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foverzar
3y ago
> All of that just out of a sudden, without anything else occurring to trigger these events, right? No genocides, no invasions, no massive civilian casualties? Do you also support Russia's invasion in Ukraine? Because you are clearl
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> but they are extremely political. It’s so hard to hold a normal conversation without them mentioning Russia, Yugoslavia, Kosovo/Albanians, NATO la-la-la > them still live in the past and can’t move on and it’s really sad. Heh,
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3y ago
AI is software and AI is a term as broad and unspecific as "software".
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3y ago
"Revolution", lol. Maybe in the US. They are super common in many countries including mine. It's a very neat way to travel somewhere for a weekend (leave Friday evening, return Monday morning), and it is typically fancier and
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3y ago
> I'm all for responding to China's increasingly aggressive posture, their challenges to a international rules bases order, their totalitarian political system, and their support of the Russian murder machine, but this is both
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> Neuralink constantly ignores those. Is that actually a fact that Neuralink and co don't adhere to relevant industry standards?
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3y ago
It's juvenile to believe that powerful state-like entity of EU scale does not have functional propaganda institutions. I guess some people don't like connotations of the word and assume it's only applicable to systemic distri
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3y ago
> Russia claims Ukraine, Poland and GDr to be renegade provinces False. There might be some discussion around Ukraine and its historic role as an integral part of Russia's culture and history - and thus, where would an actual border
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> citing xkcd One of the largest issues surrounding this particular problematic is the fact that people basically treat climate change as a meme.
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Except there is no "legitimate argument" here. Just throwing emotive words around and hoping some of that sticks. If you feel like the matter of "a certain minority" in China is any way relevant to what Nazis did, then
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3y ago
Who said anything about green passports? > It's not ironic In the context of the narrative the OP article pushes - it is. But this is arguing perspective, which is pointless in the culture this forum is centric to.
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Yes it can, but whatever, I know I can't force insight on desperate naivite
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3y ago
> It isn’t just what people are used to, there are significant differences. But that's the whole point! I don't understand this sensationalism, tbh.
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3y ago
> Nazi-type > Nazi It gets harder and harder to take this kind of rhetorics seriously these days, especially the last few years - everyone labels everyone else they don't like as "nazis". This is borderline Nazi apolog
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3y ago
That roping nazis into every discussion is a super cheap and intellectually lazy rhetorics.
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On the other hand, making an unconscious wrong move when interacting with a cop in America can legally get you killed on spot. My whole point is that it is entirely subjectivist and boils down to whatever people are used to. If you want eve
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3y ago
This kind of scam can be pulled off in any country.
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> I'm fairly sure why Russians are arrested in the USA is fairly unrelated to them being Russian. It's often spying accusations for individuals or sanctions related for businesspeople, so... > Russians also get arrested in C
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3y ago
The matter of "fairness and/or arbitrariness" is entirely subjectivist. Visiting a foreign culture is always a dance across a minefield if you are careless and don't bother researching how to be a proper guest. For examp
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3y ago
Traveling collapse is likely COVID related. They've only recently started processing tourist visas once again, as far as I understand.
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3y ago
And miss making a personal impression of a country surrounded by so many myths? Good advice for people scared of their own shadow, bad advice for everyone else. Because honestly: > The typical reasons for the Chinese government imposing
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3y ago
Now you are just moving goalposts (even up to claimig that bloggers arent media in the neighbouring thread) and base your argument on the fact that something does not fit your personal expectations. It was a hot topic and it is still discus
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It's not just "passengers on Aeroflot". It's an old airtravel tradition that lots of people find to be quite wholesome. Do you say a polite "thank you" to a cashier? Well that's a similar thing - thanking
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Firstly, if you understood that this is a reference, why are you trying to interpret separate words literally? And secondly, there was no constructive criticism or even any mention of "fascism" or "invasion". Following y
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3y ago
Are you serious? It's an obvious slander bs. Btw, it's a reference to Orwell.
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> "on june 23-24 absolutely nothing happened in russia" didn't came to existence by accident How exactly did it come to existance though? It honestly feels like some kind of gaslighting. Putin did a whole speach on TV and
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> This is why recent prigozhin roadtrip to moscow completely didn't happen at all according to russian media ? Who exactly told you this? I assume you don't personally interact with Russian media? You can check that what you cl
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> 18 months into a war that Russia's government had otherwise been preparing domestically for Eh, I think we all saw how "prepared" Russia was. In any case, I think the following factors are definitive here: - No one reall
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And here come 2 minutes hate people
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> stolen US tech Techological progress doesn't work that way. This as basically as claiming that everyone stole from Russians because they created the first periodic table. Or that everyone stole from Germans because WWII scientists
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