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  • JucheBot1988
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    1411 months ago

    Russia apparently just hit Kiev with six Kinzhal missiles; the ukrops claim they were all shot down, despite a depleted air defense system and not even the mighty US possessing the tech to shoot down hypersonics. Another day in bullshit country?

  • @201dberg@lemmygrad.ml
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    1011 months ago

    My workplace has been pushing to recall all remote workers back on-site. I am one of them. Was hired during the pandemic and not a drivable distance from the facility and not able to move. Been looking for a new job for a few months. Still looking. Still waiting for the hammer to come down. They just forced a big group of remote workers from another department to either return or resign. Most “resigned” by being labelled as job abandonment so the company could get out of paying for any unemployment. The walls are closing in and I basically exist in a constant state of panic every day. Like, I’m not bad off. I have hosing and enough money saved that I’d be fine for at least a year if I HAD to. Much better off than most people but still it’s just terrifying. At an age where medical stuff might start being a thing and now I’m just counting the days till I’m unemployed and uninsured in this shithole of a capitalist hell we call a country.

    • DankZedong
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      511 months ago

      I do hope things get better for you soon. It’s good to see you have the resources to survive for a while though.

  • Drstrange2love
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    811 months ago

    Judging by Western press coverage of the war, it’s possible that Zelensky is already using the Kremlin as a summer home.

    Every week they report Russians surrendering, Russians dying, Russians ran out of fuel, Russians ran out of ammunition, Russians were cold without coats, they ran out of vodka in Russia…

  • @frippa@lemmy.ml
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    710 months ago

    Half of Romagna is underwater meanwhile the average Italian (at least a vocal minority) still denies that this is a climate problem, i swear this country is beyond redemption

    • DankZedong
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      10 months ago

      Same here in Belgium. Two years ago the southern region flooded and people died. Two years later they are still dealing with the aftermath.

      We’re also already dealing with this year’s drought alert.

      But we can have as many ‘once in a lifetime’ events as we like, some people are beyond redemption.

  • DankZedong
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    711 months ago

    ‘If there will be enough capitalist demand, we can solve climate change’

    Actual quote from Dutch socialist subreddit

  • @Mzuark@lemmygrad.ml
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    711 months ago

    According to Ukraine, they’ve killed 200,000 Russian soldiers since the beginning of the war. The Russian army is about 1.15 million strong. So in essence, they want us to believe they’ve wiped out 1/5th of the entire Russkie military force. But they still need more weapons.

  • DankZedong
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    10 months ago

    Lmao Belgian Green Party just said they think about excluding us would they have a big victory in the elections 😭 the socdems don’t like being anticapitalist and marxist I guess.

    We overtook them in popularity anyway.

  • DankZedong
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    610 months ago

    There is an interview in today’s newspaper over here about a Belgian guy who joined the Ukrainian Foreign Legion to fight Russia. He has lost both his legs and has been recovering for over a year now.

    The man is permanently injured and can’t walk anymore because he wanted to fight Russia. Absolute madness.

  • 小莱卡
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    611 months ago

    If my family was american im pretty sure my dad would be one of those old fucktards that kill people that ring their doorbells, what a fckn disgusting person.

  • @frippa@lemmy.ml
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    10 months ago

    I just discovered i have some books from the cultural revolution wow, bad period but interesting for sure

    Edit: so sad that Mao’s theory is so hard to find in Italy i need to rely on old, beat up, taped, foxed books from 60 years ago

  • @Shrike502@lemmygrad.ml
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    510 months ago

    It seems my organism has decided life is too boring. First I get some kind of intestinal issue, vomiting stomach acid and whatnot. Got hospitalised with potential infection. Test results for infection negative, but I had to stay for over a week anyway. Just when I thought everything was starting to get better, last Saturday I get increasingly unwell, which culminates in what is apparently an allergy - swellings, red spots, neverending itch. I didn’t even have any known allergies, save for a light one to a very particular antiseptic. Wtf, body?