Are all fireworks called "firecrackers" in India?

The account is legit going by the verification badges, but man it doesn't feel like it. This was the first post I saw when I checked the account:

“Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, western countries — under the threat of withholding loans — have imposed unacceptable control over Ukraine’s state institutions, state-owned banks, and monopolies, undermining the country’s sovereignty. This is cruel and unjust toward a nation at war,” she said during an interview at the offices of her party, Batkivshchyna, or Fatherland.

same person that got backstabbed by President Yushchenko aka Mr. "Declare-Bandera-a-national-hero-with-single-digit-approval-days-before-losing-reelection"

The westerners, who include a senior official at the UK’s National Audit Office, are able to vote together to veto potential appointees [advisory groups that select candidates for appointment to Ukraine’s Constitutional Court, High Council of Justice, State Customs Service, State Bureau of Investigation and its Accounting Chamber, as well as anti-corruption agencies] and their votes carry more weight than the Ukrainian experts in the event of a tie. As a rule, there are six members in the commissions — three foreigners and three Ukrainians. Such international oversight, Tymoshenko said, may have been appropriate in countries such as Afghanistan, Liberia and Sierra Leone, but not in Ukraine.

Some of the opinion pieces in the sidebar while I was reading this:

Further confirmation that JDPON Don is a Maoist :sparrows: /s

I'm ace and while I do look at horny images from time to time, full-on pornography or sexually explicit talk still grosses me out, I sometimes feel prudish or childish about that as a result.

I feel in a weird place when all this talk is made about normalising sex while being sex-negative, I don't want to push my preferences on all of society, y'know?

Whenever I personally referenced the "volcel poIice" meme it was intended to be lighthearted, a friendly reminder that it got weird in a way that could give a chuckle.

for me I guess...

Kinda funny when they say the rally took place in a "rainy Taipei" meanwhile the stock photo shows it being sunny.

The KMT opposes independence like the DPP wants and they advocate for "cross-Strait dialogue" with China. They're the legacy party that founded the Republic of China. They are lean older and more conservative, whereas the DPP is associated with the youth.

Previous minimum price deals agreed by the EU have been for homogenous commodities, rather than complex products such as cars. The Commission has said it believes a single minimum price would not be adequate to counter injury caused by subsidies.

"Injury caused by subsidies" lmao

From what I can tell a lot of Israelis are anxious about having a "Jewish nose", so combine that with general social media toxicity and the bougie, superficial nature of Israeli society and you get a relatively high number of "nose jobs", though plastic surgery in general is prevalent too.

So they kind of become a representative of the superficial and toxic nature of Israeli society and its defeatist, ass-backwards approach to antisemitism.

These increments are getting more and more meaningless, it's becoming a joke.