Protestant Prayer book in Lithuanian, printed in 1912 in Tilsiter, now Sovetsk, Kaliningrad. My grandparents had many more books like this one, but ended up burning most of them when they were moving to another house and Soviet repressions were getting scary.

I wear my helmet. Comes in real handy when I hit my head against the ceiling of my basement.

Americans do this to avoid paying for a procedure I paid less than one day’s pay for and then dare call my country a shithole.

It was this one.

I’m from the Baltics.

Fuck those guys.

I watched a video about that guy and his story is crazy.

All of your points are great, but if you looked beyond monetary value, many industries that used to produce things that increase the welfare of your citizens are now used to wage war.

A weird but well known example in history was sewing machine companies that switched to producing automatic weapons in times of war. Their profits might have increased, but the people couldn’t buy new sewing machines. So while on paper the country’s GDP might be bigger, more people are wearing rags because they can’t access better clothes, making them de facto poorer.

In Lithuania, it’s 72 days before scheduled birth and 56 days after, fully paid on day of entering maternal leave.

After that, one of the parents can go into long-term maternal leave of 18 or 24 months, at around 70% of pay.

In addition to that, the spouse who isn’t taking that vacation can have 2 months off until the child turns 3.

They could have had a headline “SMIC got smacked by sanctions”

Visiting Norway was easy, nobody even checked my passport.

The defender has to succeed every time, the attacker has to succeed only once.

I love that the FSTL are owning their fame.

There is a scene in a TV show called Person of Interest where an AI communicates with a younger character in a high frequency tone older characters around her can’t hear. When I first watched it, I heard it. Now I don’t.

terminal illness

unexpected accidental death

cardiovascular disease

obesity related health issues

There is also the argument that a downpour of AI generated slop is making the Internet in general less usable, hurting everyone (except the slop makers) by making true or genuine information harder to find and verify.

Two projectiles for the price of one?! Count me in.

The farmers should take a page from the European one’s book and block the roads. Or even better, drop tons and tons of manure on the White House lawn.

B-but the FN P90 is ambidextrous and ejects the casings downwards.