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Saw this and thought of you.

@DanBiancoNYC @W01101010 @NewYorker last row cannot recline though

@W01101010 @NewYorker If everyone reclines their seat, the space between people is maintained and everyone is more comfortable.

On August 24, 2014, James Beach, a six-foot-one businessman from Denver, was returning from Moscow when he deployed the Knee Defender—“a $22 gadget,” the Associated Press reported, “that attaches to a passenger’s tray table and prevents the person in front from reclining.” The woman in front of him, unable to lean back, flagged a flight attendant. From there, events spiralled. Beach removed the Knee Defender, but then became upset when the woman reclined forcefully, risking damage to his computer. He confronted her, pushed her seat forward, and tried to reinstall his device, at which point, he said, she turned around and threw her soda at him. The plane was diverted to Chicago, where it was met by police, and news coverage of the event led to conversations about reclining one’s airplane seat. “The bottom line is that reclining is a social act in an environment of social stress. It involves deciding whether to inflict your will on someone else, and enduring or resisting the effects of someone else’s decision,” Joshua Rothman writes. Read more about the ethics of reclining your seat: newyorkermag.visitlink.me/9zPAOe

A fine Russian “kitchen joke” of today. I.e. not be used in public, only in the kitchen. In whisper. A pro-Putin guy pulls into a gas station and asks: - How much for gasoline? The attendant answers: - 200 rubles a liter. - What do you mean, 200?! Yesterday it was 100! - That’s right: 100 rubles is for the gasoline, and another 100 goes toward building a multipolar world. The pro-Putin character sighs, but proudly hands over 200 rubles. The attendant takes the money, hands back 100, and says: - There’s no gasoline.

🏆 Every Round of 16 match at the 2026 World Cup has been won by the nation with more sheep per square kilometre.

@guy_herbert @simongerman600 no venomous animals, so I think Pluto is pulling ahead ;)

@simongerman600 And almost as hospitable to human life.

We always hear that Pluto is a tiny dwarf planet. This map shows just how small: Not even the size of Australia… Source: buff.ly/2vZCuba

@yeahghman @runnel miks Tõeline Karlova pole miljöö:(?

Minu taju järgi tehtud tartu kaart, kriitikat ei oota vaid et teeksid ise oma tajukaardi <3

@IrisTechss @nexta_tv Putin is currently telling Lukashenko just how many pieces he will be in if he doesn't cooperate :D

@nexta_tv Let's just hope they are discussing peace plans. The war has dragged on for too long.

A mysterious visit by Lukashenko to Putin took place on the last day of Zelensky’s ultimatum The meeting in Valdai began three hours ago and is still ongoing. There is little pleasant for Lukashenko in it: the dictator flew in to Putin “on the carpet” to clarify his mysterious manoeuvres. The meeting is being held without cameras, and there will be no final statements. Everything is taking place in an atmosphere of maximum secrecy. And here, the “unbendable” was bent — both by Zelensky and Putin. The President of Ukraine issued an ultimatum to the Belarusian dictator regarding Russian signal repeaters (and not only), and later stated that Lukashenko had switched them all off. For Putin, to whom Lukashenko has completely sold himself, such activity cannot be pleasing. He understands that the Minsk vassal feels his weakness and is therefore trying to distance himself. So in the best case for Lukashenko, he is currently being severely reprimanded, and in the worst case — even beaten. Putin will try by all means to drag Lukashenko into the war or, at the very least, use him to stage provocations against Ukraine and NATO countries. Lukashenko, looking at burning Moscow and blazing refineries across Russia, does not feel much enthusiasm for this “action”. This means he is afraid — and not without reason. The “Madyar plan” to strike 500 regime targets is holding back his aggressiveness.

Matt and Tom came looking for our ice roads but that winter had been too warm. So instead, Tom found some ice elsewhere :D youtu.be/oFrh8LozkAA?si…

@EngridValdis @_seraphina_vale Anyone can make up an anecdotal story to support their position. I don't believe you.

@_seraphina_vale This never happened because the part about the husband having to agree is a myth, and men also have to wait until 25.

@Dseims @elektrikala_ee @Martinlaineolen kui küsimus ainult Martinile, siis on Teie suure tähega:)

@elektrikala_ee @Martinlaineolen Ma esitasin vaid küsimuse Martin Lainele, mitte ei väitnud midagi...

Saan aru, et miljonite ameeriklaste arvates on bioloogia keelatud ja skandaalne? Ja miks USA luureülem üldse "paljastab" omaenda riigi (avalikult teada) tegevust? Mitu Venemaa vaenulikku luureoppi Trumpi administratsioon sarnasel moel paljastanud on? idiokraatia...

@INFINITEGULAG @TheFl0orIsLaVa yeah, her translation gets the general message across, but there is a very clear distinction between "behaving normally" and "being normal". she's young tho, and already back in my day Russian was an elective in so many schools; and while I get why, I am glad it wasn't in mine

@TheFl0orIsLaVa F, too bad, Estonians stopped learning Russian at schools, text and speech in video says: Это не Россия тут. Мы нормальные люди Which translates to Its not Russia here. We are normal people

Estonian police to the hysterical russians at the border: Calm down! You’re not in russia! People behave normally here! 😂😂👍

@howdidyouseeme1 @vivchook @simongerman600 🇩🇪👀

@vivchook @simongerman600 Would you also prefer to say the number 123 "three twenty one hundred"? And probably write it as 321 too.

According to @globalstat11 there are only eight countries who use the most logical date format.

Cat said: “I told you we didn’t need a dog” 😂

@GreekNME @kristal11902 @adnashmyash @petite_michelle can you or can you not buy that product with a little additional annoyance/delay? or are you washing your clothes by hand with household soap and this is just a fake display of product to photograph for westerners?

@kristal11902 @adnashmyash @petite_michelle Shitty quality of life in both cases

Hey, western commie! Nothing makes me laugh harder than a guy or a girl tweeting about "great communism" from a $1,400 phone, in a 3-bedroom suburban house, with a fridge full of food. Comrade. You would not survive week one. And here is why. In the USSR you couldn't just quit your job to "find yourself." Not working was a crime. Literally. They called it "social parasitism." They put the future Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky on trial for it. Your podcast about late-stage capitalism would've gotten you five years. You picture yourself as a commissar. You'd be in a queue. Three hours. For maybe bread. The commissars were a tiny elite with their own shops, their own hospitals, their own everything. You weren't invited. You'd be the guy informing on his neighbor for an extra ration. That brave political take you posted today? In 1949 USSR deported 20,000+ people to Siberia in three days for a lot less - for just being LOCALS. Whole families. Children. Cattle cars. You'd have lasted until your first "actually Stalin was misunderstood" reply landed in front of the wrong person. The gulag wasn't an edgy metaphor. Roughly 18 million people passed through it. Unpaid labor, -40°C, digging canals nobody needed. But please, tell me more about how you'd "organize the workers" from the group chat. Things get bad and you want to leave? You can't. There's a wall. There are dogs. There are guards who shoot. The whole design was that you couldn't go. The people romanticizing it from a comfortable suburb can always book a flight home. People in the USSR couldn't even move to the neighbouring city without permission. So wear the Che shirt. Read rge Red Book by Mao. Enjoy the iPhone he'd have confiscated, the internet he'd have banned, and the free speech that lets you praise the exact system that would have shot you for using it. Some of us actually remember how it went.

@sarkasmus_hilft @adnashmyash @petite_michelle or if there was anything left of whatever it was when you got to the front

@adnashmyash @petite_michelle And always queuing for shit not even knowing what it was that was sold in the front. (I was born in the GDR 😅🤡)

poor Raygun catching strays from #Eurovision

fuck you

Thank you for protecting cat's identity, Google Maps

FUCKING LEGEND OF A RESPONSE.

@Daractenus this was such a good morning read! humans are both stupid and ingenious everywhere :)

Given that we all could probably use a bit of lighthearted humor right now, and since it’s been quite some time since my last “News from Romania” thread, here’s an all time best of collection of the funniest and most absurd real bits of news I’ve collected over the years. 🧵