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by mantas 3y ago
A small portion of humans lived in cities in 7000 BCE. And many of those cities were closer to what we consider a village by modern standards. Mass urbanization into megapolies is 200 years old at best. With very few exceptions in older era
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by mantas 3y ago
If humans use electricity, is it by nature? Is doom scrolling by nature? Or just abusing our instincts? Same applies to urban living.
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by mantas 3y ago
If we know the building was not up to code, we already learned those lessons. Didn’t we? The only lesson left is to, maybe, enforce the code?
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by mantas 3y ago
IDK. Personally I don’t like the term Russophobia. When I hear it, I think of a vatnik claiming it’s all irrational fear of the saint nth Rome. It is very rational to steer away from anything Russia-related. And prepare for the inevitable w
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by mantas 3y ago
IMO it still makes some difference. E.g. Belarus is practically just another Russian oblast nowadays. But the people ain't fully culturally incorporated yet. Over 200 years later if we start counting by Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth p
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by mantas 3y ago
In case of Duchy of Moscow - it keeps repeating same stuff over and over again. Duchy of Moscow, tsarist Russian empire, USSR, Russian federation... different label, but same behaviour.
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by mantas 3y ago
To make a separation between many tribes/states of Rus/Ruthenian/East slavic people and Muscovites. As in people who support war in Ukraine. Duchy of Moscow took over many other Rus states which were much closer to West/
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by mantas 3y ago
What do you mean stopped being relevant? It just renamed itself to Russia.
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by mantas 3y ago
It's important to separate Duchy of Muscovy which is philosophical successor of Golden horde from Russians as in Kievan Rus and Ruthenian people who live(d) in western part of modern Russia.
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by mantas 3y ago
> We're still dealing with the fallout insane Russophobia that was engendered in the US halls of power. Living in a country that is at war with Duchy of Muscovy (AKA Russia) for the last 500 years... There's plenty of reasons k
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by mantas 3y ago
Is it still free speech if it may be a campaign by an enemy? China may prefer to send the West into disarray rather than teach their ways. We need to study China's approach rather than eat up propaganda and twisted media. During cold w
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by mantas 3y ago
On the other hand, people doing whatever they want means more aggressive people stomp all people around them. Some limits are necessary to make a community work. Especially long term. For example smoking. Smoking in public is more clear due
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by mantas 3y ago
Sitting here in europe, pushing ssome LGBTQIA+ stuff down the throat does seem like fascism. Women sports one of the prime example.
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by mantas 3y ago
On top of that, there’s little bigger-than-you ideas floating around. It feels very brave-new-worldish. Even in mainstream stuff like climate warming stuff. Most people just party and pay lip service. Few people do destructive stuff that ma
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by mantas 3y ago
I didn't call you a westerner. I said that in my experience a lot of regular westerners still believe in that myth. And that this crowd is closer to Cafe crowd. As for „serious intelectual position“ as a split between academia and regu
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by mantas 3y ago
Cafe discussions are not about „serious intellectual position“ though. And I've a feeling that lots of regular Westerners still believe in this myth. Or at least want to believe. All-in-all, I think the most important part is to keep t
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by mantas 3y ago
It's still important in the present. History did not end. It's much worse when people in West avoid elephant-in-the-room topics because they're politically incorrect or whatever.
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by mantas 3y ago
Fermented veggies.
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by mantas 3y ago
We'd need a human beings cap in millions to have a lavish lifestyle with managable consequences to environment. And probably in low hundrends. And even then if everybody lived like a king we'd be fucked. I'd also say that mor
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by mantas 3y ago
Yes. Placebo is one of the strongest drugs we got. The problem is how to make a strong placebo… But I remember an interesting study that placebo works even if patient doesn’t believe in it. Ot as effectively though.
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by mantas 3y ago
Many jurisdictions use weighted voting. It’s not some US-only thing.
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by mantas 3y ago
> Their work touched every aspect of the election. They got states to change voting systems and laws and helped secure hundreds of millions in public and private funding. They fended off voter-suppression lawsuits, recruited armies of po
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by mantas 3y ago
You feeling better drinking water certainly did help.
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by mantas 3y ago
It’s like smoking in public places. People who don’t want smoking in their faces can find non-smoker cafes! Once such cafe pops up, some people will complain that it’s messing with human rights to smoke.
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by mantas 3y ago
Juncker interviews are better IMO.
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by mantas 3y ago
They do care. But they care about different things than you and I.
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by mantas 3y ago
I bet they know the problem. But they don’t want to see it.
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by mantas 3y ago
Not aiming for $$$ is literally tax avoidance!
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by mantas 3y ago
That’s why I try to avoid products that sponsor major sports events/teams/athletes/etc. I want a good product, not surrounding marketing. Products with no fancy marketing, frequently coming from smaller local companies, bring
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by mantas 3y ago
Best one I heard was people claiming products will be more expensive if personalized advertising is banned. Because then it’ll cost more to promote them.

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