…and Iraq, true.
Though, at least Finland sent the absolute minimum to both of those shitstorms, and that only after being blackmailed by USA. But zero conscripts were sent to either one. Especially the shit about Iraq is something I am really angry about.
USA is only waging wars of aggression. It would be horrible forcing people to that shit, IMO.
In Finland or Germany it’s very different because our armies exist strictly for self defence. When the US military should see military action, is decided in D.C.
But when the Finnish military should see military is decided in Moscow.
If your wars are something you fan decide about, it would be extremely immoral having compulsory military service.
In countries that cannot decide when to not have a war, it’s immoral to not have compulsory military service, as that would mean only the poorest having to bear the brunt of the war.
Well, the purpose is to be denied by the foreign country. Or, to be accepted by it, depending on your perspective.
Typically your own country doesn’t (shouldn’t) care of shit about your passport, because according to the declaration of human rights, you are allowed to come and go to/from your country as you please. But other countries don’t have to give you that privilege.
(I do think they should have to, though!)
I think it does. At least I kept hearing “als ich mein Zivi gemacht hab” when I lived there. Most people elect to serve in the form of civil service instead, but civil service is a type of military service (as weird as that sounds).
But maybe it’s very easy avoiding the whole thing altogether? I don’t know all that precisely, really. My “military service” was done in the form of civil service in a children daycare centre by the time I moved to Germany. And I’ve never been a German citizen anyhow.
That’s a rather standard thing in any country with compulsory military service. Typically you get that done with right when you’re 18-year-old and then you’re free to travel.
In Finland it’s handled so that you cannot get a passport before you either finish your military service or have turned 30. That meant that when I wanted to travel with my brother outside the EU before they were 30, we were limited to countries such as Albania and Georgia that allow entry with just an ID card. (And also, had we wanted to destroy the climate by flying, we would have needed to fly the flight out from the Schengen area from some other country than Finland!)
You get to choose which country you serve your military service in.
After that, you are affected by the laws regarding military service that that country has. But not of the other one.
Imagine if this picture was taken in Ukraine. The church would have been bombed, because in the opinion of the Russia, churches are always a military target. Just like blocks of flats are.
The article says (even though, weirdly, between the lines) that the man had been spewing out anti-immigrant rhetoric and told that the flags are there to show that foreign-born people are not welcome on his island.
It’s not surprising that flags put by a person saying “I am putting these up as a form of showing the middle finger” are interpreted as being a form of showing the middle finger. Or in other words, causing alarm and distress.
The closest thing is Friendica, and it’s very buggy and the UI would need to be completely remade. Also, its groups are not the same thing as Facebook’s groups.
It has a lot of potential, but fails to really fulfill it.
I’ve come to the conclusion that the closest thing to a Facebook replacement out there is… PieFed. Which you are using right now. You do need to combine it with Mastodon to get all you were doing on Facebook, but PieFed and Mastodon together do actually fulfill what at least I had as my purpose to use Fecesbook.
There is a plan to “some day” add good support for Mastodon style messaging here as well. But that might easily take a year or two.
Let’s explain it this way: Microsoft has programmed a web service that is able to receive, view and send emails.
And Google has done the same, from scratch.
Email itself is merely a way different server softwares communicate with each other.
The same goes here. Some people developed a server software for receiving, viewing and sending ActivityPub content and called it Lemmy. Then other people figured it would be a nice project and did the same, from ground up, and called it PieFed.
They are the same thing. They also don’t have more content or less content. They have the precisely same content. I am writing this on PieFexd, you are reading my comment in Lemmy. And then there is also Mbin.
@116280023545064493@hear-me.social , you accidentally wrote your comment in a place just like that. See here: https://nord.pub/c/fediverse/p/127183/fediverse-is-there-any-platform-in-fediverse-where-individuals-can-join-groups-just-like-fac
This thing called PieFed or Lemmy is not the same as Mastodon. @fediverse@lemmy.world is not a username, it’s actually what you would call a group. You sent that toot of yours into a group called “Fediverse” on a server called “lemmy.world”. On PieFed/Lemmy/Mbin groups are called communities, though. But indeed, do click the link above and browse the site that opens.
I linked through my instance, nord.pub, which is mainly meant for people from Nordic countries. If you prefer something else, try piefed.social, piefed.zip, or somesuch :) But of course you can also create an account on nord.pub regardless of where you are from. At least if you know English or some Nordic language. And English you do know!
But indeed: Do browse this thing. Join some communities (that is: groups) that you like. I enjoy PieFed a lot, and for me it has healed that tickle that you’re complaining about :)
The main job of a parent is to produce experiences of safe disappointments for their children.
Show limits, show love. Make an effort to be interested in whatever is interesting to them. And then make a bit more effort in that, yet.