Only a few countries haven't signed the treaty banning cropduster munitions
Disregarding that his premise is false, I mean it used to be more popular (or maybe it's just my own stereotyping) to get married at age like 20 after knowing the person for only a year or two. Then they stay married for the rest of their lives, for better or worse, and when they're 65 they're sharing boomer memes on Facebook about hating their wife. Why is that preferred?
Regardless, Soviet sweets like syrniki are delicious. Smetana gets translated as sour cream but to me it's not the same as sour cream you find e.g. in the US. More neutral and fatty tasting by comparison.
Unfortunately I suspect the name Beryl will quickly become outdated
There's a free pdf on the publisher website if you don't need a physical copy:
May she recover quickly and good that you were there to help :rat-salute:
I hope this happens, but something tells me that even if the war in Ukraine ends, the Finnish government might continue their anti Russia policies for a while. I agree it sounds like an awesome trip if you can make it!
I've done the Helsinki to St. Petersburg trip several times since the war started so I could PM you with all those details if you want. The short answer is you have basically two options to get to Russia:
First option: Flight through a third country.
This basically means Helsinki-Istanbul and then Istanbul-Moscow or St. Petersburg. The best tickets are pretty expensive (over 1k eur/person), but you can find a bit cheaper if you can deal with a longer layover. A less common route is through Serbia (Belgrade), but I think the flights are less frequent and have longer layovers.
About the 404 pages, a lot of flight aggregator websites aren't showing tickets to Russia anymore. You can search the Turkish Airlines website directly for Helsinki-St. Petersburg or Moscow. Or through Serbia it's probably AirBaltic and then transfer to Aeroflot.
If you can read Russian or can handle page translation, aviasales.ru shows flight options. Here's Helsinki-Moscow and here's Helsinki-St. Petersburg.
Moscow likely has high speed rail connections to like Kazan, but probably standard rail the whole way across Siberia. I haven't researched the cross-country train options, so I don't know how fast it is.
Second option: Ferry to Tallinn + bus to St. Petersburg through the Narva-Ivangorod border point.
This is the cheapest and sometimes the fastest way to get to St. Petersburg. Unfortunately this border point is under reconstruction, so it's pedestrian only (no vehicles). This means the bus stops at Narva, everyone gets out and takes their luggage, and crosses the border by foot. Lately the lines have been very long, but it varies (expect at least 2 hours, probably longer). Bring water, snacks, and a hat.
We can cross our fingers and hope the Finnish-Russian border is reopened before your trip, then you could easily take a bus from Helsinki. (Same kind of companies operate, for example LuxExpress or SovAvto.)
Getting a visa
Of course, to enter Russia you also need a Russian visa. There used to be a third party visa center operating in Helsinki (Jätkäsaari), but they have been temporarily closed since January 2024. Now you need to submit your visa application through the consulate. However, the visa center's website has some useful information to help you apply. If you decide to go down this path, I can give you tips from when I was doing my application.
Anyway it's a bit complicated, but if you have time to plan and this is going to be a month or longer vacation, this is how you could cross the border.
My coworker: Those protestors don't even know what it is they're protesting, they just want to be anti-something
Veljeni Kristuksessa, they aren't running for US president, they surely know where they are and what for
The thing which drives me up the wall about FPTP and "lesser evil" moralizing is that, given the FPTP voting system, the onus is on the party to put forward a candidate who can win a majority. Don't blame the voters for the party's failure. The democrats are putting up a shit candidate, so if they lose, it's their fault. Not the people. A real tail-wagging-the-dog situation.
If you believe in democracy, then you must believe that power comes from the people, not that power whips the people into line.
He's in pretty bad health is he not? Is this just letting him free due to illness?
That's been on my mind too lately, history is filled with intense events that were the entire world for the people experiencing it. Current events are just history being made, but rather than being locked into a track as when we read history, we can directly affect the course. Though, history is also full of completely forgotten stories of people like us and not like us, fighting for things which are motivated by things almost completely irrelevant now. And they would go on being forgotten events and people of the past, except that we can retrospectively analyze them as tools for our present. Interesting to think about when it comes to the legacy we're collectively leaving to the world's children.
also it's kinda wild realizing how old people are still pretty young in a cosmic sense, we're all just someone else's kids that inherited the fucked up world handed down to us. Like how stories get passed down through generations, except only the ones told by the oppressing classes are remembered.
The link to last week's post in the description is outdated, here's the last week post
It's the same concept as running a mastodon server but turning off registration. No more or less secure.
ngrok is free for development if you only need to serve HTTP, haven't used it personally but I think it basically acts like a reverse proxy
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That's a lot of car parts, are they part of the supply chain for Volkswagen Automotive Group? The electric batteries threw me off so I was thinking South Korea first.
Oh yeah this album works so well to sing along to. I also recommend checking out other albums like On Avery Island or Ferris Wheel on Fire
>> In Russian they don't say "I love you" they say "пожирать плоть капиталистов" which means "we are one and the same" and I think that's beautiful > > [Screenshot of google translate] > > Query: Пожирать плоть капиталистов > Result: Eat the flesh of the capitalists
No clue what they're saying but I'm enjoying the instrument selection and dance
Recently I've been reading a lot about the topic of mesh VPNs (tinc, Nebula, Tailscale, ZeroTier, Netmaker, Netbird, etc) and find them pretty interesting. Is anyone here using these in some capacity at home or maybe at work?
My problem so far is that many of the options seem to be aimed at corporate use, understandably, so the developers can earn enough to keep doing it. This means the focus is on a centralized control plane, one server which knows everything about the entire network and manages firewall rules for all of it.
This is why I'm leaning towards Nebula, since I think the decentralized design just makes more sense. There is some centralization for issuing certs though. How do I go about setting up PKI? Is there some open source solution for managing certificates and automatically renewing them?
There's also the option of using vanilla WireGuard. This is my current setup, but I really like the idea of meshing, since it means I don't need to care if my devices are physically on the same network or not, the best connection will be used. Basically the layer of abstraction is a nice convenience that lets me think about hosts or services independently of the physical network topology.
I'm interested to hear your thoughts on this topic! What's your setup like and what do you use it for?
