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541.
by blub 5y ago
Gas is used firstly for heating, then in the chemical industry in Germany.
542.
by blub 5y ago
When you put it like that, one almost has to feel sorry for Germany, bravely fighting influence, bribery and espionage every step of the way only to fall prey in the end to the Russian state which maliciously supplied the German industry wi
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by blub 5y ago
I understand that you're really passionate about Nazi Germany and are probably disappointed that the only thing which is like Nazi Germany continues to be Nazi Germany even in 2022. Nevertheless. Ukraine is very special and there’s no
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by blub 5y ago
In which former Soviet country were the rulers which were responsible for atrocities between ‘45-‘89 held responsible? Even the Nazis in Germany weren’t systematically purged - some had valuable information/skills and were given amnest
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by blub 5y ago
Telling that you’d give that top priority as opposed to say quality medical care for everyone, schools, taking care of the homeless, etc.
546.
by blub 5y ago
The level of discourse is squarely at “Russia is Nazi Germany with nukes” - written without correct capitalization. In general I’ve seen a handful of insightful comments on the Russia-Ukraine war, most comments are various levels of moral o
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by blub 5y ago
The theory doesn’t claim that Russia is a purely reactive state, that’a a nonsense interpretation if I may use your own words. It claims that when certain things happen, they are forced to react. E.g. regime change in a neighbor that’s typi
548.
by blub 5y ago
Ukraine’s holding yearly war games with NATO on its territory since 2014 - Rapid Trident. This was launched at the explicit request of Ukraine, which had a political change of direction that same year. Russia is always worried about NATO. C
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by blub 5y ago
The US already had nuclear missiles in Italy and Turkey and launched a failed coup in Cuba, which then asked the USSR to deploy nuclear missiles in their country.
550.
by blub 5y ago
You pay them a lot of money if they pass, but the others get zero. You’re basically annoying lots of people to make that one person happy.
551.
by blub 5y ago
Still haven’t seen a solid critique of Mearsheimer’s thesis and I’m starting to believe that maybe there won’t be one… I think one of the confusing points is trying to approach these events from a moral or “who’s to blame” point of view whi
552.
by blub 5y ago
Nothing, she continued filming them while saying “it’s just a movie that I’m making, no need to be upset”.
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by blub 5y ago
When I read about such insane sentences in the UK, I remember that the UK tolerated child rape by so-called grooming gangs for years or even decades *. * https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_child_sexual_explo...
554.
by blub 5y ago
They’ll most likely use it to pay their employees, since employment costs are the biggest chunk of expenses for many companies. From the money that goes to the government, some will go to fund the war, but some will go towards social suppor
555.
by blub 5y ago
This second definition was retroactively added once it became clear that TDD’s not good at testing. Unfortunately it’s even worse at designing since it’s only capable of “designing” how something may be tested and used without addressing
556.
by blub 5y ago
It’s a bad thing because the enforcement is arbitrary and not transparent. It’s also bad because once a set of evil personas was established it became trivial to expand each of those personas to cover more and more benign attitudes and opin
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by blub 5y ago
It is a cyber crime. I would assume that if the victimes were e.g in the EU there would be an attempt to prosecute. Which leads me to my next point: an essential attribute of a state under the rule of law is that the law is applied impartia
558.
by blub 5y ago
The “norms” were rules which were developed after everybody saw what the alternative looked like. Humans have a lot of rules around conflict and fighting because it’s very costly for everyone to have an all-out war.
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by blub 5y ago
Airline food is indeed living the life while feeling the thrill of being close to other human beans.
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by blub 5y ago
What’s there to improve about one’s health? Cold viruses are very contagious and the majority of people don’t have good hygiene or consideration for others. There’s so many people that don’t want to wear seatbelts, what hope is there for ma
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by blub 5y ago
Western Europe are helping Poland and Romania which are direct neighbors and do have to accept refugees. Actually the real mystery is why the EU would take anyone at all from Syria, which is pure courtesy and zero obligation. And the answ
562.
by blub 5y ago
Because neighbor in this context literally means next to or very near another country. Open any map and you’ll se that Syria’s neighbors are Iraq and Turkey, not Sweden and Germany. The EU doesn’t owe any support to Syria, critics should be
563.
by blub 5y ago
You’re not wrong about Ukraine, but they’re still a lot more European than Syria will ever be and that matters a lot. Still, I also find it ridiculous how the media’s making them look like immaculate heroes. Power of propaganda I guess.
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by blub 5y ago
Syria’s not in Western, Eastern or any Europe. Might as well be Papua New Guinea, there’s zero connection there. The horror stories like “Syrian refugee kills pregnant woman with machete” or “10 men gang rape woman outside nightclub” (8&#x2
565.
by blub 5y ago
Being on the same continent is a very basic minimum requirement which Syria doesn’t pass.
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by blub 5y ago
Maybe in this particular case of the job board, since SW developers have an easier time finding jobs and can in principle work in English. But for everyone else I bet that the EU will fail to integrate them into the labour market, while sti
567.
by blub 5y ago
Fame, fortune and the rush of being on a moral crusade are a powerful cocktail. Academia and media have essentially set up an alternative justice system which is currently being misused to settle grudges or for career or financial benefits.
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by blub 5y ago
What exactly is your interest in this war? The way you appeal to emotion and make everything personal, stigmatize others is just as damaging to discourse as so-called Russian trolls. This is a place for having genuine discussions. If you do
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by blub 5y ago
This doesn’t change anything about the exaggerated claim that this is a genocidal war. Where’s the proof? All signs so far indicate that it’s a war of conquest with the aim on putting space between Russia and NATO and potentially controllin
570.
by blub 5y ago
A “genocidal” war with about 600 civilian casualties according to the UN. Stringing together lists of bad words like fascism, genocide is not an argument. Neither is calling people propagandists. If this is the level of discussion you wan

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