I’m hesitant to say it because I’ve gotten some ridiculously hostile reactions for it, but I’ve really liked Kagi.

Yes, it’s a subscription service but that means they have an incentive to not show you shit results. According to some, paying for a search service is wrong because online services should be free, and I’m just astroturfing if I even mention it

Or, I dunno, maybe just don’t use Google?

Huh, interesting (and more than a bit worrying) that it’s not happening just over here in Finland too. Crime rates have generally gone down for a while now, but there’s been a huge uptick in particularly brutal violent crimes perpetrated by under 15’s

Where there is a will, there is a way

Ain’t no guys here

Well it certainly does for the not-a-gynecologist at least

Is this implying that “me” isn’t wearing any underwear?

See, you get it

I would assume the person is serious when posting here.

This sounds like a “you” problem

You’re no fun

potato, missile-o

I gotchu:

That is the Yokosuka MXY-7 Ohka, a Japanese kamikaze rocket plane

ban anyone that thinks differently.

Incredibly disingenuous of you to paint this as being about a simple difference of opinion, but I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that a right-leaning person is completely unable to have a good faith discussion about anything. I’ve had conservative acquaintances say to my face that the world would be a better place if gender minorities like me didn’t exist; this isn’t about them fucking “thinking differently” you moron, they don’t even want me to fucking exist, and you have the nerve to whine about it

What I find absolutely mind-boggling (although very on brand) is that Russia has been working on a nuclear-powered cruise missile, the 9M730 Burevestnik. They’re claiming it’s a nuclear thermal rocket, but gods only know if that’s true or not, and your guess is as good as mine as to whether it’s open or closed cycle, ie. doest it blast radioactive exhaust everywhere. Russians being Russians, it’s probably open cycle.

Russians being Russians, they’ve also already managed to have a fatal radiological incident while testing the Burevestnik, with a mere 5 deaths.

Guess that depends on how you define “works”. Russians do a lot of stuff that’s stupid and “works” – see eg. the entire Ukrainian invasion.

I have no idea what that is

I’d be inclined to think that going from 30% to 20% is worse than “not entirely successful” (assuming AfD voters in general are at the very least somewhat sympathetic to fascist views, which really doesn’t seem like an unfair assumption)

Did they do it, though? Eg. the BfV (Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution, the domestic intelligence agency) and BKA (Federal Criminal Bureau, the federal investigative police) are somewhat notorious for having a bit of a neo-Nazi problem, and they’re not the only German federal or state entities with the same issue (see eg. this article about the BfV and BKA. Edit: PBS report about neo-Nazi infiltration in German security forces).

It’s not an uncommon view that denazification wasn’t entirely successful. Hell, they even have a word for the sort of rushed “washing clean” of Nazi officials that was done: Persilschein, “Persil ticket” (Persil is a detergent brand).

I’d argue that if denazification had really succeeded, the AfD and others like it wouldn’t be as much of an issue.

I don’t disagree with that sentiment at all, I’m just not sure how to set this particular broken bone. How do you make ~20% of the population less fascist?

There is a difference between conservatism and being a threat to the democratic order.

I’m not sure I agree. More and more it’s started seeming like they’re generally just waiting for a moment to drop their masks; eg. here in Finland now that we have a fully right wing government, our “fiscally conservative” party started their term off by limiting the right to strike, and is now echoing extremist right wing talking points about eg. immigration, LGBT+ people, and the environment. They were OK with an extremist right wing minister leaving us out of Ukraine’s “Alliance for Gender-Responsive and Inclusive Recovery” because the plan mentioned LGBT+ people, and they stood in the way of banning abusive LGBT+ “conversion therapy” even though they claimed to be against it back when they still had to be in a government with leftist parties (sorry, couldn’t find an English source for this but here is one in Finnish. For translation I’d suggest DeepL, it’s vastly superior to eg. Google). They are also blaming the opposition for “besmirching” Finland’s reputation abroad, meaning they don’t want anyone pointing out that we have literal neo-Nazis in the government and parliament.