Hard to replicate on your phone ;)

Yeah thankfully sRGB doesn’t extend into gamma rays

Ah yes, the 'ol fractal of horror

Oh absolutely, but it doesn’t have to be nefarious; I meant that they can afford to have good lawyers, accountants etc with questionable ethics on their payroll and first of all try to make sure you’re not easily caught doing whatever it was he is accused of (don’t remember anymore), and who will represent him in courts etc. You know, regular super-rich people shit 😁

Generally even if someone wasn’t found guilty of something in a court, you can’t necessarily assume that they didn’t do whatever they were charged with – all that tells by itself is that guilt couldn’t be proven to a level the court was happy with. You’d have to know more details to be able to judge (har har) whether it’s likely they really are innocent or not.

I don’t remember what it was he supposedly did to get sanctioned, nor if the article has any details about the proceedings, so his “innocence” could well be a more or less proven deal, so I mean the above more in a general sense than specifically related to this particular case

And I mean, using that information is fine as a basis for investigation would have been fine, it’s just that they should have checked it’s true before imposing sanctions.

Whether he’s actually “innocent” is one thing, but apparently it at least couldn’t be proven to a such degree that a court would be satisfied. It’s good to keep in mind that he’s still an oligarch, though; he has a lot of money and power to throw around

Probably why he’s calling for more dialogue

They are an existential threat as this point. Not only are they the biggest opposition to climate action, they’re also inevitably going to produce more Breiviks (or Hitlers for that matter)

Drinking aviation alcohol has long traditions in Russia. Generally I think fuels aren’t drinkable (at least more than once) but ethyl alcohol (ie. ethanol) is used in eg. cooling and air conditioning. The Tu-22 is known as the “supersonic booze carrier” because the cockpit air conditioning used 40% ABV ethanol / water mix for coolant, and air and ground crews would drink it and even sell it.

let’s not talk about my camera-buying habits lol

Ah, that’s the perfect hobby if you really hate having money 😅

One of the benefits of living in the Nordics is tap water that can literally be of higher quality than bottled water (assuming you don’t have bad pipes.) The only time I’ll ever buy bottled water is if I get really thirsty when I’m on the go and don’t have a bottle of tap water with me

That’s certainly a take. So eg. Finland is an imperialist country because we have a military, which is definitely not meant to just keep the Russians from rolling over the border and doing a Ukraine / Georgia / Chechnya to us. I take it your view is that if we or the Georgians or Ukrainians didn’t have a military, we wouldn’t be in any danger?

You are a nerd and your back hurts

You are a nerd with a CS degree

Yes I suspect that indeed was the joke

You’re assuming that Russia doesn’t have any imperialist aims and will simply magically turn peaceful once the evil, evil west stops manufacturing weapons

So not manufacturing weapons will somehow stop Russia?

Don’t forget accelerating global warming that will get catastrophic in just a few decades, even if we went carbon negative right at this second

But if a change for the better is to come, it will come from the kids.

Here in Finland, the under 25s are much more conservative than Millennials or even Gen X. The most popular party of that demographic in our last parliamentary election was a right wing extremist one – and I do mean extremist: they have multiple literal neo-Nazi politicians, and our Speaker of the Parliament who’s from that party has publicly fantasized about murdering gay people.

I’ve given up any hope of things getting better in my lifetime. I’m actually somewhat thankful I’ve got a medical condition that means I’ve only got about a 50% chance of even being alive in 20 years; dying from multiple organ failure is not something I look forward to, but it seems much more attractive than where we’re heading

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And at least here in Finland, the under 25s are actually more conservative than millennials or even Gen X, which is highly alarming. They voted for an extremist right wing party in droves in our latest parliamentary election, something like 30% I think

Saturn 3! Such a terrible movie, but great fun if you’re a scifi schlock fan