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by Ourgon 5y ago
The longer this war is allowed to continue, the weaker Russia will become. A weak Russia both increases the risk of nuclear weapons being used as well as that of other states - China in particular - using this weakness to try to grab some o
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by Ourgon 5y ago
> Tanks cost less than fighter jets The MiG 21 cost less to procure than a BMP-1 armoured personnel carrier if Wikipedia [1] is to be believed [2]. A BMP is not a tank and can be assumed to be less expensive than one. [1] https:/&#
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by Ourgon 5y ago
> It could last over a week Install LineageOS but skip "GAPPS" (Google apps), don't install nosy background-active spyware like Facebook and its ilk and you should be able to easily go beyond 1 week on a device with a 4500
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by Ourgon 5y ago
I'm still using the first Android device I bought in 2010, an Ainol Novo 8 Advanced tablet. I bought it back then for my wife to use while preparing for her specialist exam because of the high-res screen which made it a good fit for
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Ability to install a free software distribution, side-load software, run a plethora of Linux apps through Termux, fix the screen if you happen to break it without the thing complaining about "non-genuine parts", build, run and dis
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Yes, fantastic book. Wrong premise though, fallout does not live as long as Nevil Shute makes it out to do, nor do the shifting wind patterns lead to the movement of large amounts of northern-hemisphere dust to the southern hemisphere.
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by Ourgon 5y ago
You are professing a religion when you're talking in terms of "climate change deniers". It is the same primal urge which makes people call others "anti-vaxxers" even though they've had the full spectrum of vacc
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Did you read those books? Thought so. You did, and you come up with this response? Read them again, but now without those ideologically-tainted glasses. Show me where they're totally off-base and I will listen. By the way, if you had r
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by Ourgon 5y ago
I never understood this attitude, not when it was professed in the 80's, nor now. If I can find a way for me and my family to survive I will do my damnedest to try. Moving out of a densely populated country to the countryside in anothe
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by Ourgon 5y ago
The point with hypersonic missiles is that they can manoeuvrer until the terminal part of their trajectory, this in contrast to ballistic missiles which are on a set course past the boost phase. This makes it harder to shield against hypers
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by Ourgon 5y ago
I'm fairly sure it is not. Climate change is actually a good example, it has been blown out of all proportions by both politicians as well as media which has led a large number of children and young adults to start worrying whether the
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Why would Putin - not Russia - be out for nuclear annihilation? What can be gained by provoking such a conflict? Other than some version of apres moi, le deluge I don't see any upside for any country initiating a large-scale nuclear
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by Ourgon 5y ago
>Just you wait! I'll be right in the end! You'll see! You will. You already can. You actually have been able to see this for more than a year had you only opened your eyes - maybe your mask was in the way? > LOL. Strange sen
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by Ourgon 5y ago
One of them would be where NATO and Russia end up in a conflict which causes China to decide Siberia needs to be "protected". There are some 35 million Russians living in a region covering 140% of that of China which houses 1.4 bi
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by Ourgon 5y ago
That is more due to those tanks being driven by human beings than any restraint from the leadership. You can tell your tankers to ignore any civilians lying prostrate before their tracks but that does not mean they'll just follow order
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by Ourgon 5y ago
> Sweden which has around 1.7x the deaths per million as Canada? Also, Sweden which will have far fewer deaths and other damages due to 'collateral damage' from lockdowns. With regard to your claim of bank accounts not having b
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Those components in that PinePhone, they come from China. Are you sure that flash module does not contain a backdoor? What about the SoC, PinePhone uses Rockchip, the full name of that company is Fuzhou Rockchip Electronics Co., Ltd. . Are
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by Ourgon 5y ago
The truckers caused disturbances for two weeks while Trudeau's lockdown measures caused disturbances for two years. Living in a country - Sweden - which followed a different path for a similar outcome in SARS2-related I can wholehearte
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by Ourgon 5y ago
No, discrimination is discrimination. Racism is the assumption of a person's "race" - for most people that equates to skin colour and other physical properties but for some it goes deeper - being related to that person's
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Not that much compared to the rising totalitarianism in e.g. Canada I'd say. Neither Poland nor Hungary are exactly totalitarian, they just happen to reject the demands of a vocal minority who do not agree with their rejection of globa
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by Ourgon 5y ago
You don't hold a Starlink dish to your ear, instead you place the thing in some unobstructed area and connect to it through (long-range) Wifi. If the dish draws in a missile that's a net-loss for the aggressor since that missile w
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by Ourgon 5y ago
> But yes. I am fully aware that it is a privilege and it is a difference, that I can say all of this here and not over there Indeed, we can, for now. There are some chinks in this armour - Trudeau in Canada activating the Emergencies Ac
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by Ourgon 5y ago
> Putin is not cemented in power. He can get actually kicked out by elections. So can Xi. It is just that there are elections, and then there are elections. You're still doing it, detailing bad things about "the west". We
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by Ourgon 5y ago
I think we all know that "the west" - whether that be the US, western Europe, Israel, Australia or any other country which is normally included under that moniker is not perfect, especially after having those things you just menti
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by Ourgon 5y ago
It is not just "a bit unfair", it is part of the nonsensical "all bad things are the fault of 'the west'" attitude which has gained so much popularity in the last decades. May I suggest the time has come (or, r
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by Ourgon 5y ago
From the ashes of the Netscape-source based code rose Phoenix. From the request by that BIOS-company by the same name rose Firebird From the request by the makers of the database by the same name rose Firefox Now, after many years, I'm
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by Ourgon 5y ago
I had a look at including video and it turns out I was premature in saying it would be easy. Currently librespot-python does not support video so only for that reason it is a no-go. If support ever arrives it might become possible but giv
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Reality can be entertaining. Do you work in the industry?
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by Ourgon 5y ago
Advertising certainly has effects, they are just not the effects you imply and can not be said to make them work . This is the effect advertising has on me: - I no longer watch broadcast television, at all - I no longer listen to broadcast
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by Ourgon 5y ago
How to sell advertising that sells: Prerequisites: - get out of my face . ...and ears... - stop profiling me - stop following me - just get out of my life, entirely. Done? Good. Now pick up an old "Computer Shopper" magazine and s

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