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by mantas 3y ago
I’ve a feeling this truly ended with the iPod. No more iPods and Apple software quality is going downhill pretty fast :(
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by mantas 3y ago
Looks like adults ain’t scared of the ocean too much to fish. Disciplining in harsh ways ain’t without downsides. Nor not disciplining at all. Pick your preferred poison?
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by mantas 3y ago
> some resentment on the ground from citizens In many cases resentment is for low-skilled (or no skills at all) migration. Yet many european governments punish highly-skilled migrants yet don't listen to their citizens regarding act
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by mantas 3y ago
Titanium is nice, expensive and durable :)
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by mantas 3y ago
Israel has quite a lot of domestic defense industry.
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by mantas 3y ago
Hamas is democratically elected government in Gaza.
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by mantas 3y ago
Nobody is declaring wars anymore. Technically Russia’s attack on Ukraine is still a „special operation”.
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by mantas 3y ago
Is it a terrorist act if it was performed by a democratically elected government?
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by mantas 3y ago
> > But it was pro and against same sex civic partnership if it makes any difference for you. > Why would someone be against same sex civic partnership? If you're not homosexual, it doesn't impact you at all. So it's
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by mantas 3y ago
I’m saying why woke gets the bad rap. As long as woke people themselves won’t set sane borders for their movement, they’ll be seen as more vocal parts of it. I see „alert to racial prejudice“ issues all the time. E.g. mass media writing Bla
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by mantas 3y ago
Transathletes is a hill I'm willing to die on. There's no equality in letting men compete with women. Regardion migration, that's the vibe I got from OP. And I frequently see woke to bother about native and indigenous rights.
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by mantas 3y ago
Yes. But with this desk one should be really really sensitive to wobble to call it wobbly. For the record, I do consider some desks wobbly. E.g. cheapest Ikea desks.
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by mantas 3y ago
Using mid-tear Ikea sit-stand desk for 5+ years. So far so good. Not wobbly even with a 24" display with some plants next to it.
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by mantas 3y ago
Woke is way beyond equality to the point that it brings anti-equality policies. Wanting to control your borders and reduce migration is not a „privilege“. Nor it has anything to do with racism.
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by mantas 3y ago
Probably referencing to attempts to push through chat surveillance laws.
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by mantas 3y ago
Well, China didn’t industrialize through fair competition either. There’s no mythical level playing field. Regulations is not a problem. The problem is here in europe we ain’t focusing on engineering and manufacturing culturally. Regulation
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by mantas 3y ago
More like „Germany tries to prevent de-industrialisation and economy collapse“.
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by mantas 3y ago
> People act on their political views by voting -- the decided on political views through what they hear and read. We agree that as long as people keep their views to themselves we don't care what views they hold. And we obviously a
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by mantas 3y ago
> How are they preventing it? Physically holding the doors closed? Looks like that does happen. No? Or just pushing university administrations to cancel speakers they just approved. > But people want only the positive results of broad
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by mantas 3y ago
When a group of people sets up a speaker and another group prevents speaker from making his speech... That is preventing from speaking. Allowing to fire people because of their political views is a very fine line. Especially if they cleanly
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by mantas 3y ago
Putting a tiny bell on cats is usually more than enough. At least it gives birds a fair chance.
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by mantas 3y ago
Many (if not 99%) of silenced speakers were not nazis. Unless everything right of X is nazi and everything left is commie. Which is bullshit. The „influential group“ refers to „consequences“ like making people loose their jobs after spammin
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by mantas 3y ago
Same here re propaganda. The only difference is we get a lot of your tax money to listen to that propaganda :) But as we catch up economically, we'll get less and less euromonies. And yes, it's terribly inefficient too. The only t
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by mantas 3y ago
I think you know jack-shit about totalitarian regimes. For example USSR used a shit-ton of unofficial punishment styles. E.g. small time dissidents would have a hard time getting a job. Employers would be in the know about certain people th
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by mantas 3y ago
His point was that Kristallnacht people thought they are „cancelling“ evil too.
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by mantas 3y ago
Then both sides start doing the same and using same excuse. Final result is decay of democracy and ultimately civil war. Looking from afar, US left/woke/whatever is nowhere close to objectively tolerant. Unless you use a very nuan
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by mantas 3y ago
Both are protecting from anything outside of one's comfort zone. What's next, shout down politicians you don't agree with? That's not how democratical societies work.
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by mantas 3y ago
It’s not about lobbying. And it’s far past managing sovereign nations to compromise. Modern EU is a beast of its own and its own interests. Which so far is power grab from member states. And trying to push through infamous laws. Such as cha
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by mantas 3y ago
There's a lot of negotiations behind closed doors where we don't know how decisions are made. E.g. how the EC is formed. EU is run in authoritarian ways, but so far it's in, let's say, benevolent dictator mode. But same
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by mantas 3y ago
And this civil service have a ton of power to bring forward policies. Which is undemocratic. IMO more politics at EU level overall is a bad idea. The strength of europe is diversity and competition within the region. Not a bureaucracy super

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