Diva (she/her)

What’s this Bread Day about?

I had no idea either, its new after my time at least

The holiday was established in 2006 on the initiative of the International Union of Bakers and Pastry Chefs. And the choice of date is due to the fact that on October 16, 1945, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations was created, which dealt with the problems of developing agriculture and its production. Incidentally, another holiday is also timed to coincide with this event - World Food Day.

This article is a little weirdly structured, like yeah the traditional values indoctrination is cringe, they say that they saw this in a bunch of schools October 14-21 and that it was mostly non-military stuff

However, most of the reports reviewed by 7x7 focused on topics unrelated to politics or the war. Lessons were also held in connection with Father’s Day and Bread Day, and several kindergartens discussed what it means to be an adult.

Part of the reason theyre having soldiers in and related activities around 10/22 is that its white crane day, which is a day when WW2 fallen get remembered, and part of the reason for the veteran reading poems is because the holiday itself is named after a poem.

they only mention in the article that it was a poem about the SMO, but on the linked VK post they say that it was poems that he had written about exploits of people in the great patriotic war, and the SMO. the actually noteworthy thing for Western readers I think is the way that they’re being tied together, for a lot of Russians the framing that one is a continuation of the other lands.

Yes, shoot the guns

I mean I just said they have guns, they should use them

You seem to have lots of faith in them, I don’t particularly, though I haven’t worked with anyone who’s been getting paid to work with them either.

They tear gassed a bunch of protesters in Kosovo just last year

Here’s congo in 22

I stand corrected, their track record seems to be getting used to control unarmed crowds (throwing rocks 😱) with chemical weapons and sex trafficking in the places they’re deployed

Don’t those UN guys have guns? Shoot them

What’s happening to our water is really concerning because so much ground water is getting depleted for intensive farming- that can take decades to centuries to refill.

The deforestation this requires actually really affects the whole water cycle and corresponding biodiversity which is a delicate balance most people don’t appreciate because it’s been in balance all our lives.

Some nice plots here: https://watercommission.org/

They tend to actually remove comments for being chauvinist and for some reason that seems to rub certain people the wrong way.

If you’re planning on leaving I won’t miss you passive aggressively using only neutral pronouns for me or calling me insane.

So accusing left wingers of being right wing is okay as far as you’re concerned if it’s about an election

Pointing out that from a left wing perspective, Biden and the Democrats are doing bad things and their supporters are right wing: wrong, not descriptive, belongs in a tankie shit hole.

K

Being full of anticommunists who call anyone left of Biden a tankie makes an instance right wing in my eyes at least

I wouldn’t want anyone going down an extremist pipeline on either side of the political spectrum.

This isn’t a binary thing, there’s plenty of centrist extremists and echo chambers for them

I agree with you that this conflict needs a resolution, it’s possible lemmy.ml has done some things wrong, that’s why I support a two state solution that guarantees lemmy.mls security.

I’m more of an anarchist and I’ve not had issues with hexbear or .ml, though I don’t block lemmygrad I’m not subbed to most of their communities mostly because sectarianism bothers me.

I feel like I always have to check if I’m posting on something that’s on .world because even relatively mild off-color humor can get removed as “incivility” if it rubs a mod the wrong way.

me taking one to go 💁‍♀️✂

Oh you’re the one with the hyperfixation on hexbear.

As you were officer. 🫡

everyone who politically disagrees with me is either not human or a “useful idiot”

Hopefully some day we can find the root of this toxic division haunting lemmy 🙏

It would have been really funny if they had given like Austria or half of Germany to be “Israel” on top of actually removing the Nazis