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Cake day: February 4th, 2026

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  • Many thanks for such a detailed answer. I agree that blocs and federations are a good thing, and hope to see Asian, South-Eastern Asian, African, and South-American alliances similar to EU form around democratic values. I also hope that they don’t turn into rival fortresses with armed borders and migration restrictions between them. As someone from former USSR (Ukraine), I’m quite sure that Russia on its own, without Chinese government assistance, especially technologic, wouldn’t at their current economic state be able to wage war and suppress internal movements to democratize and/or truly federalize (in the North, particularly); but I read, admittedly not extensively, about Chinese history and recognize how dangerous it is not to have strong allies when empires are nearby - without strong allies, it’s a must to have mostly autarkic production and strength in numbers.







  • Most positive things about my teenager years, especially when it comes to forming critical thinking by trial and error, was by actively using the Internet using a pseudonym and accounts with providers who didn’t require me to prove my identity. Learning English and programming skills, for example, and talking to people outside the local political bubble. Banning young people from the Internet will also make them more vulnerable, withholding access to the main public forum of nowadays. There was a popular saying in parts of the Runet, “ban kids from the Internet - they make it stupid”; these parts have since become openly fascist. We should fight fascists not kids.





  • Volunteers indeed have translated join-lemmy and the engine itself, but from what I’ve seen, Lemmy developers have never turned on Ukrainian in either codebase, unlike other languages with similar completion rate, which means any instance admin willing to use the translation has to fork, patch and rebuild to add the support. Technically, PieFed 1.6.x still hasn’t the translation-enabling commit cherry-picked from main, either, but 1.7 should have it if minor versions begin as branches off main.



  • While they can be attracted, without social pressures the teenagers would simply tell them to go away. An image of an older entrepreneur or a star seeking very young companions is recognized as success. Older people have more autonomy and resources than young adults and teenagers. Being an equal in a company of other teenagers is seen as boring, less cool than a teenager in a company of adults. Socially constructed hierarchies of adults over children like these add up, leading to predators not being prevented as much as they should. In case of Epstein, he was considered normal as long as he was perceived as targeting young women in their late teens as a 40 year-old man, which I think should be much more frowned upon; instead, it’s being celebrated, not by evolution but by adults making conscious decisions.





  • The stance of Code Pink is to let invaders conquer people, so they can label it “peace”. Because dictatorships are “not our enemy” - what Code Pink website says. You conveniently try not to see you’re talking down to an actual person from the invaded country whose defense Code Pink is campaigning to defund. What helps people here (Ukrainians are people in your eyes, right?) are many things, but I’ll name three: bringing manufacturing back to Europe to reduce the dependency on Chinese imports (that fund the invasion), sending us weapons to defend ourselves from Russia (who’ve already committed genocide here before, are trying it again right now, and will gladly continue doing it if they win), and fighting for worker rights internationally (not by defunding our defense in the short term).