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by aguaviva 2y ago
I‘d reserve the word „colony“ for its original meaning. Which per Wikipedia is simply: A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule. And which was a perfectly reasonable description of the situation in all the periphe
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Like when Zelensky announced that Russians killed all border guards on the Snake Island after one of them said "Russian warship, go fuck yourself". First, Zelenskyy was just reacting to what the DPSU (State Border Guard Service)
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by aguaviva 2y ago
https://archive.is/PnPHo
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EPA Promotes Fertilizer Carrying PFAS, Long After 3M Shared Risks(nytimes.com)
2 points by aguaviva 2y ago|1 comments
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Not even. Russia has issues with itself . Not Ukraine. And its regime has mega issues in regard to its long-term survival. Which it attempts to redirect, by causing issues for Ukraine. That's what the last 11 years have been abou
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Crimea was Russian from the 1700s It became a Russian colonial possession around that time. But that did not in any way establish an innate "Russian-ness" to the peninusla that overrides modern international law. Specificall
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Who was the land taken from? The people living there. I think this was pretty clear from the context of what the commenter said when they referred to the "nations" from which the land was taken. In terms of, you know, the peopl
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by aguaviva 2y ago
If Russia bombed people (or e.g. caved in a building where civilians could be expected to inhabit and thereby die in the collapse) then it would be terrorism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariupol_theatre_airstrike
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Snyder has been defined as “Nolte with an NPR tote bag” The difference between you and I is that when I encounter a blunt, ad hominem smear like this (noticed the unsourced formulation "A colleague says ...", in the same way tha
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It's relatively common to call the use of dynamically typed languages without static type hints "untyped". And it's relatively common for people to be simply wrong, or to be careless in their word choice in regard to l
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by aguaviva 2y ago
To think that some people are still writing code like in the 70s . This is a muddled hyperbolization. These features barely existed (in terms of widespread use) even 10 years ago, but everyone got along just fine, even founded FAANG-scale
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by aguaviva 2y ago
untyped languages (Python, Ruby) Both of those languages are strongly typed. It seems you're confusing the fact that the type checking happens at runtime (that is to say, that they are dynamically typed) to mean that they're &qu
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Friday, October 20, 2017: WASHINGTON - Stanislav Nazarov, 46, a dual citizen of Israel and Russia, has been extradited from Israel to face charges in an indictment accusing him of taking part in an international money laundering scheme
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Not sure how we got to this, and it seems I may have misread you. All apologies.
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The Hotel Guest Who Wouldn't Leave(nytimes.com)
3 points by aguaviva 2y ago|1 comments
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by aguaviva 2y ago
https://archive.ph/8m3TM
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Modern Germany doesn't inherit from any of the predecessor states after WWI and the Nazi era. Not quite. Its criminal code inherits directly from that of the 1871 Reich (including quite notoriously Paragraphs 175 and 218). But it is
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Life is short. Just doing what I can.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I'm not insinuating anything. You damn sure were. Again, I don't know much about you other than you were very vocal about the definition of genocide as it pertains to the Israeli response You're hallucinating. In this pa
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Wonderful blanket term. Which (as used by the commenter) was very clearly meant to apply to those who support Israel's military operation. Not to Jews in general. I agree, [waving the antisemitism flag] just makes it clear to everyo
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Perhaps you'd like to tell us, please, what political import you see in this comment on the current page of my history: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42483975 But don't let that slow down your witch hunt.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
even by right-wing ones—so, basically his own camp Snyder isn't right-wing at all. Where did that come from?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I don't think that is an option of any sort. That's insane. Of course it's an "option". No one in these countries (outside of a very tiny portion of wackos) cares about the current borders, or dreams of starting
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The politics of Ukraine war is extremely complicated. They aren't actually. And none of that history relates to the current war. Which is all about Russia's internal politics and ideology. And not about the after-effects of po
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by aguaviva 2y ago
You were presenting an either-or argument, pretty much along those lines. A basically very specious argument, it was. I was paraphrasing you, but not unfairly in that sense. The burden of proof is on those claiming genocide, not on me. T
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It wasn't a trick, and I'm not subverting or redirecting anything. Meanwhile, yours wasn't merely a keyboard slip. The point, simply, is that your encapsulation of the last 5 decades was very myopic. Don't mean to co
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It was the conservatives, not the communists, who betrayed Europe to fascism, war, and genocide. Bitte . Please. The KPD paramilitaries (with their various assassinations) and the the SPD (through their alliance with various reactionist
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The same people who lied about how tough the Russians were, lied about how well the ANA was going to withstand the Taliban, There's a difference between "lying" about things, and being simply deluded or deeply misunderstand
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Same for Ukrainian refugees. Who are there (and are emotionally traumatized) in no small part because your government chose to cozy up to Putin in the first place, and to look the other way while he started his rampage in 2014. Which doe
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by aguaviva 2y ago
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