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by gdy 4y ago
"Some people are really smart and productive and a credit to their profession and also awful to women and/or minorities" But if they are awful only to white straight males, they are ok?
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by gdy 4y ago
Pre-trial detention: "To date, there are approximately 60 risk assessment tools deployed in the criminal justice system. These tools aim to differentiate between low-, medium-, and high-risk defendants and to increase the likelihood th
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by gdy 4y ago
And what about depreciation?
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by gdy 4y ago
Everyone but the Ukrainian president who earlier said that the missile was an attack on 'collective security' and demanded from NATO that it swiftly punishes the perpetrator))
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by gdy 4y ago
And when Ukrainian military tries to intercept them, stray Ukrainian S-300 missiles sometimes kill civilians on the ground. Awkward, right? Better say that Russians are repurposing ground-to-air missiles and firing them at Ukrainian civilia
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by gdy 4y ago
'A ukrainian official alleged...' There, fixed that for you. 5V55K has the range of 47 km, Russia is much further from Poland than that. Ukraine, on the other hand, uses Soviet S-300.
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by gdy 4y ago
I don't think that slaves in the US enjoyed free speech.
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by gdy 4y ago
I don't think that the Bill of Rights, for example, was influenced by US culture. "the freedom of speech and debates or proceedings in Parliament ought not to be impeached or questioned in any court or place out of Parliament;&quo
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by gdy 4y ago
Because I want to read the answers. Why does my question bother you?
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by gdy 4y ago
Who told you I missed anything?
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by gdy 4y ago
Thanks, I should try reading Africanfuturism.
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by gdy 4y ago
I once studied the map of Charon and asked myself who is Octavia Butler? Guess what Xenogenesis was about. Next I recalled Cherryh's Foreigner series and then searched my mind palace for the works of Le Guin and found The Left Hand of
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by gdy 4y ago
>"The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet" by Becky Chambers This one made me think, is there any sci-fi by female authors, which involves aliens, but doesn't depict or mention sex with them?
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by gdy 4y ago
Seriously? Putin must have also bought off British detectives and a prosecutor. "Bukovsky, who was expelled from the Soviet Union in 1976, told detectives he had indecent material, the court heard. “He [Bukovsky] responded immediately
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by gdy 4y ago
No. Which disruption particularly you blame on Russia?
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by gdy 4y ago
What do you mean specifically?
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by gdy 4y ago
You mean, he was actually pro-Ukrainian?
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by gdy 4y ago
The only thing this wikipedia page shows is that the Ukraine is an unreliable transit country stealing gas intended for the Europe.
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by gdy 4y ago
Sorry, you may claim that the EU was indulging in wishful thinking, but you can't call it 'caught off-guard'.
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by gdy 4y ago
"already-proven-unreliable" How so?
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by gdy 4y ago
No, they weren't.
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by gdy 4y ago
"EU was caught off guard by Russia" You've got to be kidding me. Putin had been warning West since the Munich speech in 2007. [0] [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Munich_speech_of_Vladim...
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by gdy 4y ago
My point was that neither routune should ever be written and the Middle East would've been much better off if the world had started an all-out economic war against the US in 2003. In case you are wondering, I'm Russian, have frien
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by gdy 4y ago
Railways have strategic importance for the military. Think of the Roman empire building roads.
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by gdy 4y ago
Unlike colonies which West always planned to lose?
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by gdy 4y ago
Ugh. Try writing destroyKiev instead and see what happens.
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by gdy 4y ago
It's a bit more complicated than that. Half of Novorossiya (New Russia) was taken from Turkey and Crimean Khanate by Russian soldiers and later that almost unpopulated land was settled by many ethnicities, but mostly by Ukrainians and
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by gdy 4y ago
I'm Russian living in Russia and it feels like that since 2/24. Now almost 90% are concerned about the events in the Ukraine [0]. Personally, in February I was concerned about loss of lives, mostly Ukrainian, political repressions
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by gdy 4y ago
In Russia it feels like being a passenger in a hijacked plane flying towards tall buildings.
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by gdy 4y ago
I bet that victims of those therapists, who were falsely accused, put in jail or got they reputation ruined and life destroyed won't share your concerns.

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