In both cases, the powers that be created a situation where the populace was very vulnerable, leaving them in a position where one bad harvest was all it took. In both cases, the elites then proceeded to make the situation worse because of a combination of immense incompetence and intentional imperialist shenanigans aimed at squeezing out wealth and putting down the rowdy colonized folk.

I’ve come to see the Great Famine as the free-market capitalist equivalent of the Holodomor. The more I learn about either, the more parallels I see.

If you have common sense, you do not need a dedicated program.

If you want to be extra sure, then of course you can download ClamAV and/or rkhunter. Still, the average user does not need them.

Ireland :)

I hear Poles like putting Popes in boats

The damn scolopendras have left mate of mine permanently scarred. They are the demon spawn of Bill Gates himself.

“Salman Schocken, a Jewish businessman who left Germany in 1934 after the Nazis had come to power, bought the paper in December 1935. Schocken was active in Brit Shalom, also known as the Jewish–Palestinian Peace Alliance, a body supporting co-existence between Jews and Arabs which was sympathetic to a homeland for both peoples. His son, Gershom Schocken, became the chief editor in 1939 and held that position until his death in 1990.” From the English a language Wikipedia article on Haaretz.

The Schocken family continues to own 75% of the paper’s stocks, hence the position.

Could be worse. The neighboring country doesn’t have a proper electric grid in most places.

Tap water in my country is undrinkable :(

Olivie is delicious and no one will tell me otherwise

We have avatars?

Kursk

This is an insult to punks

Everybody’s looking for something

If you think about it, all files are binary, some just happen to be human-readable.

The gods would know that and, assuming sufficient knowledge and power, know how to convince you that you’re seeing reality.

It’s success. Not huge success, but success. It maintains a mediocre status quo in the face of the possibility of it worsening.

Number 4 is slightly inaccurate. The Dominicans elected a social-democrat who then got overthrown by a US-backed coup a couple of months after the election. Then there was a revolt against the Junta a couple of months after that and it was only then when the marines were then sent to shoot at the Constitutionalists.

Yes :)

It was really annoying because just putting the phone down could trigger it at times. I disabled it.