AniseAbyss

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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
Perhaps. I also see the reverse: the man is practically worshipped as a god for nerds.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
I always felt Google regards Android as a mistake. It is too open. Just look at how iOS is printing money for Apple with its walled garden. And Google's Pixel line smartphones are not selling. If they could do it all over again things
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
Normally the EU is always up for making life complicated for big tech but we are currently... indisposed.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
Well I have the balls to admit that yes the public cares less about Arabs in a far away desert then fellow Euros. But I think you already know that and your righteous indignation isn't going to change that. Life is not fair.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
I vaguely recall that Yandex is based in the Netherlands for tax reasons (like many Russian companies and oligarchs) but Russian money is no longer good. All contracts signed with Russians are up for review and likely annulment.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
Compared to my country America is almost giving away fuel for free. But the distances are insane, somehow it is normal to live 50 miles from your job. That offsets the cheap gas prices.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
I see delivery vans in my street every day. As you say the only physical shopping people still want to do is in the upmarket malls.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
The West already did all that. In the 1990s diplomats and businessmen flew to Moscow in droves. The Russian people chose Putin and a return to the czarist empire.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
The brain drain began in 1990 and never stopped.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
I would not lay the blame entirely at church leaders. The media loves their child sex abuse scandals, missing children and pedos. They are good for ratings.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
As an atheist from a post religious society I always found it amusing the gods in D&D unarguably exist. D&D is propaganda making religion look cool.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
No it isn't. In my country religion has no impact whatsoever in who you can marry or your citizenship. Israel is not "just like us". It is a country founded on a religion. It treats that religion as superior and grants it mor
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
It's literally illegal in my country to be unbanked. The government wants to know exactly where your money comes from and where it goes to.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
There is a cost for isolationism. I am sure it is possible to make Xbox controllers in the US instead of China but they'll be 200 dollars. And then there is things like coffee and rice which would be almost impossible to produce at sca
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
Dutch pilots sortied against the Luftwaffe. It was a not particularly glorious massacre but a point was made. Countries that don't have people willing to die for them are just lines on a map.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
So the sanctions are working?
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
Every country ignores copyright in the beginning. America did it too but it is not polite to mention this now. But there is a tipping point when international enforcement of copyright and patents starts to work in your favour.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
Defender UI is absolutely terrible and keeps deleting things. It is enough for your average user though I'll give it that.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
"big country with nukes and an increasingly unhinged dictator with a strong hold on power" So basically Stalin? The history of Russia is bleak it is not as if the Putin situation is a new phenomenon. If this was happening in my co
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
Punishment for using a Russian bank and not offshoring your assets... What is next building a wall to keep people from "voting with their feet"?
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
My own country still exists because in the past 500 years it never surrendered when a big army showed up making outrageous demands. I see no reason to change that now. Nuclear weapons are not a problem if we all hold to the MAD doctrine.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
Nothing wrong with spying, it keeps the world safe in a way if your intelligence agency can tell you the enemy isn't planning a sneak attack.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
I am somewhat familiar with Russian history and it really has been pretty terrible for the Russian commoner in the last 500 years. And the Russian elite prefers drinking champagne in France and shopping in Milan to improving their own natio
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
Those people who advocate for privatisation just want to replace it with their own bullshit. You'll be amazed how few actually want unbiased reporting.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
There is a lot of history with the BBC for Europeans. Their foreign language service in WW2 is the stuff of legends.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
The fallacy that you went to that nice university because you're smart and not just lucky.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
Indeed we would have to make everyone completely equal. Mao tried to achieve this with the abolishment of the family.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
The fallacy of meritocracy. You stand on the shoulders of your parents. If you come from a family of crackheads on the bad side of the rail tracks you already lost the race long before 8th grade.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
It is self evident that loving, responsible parents with income provide better outcomes for their children's future.
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by AniseAbyss 5y ago
The US actually never installed a puppet regime, held free elections and got BTFO by Iranian backed Iraqi politicians. It was in an amusing sense textbook democracy.

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