Don’t use Discord!

IRC and Matrix are better, free alternatives.

The current an planned actions of the US will also surely leading to others doing things to them they don’t like…

Somehow, reading this I get flashbacks to Shadowrun TTRPG sessions I did in the 90s…

I am now married to a Vietnamese woman for a bit over ten years and we have a kid, but i can only speak from my personal experience - as always, people are individuals and regional experiences may be utterly different.

As far as i can say: As long as you respect the culture, try to blend in and be friendly you will never find a more welcoming people, multi racial kids (we are talking European / Vietnamese here, ok?) are absolutely no problem. But i have to say: In Vietnam you also find the (i am speaking in general terms here) typical asian dislike for darker skin. You are absolutely fine as long as your skin tone matches roughly the one of the local population or is lighter. As a darker skinned person your experience may be completely different.

I don’t know about our politician, but the population surely is taking him seriously… i am living near an american base in germany and i can assure anyone: Americans are really not popular with the local population right now, and at the moment its a really, really bad idea to enter some establishments in uniform.

Vietnam really is nice (i lived there for a while), but one has to keep in mind: The living standard (away from the big cities) is still not compareable to western standards and - a thing that i find really funny in a way - i would never have thought that a communist country may be THAT anarcho capitalist.

But overall: I really love that country.

Well… this was something I talked about with my father in law a while back when I lived in Vietnam, he replied around the line of “For what?”.

You should not think everyone in the world wants the same things people in the west want.

Fine. What do YOU, as a citizen of a rogue state, do to stop all this?

They build a prospering nation that uplifted their people from poverty. The Vietnamese are - in the absolute majority - very happy with their government.

We should have moved away from the US tech stack back then when Bush Jr. was in office… I can only say that I am preaching this now my whole professional life, for over 20 years now!

This one is on you. MY copy of the necronomicon firmly sits in my library in the west wing…

The age of pocket computers ended with the Atari Portfolio. What we got now is the electronic form of Soma.

No…No…Nonononono…

We OF COURSE need NOW cameras EVERYWHERE (yeah, Timmy, even in the cellar where you do what we ALREADY KNOW YOU DO THERE) and we HAVE TO implement AI (ARTIFICIAL GODDAMN INTELLIGENCE!“!§”“”“) to monitor the camera footage of every FUCKING CITIZEN, NON-CITIZEN, FUCKING EVERYONE!!!”.

Ok, can we just start WWIII an end civilisation before i have to return to work on the 6th of January? Please!?

God fucks you

Look at the people who hang around there.

And after all these things. Even putin isnt stupid enought to start a nuclear war!

Putin? No. The orange-one-who-shall-not-be-named on the other hand…

Fuck “Hacker News”, the people that hang around there are in major ways responsible for the shitty state the internet -and the world- is in now.

If Putin want to bring a bit spice to the game it would be easy: Just a couple tactical nukes and mobile launch systems - it wouldn’t cost Russia much in defence capabilities but would surely bring the conflict to a new level.

I have voted against the abolition of the death penality in Hesse back in 2018 (if i remember correctly) when there was a public vote on that matter… you never know when it may become handy…