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Went to the fridge to get a bottle of water, and almost stepped on a giant scorpion. How's your day going?...

To be honest, I'm not looking forward to getting promoted anyway. The prospect of playing against relegation again doesn't sound particularly tempting...

Ducksch has now tested positive for COVID and is also out. Oh dear.

Yeah it's mental. I'm pretty sure the Dutch are born with a bicycle I love it, though. Nowhere was getting around so easy as in the Netherlands. Granted, I lived in a much smaller city, so it was much more relaxed than Amsterdam

Another defender out... Weiser will miss several weeks with muscle bundle tear. A very bad timing with all those injuries coming up right before a run of important matches. Darmstadt, St. Pauli, Schalke in the next few weeks, and we're missing three regulars in the defence. The only positive is that Chiarodia might get a proper chance in the first team now.

You're not even close. Netherlands and Denmark are definitely on top, and there's at least a dozen of other European countries that cycle by far more than the UK.

Pretty bad situation in terms of fit defenders. Toprak will potentially miss the rest of the season, while Friedl will be out for several weeks

His love for Thailand is clearly stronger than his COVID beliefs. Makes perfect sense to me

Now this is podracing... Brilliant camera angle.

As expected. He made it!

Kinda expected, but it will nevertheless be a huge boost to medical research on transplantation. He also got two months that he wouldn't have had otherwise, so still a win, imo...

Shackleton's Endurance has finally been found after 106 years and it's in an incredibly pristine state.

Seriously, just fuck off Blocked.

Disagreeing with the statement that the Red Army was "a force of good" is just a tiiiiiiny bit different than questioning "if the Nazis being defeated by the Soviets was a good thing". But whatever helps you sleep better at night

Pro Nazi takes you're well and truly mental.

You're quite clearly in this thread looking for arguments and making personal digs, and I'm afraid I don't want any part of it. Enjoy your evening

They were drafted before the war though, and according to Russian law, conscripts can't be sent to active war zones, so they couldn't foresee it. If they went AWOL after conscription, then they would be facing by far more serious charges under Article 337 of the Russian criminal code (going absent without leave) which carries a sentence of up to 5 years imprisonment and Article 338 (desertion) up to 10 years. It's very easy to make appeals to morality when it's not your life on the line.

Up to 2 years in prison or labor camp for draft dodging.

Only if you consider every single Russian soldier personally responsible for every military action resulting in civilian casualties. Personally, I find it pretty easy to sympathise with young kids who get thrown into a war not of their choosing and who just want to be home with their family, but are instead forced to kill and die for no reason at all.

They still do own the actual paper: https://gazeta-pravda.ru/ Журналистская организация АНО «Редакция газеты «Правда», Коммунистическая партия Российской Федерации.

You're thinking of the wrong Pravda The original Russian Pravda is indeed owned by the Communist Party in Russia. The website you linked to is Ukrayinska Pravda though, which has nothing to do with the Russian publication. Quite on the contrary - the Ukrainian Pravda is known for it's criticial and investigative journalism as well as promotion of democracy and freedom of the press. It's original founder was murdered by Ukrainian security service after exposing high-level corruption in the government.

It's important to keep in mind that Russia has mandatory military service though, and a significant part of Russian troops in Ukraine are conscripts who didn't sign up for military service voluntarily.

I mean, Italy is a NATO member, so that would be a bit weird As for your original question: China has actually held back so far. They are saying they understand Russia's security concerns regarding NATO eastward expanse, but at the same time, they also say that they respect the sovereignty and territorial integrity of all countries, and thus call for diplomatic talks and peaceful solution. I think the only countries that openly expressed support for Russia's invasion are Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua and Syria.

Wtf, why Italy?