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by demetrius 3y ago
Yeah, that's a violation of the freedom of movement, which is a human right. There are a lot of reasons why people might want to end up without having a house, e.g. domestic abuse, scams, poverty, etc. To really solve homelessness, you
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by demetrius 3y ago
> almost all are incarcerated > right approach WTF?! Not having home is not a crime. What Łukašenka regime does is immoral, unconstitutional and contrary to human rights.
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by demetrius 3y ago
> It's just a lot more civilised owing to a higher share of European (Catholic) population I'd say it's because of the better wealth distribution. Belarus has always fared better in things like Gini index, because while Ru
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by demetrius 3y ago
> Did the Russians not use to have screens/beaches/furniture before the Enlightenment? I don't know the evolution of the terms in question, but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't! Like, what is a beach (or пл
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by demetrius 3y ago
> I'm simply stating the etymology of the word So do I. Nice comes from nescius 'ignorant'. Travel according to the most common version comes from tripalium, a torture device. If you assume that genocide must be about kill
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by demetrius 3y ago
Using the same logics, one could say that: - 'nice' means 'ignorant', - 'to travel' means 'to suffer torture', and a lot of other interesting (but incorrect) ideas about what words mean.
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by demetrius 3y ago
I don't believe in technical solutions for such things. This is, first and foremost, a societal problem: low prestige of a language, discrimination of its speakers, economic hardships that force people to leave their communities, linge
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by demetrius 3y ago
Not really, I've never got the previous email, only today's one. Maybe some people got the information 3 months ago, but definitely not all of customers.
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by demetrius 3y ago
How else can you interpret the situation "I notice the signs that the person is not interested (looks at her nails, at the walls) but I continue, anyway"?
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by demetrius 3y ago
> but he eventually went because his girlfriend cared about it What the girlfriend did was convince him to go, not bring therapist to the same room and start the session without him knowing in advance. It's not a good idea to just
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by demetrius 3y ago
> No one reads poems anymore? People don't force (potential) romantic partners to do things they don't want to do anymore. This includes listening to poetry. If one sees that other person is not interested in an action they&#x2
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by demetrius 3y ago
100% this. Also, how he is brave and romantic, unlike most people. We need more discussion about dating apps (e.g. I think creators of such apps are not incentivised to empower users to create long-lasting relationships, as such users would
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by demetrius 3y ago
Classical Mongolian is actually not a straightforward 1-to-1 conversion, and it's not clear if Khalkha Mongolian and Classical Mongolian should be treated as the same language in Google (Classical Mongolian is a common writing language
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by demetrius 3y ago
I've read that there are Arabic-Chinese dictionaries where Chinese is written from right to left to match Arabic direction of writing, but I don't know how common this is.
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by demetrius 3y ago
I don't think it does. Chinese, Japanese and Korean had been using vertical writing for centuries, only switching to horizontal ones around 20th century for interoperability with Western writing (such as math or chemical formulae). Mon
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by demetrius 4y ago
I'm pretty sure Patreon takes care of EU VAT: https://support.patreon.com/hc/en-us/articles/205259549-How-... I'm not sure about Zoom, but since their FAQ includes info on EU VAT, I assume they have
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by demetrius 4y ago
One doesn't need to go as far as to Sardinia, our everyday food like sausages is not pretty at all. People literally take animal intestines, fill then with other pieces of meat and leave them to dry... If you think about it, sausages a
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by demetrius 4y ago
> However, it does speak sections of thousands of languages (try Egyptian Hieroglyphics That was actually a test case I've tried. Asked it to write a text in Middle Egyptian. It wrote gibberish. Asked it to translate it. It admitted
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by demetrius 4y ago
> Self driving cars work right now. The problem is the cost of failure. Self-driving cars only work on some roads specifically adapted for self-driving cars, and even then they require a team of specialists constantly monitoring them (so
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by demetrius 4y ago
> Where else do you need it to run in 2GB but embedded? I use an eeePC laptop with 2 Gb or RAM as my home computer. It's quite usable with Linux. Not that I'm planning to install Win11 on it, but the assumption that 2GB is enou
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by demetrius 4y ago
I prefer a desk on which I can put my hands without fearing I'd break it...
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by demetrius 4y ago
Tried it. The second video was not available in my country (Portugal), and there is no option to report this, only "video is removed" (it's not, just region-blocked)
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by demetrius 4y ago
It started to be very slow some time ago for me, on my Android (Xiaomi Redmi 6 Pro). I'm thinking about not continuing my subscription. I've attributed this to the increased number of notes, but after reading the article, I'm
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by demetrius 4y ago
Another option would be "forghejo", that's how Zamenhof suggested replacing ĝ "Forgejo" is not ideal in Esperanto, because both "for" 'away' and "gejo" 'gay man' are totally v
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by demetrius 4y ago
I find that thing misleading: > Second, as malware-laden PDFs are unfortunately still a thing, the less need there is to open a PDF locally, the more it helps your system security. To read PDFs, Firefox downloads them locally, so that is
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by demetrius 4y ago
If you think about cursive writing (or an italic font, based on the cursive writing), the names are pretty straightforward. All letters in cursive and italic are slanted to the right. Iceland becomes Iceland , with top part of each letter
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by demetrius 4y ago
The scenarios 1 and 2 also require a lot of assumptions, you just take them for granted. I don't agree that my scenario requires more assumptions that scenarios 1 and 2.
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by demetrius 4y ago
I think you're missing the most likely possibility: 3. Russia is operating pro-Ukrainian bots to influence pro-Ukrainian people. The bots pretend to be pro-Ukrainian but then try to influence the public opinion in the ways that are use
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by demetrius 4y ago
It's funny how Poland and Belarus are doing the same thing: https://www.belarus.by/en/government/events/belarus-material... Not sure what to make out of this
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by demetrius 4y ago
Yeah, I was really surprised at the idea to equate the number of followers with wealth, and calculate inequality of this wealth distribution Like... Followers are people with their own agency! Even if they tend to read someone more often th

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