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by foverzar 3y ago
> where everything is a file. That didn't really age to well for Unix. I wonder if it is different for a distributed os.
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by foverzar 3y ago
> The gas was being paid for. There's basically no time or casual connection to frozen accounts. EU sanctioned Russia's foreign assets and froze accounts, preventing Russia from using it's funds. Gazprom was specifically s
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by foverzar 3y ago
> Which was the right thing to do Not for people of Donetsk. > Russia already broke the previous agreement they had with Ukraine to never invade the country anyway. I am not that good of a legal expert to track each and every treaty,
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by foverzar 3y ago
How did you figure they're unbiased? It's not too hard to sample some people shitting all over their country basically in any country. There tons of these "unbiased truths" about the collapse of western civilization, or
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by foverzar 3y ago
> A small correction - Russia cut off EU from gas, not the other way round Do people in Europe actually believe that to be the case? Is this yet another "Russia blew up its own billion dollar industry" thing again? > it will
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by foverzar 3y ago
Like in 2023, post-post-modernist or meta-modernist era, or universally whenever, including Gagarin's modernist age?
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by foverzar 3y ago
Literally every single nation does that. It's a natural bias. E.g. Americans don't lose sleep over Assange or the fact that Snowden is now a citizen of the evil Russia. > Hence the degree of phoniness in a letter ostensibly to
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by foverzar 3y ago
> Ban racist customers Well that sounds simple! How do you test against racism at scale, make people pass some kind of a test? What does this even have to do with racism? Feels like some kind of projection, tbh
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by foverzar 4y ago
Have you? Honestly, pompous "democracies" aren't fundamentally different to the rest of the world, when you start actually experiencing the day to day living. There are lots of "dictatorships" where living is better
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by foverzar 4y ago
It took almost two decades of continued effort of toe-stepping and pinching various pain points to get where we are now, so quite well enough actually. Even now all parties are restrained and make deals: Ukraine still pumps Russian gas to E
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by foverzar 4y ago
> I guessing you haven't read much of Chinese history Objectively speaking, the US history of genocide, slavery and global warfare and terrorist sponsorship even before becoming an uncontested hegemony hardly makes it look better. &
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by foverzar 4y ago
> to dictate even more about our lives than it already does What exactly does China dictate about your lives? I see people treat this like a fact, but there doesn't seem to be an incentive for China to instill its "way of life&
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by foverzar 4y ago
> mad respect I really hope that you are being ironic and this is a joke.
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by foverzar 4y ago
Honestly, not too much people take it here as seriously as you guys somewhere over there. Most just get skeptical of such stories the older they get, and this is unfortunately a consequence of personal empirical evidence. You expect the tru
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by foverzar 4y ago
> being conscripted and thrown into the meat grinder I will be labeled as a brainwashed ruskie and downvoted into oblivion if I point out that it isn't really true, right?
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by foverzar 4y ago
Ow wow, I expected this one would become like "FSB arrests children for blowing up buildings in Minecraft" as soon as the first details had started to surface, but never would have guessed it would hit HN. PsyOps is strong, I see
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by foverzar 4y ago
> NATO was formed basically as a club for democratic states to defend themselves from aggressive dictatorships This is a historically inaccurate slogan. > Unless Russia adopts democracy and human rights it's a bit impractical for
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by foverzar 4y ago
Might be, but that wouldn't affect Russia that much specifically. China's and Europe's attitudes and practices towards their let's say "dependent trade and strategic partners" is a different story, but EU can h
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by foverzar 4y ago
> Moldova, invaded (1990) and occupied > Moldova, independence from the Soviet Union (27 August 1991), constitution adopted (29 July 1994) I genuinely wonder what is the source of that list. I assume "invasion" of 1990 is th
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by foverzar 4y ago
> He was making molotov's cocktail when there was a threat that russia would capture Kyiv. Oh please don't pose. People don't make fancy distinguished name awful reeking dangerous incendiary so far from the frontline. Thei
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by foverzar 4y ago
> and others might seem reasonable if you don't know a lot about the recent history and politics of the region—like "the main reason Russia invaded was because they were scared of Ukraine joining NATO". Eh, I live in the r
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by foverzar 4y ago
> China and Russia HATE each other That is definitely 100% untrue, I have enough empirical evidence that there are no practical solid grounds for that claim. > Saudi Arabia and Iran HATE each other They've recently reestablished
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by foverzar 4y ago
> Vienna was famously one of the first targets for Soviet nuclear strike. According to your link in the other thread, that is assuming it was "ruthlessly" occupied by NATO. In any case, the "end the game for everyone butto
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by foverzar 4y ago
> Exactly, and in the end that's the only thing that matters: power. > democracies represent the biggest power. > Anyone who doesn't agree is free to emigrate or happily live in a dictatorship of course. Eh, but that&#x27
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by foverzar 4y ago
As some dangerous warmongering entity, sure, it has to be considered: just look at Russia trying to get a better foothold for another confrontation with it. What I am talking about is how everyone outside Europe starts rolling their eyes as
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by foverzar 4y ago
> Russia already saw Finland as part of "the west" > Why try to stay "neutral" with no formal defense pact, when Russia viewed us as hostile anyway? Good point, thanks for that perspective. Was there hypothetically
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by foverzar 4y ago
Totally strange given that love to democracies have nothing to do with anything. Srsly, how do the "United democracies" expect to be taken seriously when their whole attitude to literally everything is "bad guys don't li
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by foverzar 4y ago
But how would the relationship you're describing be different from early post-Cold War era relationships between Russia and Europe?
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by foverzar 4y ago
> Indeed, and apologists of Russia often take this position: in their mind, Russia has no will and no ambitions, and only reacts to what the US is doing. Whatever they do is always the fault of americans and never a manifestation of thei
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by foverzar 4y ago
Do you actually plan to court martial sizable fractions of population? I'm just curious why do you suppose that there would be no friction or resistance.

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