll get unlimited calls/sms + 20GB internet or for $9.7 you'll get unlimited calls/sms/internet. But if you want something really cheap, there's other available for example Digi's connection: for $2.2 you get unlimited network calls/sms, 200 minutes with other networks and 50GB internet.

[–] grus@kbin.social 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

btw guys, there's no intent of defederating from kbin, right? We're good, right? I don't want to lose you, lol. You're really cool, it seems to me.

[–] grus@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Am I on beehaw? This is so confusing. Can someone explain to my dumb ass?

No, you're on kbin. Kbin and beehaw continue to be federated. But beehaw and sh.itjust.works have ceased to be federated.
So it's like having a group of friends that all talk to each other: Mary, Joe and Mark.
Mary talks to Joe and Mark.
Mark talks to Joe and Mary.
Joe talks to Mary and Mark.

Then one day Mary and Joe decide to stop talking to each other. Mark however continues to talk to both Mary and Joe.

So basically us (kbin) have no current beef with any of them, we continue seeing posts from beehaw, sh.itjust.works and lemmy.world, regardless if some of the ones that we federate with decide or not to stop talking to one another.
We're pretty much that friend who is liked by everyone (so far, lmao)

I hope I didn't say anything wrong. If so, anyone is free to correct me. Ty.

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