Tuuktuuk

The main job of a parent is to produce experiences of safe disappointments for their children.

Show limits, show love. Make an effort to be interested in whatever is interesting to them. And then make a bit more effort in that, yet.

I really like the ability to downvote. It enables me to say “this was badly argumented and a waste of my time” without spending too much effort for that. I’d write it anyway, but probably using impolite words that would be worse for the Fediverse than my downvotes are.

I dont remember where I’ve seen the stats, but I make about 10 upvotes per one downvote. I strongly believe at least my downvoting behaviour does more good than bad for the Forumverse.

When I was looking for a good instance for myself, Blåhaj seemed like an excellent fit, but when I noticed the downvote button was missing, I changed my mind. I would be annoyed if that feature disappeared altogether.

At least on PieFed’s Matrix chat there has been very constructive conversations about whether and how to allow downvoting. To my eyes, the solutions they came up with seem very good.

Not that I’d remember off the back of my hand what the hell they decided in the end. Maybe someone will tell? :) @rimu@piefed.social @wjs018@piefed.social

I find that a good thing. It’s a bright red flag that tells me to direct my attention to other people who are able to behave themselves.

It’s good that exceptional-level bigots have a way to visibly out themselves as bigots!

Yeah. Get those votes from them!!!

…by doing something that normalizes the far-right in such a way that many more people will be willing to vote them in the next elections.

Idioter.

The closest thing is Friendica, and it’s very buggy and the UI would need to be completely remade. Also, its groups are not the same thing as Facebook’s groups.

It has a lot of potential, but fails to really fulfill it.

I’ve come to the conclusion that the closest thing to a Facebook replacement out there is… PieFed. Which you are using right now. You do need to combine it with Mastodon to get all you were doing on Facebook, but PieFed and Mastodon together do actually fulfill what at least I had as my purpose to use Fecesbook.

There is a plan to “some day” add good support for Mastodon style messaging here as well. But that might easily take a year or two.

“Oh, that’s a big one!”

If that was here in Finland, I would of course be scared because you need a lot of explosives to produce a mushroom cloud, and that would probably mean that:

1. our military has been storing a sizable part of its munitions in one place AND
2. one our eastern neighbours has apparently developed a will to rid our army of its munitions.

…which would mean that some country would be planning to attack us soon.

So, I would probably start preparing for a war. Maybe go buy a lot of food, at least?

In some country further from the Russia I would probably assume it’s something non-military. Maybe some form of a very large fertilizer storage? It would be kind of less scary, but of course that would mean a decreased farming output for the next season, and that would be shitty.

…just like articles in 2014 referred to separatist Russian speaking Ukrainians. And still, in reality they were people who had come from the territory of the Russia for the specific purpose of leading “separatism”.

The Russia says they are separatists. In 2014 DW believed the Russia and in 2026 they seem to believing the Russia again.
Okay, I do believe that there are some pensioners that grew up in Soviet times and really want the city to cede to the Russia, but even most of Narva’s Russian-speaking pensioners are strongly against that. Still, a hundred pensioners are (hopefully) not what this article’s headline is talking about, as that would be intentional misleading. This article’s headline is much more likely to be talking about the people who have come from the Russia in order to function as a pretext for the Russian troops to invade Estonia. But in 2014 DW called those people “East-Ukrainian separatists”, so it’s not suprising they might be doing the same again.

Also, the video clearly shows Russian-speaking people telling – in Russian language – that the idea of such separatism is ridiculous. They would not say that if they knew even one Russian-speaker who has separatist thoughts.

There is no reason to believe this is any different from what took place in 2014.

No, it actually doesn’t.

it’s facing a campaign tryinc go incite Russian-language separatism. But just like in Ukraine in 2014, they’ll need to bring actualy Russians from the Russia to do the actual “separatism”.

And it’s incredibly saddening that still in year 2026 DW calls the Russian troops “separatists”. Were the German soldiers in 1939 Belgian separatists in DW’s opinion?

You probably meant to say “reasonings” not “reasons”, right?

In EU they handle this by showing a bunch of prices on the same price tag. You choose the correct line according to where you are located and the price stands there.

Not very difficult.

And, most.importantly, done by all US clothes stores that operate in at least two countries in the EU.

I kind of have tried that twice, failing both times. Firstly, I like paying in cash and it’s too much work to change money to Francs and back. Secondly the prices are high enough that both time’s I’ve stocked up before entering Switzerland and made sure that I’m on the other side of the country when it’s time to sleep in a paid hotel room.

Yes on Piefed those are called communities.

Let’s explain it this way: Microsoft has programmed a web service that is able to receive, view and send emails.

And Google has done the same, from scratch.

Email itself is merely a way different server softwares communicate with each other.

The same goes here. Some people developed a server software for receiving, viewing and sending ActivityPub content and called it Lemmy. Then other people figured it would be a nice project and did the same, from ground up, and called it PieFed.

They are the same thing. They also don’t have more content or less content. They have the precisely same content. I am writing this on PieFexd, you are reading my comment in Lemmy. And then there is also Mbin.

It doesn’t really work very well as that. It’s buggy and it’s difficult to really understand. PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin works much better for the purpose intended by OP.

This does mean you’ll need to have separate accounts for Mastodon and Forumverse, though. At least for now. I tried using MBin to combine the two, but in practical terms the user experience was lacking, because Mbin is not quick enough in implementing new features that Mastodon gets. Or ones that PieFed and Lemmy get. Especially the images inside Forumverse posts showing as mere links bugged me like hell! And quote toots on Mastodon not working either.

The only surveillance system they might have for this is a police car randomly seeing you fueling up in two places during the same time. There won’t be any automatic number plate scanning or anything. Just regular human people using their eyes.

And then of course, to the other question: I’m from Finland. My PPP increases a lot when I go to Germany. I get a higher amount of Euros as salary, but I can buy much less with my Finnish salary in Finland than I could buy with a lower German salary in Germany. And then when I use my Finnish salary in Germany… Woooo! :)

And when I go to some country in what used to be called “eastern block” in the past, then yes: I can indeed buy a lot more than I can buy in what used to be called “the west” some twenty-thirty years ago. But that’s the same in Hungary and in Slovakia, as both countries have been mismanaged in a similar manner. Whether Hungary has Euro or not, doesn’t really affect this much at all.

How many units of money you get for one euro tells nothing about how weak or strong a currency is.
When Latvia still had its own currency, the Lat, one euro was actually worth something like 4,20 Lat.

Or measued in English pounds:
One Latvian Lat was about 1,20 £. Does that mean that Latvia was/is richer than UK?

Nope. The numbers in a currency are nothing but a number. They can be high or they can be low. Just like 20 degrees Celcius is not richer or poorer than 68 Fahrenheit. It’s just a different unit that has different numbers for the same thing.

But then: In 2004 I remember one Euro was about 250 Hungarian Forint. And now it’s almost 400. The face value of the numbers doesn’t mean anything, but the changes in exchange rate do. Your one million Forint in your bank account are a very different amount of Euros now than they were before Orbán fucked up the country’s economy starting in 2012 or 2013 or whenever he began his reign.

At the same time: If the Euro was worth, say 110 Forints, that would actually mean that the Hungarian currency is strong, because it would be twice as strong as it was earlier. But now it’s about half as strong as it used to be.

And the answer to the question “why” is indeed Orbán. He has transformed the country into a Russian-style pyramid scheme where the main point of the economy is to provide profit for the leader. And then maybe it will also produce something to the country’s population as a side effect. Or maybe not.

@116280023545064493@hear-me.social , you accidentally wrote your comment in a place just like that. See here: https://nord.pub/c/fediverse/p/127183/fediverse-is-there-any-platform-in-fediverse-where-individuals-can-join-groups-just-like-fac

This thing called PieFed or Lemmy is not the same as Mastodon. @fediverse@lemmy.world is not a username, it’s actually what you would call a group. You sent that toot of yours into a group called “Fediverse” on a server called “lemmy.world”. On PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin groups are called communities, though. But indeed, do click the link above and browse the site that opens.

I linked through my instance, nord.pub, which is mainly meant for people from Nordic countries. If you prefer something else, try piefed.social, piefed.zip, or somesuch :) But of course you can also create an account on nord.pub regardless of where you are from. At least if you know English or some Nordic language. And English you do know!

But indeed: Do browse this thing. Join some communities (that is: groups) that you like. I enjoy PieFed a lot, and for me it has healed that tickle that you’re complaining about :)

Ah, so in order to avoid a small trouble if you get caught, you want to have a big trouble if you get caught? Got it!

It’s been years since I played through these games, and I have forgotten much, but “has to dance for money” is not the whole story.

It’s more like “has to dance for money, has to always give all income to another person and is physically not able to leave before having saved up a large sum of money to pay the debt”, or something along those lines. And the reasons were out of her control, but very crucially, also out of the control of the protagonist.

I find it refreshing to get to play the bad guy in a game. He’s doing things I absolutely would never do, and it is me who has to click the button to command him to do those atrocities. It’s good because you should know your enemy, and this gives me a perspective that let’s me peek into the thinking of an absolute fucking asshole. Also, if you ever find any similarities between what you’d do and what the protagonist does, you know that’s something you need to process in yourself.

But… There are so many spots where the horrible things happen to the people in the game for reasons not in control of the protagonist. So, you should probably re-read previous paragraph, adding a lot of “would” words in there. Because when it’s not about the protagonist being evil, it’s about the developers being mean. You’re not role-playing an asshole, you’re playing a game that is an asshole towards various minorities.

Of course: I did play the game in German. Others are saying many of the jokes get missed if you play it in English. Maybe the game is kind of milder if played in English, then? Maybe it’s left more ambiguous whether the people in the game will really live a miserable life for the rest of their days?