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by mantas 2y ago
It was not lax, but bent in strange ways. E.g. FB was banning people for using a historical term when discussing Russian-Ukraine war - „Muscovite“. Which has no derogatory connotations mind you. Besides reminding that modern Russia started
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by mantas 2y ago
Looks like there was no specific rule. But some so-called journalists tried to think of what some people they dislike might say now that a rule they like is gone.
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by mantas 2y ago
If he wants to fight ever-coming-back EU chat supervising bill, more power to him. But I guess that's not about it :(
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by mantas 2y ago
EU as in some bureaucrats in Brussels ain't too happy. As a citizen of EU member, I'm pretty happy some little known societal control by non-elected bureaucrats is gone.
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by mantas 2y ago
Thank you CNN for bringing up creative ideas...
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I don't see a reason for all this reason redirection. Putin's historical article is very reasonable continuation of Moscow policies towards Kiev for literally centuries.
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by mantas 2y ago
Moscow had issues with Kiev before Americas were found by Europeans. And invaded it multiple times, many of them successfully. Including in 20th century. With a genocide. Bucha was not something strange when you take into account last 100 y
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by mantas 2y ago
Russia had plenty of it's own problems in late 90s. But Russia has a loooooong history of issues with what is modern Ukraine.
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by mantas 2y ago
Some majority-white. As well as some non-white-majority.
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Or few will be productive enough to cover everything. Compare amount of bobcat operators vs ditch diggers.
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by mantas 2y ago
I'm always up to learn something new that may enrich my opinions.
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by mantas 2y ago
IMO the trust between swedish government and people started waaay earlier when Sweden ended its imperial ambitions and the royal family focused on inside. Agreements like above are important to labour rights, but it’s little compared to str
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by mantas 2y ago
Was it really forced though? In US, it looks like society was (and still is, although results vary) on the outlook but force needs applied all the time. Meanwhile in Sweden, although I'm no expert of it's history, it looks like go
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by mantas 2y ago
That's what happens when government is pretty good for a long time and people get used to trusting it over multiple generations. This is the biggest cultural shock for 100%-eastern-european-me when I'm exposed to western europe. W
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by mantas 2y ago
More like sustainability only seems to be possible with this crony-capitalism that is going on in european energy markets nowadays. It wouldn't survive nor pure capitalist market, nor as a state service.
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by mantas 2y ago
Electricity free market actions use a strange pricing scheme. Net puts out request for X amount of electricity. Providers bid. Then everybody in gets paid same price as the highest bid that made it in. Cables connecting zones (or countries)
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by mantas 2y ago
Yes. But the general tendency in Apple breeding is the same. Transportability and storability above all. With then getting more sugary, save granny smith. Personally I’m after historical apples. I’ve two local classics. One breed is from 19
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by mantas 2y ago
Because nowadays many fruits and veggies are bread for storability and transportability. Then sugariness. Taste is an afterthought. Let alone smell. I got a tiny lot and started growing some berries, fruits and veggies. There's a masiv
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by mantas 2y ago
The problem is people want same variety any day of the year. Stocking local apples as they come is a PITA for big supermarket chains. And most people don't care enough to go to farmer's markets or local specialty shops. Let alone
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by mantas 2y ago
Yes. Depends if it's organic for the sake of organic label. Local farmer market is always a better bet.
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Standing outside wouldn’t work for a good portion of the year…
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Yes. But in this case it's not known who did this. One NATO member is trying to pin it on Ukraine. But evidence is scarce. Personally I'm 50/50 whether this was russian false-flag or combined effort of some NATO members and U
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by mantas 2y ago
So, Germany?
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Who is „we“?
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by mantas 2y ago
You're missing the part about abuse of wannabe-ambitious. Vast majority of YC crowd is ambitious people who do have the means. Today's world is happy to sell shovels to wanna-be gold diggers ain't truly ambitious, creative no
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by mantas 2y ago
Coming from eastern europe… To us russia is the coloniser to us. What „West“ did in „global south“, russia just did the same to its neighbors. Even including racisty-chauvinisty element. Unfortunately russia has the strength to rape & p
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by mantas 2y ago
More like living costs would balloon. And farm workers would become middle class. Which IMO makes sense, since it’s a damn hard job. Land price would also balloon. Or local farming would collapse and 99% of food would be imported. But massi
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1 million/year? There’s definitely an amount that’d allow to find enough workers locally. The other question is how much would the produce cost and how many people would be willing to pay.
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by mantas 2y ago
Not in US, but my reasoning in similar situation is following. If I keep voting for a party that is getting worse and worse for a long time, that will enable people at the top to keep doing the same. Why would I vote against my interest loo
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by mantas 2y ago
But without protectionism self-sufficiency is very likely to fall apart. Be it Chinese manufacturing or EU agriculture.

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