In South Africa, it is illegal to open carry, unless you are a police officer or security guard. So citizens are required to conceal carry. Yet in the rural areas where I am from, most of the firearm carrying people prefer to open carry, they feel it is a deterrent and easier to reach.

It’s really weird how everyone in America, what I assume we are referring to, wants to conceal carry because the government does not want you to, and here in SA we want to do the opposite because of what the government wants.

PS this is my opinion from personal experience, maybe a lot more are carrying but I do not see them.

Clearly a joke to upset certain people

Yeah in South Africa when our then President, Jacob Zuma, disbanded our independent corruption body, the Scorpions, that started basically corruption on such a scale, even had a commission of inquiry for state capture. Just look at South Africa’s growth since then, basically entrenched poverty and joblessness to our countrymen.

Be afraid Ukraine, even if Zelensky has good intentions, what about the next president. All the advice I can give you is to become active, continue putting pressure on your elected officials. The people have the power, especially through the ballot

Sugar of Lead, chef’s kiss and sorry children

Imagine the guy that had to go down the slide in front of their glorious leader, like think even in front of your own president you had to take a waterslide, have them take a picture to share to the world

Can we start a thread with like blocking words, but yes blocking makes Lemmy the best

Yeah the Melania strategy doesn’t always work, probably gonna beat Carter’s record

Fuck now I gotta run from the law as well

Us joggers using min/km

Insane that in less than 2 weeks, maybe 1, casualties would have passed 1 million.

I know it is not full on deaths each one, maybe 1/3 or 1/4 maybe if I take a guess, but the other 3/4 was basically wounded and most likely suffering lifetime injury. This also does not include the mental trauma a war like this causes.

Good luck Ukraine, you deserve every bit of freedom you now fight for, may you inflict death and injury to every invader in your country that is trying to sieze it from you.

This cool microscope, is Harvard going to keep it for themselves or are they planning to share the equipment with the rest of the scientific community

I cannot speak for this area of science, but in my field China’s research papers, for example rock mass failure response to complex stress states, are like a god send, really quality work. This is my opinion in my field but if I had to extrapolate… Remember the Soviets with all their propaganda had amazing scientists

You cannot just say this is a ROCK! What type of rock, is it igneous, sedimentary or metamorphic rock, then what rock is it, is it granite or norite. And what is the damn mineralogy, are there any feldspars or over identifiers

This is going to be controversial but there were slight benefits that have been gained by Russia by this war, they basically identified all the areas in the military that were corrupt and lazy, remember in the beginning how unprepared the Russian forces were, they have basically fully transitioned into full war manufacturing, they now have the most experience fighting force in the latest modern war next to Ukraine. They also have basically almost empty prisons, almost every poor desperate persons would have taken the huge pay day and maybe also ended up dead, so a lot of societal “undesirables” were eliminated. Also basically any opponents of Putin could be eliminated by basically blaming Ukraine or blaming the individual for being a secret Ukrainian supporter or against the state

Agreed, for Ukraine it is not a pointless war, it is a war for survival and self, but in my opinion for the average russian it was a pointless war to stroke a colonialist dictators ego. Ukraine never posed a threat and if NATO expansion next to the Russian border was Putin’s motive that backfired with Finland joining NATO.

No this was a pointless war for Russia to have started.

I still think we will hit 1 million before the war ends. God it’s so sad that this is how I slightly keep up with the war, slight number increases, dehumanizing even occupiers into digits. What an awful thing this pointless war