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by aguaviva 2y ago
Since you not only "know" the outcome, but it apparently it's ancient history for you already - why are you asking?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Do you think the Russian soldiers who shot down their own government's helicopters + command center did so on their own initiative -- or were they following Prigozhin's "chain of command"?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
NATO explicitly added plans to offer membership to Ukraine and Georgia at the Bucharest summit, That's the complete opposite of what happened. The key outcome of the Bucharest summit is that Ukraine and Georgia were explicitly deni
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by aguaviva 2y ago
America clearly wasn't using anywhere near all of the power it had It wasn't sending every last teenager and pensioner to the front, like in the final defense of Berlin. But the simple fact is, it was throwing everything it re
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It's one thing to make a speculative assessment, or a prediction. But the use of the implied past tense in reference to a situation that has many variables and which in any case is far from decided is definitely quite pretentious.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Cyprus?
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by aguaviva 2y ago
That's their claimed perspective. Unfortunately Russia's current regime tends to lie a lot, and there's no reason to take anything it says at face value. "Indiscriminate shelling of the Donbas (by Ukrainian forces)&q
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The "HIMARS is ineffective" soundbite seems to rest on a single quote from an unnamed Ukrainian official. Which we have no reason to doubt, but it doesn't specify what they meant it to be ineffective at (for example, what
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by aguaviva 2y ago
he earnestly believes in what Putin does. I don't believe this, as there are way too many glaring contraindications: his quick cooperation with the FBI, the fact that Palantir does significant business with Ukraine, lack of any state
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Renamed/refactored into 3 new agencies (the FSB, GRU and SVR) would be a much better description. Unfortunately the KGB did not simply dissolve, like nearly all the Warsaw Pact agencies -- and this fact is quite central to the situatio
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It means the invasion essentially started in 2014 with the invasions of Crimea and the Donbas. The full-scale invasion in 2022 was basically an expansion/solidification of that effort.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
He "owned" a 60k army in a meaning, in which any general owns an army. Except going by the estimates of casualties inflicted on government forces -- to a non-trivial extent they were loyal primarily to him, not Putin: 13–29
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Tiny? In April 2018, Germany's domestic intelligence service, the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV), estimated that Reichsbürger movement membership had grown by 80% over the previous two years, more than
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Right, they've just gone off to summer camp. Which they enjoyed so much (along with the language lessons) that they wouldn't even dream of wanting to go back home.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
So you can range around looking for water Which most folks know how to do, of course. And we can be sure that when they encounter other groups of people at their favorite puddle, everyone will get along just fine. Most people can surviv
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by aguaviva 2y ago
And bomb fallout is very different from the radioactive contamination from accidents at nuclear power plants: basically no area continues to have lethal levels of bomb fallout 4 weeks after the last bomb explodes. The method for decontamin
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Comb jellies fuse together when injured, study finds(theguardian.com)
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by aguaviva 2y ago
You are indeed overthinking, because I just said , very clearly, that I acknowledged the hallucination problem, and yet you're throwing citations back as if I never heard of it. How many times does one have to say "it's a k
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by aguaviva 2y ago
LLMs _will_ hallucinate no matter what you do. I think you're overthinking it. This is like saying LLMs will never be useful because they hallucinate. That's a known issue, and yet of course they have been proven to be often q
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Seems unlikely, given that May 1933 the attack wasn't just against Hirschfeld, but against the entire Institute, and as a part of the broader "Action against un-German Spirit". FWIW, the US Holocaust Museum specifically says
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by aguaviva 2y ago
So I’m at a loss as regards the thing we’re being distracted from. Right, not the original submission but the reference to the Russo-Ukraine war, mid-thread - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41748747 - and in referen
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by aguaviva 2y ago
It would be symmetric, but not every provocation needs to be answered symmetrically. It would also be a bad idea. It would add very little in terms of strategic capability, and its effect would be largely symbolic. If anything it would si
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by aguaviva 2y ago
I'm not too well-informed about the operational mechanics of the Holodomor, so if you have any articles/chapters to recommend in regard to the long-term planning process that led up to it, that would be appreciated.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Is deflating/shutting-down always such a bad thing? Conversely: are all positions worthy of protracted, nuanced debate? I think not. And in particular, I find the the position that "hypocrisy, or rather weakly supported insinuati
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Which was precisely my point (and I agree with all the responses in this thread), though my wording and light sarcasm seems to have been a bit too dry, and didn't quite take up as intended.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
No worries. Your intent was obviously good, and you didn't start these conflicts anyway.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The parent said, "Russia does not have forced conscription." The parent was corrected.
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by aguaviva 2y ago
The parent comment to yours was apparently referring to "cultural genocide", which is apparently what you're nitpicking them on. Meanwhile we have the infinitely greater fact that the aggressor is most likely guilty on all 5
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Except these other interventions / invasions didn't cause "tens of thousands" of civilian deaths, and certainly not within "a couple of months". Most saw far fewer deaths, by an order of magnitude. Only one c
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by aguaviva 2y ago
Just as Ukrainians have ethnic slurs for Jews [2], for example. What's that supposed to prove? The Russian language has its share as well of course, and guess what -- the most common one is identical to the same term as used in Ukrai

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