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by fractallyte 8mo ago
That's why I'm here in Odesa - doing something.
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by fractallyte 8mo ago
It's realistic if just one prominent government takes a no-nonsense stance: send in troops, police the skies (shooting down drones as required), and ignore russian threats. As for protests in their home country: deal with them firmly
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by fractallyte 8mo ago
> “From a doctrinal point of view, Europe is absolutely part of the theatre of conflict” > “It’s a show of force, a way of taking off the mask and saying, ‘So, Germany, what are you going to do about it?’ ” What should be done about
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by fractallyte 8mo ago
This map was created in 1917, so sadly it missed out on Lord Dunsany's explorations of Elfland ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_King_of_Elfland%27s_Daught... ). But... seven years separate Dunsany's novel fr
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by fractallyte 9mo ago
This could be a lot better (potentially ground-breaking) if you allowed more fine-grained control over the book content. Allow the user to provide an arbitrarily-detailed outline, chapter by chapter, with characters, situations, dialog, emo
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by fractallyte 9mo ago
> Also today there are unlikely to be any people who haven't been infected by sars-cov2 We do exist... ;-)
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by fractallyte 9mo ago
Comments should add something worthwhile to the discussion. Redundant comments ("noise") tend to be downvoted. (I didn't downvote you!) If you meant for the comment to be read by the content poster, then something more meanin
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by fractallyte 9mo ago
russia attacked on the basis of a presumption , not a fact . (And, considering the stakes, that was a colossal presumption to make...) Furthermore, nowhere, in any of his speeches, did Putin refer to this presumption. He pretends that 201
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by fractallyte 9mo ago
That final line: "Disclaimer: This post was written by a human and edited for spelling, grammer by Haiku 4.5" Yeah, GRAMMAR For all the wonderment of the article, tripping up on a penultimate word that was supposedly checked
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by fractallyte 9mo ago
"Russia then occupied and annexed Crimea, and in August 2014 Russia's military invaded eastern Ukraine to support its separatist proxies. Because of this, in December 2014 Ukraine's parliament voted to seek NATO membership, a
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by fractallyte 9mo ago
Regardless, that was before 2010, after which neutrality and non-alignment were written into Ukraine's constitution. It doesn't make Putin any less of a liar and a monster.
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by fractallyte 9mo ago
NO. Ukraine was NEUTRAL and NON-ALIGNED when russia invaded in 2014. Putin's "NATO expansion" excuse is a barefaced LIE, and it's time more people called it out. "From 2010 to 2014, Ukraine pursued a non-alignmen
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by fractallyte 9mo ago
Nonsense. They're making russians look stupid – and by extension, Putin too. russians only respect a strong, domineering leader. Putin looking weak will only hasten his downfall. And that $500k payout is the icing on the cake.
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by fractallyte 10mo ago
England was duly humiliated for its many misdemeanors (but not all, for sure), and has entered a period of "political correctness", where its sins must be acknowledged and atoned for. Nothing like this has ever been forced onto
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by fractallyte 10mo ago
russians (this time spelt with a lowercase 'r') have forfeited their right to exist as a nation. Consistently throughout history, they have invaded, colonized, and genocided their neighbors. They are doing it now , while the whol
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by fractallyte 10mo ago
Totally agree. On the rare occasions when I'm forced to use Word, I find it an incomprehensible mess. I don't understand why users continue to tolerate it. There is other software: LibreOffice and SoftMaker Office are close enough
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by fractallyte 10mo ago
Silicon Milkroundabout – in London, UK – is the Real Thing: https://www.siliconmilkroundabout.com/ Not just HR, but actual team leads and members who you can talk to and mutually evaluate each other, face to face. It's
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by fractallyte 10mo ago
She's wearing chain mail, so I believe she respects the environment she puts herself into...
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by fractallyte 10mo ago
Diver and conservationist Cristina Zenato showed another side to sharks: they come to her to have hooks removed from their mouths... https://youtu.be/G8LmxwOgBhA If that's real, and not anthropomorphized, it shows that
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by fractallyte 11mo ago
Here's another perspective, from science fiction writer James H Schmitz, in the introduction to his book, A Pride of Monsters: https://web.archive.org/web/20010727131117/http://www.white-... Extract
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by fractallyte 11mo ago
A link to the relevant paper: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21806658/ [Ameliorative effects of stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) on testosterone-induced prostatic hyperplasia in rats]
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by fractallyte 11mo ago
Why the hell is this flagged? It's the 21st century. Schools, media, politicians, commentators remind us about multiple world wars, millions of "sacrifices" for "freedom". We have technology that was unimaginable to
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by fractallyte 11mo ago
Why? It's a commercial venture - how would they feed their developers?
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by fractallyte 11mo ago
Only Android needs Google Play. The thrust of this post is that there's a third alternative which is neither iOS nor Android - and that's a killer feature. Now it's up to capricious EU leadership whether to support a sovereig
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by fractallyte 11mo ago
And yet Sailfish is a mature mobile OS, sufficient in many cases to be a daily driver, and an essential EU-based alternative to the Apple/Google monopoly. So there's that... On a more superficial front, the UI is far ahead of bo
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by fractallyte 1y ago
I still have a CompuServe website directory of "The Internet"! I should check how many (if any) of those sites are still online...
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by fractallyte 1y ago
I'm furious because I see a non-stop behavior of consumers dumping their garbage, either in nature, or in municipal waste sites next to bins because they're too goddamned lazy to literally lift up their arms - let alone not sort
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by fractallyte 1y ago
That's a whole other argument about which I have even stronger opinions - namely about the dismal failure of government, and the flaws in our democratic systems that allow corporations to infiltrate governments and manipulate policies.
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by fractallyte 1y ago
I've been down this road before, and been brutally downvoted, but I'll say it again: - corporations are responsible for creating products which can be recycled; - the consumer is responsible for proper disposal of their waste, a
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by fractallyte 1y ago
Svija honed the process of creating SVG websites: https://svija.com/ There are some very nice showcases at the bottom of the page. For example, 2021: https://2021.svija.love/ Previously featured on HN: htt

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