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1. 1621.▲
   by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

   This is also how shitty clubs scam tourists in many areas... There are bouncers infront of the clubs, "come on, come on, free welcome drink", tourists (mostly western european middle aged men) go inside, a "random, totally no
2. 1622.▲
   by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

   This is like listening to americans when they try anything to avoid using metric units, but the imperial ones suck with representation... So.. how many cubic lawnmowers is this? example: https://twitter.com/KSHB41/statu
3. 1623.▲
   by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

   Never seen the impressing part... usually if you want to eat cheap, you go somewhere cheap, if you want something more expensive, you're prepared to pay more, but you don't want to be surprised after. So, noone who goes to a place
4. 1624.▲
   by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

   You have to know who they are, where they live, and they have to be home for this to work.
5. 1625.▲
   by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

   We are building, but building takes time, and all the houses and apartments are bought by 'investors' that then use them for airbnb... This is even more true in places like portugal (and many others), where realestate prices are s
6. 1626.▲
   by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

   https://streamable.com/etkpd0 we're not far :D
7. 1627.▲
   by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

   Yep.. happening everywhere. Somehow the regulators (and governments) prefer more money over their own citizens. Banning short term rentals would solve (or atleast reduce) housing problems in many cities, while tourists can still come and st
8. 1628.▲
   by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

   Doesn't UK also have some extra regulation about unmanned transmitters and repeaters? There is a "pistar-keeper" functionality in dmr hotspots (pi-star), that disables transmission if the operator('s phone) isn't cl
9. 1629.▲
   by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

   Due to demonitization some types of videos (especially political, "current affairs", medical, anything (even comedy) using curse words, etc.) almost always get demonetized and many people have stopped such content since it's
10. 1630.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    Now they're pushing shorts, which are (in my opinion) too short to convey all the relevant info. Not sure how monetization works with shorts, since I use an adblock, but 50%+ of my subscription feed is shorts on some days and it suck (
11. 1631.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    And not just that... I'd mention ukraine, but even in peace time, there can be huge power outages in relatively large areas (as in US, more than one in the recent years), where point of sale terminals stop working, there is no internet
12. 1632.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    > To those who seek to stop young people from reading The Handmaid’s Tale: Good luck with that. It’ll only make them want to read it more. This is a double edged sword... On one hand, yes, kids will be more interested into why it's
13. 1633.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    "Nuclear powerplants take too long to built, if we start building them now, it'll take around 10 years to get them to produce power, and by then we'll have better alternatives!" (this is what they were telling me in the
14. 1634.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    > I really doubt USA fights at the moment anything close to what's going on in Eastern Ukraine. I think you're biased. Imagine if 'the rest of the world' was arming afghanis, giving them intelligence and satellite da
15. 1635.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    > Imagine even more power concentration in the hands of those with the required hardware to use AI. Imagine you can no longer trust any information, because the internet is being swamped by generated half-truths. You already cannot trust
16. 1636.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    > However, pretty much all countries have unjust conflicts in their history, where they were on the wrong side. That doesn't mean it should continue. We're not talking about far away history... we're talking about our sold
17. 1637.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    As someone from the balkans, I've had Clintons missles fly over my house to hit a country 400km away, that we were once a part of the same country. As someone from the balkans, I've seen the waves of immigrants due to bush-obama-t
18. 1638.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    Telegram doesn't do that, atleast not for me, since android reports (via toaster popup) clipboard access now too.
19. 1639.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    > So the pipeline sitting there usable but with no gas flowing would both create legal problems for Russia and also be a symbol of European unity. What legal problems? Is russia going to get sued? ...while EU is literally stealing russia
20. 1640.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    For "the rest of the world", the "sad events" have been happening literally right now, or during the last 80 years... syria, libya, afghanistan, iraq, iraq again, yemen, yugoslavia, etc., but since it was "us"
21. 1641.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    And ukraine managed to use up literally $100b+ and deplete all the european weapons stockpiles [1] and couldn't even defend a few villages. [1] https://www.ft.com/content/4eb1af29-2491-458c-9f69-e065cba58... htt
22. 1642.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    As someone from the balkans, how about you put a uniform on and go fight a war somewhere yourself, and keep us, other people out of your warmongering. Wars are not like call of duty, or whatever your sick fantasy is.
23. 1643.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    Russia can close the valves on their end, and germany cannot do anything, since the EU their contractual obligations and literally promising to steal russian assets. Destroying the pipelines doesn't benefit neither germany nor russia.
24. 1644.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    > expediting a post Russia energy future. Meaning what exactly? Very expensive gas, and in turn heat, and local factories closing down? Politicians can shit around all day, factories need cheap gas to work, people need jobs in those fact
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    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    But ukraine is unable to do it by themselves, and norway probably to. On the other hand, USA (biden) literally said that they will stop the nord streams on tv.
26. 1646.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    > siria didnt use chemical weapons This was reported at a simmilar timeframe (compared to the war) and from the same groups of people who said iraq had weapons of mass destruction, so not trusting them would not be that stupid... especia
27. 1647.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    Oh come on... just look at the list of anti-russia sanctions and trying to legalize literal stealing of russian assets in europe... closing the valve on the pipeline is miniscule compared to eg. cutting russia out of SWIFT. On the other han
28. 1648.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    Russia controls the valves and germany controls the sanctions... anti-gas sanctions come from germany, russia closes the valve, no gas for germany. Then a cold winter comes, gas prices get very high (especially since the americans are infla
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    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    I was saying that (atleast here, what i've personally seen and assumed), companies seem to be reducing their spending budgets for ads in general, even the ones targeting offline people with offline ads (i use and adblock online, so I d
30. 1650.▲
    by ajsnigrutin 4y ago

    I was joking in the other thread, that soon people will be buying weather baloons and setting them off "for the lulz" (youtube videos, tiktok, or whatever) :)