In several European countries, people who have favorable views of right-wing populist parties are less likely to have a positive view of Zelenskyy. In Germany, for example, supporters of Alternative for Germany (AfD) are about half as likely as those who do not support AfD to express confidence in the Ukrainian leader (31% vs. 61%). In some cases, the pattern is reversed: Spanish supporters of the right-wing populist party Vox are more confident in Zelenskyy than nonsupporters

Gee, I wonder why.

But this is a trap. The further we all abandon the unspoken rules that keep things on the rails, the worse it gets.

The left: “we can’t break decorum and unwritten rules, or the right will do it even worse!”

The right: does it even worse anyway.

One man’s total disaster is another’s gleeful happyness

I mean the reality was that the time “off” was spent farming their own land, taking care of animals, fixing the house and doing the insane number of household tasks that come with premodern living. Spend a few days just cooking in a medieval style, and you’ll quickly realize it’s a LOT of work.

Taverns kind of are a thing, they’re just called hotels now.

Good news: take up subsistence farming, no healthcare, no electricity, and make everything yourself, and you too can have half the year “off”.

They’re all in the same colours, and the weapons looks tied off/non-pointy, so I’m assuming training.

As a reenactor, it’ll rust without rain too.

I find the concept of a path not tread before kind of amusing. A path is only formed by repeatedly traveling it, that’s how paths are formed.

But the message is great, and the poetry is awesome.

Wow perfect split, I didn’t think that was actually possible

I always got apple juice when I was ill as a kid, and I was ill a lot. As a result I cant stand apple juice or cider, they taste like sick

The concept of independent stamp companies sounds absolutely insane nowadays, but here’s how it worked.

I start a stamp company, let’s say, BlueStamp. I call some major retailers and sell them rolls of my BlueStamp, that’s where I make money.

See, people will want BlueStamps, because I’ve got amazing products they can get for free (the retailer paid for them by buying stamps). The retailers want to buy my stamps, because people will want them, which will make them shop at their store.

I just have to smart about it. I’ll only sell my BlueStamps to BobMart and not AndyShop, because I don’t want then they don’t get to benefit as much. After all, If you can get BlueStamps everywhere, why would Bob or Andy even get them? I offer to supermarkt chain A, and not B, I offer it to Appliance store C, but not D. A BlueStamo saver will prefer a BlueStamp store over a Green stamp store, after all.

I might even give some big comapanies a discount on my stamps, because a bigger network offers more value, and I’ll sell more stamps to these companies. Getting, say, Walmart in my system will make me very popular, and then I can charge every corner store at full price.

And that system worked really well, untill it got popular. There were literally hundreds of these systems, which make it all fall apart pretty quickly, and everyone just started offering their own savings programs.

Eh, from a practical standpoint, selfie-lady still has both legs, so if I had switches places with either of this, I’d know who to pick.

I got (and still get) the vast majority of my Ukraine news from NCD memes…

The German empire was winning right up to november 1918

Well, I feel like my followup joke makes itself.

You know, I’d place the unmanned planes between me and the enemy… But you do you.

That’s not what I use mine for, but whatever makes you happy.

grape, drop the g

unalive, kill

r*dditor, redditor (ew)

🅱️🅱️, explained above, I guess?

sewerslide, sounds likesuicide

bop, explained above, though I have no idea how/why

It’s a habit people are picking up from streamers, who get demonetized if they use words like rape, kill, abuse, suicide, etc.