@salingergregor@yemurenthusiasm@MoodyBlueliner so take object in a gift bag with a card -> birthday gift, free to take
take object from person's hands -> illegal, "robbery"
this is how you sound
@folklaris you boycott starbucks because they didnt let staff hang up gaza flyers in the store but fail to see why ukraine might side against the country that has been manufacturing the drones that kill our citizens every day? come on now, use your brain for a sec.
88 years ago, on February 3, 1938, Stalin's henchmen executed 32 members of the Skatuve Latvian Theatrical Company in Moscow. All of them - 22 actors and actresses, five stage hands, two directors, one stage director, one general director and a secretary. Just because they were Latvians, just because this was culture.
@ayo_platano mind you this exact thing happened so much in soviet times (people drink themselves to stupor and then die of cold) that theres a word for it: podsnezhniki, literally snowdrops, because they only appear again in the spring.
Everyone should see this right now. A baby being pulled out of a passenger train in Ukraine. Civilians purposefully targeted. This is sick. A friend of mine on the train just sent me this harrowing footage.
Our russian relatives varied from "It's all good, soon you will be russia and just try not to get exploded in the meantime" and "What are talking about? Kharkiv being bombed? Not happening. Putin said we don't bomb civilians" and some version of "That's what you deserve" 🙂
@JeremiahDJohns we did a similar thing at my college newspaper where we ranked the top 50 most iconic cultural moments of the year and the main rule was "no downers", like it can be bad but it shouldn't make the reader feel genuinely sad.
Russia has no plans to invade:
Moldova.
Ok. But not Georgia
Ok but not Ukraine.
Ok, Just Crimea
Ok, just Crimea & part of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk
Ok, Just Crimea & all of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk & Zaporizhzhia
Ok, all of Ukraine
But Russia won't attack EU
@peterrhague genuine question for men like this: do you think your spouses are actually so stupid they didn't think of the solution you could offer in 30 seconds? like it baffles me because behind this mindset is a core of "I think I am leagues smarter than my idiot bimbo ball and chain"
@TomBFlanagan this is to say - I think its a class trait but I think its not a harsh upper/lower distinction. if anything, (just spitballing) feels more like parents who moved classes produce children who move classes, parents who grew up middle class dont know how to push their kids out of it
@TomBFlanagan idk. I think theres layers. i grew up lower middle/middle class and basically successfully did upwards mobility (went to an ivy, am doing a phd, etc). my parents def helped, not bc they were upper class but bc they grew up actually poor so knew how mobility worked and pushed me