mantas

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by mantas 3y ago
EU itself is quite an undemocratic institution. Jean-Claude Juncker and his infamous quotes about pushing through legislations is fantastic.
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by mantas 3y ago
This hits waaaaaay too close to home.
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by mantas 3y ago
Probably yes. I got hold of some historical apple varieties. Historical as in 19th century. They’re good. Not as sweet as many today’s apples, but the taste is nice IMO.
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by mantas 3y ago
Driving style, mileage and climate. Nice and dry climate is one thing, wet snowy & slushy roads for months every year is another thing.
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by mantas 3y ago
Maybe Tesla is just hyper-focused on Silicon Valley? I could see brakes fluid lasting that long in such a nice climate. In Northern Europe where lower part of the car is in salty water bath for 6 months a year… Checking brake fluid LEVEL ev
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by mantas 3y ago
Yes. But Lithuanian and Latvian are Catholics are Roman and protestants in all three are on new calendar (not sure if any protestants use old calendar at all?). And not all catholics outside of baltic states were unites. E.g. western Belaru
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by mantas 3y ago
Estonia/Latvia/Lithuania and other catholic and protestant communities.
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by mantas 3y ago
And not everybody in ex-USSR were on the old calendar.
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by mantas 3y ago
Pads and rotors - yes. Fluid - probably not. Usually changing fluid every 2 years is a good idea. Both to keep brakes performance and prevent rusting due to water slowly making it’s way into the system.
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by mantas 3y ago
It's not about deadly shooting. In my country bigger problem is police being not bold enough. Here police fires once in few years. As a whole force. Yet we have same issues with body cams. People cry foul over whatever policing is goin
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by mantas 3y ago
Yeah, some confidentiality issues.. I'm pretty sure such system would be abused. To leak footages of low situation in peoples' lives. To make sure cops enforce rules by the letter even if situation is objectively silly on the sp
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by mantas 3y ago
Culture is proxy to ethnicity and religion. And it’s pretty close. E.g. Christmas celebration all around „secular“ Europe. Ottoman rule in Balkans was quite horrific. E.g. Christian’s having to pay tax in young kids most of whom would never
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by mantas 3y ago
I’m still addressing the same point. You purchase something and then it’s taken away from you without any sort of compensation.
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by mantas 3y ago
It’s very hard to have a state that doesn’t push one culture or another as primary. Otherwise there’s no glue keeping the society together. Which is important to get people to approve government decisions. As for peacefully coexisting, woul
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by mantas 3y ago
Yes.
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by mantas 3y ago
Are they? There’s interesting statistics about UN human rights committee resolutions by country. Israel alone gets most resolutions.
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by mantas 3y ago
I remember quite a lot of footage from ISIS around the internet. The difference was that mainstream media didn’t pick them up. Nor there was a widespread support to ISIS. Even though both ISIS was similar to Hamas and dealing with ISIS was
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by mantas 3y ago
The better example would be when I'm kicked out from am over-sold flight. The difference would be that airlines usually make up for it. Meanwhile in this case „purchased“ stuff is gone for good. No refunds or transfer of purchases to W
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by mantas 3y ago
That works for novels and so on. For philosophical writing... If someone is advocating for X yet not even close to dogfooding it... It's tricky. Sort of like Marx and Engels. Or all the modern caviar socialists.
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by mantas 3y ago
Purchasing a rent license! Yay for newspeak. Rent is rent, purchase is purchase. Hey, we ended contract with the store were you bought your DVDs. Please return them.
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by mantas 3y ago
Playstation users did „purchase“ that content. Is that enough for a claim or not?
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by mantas 3y ago
My solution is to take a picture a week or so. Enough non-repetitive content. Yet not too much behind-the-lense stuff. Not gone lie, nagging is there.
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by mantas 3y ago
Looking from the other side, I was taking lots and lots of pictures for several years. Pretty much a go-to group-of-friends photographer. I did my best to take pictures. So in many cases I was focused on taking pictures rather than particip
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by mantas 3y ago
> why should a small minority of kids get a huge extra unearned boost? This is what gives incentive. You do your best, next generation of your genes lives better. If you muddy that connection too much, you got 2 problems on your hands. S
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by mantas 3y ago
Not sure about US. But here in europe a lot of money went into businesses.
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by mantas 3y ago
That'd be pretty bad. E.g. government program for disabled people giving out wheelchairs. A good wheelchair is fucking expensive. No sane UBI would cover that. Yet not giving out wheelchairs would fuck over some people to say the least
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by mantas 3y ago
We did that during pandemics. Mostly rich people got it. Low income people got some scraps too. Inflation happened.
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by mantas 3y ago
Money flow into poor communities of course works. Relatively little money required on global scale. And they probably were given to the organization in some sort of a grant. What happens if you do this in a major economy using it as the sou
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by mantas 3y ago
In that case there are no lessons to learn. Aside from GTFO from such grandfathered buildings if you can.
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by mantas 3y ago
It’s not living solo in the woods vs multi million megapolies. IMO Dunbar number gives a rough idea what may be the sweet number for a community size. And you don’t need to live in a single city. Banding together includes communities sticki

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