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by foverzar 4y ago
Wow... Well, I guess I should be used to the fact that western media often treats their readers as illiterate idiots without their own opinions, but still... Wow!
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by foverzar 4y ago
> Some of the rus authors have had a significant role in shaping the current rus culture and imperialism. I don't believe that you have any first-hand knowledge of Russian culture or literature. In fact, this seems more like ignoran
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by foverzar 4y ago
I don't really get why people imply that these two are somehow disconnected. A global superpower that systematically employs military agression to impose its will somewhere far away around the globe is definitely authoritarian. Even if
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by foverzar 4y ago
So, what exactly is the news here? This seems to have been a default for years now, hasn't it? Disabling UEFI Secure Boot has been step 1 for installing Linux for as long as UEFI had existed, hasn't it? What exactly is the problem
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by foverzar 4y ago
> There's a reason Russia feels good blustering about attacking Finland. When did that happen?
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by foverzar 4y ago
> Are there any reliable information sources covering how the war is actually going? Pretty much none. Everything is too opinionated and post-truth-ish, best strategy would be to diversify sources pushing different angles, and then cross
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by foverzar 4y ago
You assume that oil and gas are only used as energy components, but they are also raw materials required in industry.
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by foverzar 4y ago
> Here in Lithuania we were already independent from Russian gas and oil Is that a fact? I know that Lithuania doesn't buy Russian oil and gas directly , but it always seemed to me that it is still the same Russian oil and gas, jus
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by foverzar 4y ago
> Considering Estonia is one of the most libertarian country In what sense and compared to what exactly?
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by foverzar 4y ago
> You will still get the state pension What exactly would fund it then? Pensions system typically works by current generation providing for the previous. If we allow newer generations to "cash out", what would be the source of
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by foverzar 4y ago
> gas is expensive, but freedom is priceless. Typical politicians excuse, tbh. It's not like this has any relation to actual freedoms, only bs political slogans.
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by foverzar 4y ago
> Corruption perception index How does anyone even take this metrics seriously?
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by foverzar 4y ago
You've just described Telegram.
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by foverzar 4y ago
The rest of the western world, may be.
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by foverzar 4y ago
And since when is this happening?
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by foverzar 4y ago
Thousand years? 20 times seems like a comically tiny amount at that scale. Finland had managed to be both part of Russian Empire, Sweden and hell a lot of other adventures in that huge period. That's like all the way back to Kievan Rus
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by foverzar 4y ago
Propaganda is often based on perception of facts, you can cross-reference those and come up with a somewhat objective picture. This of course assumes that you don't blindly consume every idea that some random journalist tries to shove
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by foverzar 4y ago
> trying to replicate success of Chinese growth and systems which are highly centralized and depend on the above factors There are actually no such functioning "social credit" systems in China. It is mostly a boogeyman narrat
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by foverzar 5y ago
Define "win"?
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by foverzar 5y ago
> How does that work, do they have someone running a proxy for them in those 2 locations? Sure, there are thousands of proxies in Russia and Ukraine. Lots of them are free. Besides, any decent paid VPN with multiple exit nodes would like
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by foverzar 5y ago
I've tried uploading some SMM content to TikTok for Russian audience using proxy gateways in multiple states. It just ends up as "not found" when accessed from Russian IPs.
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by foverzar 5y ago
> Then Ukraine happened and basically none of the predicted capacities and skills 'actively maintained' of russian military were displayed when facing actual equipped and trained army. What do you suppose should have happened?
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by foverzar 5y ago
> Russian culture seems to treat everything as an excuse for skimming and corruption You don't know actual Russians IRL, do you?
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by foverzar 5y ago
> I don't buy the "all Ukrainians worship Bandera THEREFORE they're all Nazis" argument. It's lazy, frankly. What you are doing here is called "ignoratio elenchi" or "a strawman argument", and
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by foverzar 5y ago
> Gradle however, is a dsl in a language almost no java devs use Gradle with Groovy sometimes gets kinda hard to comprehend Gradle with Kotlin is entirely different experience, largely due to proper typing.
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by foverzar 5y ago
And no reason for Russia to cooperate when the West doesn't either. Welcome to global politics, where the leaders of the world's superpowers can't do any better than kindergarten-level "no you!" argument.
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by foverzar 5y ago
Given what exactly? You don't like my opinions?
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by foverzar 5y ago
> delete user files on everything-but-RU machines Wasn't that about Cyrillic keyboard layout? Russia don't own neither Cyrillics, nor Russian language.
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by foverzar 5y ago
You know what this is? This is a Civil World War. And it is only just starting.
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by foverzar 5y ago
> why not provide news and information that's being blocked It's not really an issue to bypass blocks (how do you think Russians access rutracker). Especially not for a person who is capable of doing something with NPM packages

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