There is a significant overlap in the presence of the “Generically pathetic” stock character (You know, the character who serves as a “comic relief” solely by being perceived as pathetic and lame and that is the entire joke) and shows that forget the main character is actually a prick. I feel like there’s something deeper to that, but I don’t know what.

We can obviously agree that prisons in the soviet union were bad during certain periods of Soviet history. It rose out of the tsarist system and became formalised during one of the most brutal civil wars in history, and its most famous and most explored period was during the most brutal invasion and land war the world has ever seen. But I venture to say that there is a pretty significant difference between electing not to feed the nazis first during a famine, and doing ethnic cleansing tourism.

I wouldn’t know, but it would be fun if it were the case. Are the words in question of Greek/Latin/General Roman origin?

octopodes

This word just confuses me. It’s clearly an attempt to be “more correct” about the word octopuses but we don’t apply Greek plural forms to Greek derived words in English. We don’t say bishopoi, philosophoi etc. And why not “Octopia” or “Octopedion” if we really want to do it Greek style?

He is also incidentally one of the most prominent voices on the internet American left, as depressing as that fact is.

There’s a lot to read about Soviet and Russian organised crime. (In fact Soviet organised crime led to the historical event with the best name ever, the bitch wars) I don’t know if there’s a lot to read about the role of organised crime specifically during the early soviet government, but I’m sure you can find something interesting.

The Soviet prohbition lasted from the bolshevik seizure of power until stalin ended it in 1925

I have a stash if worst comes to worst. For now it’s just annoying.

Gonna art. Be back in 2 hours.

Sure but the same surely applies to alcohol, and they were willing to try not making that.

I can understand trying it and then deciding it wasn’t worth it or something. But they never stopped making cigarettes and in ample supply too. I remember reading that during the collapse of the 90s America were shipping aid packages of cigarettes because privatised companies couldn’t keep up with Russian demand for cigarettes and the cigarette rationing was eroding regime support.

Okay but they did do that though. Lenin instituted prohibition.

Okay dumb fucking question here. Why did the ussr keep making papirosy/cigarettes? The state owned company made these things, the tobacco was grown on state owned farms, they could just not.

Brilliant. I made four sandwiches for art/hanging out at the park time.

Boiled potato, radishes, chives, red onions, chickpea mayo, salt and pepper on rye. Two also get capers.

It’s kinda funny how American right wingers can simultaneously believe that Trump is in control, is a managerial genius and he and Doge owned the corrupt deep state, and also the government flooded Texas on purpose.

I am surveying the rest of lemmy and I am concluding that we must embrace Frontières naturelles de la Hexbear

People point out how the right wing has such a huge advantage in Internet media. And part of that is obviously the massive financial backing and the total lack of standards, but I also feel like the fact that every right wing grifter will pump out 10 episodes of whatever the fuck youtube show or podcast they’re on a week plays a role.

Updating the shift app exactly one minute after they open up new shifts to see them all taken. Summer “break” my butt, I need moneeeeey

My medication is expensiiiiiive.

I don’t know where that is, so probably not.

You didn’t kill any younglings right?