Yep, been to transnistria in 2010, the society was heavily russified. Russian military settled the secessionists civil war by supporting the creation of the transnistrian state and Russian troops and propaganda are now a part of that state. Moldova got completely fucked over by loosing their industrial centers and it’s ensueing instability has made Moldovans more suspectable to Russian propaganda. Had the EU stepped up more to help Moldova stabilize the state and democracy there they wouldn’t be so bad off.

I did Mandatory service in Germany almost 15 years ago, i still sometimes hear “links, links, links two drei vier, links” in my head.

For real. My father was a gynecologist and always said - “I need their file to remember their names, why would I remember their genitals?”

And from a business standpoint it would be very bad practice to talk about that stuff, if it comes out people are less likely to trust you.

A body at rest requires more energy to reach a given speed than one already in motion.

Can’t imagine living with the side chick during the divorce

I did, but it was my mom who betrayed my dad, we lived with her boyfriend for some time. But like I mentioned, my dad was an emotionally distant, almost cold alcoholic, who spent his time drinking alone or working instead of caring for his family. So I get that she had needs that weren’t fulfilled. Of course I was mad with her for some time but after some time I understood what moved her, as a child I didn’t really realize how our dad left us alone in that time.

Could my mom have made better decisions? Absolutely, she could’ve just divorced him.

Does my dad share blame for distancing himself from his family, years before the infidelity? Also yes.

Did I like living with my mom’s side piece? Hell no, I didn’t like that guy.

In the end it turned out alright, my dad got sober and through therapy learned to have meaningful relationships with his children and partners. My mom is married to another man, who I love dearly, even my father had an okay relationship with him.

All I’m trying to say is that human relationships are complicated, things like this betrayal don’t always happen in a vacuum. I mean sometimes they do, but we don’t know that here.

Hey, that person isn’t a good role model and did something absolutly deplorable. I want you to understand that this not a way to act and that these actions are very hurtful and demeaning to me and our family.

These actions now do have consequences, which is why I am divorcing him. I hope you will understand that I can not reconcile the betrayal and that actions like this will always hurt people and have harsh consequences.

But I understand that this person is your father and your relationship to him is important to you so I will try to make peace with that, in order to not hurt you any more than has already been done.

Seems also like a reasonable thing to say to your child. You know, not instrumentalizing your child to hurt the partner that betrayed you. Seems selfish to me, but what do I know.

But I should’ve know better than to expect healthy nuance from an online discussion anyways.

Edit: I got a little combative there, which was unnecessary

It’s not that hard of a concept to understand. In the described scenario both did something wrong, which is why I said, that both are partially wrong (regarding the described problem).

He is wrong for betraying his family and she is wrong for trying to pull the child into their dispute by making them choose sides.

So OP posted this, not only because his dad cheated and not only because his mom is trying to make them choose, but because of BOTH those things happening.

Honestly from what we know, which is next to nothing, both parents here are in the wrong partially.

But as someone else already said here, humans and their relationships are super complex and from just a little paragraph we shouldn’t judge either of them too harshly.

For example, my mom cheated on my dad, but we children stayed with her and understood her actions, because our dad was an emotionally unavailable alcoholic at that time. He turned himself around in the years following, becoming a better father. Both my parents made grave mistakes during their marriage and both shared blame in the breaking apart of our family and both, over time, accepted their part in it.

Life is not that easy, for none of us, everybody makes mistakes.

Maybe read your own point 2 again…

TLDR: Hard disagree on almost anything you just said

Well historically it is not a terrible system, it is very stable and tends to not self implode regularly like democracy does.

Yeah if you ignore for example wars of succession, because of incestuous family ties, arbitrary rule, repression and exploitation of its citizens, one could call it stable… Although the escalation and tyranny unfortunately are baked into the system.

if you look at monarchies historically they tried very very hard to avoid having rebellions in their hands and usually worked in the interest of the nation, as the interest of the nation was the interest of the monarch.

Have you ever read history books? Sure some rulers may have had that kind of view but theres also plenty of megalomaniacal, terribly violent and unjust rulers in those big ol books of history. And since it is an imposed rule of tyranny there’s really only violence to get rid of an unjust ruler, you know a neat thing about democracy? Violence is the last resort to getting rid of rulers because we can vote! Crazy right?

So if a democratic nation seems headed towards anti democratic rule, it would seem to me that a better goal would be to install a monarchy instead of a fascist.

In that case- what’s the fucking difference? Oh, to avoid an autocracy let’s install an autocracy with cherry flavor… Great?

saying ‘nobody was close to us in terms of bravery

Yeah tell that to the 13 million dead Sowjet soldiers.

For perspective that is more than the current inhabitants of Belgium or Bolivia.

Adding 14 million dead Soviet citizens - 27 million dead, that’s more people than currently living in Australia.

Its quite odd that Ukranians were being handled differently in the first place.
Its as if they were deemed to have more value than those pesky normal refugees.

Here in Germany during the “refugee crisis” 2015 I noticed a heavy uptick in ticket controls in the public transport, while as with Ukrainians during 20222 the public transports advertised on billboards that Ukrainian refugees can drive for free. Biggest difference between the two groups? The skin color…

I know it is only anecdotal but to me it was noticeable.

I was there with KSP from the early days

Same, I am still so mad about the whole ksp2 fiasco that I block all of take twos games on steam, they ain’t getting any money from me. I am so glad I didn’t buy it in EA although it looked promising.

I think you’re wrong, I am sure that there is someone out there for you and I am sure that it will be unexpected and strange and different than you imagined in ways you can’t even think of today but it will happen. Just be careful not to reject it because you were conditioned by yourself and others to not believe it.

I hope you have a great weekend <3

My grandfather died in the 80s, 20 years later my grandma got a boyfriend, a widower similar to her age, so both in their mid 70s. She once said that she thought she would be alone for the rest of her life and never thought she would be so in love again.

They never married but had 15 beautiful years with each other. What I’m saying is that it’s never too late to find happiness, no matter what that might entail.

Sooo when you use the prompt

Shutdown.exe -r -t 00

You would need the -f since we defined the timeout period as 0. Because:

If the timeout period is greater than 0, the /f parameter is implied.

That was a game changer to me, that’s what was missing in most of my pasta sauces!

We just use a neck roll placed in the lap or on the stomach to rest it on while playing. It is a bit on the heavy side, but it is the first generation consumer handheld with that kind of power so I can excuse that.

Oh yeah, if you use them often enough you’ll get a feel for how much pressure you can use, I’m comfortable with using a little smack to close them, but I used to work in a cocktail bar, so I have some experience with them.

I don’t know if you did that, but for anybody struggling with those:

You’re supposed to put them together at an angle, so that the outer wall of the tins forms one straight line from top to bottom. Like this:

To open it you take them into one hand, hold them on the side where they form the straight line. Then take your other hand and gently smack against the part where the both tins connect with your palm

Here:

Since tin tins are hard to break (though not impossible I can tell from experience) you could also use a hard surface and more force if needed.

If they’re still stuck, let some warm water run on where they connect and try again. Although the drink might get watery if you take too much time.