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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Đorđe_Martinović_incident tells: “The collapse of this taboo in the coverage of the Martinović case heralded the growth of nationalism that was to lead to the country’s collapse in 1991.”

Their site exists in German… And they do sell their products in Germany. Somewhere.They do say that you can get new CO2 cylinders “in shops” and that you can use CO2 cylinders of several marks, not just their own, but that’s a bit ridiculously lacking level of information still. I did just write them an email asking (telling…) them to increase their accessibility by telling where the hell their products can be bought. But anyway, they seem to want only 7 € of postage to Germany on their online shop?!
You just need to ask in some big shop around if they would have a system for changing CO2 available. The MySoda site hints in a semi-unclear manner that that should be a relatively common service in Germany. I’d venture to ask at least at the closest Kaufland and Karstadt for what they have for offer.

They do tell here that you can use CO2 cylinders of “most marks”, and mention Aarke, Sodapop and Aga as examples.

I recently got a machine for adding bubbles to water. Cost me 10 € used, including an empty CO₂ bottle which I can change for a full one at any hypermarket by paying 7 € for the content (which enbubblifies a 1-litre bottle about 60 times, they promise).
And then I can mix that with some lemonade concentrate to get cola or sprite or orange lemonade or whatever. Or I can just put a lemon juice on the bottom of the glass, add a little bit more sugar than that amount, and then pour that water with bubbles atop it.

Works like charm and has the added bonus that I don’t need to lug full bottles of lemonade in my backpack to my district that is located unfairly on top of a very mean hill. I can always make just the amount of lemonade I really want, and I can have one glass of this taste and one glass of that. Any juice concentrate works for adding the taste. I found orange juice concentrate that has simply “orange” as its ingredients and makes much tastier lemonade than anything I could buy from the shop.
Plus, the mark’s own cola concentrate is tasty.

And obviously you can always just buy water with bubbles. But then you’ll have to lug it around, which kind of meh. It weighs.

Sorry, got a bit too creative with that one.

Part of the idea was to say that billionaires and trillionaires are extremely good in using their money in extraordinarily inefficient ways. Trickle-down, or whatever they call it…

Well, one could argue that it’s lunch that includes travel as a part of it :)

But good, let’s say that the lunch must be prepared of zero-gravity grown ingredients only, cooked using atmospheric friction, and delivered by parachute right at the table. 100 million might not be enough for this lunch, though.

Spending 100 million on lunch is absolutely possible. What would it cost to organize a lunch on low Earth orbit? And do that so that you are back on Earth as soon as possible, for important employee span business duties.

The word “celebtate” fits the comment surprisingly well!

EDIT: The celebtation is over. Now were back to merely celebrating. Ah well, guess that’ll do.

In the video you can see that this didn’t happen in reality.

They can put anyone in the “detention centers” if they have suspicion that the person is illegally in the country.
Of course the person can show passport or other sort of ID, but the SA goons can just decide they never saw it. Then that person is an unidentified alien in a “detention center” and will stay there until they disappear.

Comms are created on whichever instance you are using when creating them.

Hm, I should have actually quoted just the sentence “I respect and appreciate Lend-Lease, I can’t tell if it saved the war” because that’s what I was actually referring to. Sorry :)

Because it is very clear that it did save the war. Having lived in Germany, Finland, the Russia, and Ukraine, I hear a lot of that “~Soviet Union~the Russia did it practically all by itself”, which is extremely contrafactual. And hurts the Russia, as they don’t understand what their “možem povtorit’” actually holds to it…

But, it does seem that you and me very largely agree about things, so all in all things are just fine, no worries :)

I respect and appreciate Lend-Lease, I can’t tell if it saved the war, but it certainly saved hundreds of thousands if not millions of lives by providing much-needed humanitary assistance in hunger-struck WW2 USSR.

Almost all of the trucks used by the Soviet Military were US-made trucks delivered through that lend-lease program. I would guess that the ability to bring fuel and ammo to the front did help the Soviet Army quite some bit!

It is of course possible they could have won bringing the ammo to the front with horses instead of trucks, but honestly – I doubt they would have made it.

And obviously you respect especially Belarus and Ukraine, because it was them that did the heavy lifting in that, as you already somewhat mentioned, right?

https://video.echelon.pl/c/ua_war_videos/videos is good. And there’s interesting stuff about urban development.

This video, as others published by the same person, a is good: https://video.canadiancivil.com/videos/watch/30b3139b-070c-45f5-823e-dae3f82efdd4

There are more in my saved videos, but these seemed the best things to select out now.

I’m sometimes using Mbin, but everything that is good about it, is also good in PieFed. It’s been nice that Mbin has support for following Mastodon with the same account you use for following the Forumverse, but since some of Mastodon’s features are unsupported, I still find it more comfortable to just browse Mastodon separately. Quote posts are not shown properly, for example. Also, pictures in comments in Forumverse are shown as links.

I find Mbin much nicer than Lemmy, but PieFed even nicer. For now, at least. Nobody knows if Mbin suddenly invents some killer feature :)

You know that piefed.world exists? Its admins are the same people that are also admins of your current home instance, lemmy.world.

It strikes me odd that Heroic doesn’t want to be available with apt, though! It’s even advertising that it is intentionally packaged in a way that duplicates pre-existing libraries – apparently to just take some extra place from my hard drive for fun?!

Doesn’t really wake much trust in them caring about how to use a computer’s resources. Whether one wants to be afraid of two applications sharing a library file or not should be left for the user to decide… And it’s not very nice that there an increasing number of ways applications can be installed, and these clever people are supporting that development… How am I supposed to have any overlook over what’s installed on my computer? This is starting to feel like Windows :(

I don’t really believe it’s very good for computer security that applications are installed without anything in the OS keeping track of whether they need security updates or not!

I tried that some time ago, and at least at that point it needed configuration to get up and running. It was a hassle. I have family that needs a lot of my time at the moment. Between August and December I could find less than 10 days where I was able to decide by myself what I do after workdays or on weekends.

I’m not going to spend those precious minutes configuring any damn thing. Steam works out of the box. Now someone was just mentioning something called Heroic launcer. Sounds good. Wonder why Gog is not linking to it very visibly on its site if it works?

Okay, in other words: I won’t be buying any more Steam games 🐳

Got enough stuff in my library to last until GoG starts working nicely enough on Linux 🐧

Ah, good point indeed!