I agree with this. I would go so far as to say people who refused to emphasise with Jax in the last episode, in a show that's all about emphasising with unlikeable people, failed the challenge.
I don't know where you're getting this from. It's certainly not true that this was intended, ZDF pulled the plug extremely late, or rather, one single person did after it was already explicitly greenlit (which has some serious implications for corruption too)
Unlike Bluesky, Lemmy does the whole Fediverse thing. So even if Lemmy gets popular and swarmed, it wouldn't be as bad if it becomes shitty. It'd still be a win
Life is so resilient I'm more surprised when it doesn't survive somewhere. There's a geologically active sulfur deposit in Ethiopia with extremely harsh conditions. It was a sensation when scientists found bacteria in the water, but it later turned out the tests were contaminated and the place is actually, truly dead
no. There's history to the term that's not captured by simply giving its "definition" (though different people would define it differently, so even that is hard).
Think of it like the self-diagnosis discourse. Some autistic people never get diagnosed, because you know, there's no need if your symptoms are obvious. Some people are annoyed by people who they perceive to be "faking" autism, so they take the extreme position that only diagnosed people are allowed to call themselves autistic.
For Truscum, this often translates into "you can't be trans if your dysphoria wasn't confirmed by a doctor" (not a possibility for most). Or more extreme: "You can't be trans if you do not have significant enough trauma from feeling misplaced in society, otherwise you could just be faking it".
Russia had been directly involved in the war against Ukraine since 2014, it militarily invaded Ukraine when it occupied the Crimea, and russian soldiers have been fighting Ukraine in Donbass since day 1.
Russia did not use a "pretext" for invasion, it simply created the pretext itself. What you call protests in eastern Ukraine was the armed struggle of Girkin, a russian secret service member. Without this Russian interference, there is no donbas seperatism.
You're right about one thing: The invasion had nothing to do with internal politics. It was however, about the antagonism of democracy and empire. Russian ultranationalists never accepted Ukraine, and 2014 was simply the first step towards its destruction.
When you talk of "spheres", you parrot the ideological worldview of Putin. He has sung the praise of a "multipolar world" for years now. The issue is that humanism and democracy recognize no spheres. Instead, every country should be allowed to decide for itself what path it takes. That is the pretext for invasion, do deny Ukraine that right.
This question gets asked every time. The official position is that noone is allowed to stall forever (except denmark). Unofficially it has been recognized that Sweden joined before the euro and they're seen as exceptional compared to Poland, Hungary, Czechia and Romania. These four countries are the focus of the ECB, but, to answer your question, since none of them meet the economic criteria yet, there hasn't been much push from Frankfurt, since their economies aren't stable enough for monetary union.
I agree with this. I would go so far as to say people who refused to emphasise with Jax in the last episode, in a show that's all about emphasising with unlikeable people, failed the challenge.