BilSabab
@BilSabab@lemmy.world
- Comment on A swing and a miss 11 hours ago:
Reminds me of bad old days when Ukrainian cops were the worst shit. Like - plant evidence and arrest you worst shit, beat you up in the alley because you look weird shit. You see a cop - you go the opposite side of the street as far as possible because that motherfucker will have a problem with you. And then one day - the government pulled the trigger on the police reform, fired pretty much anyone with any kind of negative rep and replaced them with new recruits and it is almost as if years of fucked up bullshit were all just the bad dream.
- Comment on Some people prefer corn for some ungodly reason 11 hours ago:
who are these people? can we get them isolated from our community?
- Comment on Music aficionado 3 days ago:
Treewave Birdsong is my jam!
- Comment on Kevin McCallister and [redacted] 3 days ago:
This type of censorship actually happened once for real. There was a Todd Solondz movie called Storytelling. One of its segments had Selma Blair having sex with Robert Wisdom and on the American DVD release - that whole situation was covered up by a giant red box.
- Comment on Ideal Beach Body 3 days ago:
the perfect organism!
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 4 days ago:
That’s what happened to me and buying some old books. I’m kinda baffled how I manage to buy the same shit ten times cheaper all time while everyone else bitches the prices are insane. Like come on - these old books - you have a dozen ways to chip away the price by literally describing the yellowness of the paper.
- Comment on I paint houses 4 days ago:
That’s the spirit!
- Comment on elixir of a god 1 week ago:
he was probably less dysfunctional than most of his contemporaries though
- Comment on Anyone in tech confirm? 1 week ago:
It was a thing in Ukraine during the 2020-2021 boom. the sheer amount of engineers who saved up enough money to buy a house in the nearby village communities before the 2022 invasion was legit insane. part of that was remote work, part of that was interest in growing your own things. i remember talking to one NLP engineer who legit planned an apple garden and wanted to transition into that business domain over time. in some other cases, folks wanted to have self-reliant sustainability (yeah, we kinda had doomsday preppers).
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 5 weeks ago:
It’s not ok but that where we at.
- Comment on gabe³ half-life 3 confirmed 5 weeks ago:
this motherfucker looks beautiful
- Comment on 'I think we're in the fight of our lives': Fired Rockstar employees and IWGB are confident the GTA 6 developer will be held accountable for its alleged union busting 5 weeks ago:
exactly - it is borderline impossible to manage on large scale projects with any semblance of coherence.
- Comment on 'I think we're in the fight of our lives': Fired Rockstar employees and IWGB are confident the GTA 6 developer will be held accountable for its alleged union busting 5 weeks ago:
the problem is that companies will find a way to screw devs with that too. Imagine figuring out a solution to track every single bit of contribution to keep royalties as low as possible based on STATS BYATCH. it will literally turn into “your grass texture will bring you 0.00000000000000000000000001 cent off each sale” kind of fuck around.
- Comment on The Perfect Picture of Helth 1 month ago:
it makes sense though
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
the most horrifying thing is that during that period soviets also proceeded to wipe out almost the entire Ukrainian intellectual elite under various false pretenses. One generation gone - just like that.
The most egregious example was The SVU trial (translates as Union for the Freedom of Ukraine trial) - a completely made up case with mock trial drummed up by the media - it was meant to take out folks who seemed out of line with “nationalist” tendencies threatening the state integrity in some nebulous way.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
Lysenko the shitty botanist happened a bit later and his ideas had repercussions way into 1970s. Lysenko was still on the come-up back in early 1930s but he really started getting political weight a bit later in 1935-36 when the purges happened and his bullshit started really messing things up after WW2 into the 1950s.
Meanwhile, Holodomor was way more diabolical and spiteful act. Ever since the soviets took over Ukraine - they had paranoia about nationalist uprising taking them out. For a while, a workable solution was to provide national representation. The whole Ukrainization policy. Eventually, their own policy got them scared so much they started the russification policy to undo “the damage”. They started taking out various Ukrainian political and cultural figures under false allegations.
At the same time shambolic economic reforms and collectivization attempts led to people questioning government competence and demand proper political representation instead of whatever soviets tried to do. The government solution was to call business owners and rich upper class peasants the enemy and go full feudal - purge the politically active people (call it the continuing class struggle) and turn peasants into collectivized serfs under kolkhoz system with no representation or rights. They couldn’t even travel without their superior permission and had no documents. And to seal the deal - start village blockades - attrition into submission and assimilation.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
Adam Curtis’ Pandora’s Box series has a funny bit about Aleksei Gastev and his scientific management theories - dude wasn’t even political, he just liked figuring out how to get shit done efficiently. His ideas were essentially what is today known as innovation-driven project management - so naturally he was gulaged and commie cronies used feudalism instead.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 1 month ago:
tankie gonna say it was due to mismanagement or some shit like that
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 month ago:
Yeah comrade, it seems weird that companies make portable computers so brittle.
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 month ago:
I used to have Asus hybrid tablet laptop and it was my favorite computer simply because it had both keyboard and touchscreen and it was super fun to point your finger at the screen instead of using the touchpad. the downside was that the connector port wore out relatively quickly and it started glitching and then the touchscreen broke down and that was all she wrote for that adventure.
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 month ago:
what’s cool about it is that custom build is always a Theseus Ship and eventually you switch every single component but it is still your PC.
- Comment on A hypothesis 1 month ago:
I don’t get the hype for Apple stuff. Custom built desktops or frankenlaptops look way cooler and it is a lot of fun to finally figure out what kind of gear you need.
- Comment on Come the fuck on.... please? 1 month ago:
this one hurts
- Comment on My collection is growing 1 month ago:
I was shocked when i found a box full of them. Just couldn’t comprehend how many of them can be. Probably 50 if not more. If you pack it in a sock - it would knock someone out.
And then my dad said - you think we bought all that furniture in one go? That shelf - one. That bookcase - one. That bed table - three and so on. Years later when we moved out to our new apartment and started buying new furniture - i noticed that these wrenches keep on piling up naturally.
- Comment on card game shop 1 month ago:
It smells like there’s a lot of coffee))
- Comment on PC Master Race 1 month ago:
it hits different. dunno.)))) 1.6 feels corporate although not as much as latter iterations.
- Comment on card game shop 1 month ago:
Our local bookshop used to have similar sign at the door. It’s a coffee shop now because people took that “do not enter” to heart.
- Comment on PC Master Race 1 month ago:
Yeah, I just played CS 1.5 with my colleagues during a break. That shit just never gets old.
- Comment on Back in my day... 2 months ago:
a man of culture right here. Salute!
- Comment on Metal bands 2 months ago:
Possessed got the balance between readable and stylish just right. Entombed logo also comes to mind.