It’s because some parts of Lemmy are actually just psyops for Russia and China, just like all those facebook groups during the 2016 elections and all those foreign maga influencers outed during a recent leak.

Estimates of the 1938 Gulag Population and other corrective labor programs, from the book
“The History of the Gulag: From Collectivization to the Great Terror
Oleg V. Khlevniuk
Translated by Vadim A. Staklo”
Are about 6,000,000 total.

That’s 3.5% of the total population of the USSR in 1939.

Encyclopedia Britannica estimates a much more conservative 5,000,000.

The USA’s 0.7% doesn’t come anywhere close. Even if you ignore the numbers after The Great Purge you’re still looking at neck and neck numbers from the two, with USSR’s 1.4M being over 0.8%.

Yeah it actually got better even before Stalin died, but yeah.

I think that’s far less common among the left than the saying “peer reviewed study shows conservatism highly correlates with mental disorder”.

Quite, I fully intend to have civil and reasonable fact based discussions about the USSR which will not trail off into tribalistic whataboutist tirades.

The Soviet Union at its height had the largest percentage of incarcerated individuals, more than double the USA’s percentage of the population today. These were hard labor camps, too, where millions worked until they died.

I’m seeing a lot of sudden unexpected failures in Russia these days, I wonder if they’re pulling out the old cold war style subterfuge/sabotage playbooks from the CIA.

You were a liability

Idk who or what Crucial is but sounds like Micron fucking suck.

From that study:

“red light running photo enforcement installed experienced 4 percent reduction in fatal crashes for intersections with multilane approaches, and 48 percent reduction for intersections with single-lane approaches.”

Reduction means LESS.

I can condone taking down pedestrian surveillance, but people who drive cars should follow the rules or get fucked.

POV: People looking through the comments on my code:

    // This fucking piece of shit right here, I tried like 8 versions of the Library and only this one works which was incompatible with some other shit that's not here anymore

    // and I have no fucking clue why it needs to be divided by 3 but it does even though its supposed to be a memory stream, I have a flag set here if it crashes because I'm just about certain there will eventually be some undefined behavior

   //EDIT 07-15 :  I have commented it out because I noticed everything actually runs fine without it, for now.

    // EDIT 07-18 : Oh actually it appears that the other solution which didn't use to work is now working which is why everything appears to work as long as both solutions to this problem don't simultaneously fail.

    //  EDIT 09-02 : I need to start making comments like "this variable comes from" or "I named it this because" so I know what the fuck I'm looking at.

I feel that

Better yet they can keep the prices even after the costs go down.

This^

A lot of them saw the Biden “I did that” stickers blaming him for fuel prices at gas stations, and they believed it.

They saw Trump on Fox News saying that other countries would eat the cost of tariffs because they would rather lose profit than our business, and they believed it.

They didn’t see Biden investigate grocers and deny mergers, they didn’t see him using the US petro reserves to stabilize prices, they didn’t see him pass the many great things on affordability in the Inflation Reduction Act, they didn’t see him push affordable alternatives to power and fuel like solar and EVs, they didn’t see him allow new drilling sites despite pushback, they didn’t see it because whenever it was put in their faces they chose not to see it.

Fun Fact, since executive orders really only apply to the operations of the federal government and its employees, the Tariffs aren’t actually legal.

Big shipping magnates and importers could probably sue the federal government over any attempt to enforce the tariff, ignoring them all the while.

I’m pretty sure the XFL only existed between 2020 and 2023

I think words matter, comic artist should have just picked a country so as not to look like a neonazi. There should always be 0 ambiguity on topics like this.

Countries in North America are not Expansionist, have not been in lifetimes, so fantasizing about that is something only done by creepy weirdos and nutjobs. Let us not normalize any such talk.

Implementing a policy for “north america” would require a governing body.