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by mantas 2y ago
No. Lithuania. Here drinking culture reached bottom of the barrel during Soviet era. It’s getting somewhat better as the old generation heads for greener pastures. But it’s still pretty bad with full-on alcoholism being tolerated. I envy so
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by mantas 2y ago
Booze - yes. Culture around booze… not exactly. Serious drinking was reserved for festivals and generally frowned upon. Nowadays… it’s much more common and much more abused. And modern alcohol is getting stronger and stronger, same with oth
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by mantas 2y ago
Critical thinking does not depend on sharing those thoughts. Not sharing a thought does not make it less critical and vice versa. Let alone that with your train of thought critical thinking must have not existed before literacy became a thi
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by mantas 2y ago
Photopea is AWESOME. Especially PSD support. I can't recommend it enough.
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by mantas 2y ago
> Blaming the ills of society on education doesn't make much sense when we've had societies much longer than we've had public education Why? Education may easily have negative impact. Modern education was created to teach
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by mantas 2y ago
Illiterate couldn't read, but not necessarily didn't have critical thinking skills.
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by mantas 2y ago
Nobody required USB-C charging for laptops and iPads. It would have happened on iPhones eventually too.
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by mantas 2y ago
Some do remember. Some just used some obscure grandpa's paper as a getaway card into a better-off country. With many of those grandpa's papers being forged.
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by mantas 2y ago
Koloradka originally was tsarist Russia reward. Later it was revived by soviets in WW2, but not used much after the war. Then Putin revived it as a symbol of continuous history of tsarist Russian empire, USSR and his regime. Nowadays it&#x2
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by mantas 2y ago
What I'm saying, it looks like those are pushed at EU level seemingly by bureaucratic apparatus regardless of ruling parties. Yet such ideas seem to be nowhere to be found at home, again regardless of ruling parties. I'm probably
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by mantas 2y ago
It’s funny that those chat censorship laws seems to be mostly at EU level. Very few countries have something similar going on locally.
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by mantas 2y ago
At the same time Netanyahu is happy to wear Koloradka. And big chunk of Israeli population has Russian/USSR origins.
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by mantas 2y ago
> Politicians and police are not subject to monitoring Wonder how low would be the bar to become a politician. Signing up for a local council elections definitely makes one a politician, right!
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by mantas 2y ago
The problem is in modern societies the society is footing the bill for those who choose, let's say, unwisely. Why should my mandatory social and medical insurance taxes go fix issues created by such wrong choices? Should the society no
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by mantas 2y ago
The european way right now is to be a freerider. Get military coverage from US and sell assets to China/Russia/etc to get some money for now. It will be interesting times once easy money dry up and US tells us to pay for our own d
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by mantas 2y ago
Who will pay for food on your table and roof above your head? Billionaires pay little tax so that’s not the answer.
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by mantas 2y ago
> So its aggressive economic politics now if country A buy less from country B, by making the stuff it needs itself? That doesn't compute. Yes it is. The problem with modern manufacturing (and services to lesser extent) is not to bu
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by mantas 2y ago
> Since they seem to have no qualms picking fights with big US tech when they run afoul of their regulations...yes. Yes I can absolutely imagine that. Meh. It's just squeezing some cash. > Plus, establishing a homegrown market is
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by mantas 2y ago
The problem is EU does not want home-grown ecosystem. EU wants BigTech they can do business (as well as „business“) with. Big old businesses are very reliant on export to certain markets. E.g. German car industry in China. Thus there's
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by mantas 3y ago
Can you really walk away from Facebook and other big tech? You can run away into the mountains just like peasants did. But surviving there ain’t easy, in both cases. And technical part is the easy thing in setting up a competitor.
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by mantas 3y ago
Eh. Some countries (totally not pointing at Germany) fall out of that unison repeatedly.
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by mantas 3y ago
The world reacted swiftly... And then the war continued. Had West reacted swiftly with it's shear power, the war would have ended 2 years ago. But it's still going on. And situation is getting dire for Ukraine. Too little ammo is
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by mantas 3y ago
Looking at drama around Ukraine war, it’s already lost.
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by mantas 3y ago
Technically true, but let's not talk, because it goes against the narrative some people are trying to push. Nice. And then people wonder why all sorts of conspiracy theories pop up and post-truth stuff takes off.
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by mantas 3y ago
Gender is a social construct and closer to a hobby. Sex is the only real thing that matters.
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by mantas 3y ago
The thing is tankies love the real Russia as it is. Some in alt-right like the propaganda image that has nothing to do with reality. And some just follow „enemy of the enemy is my friend“ for better or worse. So the nature of the problem is
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by mantas 3y ago
As in you loose agains „the elites“. IMO the current dopamine and consumption driven culture only benefits a very small slice of the society. While externalized costs ruin many lives. Mental and physical health is going down the drain and n
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by mantas 3y ago
I see some fringe russophiles on both left and right wing, both here in europe and in US. But in 99% of cases it's „I hate my government, so I just believe in opposite if what they say“. The only sincere love for actual Russia is Stali
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by mantas 3y ago
Catch-22. If you sign off on postmodern culture, you loose. If you argue over talking points of postmodern culture, you loose.
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by mantas 3y ago
> the Europeans that Russia is an enemy Please. Russia is an enemy since forever. Sincerely, eastern europe. If you don't agree with some stuff your government is aggressively pushing, it doesn't mean everything is simply rever

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