Feel free to write me back when you start to expirience it. I’m curious what it’s like to see it for the first time. My vision is too blured by same projects to know how it would be for an interested commoner. I’d love to hear your and others’ perspectives.

Charging a person for three months for being an asshole is too much tho. With all diferent cultures and stuff, what can even grant such a sentence? Article didn’t specify it. I can’t believe a ranting brit can cause that much of a problem to lock him up.

And I love you for claiming that, dear anonymous person.

I’ve heard IDF broke it this time. Was it a propaganda piece?

Australia, Canada, France and the United Kingdom are among the nations that have called out the violence, demanding Israel take “immediate and concrete steps” to tackle it.

“We strongly condemn the violent acts committed by extremist settlers, which are terrorising Palestinian communities,” the statement shared by Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) said.

Condemn stronger, motherfuckers.

Israelis now feel like they have a free pass to kill as many palestinians as they want, while Hamas leaders freely flying around the muslim world like they aren’t responsible for so many deaths, of jews and of their own. While Netanyahu and his cabinet are pretty comfy accepting measures to kill another thousand of gazans.

Wtf is that? It’s great you condemn their actions, but before you’d act in any way, there would be several thousands of poor palestinians who happened to be born there being unable to salute your decision. Because they are dead, like really dead, cold and burried under buildings IDF bombed.

It’s cool you came to condemn such things, but it won’t help many people who lost their homes, lives. That needs more effort. Like demanding a ceasefire. Before that, it’s just words and political gestures ammounting to nothing.

Thanks, friend. These simple words lit up my day.

I feel right to feel these guilt and pain though. I’m actually pleased to expirience them. Having them means there’s something left to my humanity, something is still there, shining in my rotten corpse. The nerve response that is lacking in my many countrymen. A bell whose ring tells me I’m still human and I still have empathy. That signal isn’t pretty, yet it’s welcome in our trying times.

If I’m allowed to, I’d beg you to spend your sympathy towards me on my ukrainian homies. Years ago I had a gaming group that included persons from all ex-USSR. And I haven’t heard from ukraininan dudes and gals in a while. Guess, they could’ve left our VK network altogether since this war happened, and it’s right for them to do so because it’s shit, but I’m still worried if they are alright, if they got caught in this conflict. If you are a faithful person, please put a candle on my behalf for their safety in your church or mosque of choice. If you aren’t, just like me, well, you can listen to a story of Nestor Makhno, that one based ukrainian anarchist who kept the free state there for a while: https://youtu.be/dqD9VZuGBJw?si=sDs4sDYsMDX0fs4p He’s an image to respect, and to replicate, and a great piece of our history that kremlin bitches want to erase. Just knowing it, you deny them easy win (:

With all arguments I had not ending up with me behind the bars lol, I guess everyone’s tired. Even those psychoes who want to eradicate the whole ukrainian nation are sure that it drags for too long and talking heads are doing it wrong, that’s not how the genocide should be done in their opinion 🤷

If there could’ve been a vote to conservate the current frontline, I guess 95% would be for it. But it’s not how it works, because Russia already claimed 4 regions in it’s constitution and putin can’t walk that back easily (he can, but he won’t, because it would ruin the remains of his strongman image), and Ukraine had an expirience of tolerating such thing with Minsky accords, them leading directly to '22 february attack.

I guess at that point no one actively wants to participate in this war anymore, besides maybe some vets joining PMC at their own terms. Even in pro-state (kek) telegram channels, there’s too many uninspiring news, confusion and gore. There’s also a lot of news of conscription offices being even more agressive in dragging people from universities, workplaces, streets, even gay bars - yes we had plenty in Moscow and S. Petersburg in spite of our homophobic laws. They are desperate to take anyone, to raid any place. Not yet deadly desperate, but it’s sure out of their regular amount of effort.

I don’t believe these people are ready to protest, even peacefully, but at the very least it occured to them they are better off dodging service than dying under Avdiivka. 2 years in, riiiight. Baby steps 👶 Wifes of servicemen just got declined from having a peaceful congregation about missing their men who ended up on limitless service ‘until the end of the war’ lol. Make it brew some more time and maybe it’d lead to something more radical. But yeah, many people know about that, and even if they were ignorant enough to sign in, they would now have doubts about joining that circus.

As a russian guy, I’m still unconclusive what’s the reason behind that. Unlike Palestinian-Israeli conflict, this one seems to happen over nothing. Just one aging man’s sick ambitions that brought suffering to many families. I feel shame whenever I contact my ukrainian friends. For that fucking state used my representation to bring so much useless, senseless morbidity onto neighboring nation. It’s 2023, why would we even want that? With all fucking problems we have as a humankind, why fighting Ukraine for 9+ years is even on the table? It doesn’t make any sense. It’s insanity. And I don’t feel like I can ever compensate for that before I die. The damage we caused is too much for one’s lifetime. It should’ve never happened.

In spite of your adamant conclusion, I would’ve liked this being tested. In a fashion of some Discovery Channel’s older programs. The battle royale of marketing practices.

Having the design of this bag, the check out zone, the cart under control, one can dictate how it would work. You can even place it on the bottom and have it automatically scanned as it rolls through a checkout table. Or, if it stays in a cart (and you can adjust it to be 1:1 to cart size), a chip on the side can also be read by the scanner on a side of said table. So many variants.

I don’t see how it’s more confusing than having all these loyalty cards. If it’s a general store like Walmart, Auchan you visit daily (or weekly) and buy most things here, it’s not really a problem. If they are freely interchangeable and have just one tier of price-cutting (like my cards in a local Lenta general store do), you don’t need bags for every person in your household, you can bring any one at hand.

And it should be build at expense of the store and have a symbolic price, say $1, but being alike to IKEA ones - those I pick with myself everywhere by choice because I know they would carry 30kg of groceries if I’d need that. This investment into loyalty of returning customers and having brand being associated with zero waste wouldn’t be for nothing. If it’s not a metropolitan area, but a rural one, I think these bags would be, just like Xerox, a new coloquial naming to all good bags one encounter. They’d carry your ad everywhere, and everyone would know it’s from Your-Store. And having that thing at hand promising you better prices at Your-Store, you’d probably come here, not to Other-Store.

I would’ve loved to have me and you being managers of the same shop in neighboring districts to test it and see if I’m wrong.

As it doesn’t exist yet, we can imagine anything. Like thesr chips being in handles for example.

What makes it sound janky?

That’s why I love them so much.

My idea is about further benefit the bag holders.

My country is head deep in single-use plastics right now and only a minority uses these cool bags.

You are right. Just a club card code. The only exception - is that it shouldn’t have an obvious way to add it to one’s NFC cards app in order to keep most having these bags.

It’s just a little push to have these with you every time.

Arguably, it’s better than selling metal straws. Lots of single-use plastic is used for shoping bags alone. And these loyal customer cards… Why not to make them one thing?

My idea was to make customers use a sturdy bag instead of one-use plastic ones.

IKEA makes good sturdy bags already, I think other brands can see a benefit in doing so too.

One paragraph.

A local administrator, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisals, said the attack on law enforcement officers will embolden those performing the cut as they will see the government as weak and unable to protect its own.

They have an anti-FGM board, yet saying something about it puts them in danger, and they pretend they can at the same time defend the (future) victims of that shitty practice. Kenian officials need to rethink their ways because it all sounds very awkward.

Officially a major non-NATO ally of the U.S., Qatar, which opened an office for Hamas in 2012, has come under criticism from Congress for backing the terrorist group. A bipartisan group of 113 U.S. lawmakers sent a letter to President Joe Biden on Oct. 16 asking him to put pressure on countries, including Qatar, that support Hamas.

The recent movement of Hamas leaders may be related to Israel’s promise to wipe out the terrorist group’s leadership wherever it is found. Ronen Bar, head of the Israel Security Agency (Shin Bet), said on Dec. 3 that Israel will eliminate the leaders of Hamas in Qatar and Turkey.

Following Bar’s comments, a Turkish intelligence official told Reuters that there would be “serious consequences” if Israel attempted to pursue senior Hamas officials “outside the Palestinian territories,” whether in Turkey or elsewhere. The warning was delivered to Israel “following the statements of officials,” according to the source.

So non-NATO Qatar can be put under pressure and in-NATO Turkey can’t? Why’s Erdogan bitchin’, just to show himself as independent self-ruler, does he have any skin in this game? While palestinian people are dying en masse in Gaza, the exact persons who should’ve suffered got to fly a couple of hours before continuing their leasure spree, big sad. With all dirt Israel drags itself through, hunting down top Hamas officials who orchestrated the massacre is the one I can close my eyes to.