Interesting BBC article about the shortage of men in Latvia: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-11493157

The article boils it down to a combination of poverty/unemployment and toxic macho culture, which leads men to depression, alcohol abuse, and risky behavior. Suicide rates are the highest in the EU, and over 80% of those suicides are men. Latvia has the highest proportion of single mothers in the EU.

Another relevant SMBC comic:

Those Gulf states also have a huge amount of immigrant labor, and it’s largely men.

Nah, it’s largely driven by poverty and war and traditional gender roles. Men move abroad looking for work, leaving their wives back home to maintain the rest of the family. Men seek a temporary escape from poverty by abusing alcohol and drugs, or engaging in other high-risk activities. Men die fighting in the military.

To add between 2. and 3.: I choose to spend my limited time and energy on managing self-hosted infrastructure rather than on other hobbies or life demands.

sh.itjust.works got hammered around that time by what appeared to be content scraping bots. It was bad enough to interfere with normal server use, and we had to restrict traffic temporarily while TheDude dealt with it. I’m not sure which other fedi instances were hit, or to what extent.

Edit: More context… https://sh.itjust.works/post/66524166

If anyone is modeling more meme parts, would you please make me a set of AR grips like this while you’re at it?

Now I’m a broken man on a Halifax pier,

the last of Barrett’s privateers.

It’s long overdue. This should have been the response last year when the Pentagon started limiting press access and required journalists to sign a pledge to only publish pre-approved information.

1/3 of the country thinks he’s the best thing to ever happen to America. They eat this stuff up.

1/3 of the country thinks he’s somewhere between a national embarrassment and an existential threat to our constitutional democracy.

1/3 of the country is apathetic about politics and cannot be bothered to give a shit over way or the other.

“No need to clear the room if we carpet-bomb it and the rest of the city out of existence.”

– Curtis LeMay, probably

Shh, don’t give 'em any ideas.

Careful what you wish for. Neil Young and Van Morrison are 80, too.

Just the cost of doing business.

Edit: The settlement will be paid out over 10 years. If Meta pays a steady $1.8B every year that’s <1% of annual revenue. Damnit!

I mean, it saved them from famine at the time. But today I’m thinking it’s about time to change direction and return to the old homeland.

My Norwegian great-great-great-grandparents saw this and said, “Let’s move to North Dakota and live in a sod hut.”

The last extension cord you will ever need.

As an American, I approve this message.

Direct link: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7531

Those are coveted by the noncredibledefense crowd. You can get copies on AliExpress, but they just aren’t the same.

Didn’t you hear? Lockheed is “extremely woke” according to the right-wing culture warriors:

https://buywokefree.com/brand-profile/lockheed-martin