Mikeb85

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by Mikeb85 5y ago
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/eu-nations-intend-supply-ukraine-0... Anyhow there's plenty of sources out there repeating the bit about aid (it was part of an EU leader's speech) although I will admit, Googling is hard
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
> I've seen a decent number of really sad-looking folks at Michelin restaurants, usually older couples, just kind of picking at their food and not talking to each other, looking around longingly. I remember a couple quite vividly wh
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
People should read about restaurants before they go... That restaurant is particularly known for very provocative 'artful' food. There's plenty of traditional fine dining restaurants in Italy.
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
> My only criticism is that while the food is frickin' amazing, you only get one bite of it, per dish. Maybe two. Maybe that's part of the appeal. I mean, there's a limit to how much you can eat before you start feeling bl
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
> I’ve been to many places with inferior levels of validation that were much more pretentious, like the Italian places all over America where nothing is in English but you have to pretend you’re cultured enough to just know what everythi
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
They just received 55 MiG 29's from Poland.
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Fine dining is more of an 'experience' than a meal. It's like going to the theatre or watching an orchestra perform. You're not paying for the food you receive per se, you're paying for the room, all the staff buzz
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
> Probably the most innovative and interesting one I've tried is Gaggan, which has since closed but had 2 stars and a ranking as Asia's #1 restaurant, doing a 25-course experimental take on Indian cuisine in Bangkok. Gaggan Ana
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Lots of critical comments, however, is Google even able to pay Russian developers now with the sanctions?
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Draw a straight line from Belarus to Kyiv, it passes through Chernobyl...
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
It seems Russia's air forces capabilities were over-estimated and Ukraine's under-estimated. Ukraine is still flying fighter jets (MiG-29s and Su-27s)...
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
The countries I mentioned are NATO countries... If Putin attacks US planes over NATO airspace he'll have a bigger problem...
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
I mean, sanctions are a massive risk for prospective investors... Just realistic.
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
On Instagram it's Zelenskiy. Also in Cyrillic the last 2 letters are different...
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
You need to understand what Putin believes. He believes in the Russian Empire, in the "Third Rome" and Ukraine is important because Kyiv was the capital of the first Rus empire 1000 years ago. It's also the "origin myth&
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Airdrop it in Poland, Slovakia or Romania, drive it across the border.
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Ukraine changed the "official" way to transliterate Ukrainian words from Cyrillic to English some time ago, to closer match the way it's actually pronounced. Plus some changes from Russian to Ukrainian when the country start
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Fun project, but I don't miss old Windows (I don't miss Windows at all really).
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Threats = antagonizing. If he knew the invasion was coming, he should have DONE something. So he made a bunch of threats then publicly said he won't do anything... Do you think this helped the situation? Even Zelenskiy told him to S
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Basically Russia and China have alternatives and the west doesn't want to lose Swift's dominance.
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
It was literally always in my unedited original post. "It's a stretch" <- means not true
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-s... He tried it 20 years ago but it didn't happen. Anyhow there was a thread yesterday based on a paper by an academic on how losing Ukra
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
It was the opposite. Putin asked but the west didn't make a roadmap for it. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-s...
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
This. I basically just use the default Ubuntu installation, don't mess with any config stuff (literally just add a few Gnome extensions) and I've had a stable, functional desktop for years now (~10 years).
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
And they came on the road.
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Oh I know. I've even followed Zelenskiy (his social media is usually entertaining...) since he was elected. I just said there's a basis for it, not that it's true.
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
> That's made up. It's a stretch but there's a basis for it... https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/538103872322289664?t=BM...
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Imagine how different the world would be if the west allowed Putin to join NATO like he wanted... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-s...
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So why isn't the west helping? And why do you expect Ukrainians to march to their deaths if your country and NATO won't help?
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by Mikeb85 5y ago
Yes, they're mostly Russian. But legal status matters in that Russia can't shut them down...

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