There is astroturfing, but there is also a lot of propaganda and story curation around the protests.

Like the rest of my body, I use a loofah. I have enough mobility to get to my entire back from one arm.

I don’t know of a political movement yet, but I would guess the following:

• Without Russia, the new St. Petersburg country could engage with more trade with the EU instead. The region is one of the more advanced parts of Russia, so they may figure that they could do better trading within the EU customs union than being frozen out.
• While a lot of resource wealth goes into Moscow and St. Petersburg from some parts of Russia, there are a lot of other areas that rely on massive Russian subsidies to maintain their standards of living. If resource wealth gets cut off, St. Petersburg may not want to subsidize these backwater areas.
• The Wagner Group is located in St. Petersburg. It is possible that a future civil war between the Wagner Group and the Russian government may lead to the Wagner Group wanting independence from Russia to keep its pseudo colonial riches.

It would likely be the end of Russia as a country.

The conquering of St. Petersburg was central to the modern formation of the Russian identity. After that, the lands were made integral to Russia. A post-Soviet Russia would never allow such a key part of the country to break away.

A post-Russian Eurasia would likely see at least four independent countries; potentially more. The eastern part of Russia would likely fall into China’s sphere of influence immediately without much resistance from the rest of the world.

No. Just create an account on hexbear.

Don’t stop in doorways when walking through public places.

Trains still accepted that noon should be near the middle of the day. Time zones came from railroads trying to standardize time.

Time zones were the result of railroads getting towns to abandon their town specific clocks because of railroads.

The cultural relationship with time is more important than its absolute measurement.

That’s a weird way to say there’s a big heat wave.

Recycled the plastic that is used to go around office paper boxes so they don’t open into coasters.

If I’m doing that, I’m not laude.

Yeah. I went to a tech school, so the school was set up to teach the importance of communication and team building because they knew the engineers needed to be taught this and that understanding human systems was as important as understanding technical systems.

I could usually get away with saying “Bacon is a vegetable” when ordering a vegetarian burrito with pinto beans; the pinto beans were made with bacon.

Based on stated consumption levels, you are probably not an alcoholic. However, your thought process indicates that you may be at risk.

1. Suicide as my body/finances will have deteriorated to the point where life isn’t worth living.

2. Cancer

3. Heart attack

I’m going to build a shit ton of housing.

People on Lemmy aren’t “normal” people and shouldn’t use their personal views as the norm.

World War III isn’t a romanticized repeat of World War II in Star Trek, though. It is an extremely destructive war that just about destroys most major national governments. There isn’t a winner with a peace treaty; all sides collapse.

I’m asking if it worth spending more money on human developers to write code that isn’t slop.

Everyone here has been mentioning costs, but they haven’t been comparing them together to see if the cost of using human developers located in a high cost of living American city is worth the benefits.