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by 323 5y ago
A very important point made by a previous Finland prime minister today on Sky News: > FINLAND IS NOT NEUTRAL. That's a common misconception. Finland just doesn't belong to a military alliance. But it is definitely aligned with
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by 323 5y ago
For a simple sale/loan the land would remain Ukrainean. Just like if an American buys a house in Russia, it won't mean now that USA can militarily defend it. Every piece of land has actually two owners: the sovereign nation and th
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by 323 5y ago
What's going on now in Ukraine is not brief. You could call brief when Russia invaded the eastern parts of it in 2014. Putin 3 days ago warned that any Western "interference" would have "consequences you never experience
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by 323 5y ago
Short answer: that's not how borders work.
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Germany to deliver 1000 anti-tank weapons and 500 Stinger missiles to Ukraine(twitter.com)
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Dynamo Kyiv soccer team shows new season equipment(twitter.com)
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by 323 5y ago
There are videos today with Russian Pantsir-S anti-defense in Kyiv. https://twitter.com/RALee85/status/1497532522556624903
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by 323 5y ago
> I don't understand why hackernews is cheering for one side Because sometimes there is an actual good side and an actual evil side. Not all good and evil is relative.
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by 323 5y ago
> The short answer is simple: Ukrainians call their capital “Kyiv” (kee-yiv), the spelling, a transliteration of the Ukrainian Київ. The Russian version is “Kiev” (kee-yev). > Not surprisingly, the Ukrainian government mounted a ca
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by 323 5y ago
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat (definitely not pro-russian) advises being careful with this one: > Some claims that the missile strike on the apartment building in Kyiv could be from a Ukrainian S-300 air defense missile, s
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by 323 5y ago
I'm pretty sure Russia is close to boiling over this. If the tanks roll through Kyiv and start shooting inside the city we might see massive protests in Russia.
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by 323 5y ago
SWIFT is not just for dollars. I used it to transfer Euros and GBP. The reason people like the US dollar is not just because SWIFT exists.
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Cutting Russia off from SWIFT a “matter of days” – euro zone central banker(reuters.com)
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by 323 5y ago
> but I cannot envision the West doing it Give it a few weeks. Remember how Nord Stream 2 was untouchable just a month ago. If you consider the 7 stages of grief, the West is in 1-Shock or 2-Denial stage. 3-Anger is just starting.
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by 323 5y ago
It's a symbolic thing. > It is extremely rare for the U.S. to sanction a sitting world leader, and the Kremlin had previously said it would consider sanctions on Putin himself to be a de facto severing of relations between the U.S.
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Russia limits access to Facebook amid fallout over war in Ukraine(independent.co.uk)
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by 323 5y ago
I wouldn't put too much value in those phone-calls. It was the same with Covid rules, you got different responses based on exactly who you'd call, confusion all around, and authorities contradicting each other. A romanian article
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by 323 5y ago
Instead EU will give some stern warnings. And of course, they will also not block oligarchs and their families from going to EU, buying property there and using their banks. If Russia is such a great country, why do all oligarchs children l
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by 323 5y ago
> Democracy, if we let it function, is antifragile. There is a new meme where people say "X is antifragile" where X is something they like, while having no idea what antifragile actually means. Taleb himself called large enti
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by 323 5y ago
Their project: RTX On, latest GPU Actual thing: lowest-res CPU rendering - https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2021/07/mvrdv-marble-arch-...
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by 323 5y ago
You live in some fantasy land if you think you can just say "oh, I just received 100 dollars worth of Monero from 1 million unknown entities, my $100 million is totally legit, fuck off". Unlike criminal law where you are "inn
832.
by 323 5y ago
I don't think the FBI would be that dumb to arrest you before they have solid proof.
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by 323 5y ago
This is the big problem of crypto coin mixers. 99% of their users are trying to launder illegal bitcoin.
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by 323 5y ago
What you said and much more. For example, you buy a burner phone, but the place you bought it from, even if a second hand shop, had a security camera. Maybe they also record IMEI's before selling phones. Or you carry your burner phone
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by 323 5y ago
One thing I don't understand is how do animals get their Vitamin D since they are covered in fur. Surely it's not only humans for whom Vitamin D is important.
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by 323 5y ago
All you said are Russian propaganda talking points. For example, how many TV stations has Russia shut down? Oh, all of them which dare to criticise Putin. Is this reason to now invade Russia?
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by 323 5y ago
> You could consume a single glass of heavy water without suffering any major ill effects, however, should you drink any appreciable volume of it, you might begin to feel dizzy. That's because the density difference between regula
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by 323 5y ago
> the match-size freshwater fish were engineered to glow for research purposes That makes you wonder what other stuff engineered in labs could establish itself in our environments.
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by 323 5y ago
25 Jan: > Russian envoy urges Justin Trudeau to call Vladimir Putin to discuss Ukraine crisis https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-russian-env... 3 days ago: > Canada to send lethal weapons, $500-m
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by 323 5y ago
We wanted artificial intelligence, but what we got is artificial stupidity :)

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