The na construction is, however, still widely used in Russia.

From what I know, it wasn’t until the 2014 invasion, making the change as political as the Russian media being instructed to refer to the Ukrainian government strictly as “the Kyiv regime” (though they’d probably spell it as Kiev).

She’s named by TheTechnician27, who was a newly appointed Vegan moderator, about a month after the “cat drama” though. Based on my observations at the time, the original Vegan moderators left and appointed someone new to take over because of .world’s actions (e.g. see this comment from naeva).

TheTechnician27’s understanding of the prior events seems lacking, as they argue she was at “the center of the recent controversy [involving] Lemmy administrator Rooki”, offering no evidence and going against the facts of the modlog. Perhaps that’s the source of misinformation here, because you say something very similar: “As Beaver, they put the lemmy.world vegan community in trouble with admins over that vegan cat food drama”. That part is simply not true.

Is there no leopards ate my face community here on Lemmy?

If Ukraine can keep up the pace of its attacks on the Russian military infrastructure, it’s hard to imagine Russia still going at it in two years.

Why do you and Hamid keep saying she had anything to do with the Vegan v. .world events? It was only naevaTheRat and Eevoltic that took action against two users in the vegan community, causing .world’s Rooki to interfere and leading to a back and forth between the parties. The modlog is still available for all to see.

which may or may not be the cause of VeganTheoryClub shutting down.

Now confirmed by Hamid.

Training for Moscow!

“From now on, we’ll handle the poll the same way we handled the Crimea referendum”.

No aide, friend or ally of Putin would be prosecuted or even named in court without his personal permission, so Ukraine is undoubtedly better even in this.

“See, they are Nazis!”

Such a hopeless country. At that age, people tend to still process their education as a given and not question much. Even after the war is over and Putin is dead, Russia will be full of patriotic people thinking war is the answer and that Ukraine was on the wrong side of history.

Does Russia claim that? Hasn’t its narrative always been that the neighboring countries that prefer the Western way are just puppets controlled by the U.S. Department of State?

Russia’s expectation is what it wrote for Trump’s peace deal. It definitely wants it in writing. Though Russia itself doesn’t respect its agreements, if one were signed by Ukraine and supported by the US, Ukraine would likely not attack unless attacked. We saw this with Russia’s de facto annexation of parts of Georgia and with Crimea. The latter became a vacation resort for Russians and many bought property there, doing just fine until 2022.

Kazakhstan and the other neighboring countries may be within China’s sphere of influence, but I don’t see China getting involved in any serious way.

In the short term, it’s probably what Russia says it is: getting the territories that it wrote into the constitution. Stopping at the areas currently in control would also be acceptable, as that’s already more than Russia had before 2022. Then it’s going to be about regrouping for new attacks and invasions, which don’t have to be aimed at Ukraine. Even if attacking Europe were out of the picture, there are former Soviet countries to its south.

Sarcasm?

Being a Kirk wannabe comes with a caveat.

The road condition says it all about Russia’s priorities as well.

As I said, we don’t know the terms of their publishing contract, if any, so that would be a baseless assumption to make. I could also flip your argument and say they might not even want to sell on Steam, but feel forced to because of its monopoly power. It’s one of the points of the class action lawsuit.

I’m glad we at least have moved on from people outright denying Valve does this to defending Valve doing this.

Why did the dev have to increase the price elsewhere to “match the price”, instead of matching the price to $7 on Steam?

You’d have to ask the dev, but obviously Valve takes 30%, while the dev would get 100% on its own store. If there’s a publisher involved, and publisher contracts often cover specific platforms, the dev would get much less than 70% on Steam.

Comparing Steam to traditional stores is incorrect. Even Valve’s own argument in the same Wolfire case was that monopoly power requires a market share of 75%, which Steam exceeds.

There would be more if more people used GOG, but even so, I’m not sure I agree with your premise, because what do most people do when they want a game that’s on Steam and on GOG and even has achievements on both?