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Justas

@Justas@sh.itjust.works

Lithuanian 30+ year-old shitposter who works as a programmer.

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That's what you get for liking hibiscus.

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Ir was always cringe, but we did it anyway.

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The cutout looks like Saddam Hussein.

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Yes. But to see the defect, one has to remove the underside of the engine which we didn't do.

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The car is too old for that.

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The engine doesn't supply the oil to some of it's parts properly, so parts like the turbo compressor went bad.

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Might be, might be. Or WellThatSucks if we have one.

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Yes, it is something very similar to that.

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Yes, but it would be as expensive as the car. It is also technically possible to replace a bunch of parts in order to fix it, but they are hard to get and expensive to get from the manufacturer.

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The first quote I got for the car was 1200 euros.

The engine repair guy said the repair would cost at least 3000, but the parts are hard to come by and it might take months just to get them. Getting them from the manufacturer would quickly inflate the price. And even if we replace all those parts, it would still prolong car's life for 3-5 years.

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Well, my wife still needs to get to work whilst it is getting fixed and the repairs are going to take months. If we choose to repair the car we will not be able to buy a new one so it's a bit of a Catch-22.

Even if the car was fine, we would be still selling it. She had trouble with parking a car as big as a CX-5, and that car burns a bit too much diesel for her 70 km a day commute.

We are most likely to buy a car that's at least 10 years old, we can't afford any better. Probably we will be buying Toyota Auris for about 6K.

Elon Musk says it's his turn to have the remote (www.engadget.com)

[Xitter] just announced a smart TV app for streaming video. Or, more accurately, that it claims it's building one, with absolutely no launch date mentioned. The appropriately-named [Xitter] TV wants to be “your go-to companion for a high-quality, immersive entertainment experience on a larger screen.”

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Ah, yes , the XTV, just like porn, but the one getting fucked is you!

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Ah, yes, Redmond theme.

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Yes, in Europe, most political parties, both left and right, have their own climate change mitigation policies, because if they don't, they risk just not being elected.

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They had a concert in occupied Crimea in 2015.

https://blabbermouth.net/news/sabatons-public-educator-award-is-under-review-following-bassists-controversial-past-crimea-comments

But after the war, they distanced themselves from current events.

https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/gun-battery-welcomed-swedish-band-supporters-3595129

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I don't want you to download Manjaro, but I had one partition as root and another as home and Manjaro just asked me to install itself in root, to replace my previous borked Ubuntu installation and use old home without data loss, instead of making me set everything myself again, like Ubuntu does.

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You forgot to include Mexico, but even with it it's pretty high.

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Dark Tranquility

Katatonia

Draconian

Omnium Gatherum

Insomnium

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Tell me you never read Iain Banks without saying you never read Iain Banks.

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Can confirm, took a lot of antidepressants, didn't make me artificially happy nor numb.

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Acceptance of any minority is priceless for said minority. By putting a pricetag on trans acceptance, businesses work to fundamentally devalue them and their experience.

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You are forgetting The Wind Rises, Kiki's Delivery Service and Princess Mononoke at least.

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Whatever stops them from doing their own Congress of Vienna II: Baghdad Boogaloo?

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TIL. Cunk's real name is Diane Morgan.

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Yes it's super weird that porn sites had that functionality for over a decade and one of the world's largest tech companies still can't implement those.

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Does anyone else remember the "Yeah boiiii" game where you jump over obstacles?

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BLT is also an abbreviation for a Russian swear word "blyat" which is the appropriate thing to say upon receiving this sandwich.

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I wanted to but changed it to "Americans" on the last minute.

Justas OP ,
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I think replacing it with "American Politicians" would work, but accuracy, in my Polandb... meme?

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A war with better armed Ukraine would be shorter.

We could make Russian dominance in the region history, just like the myth of their military competence is history.

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That would have been a peace deal that would have meant further hostilities down the line a few years later.

The main problem with the west is that they believe they can make a deal with Russia that they are going to honor. The truth is that Russia honors the deals when it suits them and breaks them the moment it's useful. Any negotiation is and will always be seen as weakness from the Russian side.

As their propagandist said "We are Russian. We want the world. All of it if possible."

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The actual truth is that it's NATO that's been constantly expanding towards Russia. It's also NATO that's been invading and destroying countries since the end of USSR. Syria, Libya, and Yugoslavia being some prominent examples.

False equivalence. Former USSR countries that joined NATO, did so to protect themselves from future Russian aggression. Like the one we now see in Ukraine. Intervention in Yugoslavia was to prevent atrocities and Syria and Libya had their own problems and dictatorships, which Russia tried to prop up and the West wanted to end.

Meanwhile, Russia tried to resolve this situation diplomatically since 2008 with Minsk agreements that western leaders now openly admit were a delaying tactic by the west.

Western leaders? Name them.

The whole legal basis for the existence of state of Ukraine is predicated on Ukraine staying neutral and not joining military blocs.

It is in fact the opposite. No neutral country stays that way for long when Russia wants it's territory.

Ukraine broke the very basis of this agreement when it tried to join NATO.

Because Russia attacked them.

Now, thanks to western "help", Ukraine will lose far more territory than it would have if the deal was done last year, and it may even cease to exist as a state. I can't wait for you to explain how this actually helps people of Ukraine.

If the West had not helped, there would be no Ukraine either. We would be condemning them to a decade of guerilla warfare and oppression. Emboldened by his victory, Putin would look further west.

Ukrainians now fight Russia, both sides are getting exhausted and it all depends on what help Ukraine gets. Your magical peace treaty would just mean Russia trying this again in 5 years or less.

You could have used the same arguments to make peace with the Nazis in 1941 and the world would only be worse for it.

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Weaker Russia means lower need for future military spending, and it is cheaper to give old weapons to Ukraine than to dispose of them locally.

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No, Ukraine has been engaged in atrocities in Donbas since 2014 as even western media reported at the time.

Russian propaganda talking point.

If the west didn't run a coup to overthrow a democratically elected government then there would've been no troubles in Ukraine. Period.

Euromaidan was not a coup.

That's complete and utter nonsense, and even western media now admits this.

Cite sources for the first point and military strategy analysts for the second.

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Thanks.

I avoid random X/Twitter links like the plague, since that platform is full of Deceptive Imagery Persuasion. Any video or photo can be taken out of context to mean the wrong thing. I could not find the CNN's original video, maybe someday it will be easier to search for them.

I have been using Google for long enough to know that it often shows us what we want to see, not that which is most likely to be correct. :)

Characterizing the Influence of Confirmation Bias on Web Search Behavior
It's not just you, Google Search really has gotten worse

Now I see the foundations of your beliefs I can better understand your opinions. I still do not agree with them though, because I believe those foundations to be somewhere between flawed and ideology-driven.

First of all, Euromaidan was a coup, by it's definition, but it was not instigated by the west, which I assumed was your opinion.

Regarding Russian economic data you seem to be flaunting, Russia has made it hard for outside sources to verify any of it.

Pollution Reveals What Russian Statistics Obscure: Industrial Decline
Russian Economic Optimism Is Based on Suspect Data

I yet or bothered to translate the German or French links, but a lot of other articles I actually mostly agree with: Ukraine will struggle to achieve their objectives without western aid despite past successes.

You seem to derive a lot of your opinions from mearsheimer.substack.com source but the sources the author uses to prove your points often come from rt.com which is like, the worst source for this discussion.

I understand that these Internet debates are not for changing minds of my opponents, but to show my points to people who are not yet decided.

I will, however, refrain from posting on lemmy.ml in the future, because I can see that you are a mod of several communities on this instance and your overall conduct in this post has been rather childish and disrespectful. I feel like mods should hold themselves to a higher standard.

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Can't have the casket failing and killing the occupant. /s

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By a used one I suppose.

Justas OP ,
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I mixed my colours with my whites

And now I fight the tie-dye fight

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Good look when the nearest one is half an hour away.

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I would rather hand wash my clothes than walk for miles to get it done.

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