He came back to life, then popped out for milk and a packet of cigs and will have been back any minute now for the last twenty centuries, pinky swear promise

The population of Canada has only recently surpassed the population of California. Annexing the blue states would be a big meal for Canada to digest

Russia does not recognize our borders in the Arctic. They have rival claims to the Arctic Ocean

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/russia-arctic-ocean-canada-united-nations-continental-shelf-1.5983289

Is the post-1993 thing NATO stepping in to stop genocide in Yugoslavia?

Oh teh noes, not UK waging a proxy war on Iran and North Korea!

That’s literally Russia’s military strategy: conscript minorities and throw them as human waves into the meatgrinder in order to ethnically cleanse Russia while genociding Ukraine

Which other crimes should also be punished by drowning you and your children in the ocean? Shoplifting? Speeding? Littering?

• Man: Hi, I’m from Pakistan. May I move here?
• Other country: No.
• Man: I guess I’ll have to open a club in Pakistan.

What exactly is a permanent ceasefire?

The South Korea-North Korea ceasefire has been in place since 1953

I would expect smog to block or reflect incoming sunlight, lowering local temperatures

The London thing does not apply to pedestrians

The historical difficulty is enforceability. That made the usual line “no making money on your creepy idiocy”, because once money is involved there are levers of enforcement. Advertising support is one form of making money

Does that prevent my managed Mastodon instance host from providing Redis over the network to my Mastodon, or does that count as them providing Redis to themselves and then providing Mastodon to me?

Welcome Sweden! It’s good to have you

Russian weapons supply a lot of wars in the Middle East too. Russia funded the 10/7 Hamas attack. Russia gassed and bombed a lot of civilians in Syria. Russian mercenaries are keeping the civil war going in Libya, as well as couping lots of governments across African countries in the past year

Smut is speech. Frankly, smut is the highest form of speech. You should not need to show your papers to speak or to listen

Divorcing the author from the work is rather challenging when that author is a living billionaire who makes money whenever you buy any kind of merchandise of their work. While pirating their trademarks without paying is in principle harmless, the moment you cross over into, say, paying money for Harry Potter Lego or Harry Potter Fortnite skins, you are then immediately funding the author’s hate campaigns

The instance name is clever, but I think you will find the concept embarrassing in hindsight. I would recommend not doubling down on the cognitive dissonance