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Shattered PD is so good that there’s unfortunately no sense making another one. Thanks, @00_Evan@lemmy.world , BTW!

The private owners of the line in question are the government of Denmark and the smaller towns around the city of Copenhagen.

Yeah, I hate it as well how the Finnish railways is organized. By it being a “Ltd.” type of organization, it manages to incorporate the worst sides of both private ownership and public ownership in one. Almost any solution would be better than ours.

But it’s still not private. Words have meanings and if we misuse them, we lose our ability to protect ourselves for example from actual privatization.

Ah, okay, so this route does not belong to Banedanmark, but to Hovedstadens Lokalbaner.

However, the web site of HL says:

Inden fusionen havde Hovedstadens Udviklingsråd overtaget statens aktier i privatbanerne, således at Hovedstadens Udviklingsråd ejer ca. 45% af aktierne i det nye selskab. Den øvrige aktiekapital ejes af amter og kommuner, som tidligere var aktionærer i de private baner.

^^ This means that all of HL belongs to government and municipalities. It also says that originally the routes had been largely privatized, but they were deprivatized in 2002.

Which you didn’t do, though: https://uk.bane.dk/en/About-Banedanmark

The very first sentence there tells it’s a governmental body under the Ministry of Transport. Unless Denmark has privatized its Ministry of Transport, it’s not privatized.

So, some asshole is stealing money that is supposed to go from your country to Ukraine? And somehow that’s a reason why Ukraine should not be allowed to remain an existing country?

Okay, so the majority of Finnish votes for opposing the genocide are okay for you? You’re against genocide abolishers only if they are corrupt? That’s good to hear, at least!

On PieFed there is:

What are the democratic means you mean, more precisely?

How would you prefer Ukraine being supported?

Or are you just a supporter of colonial imperialism?

Woah! I read tuhat part of their message as sarcasm and was surprised by the sudden change of to be… But they really meant it literally!

Therapy won’t help instanteneously. It also will alleviate the suffering, but not remove it.

An example of this, mayhap?

What mod actions are you referring to?

I’d guess they don’t want to sit on the toilet seat and put their shoesolesnon the ring and crouch. Combine that with being extremely drunk… Easy to lose your balance.

Where do the balls and the penis actually go in those?

Hyenas know what you are talking about.

You should have seen how loudly my back then 6-year-old screamed (screeched?) when she was walking on an iron railing and fell off it, legs on different sides of the railing.

I bet everyone in the nearest three blocks felt her pain from hearing that.

A lot of people wipe their butt, flush the toilet, wqsh their hands, dry them, and leave the toilet.

This means that at least the toilet flushing button is often very dirty with poo germs. Depending on how you two and people visiting you handle the flushing, ut might make sense to always wash hands after flushing the toilet.

Otherwise… Whatever.

Lets hope that eventually Belarus and Russia will rejoin the European family.

That will take time.
The Russia is now politically about where Ukraine was around year 1970. And it took Ukraine until 2008 to start seriously becoming democratic, and even then it seemed to keep regressing again and again. Only the aggression by the Russia in 2014 stabilized Ukraine’s path towards democracy. This took Ukraine altogether about 40 years and the Russia won’t be able to be faster than that. The couple decades of extremely immense propaganda have taken their toll. If the propaganda somehow ends this year or the next, then the children born now will still be imbued by it because of their parents’ thinking, and the children of the children being born now are going to be reasonably okay, already. But still not really ready for EU. But the grandchildren of children being born in 2026 might really be able to feel European. So, when those are adults, then maybe. If the Russia ends the propaganda now.

But the Russian propaganda is something that has existed for several centuries and from conversations I’ve had with Russians in Russian language, I don’t really get a feeling that they will be letting go of that anytime soon. A Russia without Pushkin… What would that even be? Such a huge part of their literature is so toxic that whatever they try to achieve, their old literature will pull them back into what they have been for centuries.

We can always live in hope, but I really don’t think the Russia can become anything humanely thinking anytime in the next two centuries at least.

Conservatism means wanting to keep the society as it is. It is the antonym of being progressive. And that’s it.

A party that wants things to to just remain stable as they are is a conservative party. A party that wants to make dramatic changes is a progressive, or maybe also regressive, party. But absolutely not conservative.

Yes, in USA some people have started using the word “conservative” in a different meaning. That doesn’t alter what the word really means. Those who want to conserve what exists.

(And in USA the Democratic party has taken the conservative role, whereas the Republican party has taken an anti-conservative role, driving radical changes to things. Changes to a direction I see as very damaging for everyone, but changes all the same. Wanting such huge changes makes you an anti-conservative.)