buried in the middle of the article it says the Tsarist regime banned it and the ban was lifted (still by the Tsars) in 1904. haven't checked elsewhere.

absolutely. but I'll bet 10000 Argentine pesos this line is being rolled out across redd*t, maybe even verbatim, nevertheless

"but he warned everyone things would get bad" 🙃

~30% of covid cases are asymptomatic so even if everyone who felt sick cancelled (this would also include many people with colds), it wouldn't make "closed metal box with inadequate air filtration with unmasked strangers for hours" a good idea

some mystical place so dissimilar to the US that they can dismiss data from the US as completely irrelevant 🤷‍♀️

unless you live in nutomic's basement then your local conditions don't apply 🙃

(late) link because not lib https://lemmy.world/post/20219295

not according to the World Health Organization. or most epidemiologists. you are spreading dangerous misinformation

I would go with "propagandized", lots of insane people still make the great public-interest decision to wear a mask

in south africa they'll murder racists like you for free 😉

0*2 is also 0 and maybe makes the joke better 🙃

"more diversity" includes people whose entire lives are politicized, so you have to pick between "more diversity" and "less politics", you cannot have both

banning communists opens up space for fascism? whoever could have predicted! 🤯

fucking your neighbor's pet cat is morally neutral

yeah this is turning out to be as wild as I expected

also already covered by rule #3

so you think all humans have rights to do any kinds of violent, invasive acts to any animal, as long as they call it a "veterinary procedure"? is there anything a human could do to an animal which you would classify as "rape"?

and getting a giant steel horn implanted in your forehead would be a cosmetic procedure, but i guess you'd be pretty upset if someone did it to you without asking?

artificial insemination would fit the legal definition of rape in several jurisdictions in the world if you did it to a human.

how do you think dairy cows are always pregnant if they're not being forcibly impregnated 🤔🤔

if you eat or drink any dairy products then you have almost certainly paid a company to rape some animals for you.

yes but wtf is a niché (neesh-ay) as opposed to a niche?