Russia is so incompetent they couldn’t even defeat just one country in NATO, Poland

How do you know this? What are the winning lottery numbers for tomorrow?

Remember when that Polish minister knelt at the Bandera monument?

Goodbye any fear Europe had of Russia. They can’t defeat Poland much less all of NATO.

I think you’ll find the war is in Ukraine, not Poland. Easy mistake to make for an American.

the gathering of BRICS and other countries this week spotlights a growing convergence of nations who hope to see a shift in the global balance of power and – in the case of some, like Moscow, Beijing and Tehran – directly counter the United States-led West.

Tacit admission the two are one and the same. To shift the global balance of power the United States-led West must be countered.

But despite Russia’s sweeping rhetoric, the leaders meeting in Kazan have a wide range of viewpoints and interests – a reality of BRICS that observers say limits their ability to send a unified message – especially the kind Putin may desire

Democracy? That’s actually a bad thing, sweetie.

You’re not a counterrevolutionary, just a sucker. There’s one born every minute, I hear.

“Shouldn’t have been living next to a concentration camp.”

I never considered the possibility that they don’t actually hate me, so I stop hanging out with them. I got pretty good at burning bridges…

St. Pauli is a good team to support. I don’t really watch football, only world and euro cup. Euro2024 is this summer, btw.

He also believes that people serving a sentence should be used in forced labor

This already happens.

(surprise surprise, the nazis are supporting each other. If I should name one software that yells “hello, please block me” as a Fediverse moderator, it’d be Pleroma.)

Why is Pleroma nazi?

Democrats hate democracy.

the Vikings shouldn’t be idolized too much,

Nobody should be idolised, tbh.

they were effectively pirates who produced little themselves and mostly just invaded and took from others

That’s mostly media portrayal. Most Vikings were traders and farmers. You also have to consider in what kind of conditions they lived, Scandinavia is harsh and it’s very hard to grow things there.

piracy

The word “pirate” doesn’t always have negative connotations, like in the golden age of piracy and modern times where pirates are those who download and share digital media and files, so I don’t understand your use of pirate as an insult. Invaders, pillagers, plunderers, conquerors, these would all be apt labels.

True, but rarely have I seen people use a 40-character password for their wifi network. Especially not a phone hotspot.

The attacker doesn’t need to be next to you to crack the password, they just need to collect enough packets and then crack it at home.

Not sure. You can certainly try.

Tethering is faster and more secure (hotspots can be cracked).

Why not tether your phone to the laptop with usb or bluetooth?

the critical weakness

It’s not a bug, it’s a feature.

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