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@lemmy.worldMany warned that after springing his star agent, Russian President Vladimir Putin might be tempted to arrest further Westerners in order to bargain others out of jail.
It should be obvious to everyone at this point that if you travel to Russia then you are in grave danger of becoming a political pawn.
Yeah this is my only real gripe with an otherwise fantastic app. I'm constantly losing my scroll point to it. Would really love to see it fixed and many thanks to the devs for all their hard work.
Imagine that room. You can just picture phones being handed around left and right and wild panic in the air.
"This one's been holding for 7 minutes already"
"See if X can take a call at 11:15"
"What timezone are they in?"
I'd say it was well orchestrated mayhem.
Good to know but I will not be telling my mother that. My auntie has long since passed (mum's the baby in her family) and that would outrage her to the point of heart attack.
100 calls in 10 hours is solid work and I would imagine entirely exhausting.
One summer while in college I worked in a call centre. Worst job of my life so be kind to call centre workers folks. If I remember correctly we would rack up around 140 calls in a day but many of those were very short and obviously I didn't have a presidential nomination on the line. :)
Ireland was more or less entirely run by the unseen hand of the church until, I'd say, the 70's and to some extent the early 80's. Sure they even had a special position for the church in the original constitution in 1937.
In the early 80's people were becoming very wary and then all the various scandals broke loose, coming thick and fast in what seemed like a never ending flood at the time. In the space of the 30 years between 1970 and 2000 the country essentially became irreligious as a result.
That's bananas. "Any child is a gift" and "vasectomies being popular" aren't mutually exclusive. I have a lot of kids and I reached a point where I'd had enough. I love them all so deeply and if my wife said to me tomorrow that she was pregnant well then I would love that child dearly. I love kids.
Still....No more child tho plz. ✂️
There's a cautionary tale that does the rounds in our family about my auntie who somehow (now remember we're talking 1950's aggressively Catholic Ireland here) ended up having a conversation with her priest where she somehow implied that herself and her husband avoided sex around ovulation. From recollection it was during confession.
Priest says "no bueno". She says "okiedokie".
Nine kids. Nine. My mother is still angry about it and she's very, very old.
I remember when that video came out and I was truly impressed at watching good regulations in action.
Luv me some EU I does. 🇪🇺