foverzar

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by foverzar 3y ago
> This is tragic but it's noteworthy because it is NOT the norm. Unlike, say, what's going on in Ukraine with frequent missile strikes into arbitrary civilian areas. Let's not dismiss the propaganda factor here. No one car
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by foverzar 3y ago
> they're literally worse than Stalin in this regard. > and accurate body counts. Ironically, not really, the numbers people typically refer to were calculated by extrapolating birthrate dynamics, not an actual accurate body coun
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by foverzar 3y ago
> The astroturfing on this site has gotten incredible since the Reddit meltdown. Like when people play dumb pretending that the sole use case for notifications is ads?
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by foverzar 3y ago
> Kim Jong Un has to be brutal because if he isn’t than he’ll lose the great game of palace politics and he and his family will be killed. Also, it's worth giving a good thought whether North Korea is in such a sorry state because o
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by foverzar 3y ago
> Do you figure the Russian federation needs to invade Ukraine because the western alliance against it has expanded along its border without buffer zones and competing client states? The February 2022 events were triggered because Kyiv w
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by foverzar 3y ago
> No nuclear response. Just because something obscure was bombed and erased in Ukraine (that you don't really care about) instead of shooting Starlink satellites off the sky, doesn't mean there was no response and that it would
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by foverzar 3y ago
> people just find dictatorial strongman posturing appealing; it's a fairly common affliction, unfortunately. Absolutely nobody finds "dictatorial strongman posturing" appealing and that's not what ever happens IRL. D
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by foverzar 3y ago
Wait, has Web Push ever worked on iOS?
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by foverzar 3y ago
Aren't you still required to have a paid dev account?
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by foverzar 3y ago
> Who cares Well, you did end up here to tell everyone how much you don't care, so...
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by foverzar 3y ago
> making up an assault case is pretty dicky (and probably criminal). The pianist actually did try to grab that woman, look at the video. I can't even say if the asian guy overreacted because I can't imagine myself being in the
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by foverzar 3y ago
I assume that's where the idea of taking a legal action comes from, but that should be irrelevant. If someone asks you not to publish their faces, especially after you were the one to approach them first in the first place, you just do
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by foverzar 3y ago
13:20. If I was that woman and some creepy dude was grabbing things from my hands, I'd surely kick the guy in the balls and call it self-defence. Don't grab women.
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by foverzar 3y ago
Challenge of who is a bigger dick: a guy who is openly racist, makes fun of other people language skills and makes it a principle to act like a dick vs the guy who got hysterically overprotective - a challenge we truly deserve. I don't
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by foverzar 3y ago
> Streissand effect If truly understood their sentiment, it's probably way less uncomfortable to be published actively protesting the use of your image.
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by foverzar 3y ago
In the age when mocking members of some politically disliked group and generally being a troll can get you viral? Yeah, not a chance.
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by foverzar 3y ago
> if you're just background on somebody's recording in a public space and don't want to appear, just walk away. He approached them first. They declined participating and in about 3 minutes one woman approached him back and
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by foverzar 3y ago
> true China > Taiwan/ROC And then people keep pretending they don't understand what's all the fuss between PRC and ROC is even about.
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by foverzar 3y ago
> if you film someone in public and they come up and tell you it's a problem, it's polite to not publish their likeness/delete the image That's my point, that's just basic politeness.
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by foverzar 3y ago
> It was pretty evil of the Asian-looking guy shouting "DON'T TOUCH HER" "You're not of the same age". It was hysterical, but I don't see how is this evil, more like being protective. And it happened wa
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by foverzar 3y ago
Japan? Bystanders are always blurred on videos from Japan.
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by foverzar 3y ago
> They were waving CCP flags Its a PRC flag. I don't think "CCP" flag is even a thing. CCP or Chinese isn't a race, so I don't get the "race blindness" bit at all. > The way they acted when asking no
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by foverzar 3y ago
So, some asian-looking people asked the guy not to film them and the guy decided to be a loud dick about the whole thing, while almost assaulting one of the women. "CCP members threaten British public piano player", right. I get t
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by foverzar 3y ago
No issues with libraries that require old Windows ASP.NET? This was a frequent issue each time I tried using something from .NET ecosystem on Linux.
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by foverzar 3y ago
> Perhaps when China stops their massive human rights abuses How do you figure it's not empty propaganda and that it's actually more massive compared to the US "well that's just life" incidents? Because it's
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by foverzar 3y ago
For some reason I had a feeling they were referring to something different. Anyway, I am aware of the whole bubble thing, although I don't think its unique for the US, at least no entirely. It's quite similar to countries with the
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by foverzar 3y ago
I believe that's an entirely different issue, tbh. There is no grand strategy or conspiracy behind dedollarization, just a path of least resistance for free and open trade. I don't like assuming that someone is an idiot, but besid
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by foverzar 3y ago
No, this is actually a dead serious observation. I do wonder though what was the satirical element you perceived, if you don't mind me asking.
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> Surely they just realize that this will be held against the US for a long time? Who can? There are plenty of things people around the world hold against the US. It's not like anyone can actually do something about it and that&#x27
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by foverzar 3y ago
> that there are no thumbs on the scale, but then they hide the scale! Thumbs are for boomers. Either you watch it, or you keep scrolling. Of course the scale is hidden, it only messes up the UX, basically like exposed wiring > And no

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