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by b0rsuk 5y ago
So the point is not necessarily to convince people there was no Holocaust, Holodomor or Armenian genocide. It's to make some people doubt. In effect, they become neutral to the idea, and that's enough to enable fascists.
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I think they do it for lower age ratings. In video games, people just drop and stop moving, and often there's even no blood. No visible pain or struggle. I think it desensitizes people to violence. In reality, after a large scale battl
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
Great Britain is an island. It's not between Germany and Russia. If you're a country between powerful neighbors with history of waging wars on you, you either need to be very powerful, or you need an alliance. Poland is far from p
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by b0rsuk 5y ago
1. Polarization among politicians is normal. Political polarization in the society, where family members often don't talk to each other because of opposing political views, is very unhealthy. Most people on either side of the politic
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Poland is currently circling the drain in toilet. The regime that gained power in 2015 did so with the help of Russia* and is covertly pro-Russian (watch their actions, not their words). It's no longer a democracy but an informational
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> Example of reverse is Poland. There is very little which could shake this country, so united in single culture, single ethnicity and single religion. It totally wasn't that way before post-1945 population transfers (ethnic cleansi
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Think of potential downstream effects of a vulnerable patch being introduced into Linux kernel. Buggy software in mobile devices, servers, street lights... this is like someone introducing a bug into university grading system. Someone shoul
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Life support machinery was developed with methods like cutting dog heads, plugging them in and see how long it shows signs of life.
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Lies are free, but truth is paywalled.
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> The possible, but worrying scenario is that Chinese capital owns Western cultural production, implicitly (see: Disney or the NBA) or explicitly. Tencent (PUBG, Fortnite, Path of Exile; Companies: Paradox Interactive, Klei Entertainment
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
When was the last time you've seen cycling in an action movie?
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Eww, equality. If you make it equal, you remove the drama. If you force equality onto history, you falsify it. Case in point: Edward II, king of England. He had affairs with Gaveston and Despenser the Younger, all the while in a marriage wi
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Corporate speeches, sermons, motivational talks, poetry, and political speeches. They are either not required to make sense or no one dares to interrupt.
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You're a very lucky man that the bulk of your stress is caused by social media.
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Check out the documentary "Running Wild". Cats are part of the problem, including camels, foxes, horses and other invasive species. They went through a lot of trouble to hunt down cats and contain them. Cats wreck native animal po
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
The main advantage of Agile is for project managers, who can change requirements on the fly.
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They behaved exactly as red pill proponents say. According to that line of thinking, a man popular with ladies is more attractive and they are more happy sharing a high status man than having a lesser man all for themselves. Of course, this
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I think many women enjoy feeling small, petite next to a swole guy. Or just a big guy. I'm extremely tall and random girls and coworkers have commented how small they feel next to me, but always with a smile.
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You'd be surprised. Male attractiveness is simply NOT TALKED ABOUT much, especially around older people. But my mother, who is quite reserved, once blurted out that in his early years father looked 'like a young god'. And yea
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Title: Duped by the “Frailty Myth:” USMC Gender Based Physical Fitness Standards Author: Major Misty J. Posey, United States Marine Corps Thesis: Female frailty is a myth; women Marines have the strength and ability to perform pull-ups and
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Big Brother is here, except the telescreens are mobile and owned by a business corporation.
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I can't help but notice a parallel with horse races and mafia. They say some mobsters love to bet in horse races. They end up betting on the best horses. Where mafia rules, it becomes an open secret you're not supposed to bet on &
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
eReaders seem to be dying as a hardware device and becoming merely a form of DRM. Newest models, inluding all Kobo readers, have a soldered SD memory card. And it's not just cutting costs. They're deeply bothered by your ability
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I get an unpleasant feeling that Free Software was never really popular. It was somewhat popular early on, because it formalised the way things were done at the time. This is why it received relatively little friction. So it wasn't rea
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Maybe he counts on the reader to connect the dots?
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Do yourself a favor and watch the 2015 Turkish movie "Sarmasik" (Ivy). It's about a crew stuck aboard a stranded ship. It's well made and supposedly also a political commentary on Erdogan and other things.
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Yup, I was permabanned from rockpapershotgun for arguing against rootkit multiplayer anti-cheat software and asking that punkbuster, VAC and their equivalents should be regularly reviewed and scrutinized. I didn't use a single swear wo
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Last time I hanged around #django, they said admin pages are for prototyping and technical admins only. Admin is not meant to be extensible. For true power without issues, you should roll your own CRUD views. Django has features which make
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Javascript is as privileged as programming languages get. It's welded into all web browsers except perhaps Lynx. To get traction, an alternative language would need to be simultaneously included in several browsers. Good luck with that
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Fair point. I don't remember which one exactly it was (they are 2 hour long) but it was from the series "Dochodzenie Prawdy" on the channel "Reset Obywatelski". The episode number was between 1 and 8. The talks are

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