I usually like being notified of messages in certain chats. But even with that I’d like to be able to choose which chats are allowed to disturb me no matter what and which ones should make noise but not that damn much!

Well, yeah. Up to a point, we do.

But they tend to be based on people knowing that When I say “count the ticket, it’s hundreding” in the meaning “lower the flag, it’s raining” (based on the Finnish word “laskea” meaning both “count” and “to lower”, “lippu” meaning both “ticket” and “flag” and “sataa” being both the partitive form of “hundred” and “it rains”, the joke is about the Finnish language having funny homonyms.

And similarly here the arse of the joke is English being funny in having to meanings for the word “come”? It’s not usual to make such jokes with words that are actual cognates. They are more usually made with word pairs such as read and read, or read and red. I mean, jokes are goof things to have, but they shouldn’t be based on the laughee being ignorant.

What would be a fantastic name for a brothel, however, is this:

I was just talking with a Russian woman I know who always seemed like a decent person.

And then she uttered “there’s no leader around who would be better for the Russia than Putin is”. I was left gobsmacked. I’ve still to go back to her and ask how the hell that’s supposed to be possible in her opinion. Like, what should some other leader do in order to be even worse than Putin, really? How is killing hundreds of thousands of people, spending all the money saved for the future, torturing people en masse, destroying the own country’s economy, and destroying the image of the Russia as a country and Russians as a people in the eyes of other peoples not a problem?

It seems crazy. You cannot really run a country down worse than Putin has done. Or maybe you can, by being a Pol Pot. But is there really a chance that a Pol Pot would somehow manage to seize power in the Russia? Almost anybody is better than Putin. But Russians disagree. They like their Putin the best possible president they have. They say it’s sad that they’ve got nothing better than that asshole, but they still do think he’s the best available. They think that if Putin dies, somebody “worse” will replace him. That is utterly moronic.

But shortly put: They don’t get their shit together because they don’t feel like there is any shit to get together. They’ve got a leader they like. He’s making the Russia strong, and that’s what they want. They’ve got a leader that is doing what they think a Russian leader should be doing. Or, is at least doing stuff more in that direction than anybody else would.

They like Putin. If someone tried hurting him, the whole population would get their shit together to protect him.

ATACMS. Kann man nicht aus einem Schiff schießen. Und viele Panzer. Usw.

Die USA hat sehr viele Waffen gelagert, die im Asien nicht von Nützen sind. Die zu verwenden würde schon vieles verändern!

Thank you!

The Ukrainian system of names basically functions this way: If your name is Oleh Melnyk and you want to call your newborn child Nastia, what gets written in the documents is Anastasiia. Then, people will call that Nastia this way:

• If they have to be very formal, they call her Anastasiia Olehivna (this is the father’s first name with a suffix)
• If they have to be formal, they call her Anastasiia Melnyk (this is Nastia’s family name)
• If they have to be somewhat formal, they call her Anastasiia
• If they have to be informal, they call her Nastia

Every Anastasiia is always called Nastia by most people around her. And every Nastia has “Anastasiia” as their name in their official documents. Nastia’s parents will never* call her Anastasiia. Not even when telling their friends what their newborn’s name is. They will say “Look, this is our Nastia!”

The same applies to basically all other names as well. There are lists online for what name corresponds with which nickname and there is no simple pattern that you can reliably use to automatically turn a name’s informal form into a formal form of the name or vice versa. For foreign names, -chka is a very common solution. When I lived in Ukraine, I would have ended up being Tuuchka, which is kind of funny because it means a small cute cloudlet, but people found that weird and just had to resort to always using my name as in documents, which made them feel kind of uncomfortable. If they cannot distinguish between whether the form they use is a formal or an informal one, their brain breaks a little.

Oh, and when I call my wife’s phone from an unknown number, she answers with “Anastasiia <Familyname>”, but if I give her my phone and she knows she’s talking to a friend of mine without knowing precisely whom, her first words in the phone are “Nastia <Familyname>”. And no, her father’s name is not Oleh. Nor Melnyk. I just took those names randomly. Melnyk is the most common family name over there.

*) Never, except when they are super angry at her for some seriously bad mischief. Then they shout ANASTASIIA MELNYK, and she knows she in trouble. And if it’s “ANASTASIIA OLEHIVNA, come here NOW!” then it means she immediately knows she’s been caught after all for having killed her sibling three years ago, or something like that. And similarly, if they want to be just generally stern and not angry (although: almost angry), they can go with just “Anastasiia. Come here. Now.”

I cannot get that to work. I tried this link: https://piefed.europe.pub/post/35873 . And no. Nothing.

Ausserdem, hatten die Drohnen Sprengstoff an Bord, d.h. war es ein bewaffneter Angriff?

Das ist passiert:

Einem EU-Bürger ist das Zuhause zerstört worden. “Iss doch keen Angriff!!”

Ist aber nicht relevant. Die USA ist nicht ein Teil der Ukraine.

Die Ukraine ist nicht schuld daran, dass jemand in USA mit irgendwas rechnet. Wenn du deine Nachbarin sekret liebst und ich deine Nachbarin hübsch finde, berechtigt das dich deine Nachbarin anzugreifen und sie als Geisel zu nehmen? “Der Tuukka hat doch gewusst, dass ich so reagieren würde!” Hat sie selber kein Sagen?

Is this really an air alarm?

At least in Finland all air alarm devices are tested on the first Monday of each month. They only run one wave if it, and do that prolonged. The last seconds of the test sound pretty much like this.

It’s lower than their inflation. They’d need an even higher interest rate in order to curb inflation.

At the same time, the earlier interest rate of 21 % was considered too low, because a higher rate would have been needed to curb inflation.

Sounds good. Now they have had to choose between rock and a hard place, and chose to let the inflation increase so that companies could at least kind of keep existing in the short term. A sensible decision, but painful, because it means killing the economy in the longer term.

A hit in the neck is definitely a miss from an intended target anyway. Can’t say how much or to what direction. It could have been that there’s been a target where the bullet would fly 30 cm behind the person to be guarded, but the bullet is taking a trajectory 10 cm off the intended and the person happens to their head 20 cm backwards just at the crucial moment.

But, I do believe that someone wanted that guy dead. I can imagine someone figuring that “he’s actively advocating killing politicians you don’t like, and I don’t like him. Therefore I am following his own instructions and this is acceptable.”

I personally think it’s a bad idea to kill a person like that, because it probably causes other people to get shot as well. It’s not a culture I want to see spread. But at least I do not see it morally as a very big problem that a person explicitly says that something is acceptable and then that thing is done to him. He wanted a certain kind of society and he got the kind of society he wanted. If there is life after death, he can spend that time being content of having changed the society.

What I’m saying is that there was a very much raised likelihood that someone kills him intentionally.

The building design ignored the danger of the cars because cars are holy.

Sidewalks are a very different thing, because cars drive parallel to them, not perpendicular. In T-intersections they do drive perpendicularly to the sidewalk, but not that close. Of course accidents happen in them as well, but this one was so clearly preventable by not having parking places at such a spot. Or at least putting a little bit of concrete in between to stop any rampant cars.

So, nobody there noticed what a horribly bad place that is for a parking spot?! Incredible lunacy!

I mean… A daycare built so that cars are regularly parked 5 metres from where the smallest children are playing, hood towards the children. How blind can you be to the danger?!

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These are all about mann…sorry, orced airplanes.

But I’m not really sure what they’d do with a drone. In reality, if a drone was to fly here, it would be coming from Ukraine and going to some place around Murmansk, having veered off course because of EW, so it might make sense to just follow it and see if it gets back towards its own course. And shoot it down only if it heads for a city.

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