Notices by Parade du Grotesque 💀 (paradegrotesque@mastodon.sdf.org)

@botvolution

I keep saying the failures of the Biden Presidency were:

1 - Not accepting Joe Biden was a one-term President, and that a campaign to elect another Democrat should have started on day 1.

2 - Not throwing Trump in prison (they had every reason to do so).

3 - Not realizing that the economy was bad for the average person, despite the huge gains of the stock market.

History will judge him harshly, I am afraid.

@stephenhomewood

Try claws-mail - I used Sylpheed for years and loved it to death and claws-mail seems to be its successor.

Also: never had an issue with Thunderbird under OpenSUSE 15.6 so I am curious about what happened.

@Kierkegaanks @yogthos

I believe the reason is simply that most EU politicians have realized there is no use, and no benefit, in dealing with the USA.

The EU focus is now on the Eastern side of the union. In other words: how do we deal with Putin once Trump decides to break up NATO and withdraw all US troops from Europe?

@yogthos @Kierkegaanks

The issue at hand is the US military. The EU would like the Yanks to stay put for as long as possible, in order to prepare for the 'inevitable' clash with Russia.

And so, it avoids criticizing the orange idiot in the White House for the time being.

In this, it follows the US doctrine at the start of the Iraq war, which was at the time: "Ignore Russia, Forgive Germany, Punish France". The current EU doctrine being: "Ignore China, Forgive the US, Punish Russia".

@yogthos

Sabre-rattling by Russia is definitely NOT improving relations. I hope cooler heads will prevail but it seems to me the Kremlin has started believing its own B.S.

Let's face it: Russia is slowly being bled dry by the attrition in Ukraine. Remember how that was supposed to be over in 2 weeks, tops?

Sure, it is slowly advancing, but at a terrible human & resource cost. Overall, EU and US weapons are making a huge difference because they are vastly superior.

@Kierkegaanks

@yogthos

OK, I'll bite:

According to research by the think tank RUSI, when Vladimir Putin began his invasion, he expected to take control of Ukraine within 10 days. [...]

But don't take my word for it:

https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/how-Putin-lost-in-10-days

@Kierkegaanks

Dumb and Dumber are talking about each other on Twitter.

Thanks, I'll pass.

As a kind reminder, a majority* of Americans elected Dumbo President.

Not just once, but TWICE.

Let me repeat this, for the people in the back: a majority* of Americans elected Dumbo President not just once, but TWICE.

And I am willing to bet a lot of Americans still think Dumber is a swell guy.

Follow me for more unfunny facts.

(* yeah, yeah, yeah, we can argue until we are blue in the face, but the fact is, that dumb guy is President. And you are not. You are welcome.)

@aral

Yeah, there is still room on this desk. 😂

@cwebber

More precisely: for the shitposts.

And the "Questions to the Fediverse" series aka "Christine asks the Fediverse to explain something to her".

THAT is why I follow you for.

Never change. 😉

An absolute GENIUS has put googly eyes on the huge white tube outside of the Pompidou center in Paris. And I am all for it.

This is your weird picture of Paris for today.

@sinza

I have heard good things about vultr and OVH, the latter with a bit of hacking.

I would sign up right away.

(Source: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/44406790)

@botvolution

Same here, except has this concept of a "pharmacie de garde", which dictates that you must have an all night pharmacy opened in case of an emergency.

That place might be 50km away from you, but there is (usually) one. You may have to knock on the door to wake up the poor sod though.

All right, SDF seems back online!

Did you miss me? 😉

All right, time for the second part of the evening aka "Find an opened late-night pharmacy to refill the prescription".

Going out is the last thing I want to do right now, damn you prescriptions!

Yes, dear USians, there are countries where find a late-night pharmacy is a pain in the neck. 💊

PIZZA! 🍕

@binford2k @inthehands

That Elon is trying to kill... For everybody else except his own companies, of course.

Of course.

She said: "fight the real enemy".

But most of us did not listen. She was right all along.

Soon, it will be time for "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss". The lies, abuses and cover-ups will continue. The ass licking of the 'servant of Christ' on the backside of the rich and powerful will continue unabated.

@cwebber

Christine.

We have talked about this before.

You really need to do your own research, and not ask random strangers on the internet.

Also: you need to stop posting that type of question, because everyone at work is now wondering why I am laughing so hard! 😉