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by mantas 3y ago
To be fair to those people, I did have plenty of grim thoughts pop up in my head. Dealing with some of them wasn't easy. But IMO it's better to be away what is going on deep inside yourself rather than let it brew till it explodes
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by mantas 3y ago
You need boring sports where you don’t need 100% attention to not get hurt. E.g. road cycling on backroads is perfect. Mountain biking… no chance.
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by mantas 3y ago
As an avid long distance cyclist, I talked to multiple people from, let’s say, conventional meditation community. All of them agreed that solo cycling is damn close to meditation if not the same. Especially road cycling, mountain biking is
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by mantas 3y ago
I think it’s not just addiction but anxiety of being alone with one’s thoughts. I love doing long solo bicycle rides. Just heading out and spending whole day riding by myself. Over the years, I bumped into many people who find such trips sc
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by mantas 3y ago
Most people don't bother to turn on webcam on work meetings. Vast majority of people don't bother with video calls either and just use old good voice if not text. Why would those crowds bother with VR?
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by mantas 3y ago
It's already happening with hardcoded „ethical“ limitations.
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by mantas 3y ago
We're getting same issues but it takes few years to propagate. I'd say US is ~ 5 years ahead of UK and another 5 years of the rest of europe.
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by mantas 3y ago
It was the later. I linked the article in a comment in adjacent comment if you're interested. Good tip on saving for vs coveting.
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by mantas 3y ago
The column is in Lithuanian. Hopefully deepl or google translate does good enough job. The title translates to „The world, which doesn't need a newer iPhone, is destined for wars and genocide“ https://www.delfi.lt/news&
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by mantas 3y ago
Just like nowadays. There's a famous columnist-wannabe-politician in my country. A part of one of his columns stuck with me. It was along the following lines: > Just think what would happen if people stopped caring about saving for
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by mantas 3y ago
VCs won’t invest if they know this is your plan? If you lie to them and keep going for 500k, they can sue you for scamming (or whatever legal term is).
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by mantas 3y ago
https://archive.ph/9pRNW
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by mantas 3y ago
Resting and common time off work for community building is crucial. That's the core reason behind designated rest days in any major religion. And yes, it is specifically for the benefit of mankind. Many of today's problems arise f
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by mantas 3y ago
That’s why there are lots of word-of-mouth in some industries. Or at least review websites. Nobody says „trust the mechanics“. More like there few good ones in the sea of average and flat-out fraud. Meanwhile „trust the X field“ crowd lacks
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by mantas 3y ago
How do I trust my car? I see plenty of cars of the same model being driven around. I assume my car will act the same. Electrical wiring and water pipes? When my house was being built, I visited the site almost daily, took tons of pictures a
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by mantas 3y ago
Do institutions even try to be trustworthy these days? Everybody is just pushing a narrative.
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by mantas 3y ago
Nobody? Nowadays the only way to get some legit information is to cross-check multiple conflicting sources. And then apply some gut feeling based on historical track record. Which also needs to be formed by cross-checking multiple sources.
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by mantas 3y ago
I'm sorry, but this is just a historical fact that core Wafen-SS was very different from some auxiliary units. There's Nuremberg trials and plenty of research came after that. As far as I understand Hacker in HN stands for hacking
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by mantas 3y ago
Why? Is history too complex? If at least one person was encouraged to read about events in this part of the world during and around WWII, my goal is reached.
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by mantas 3y ago
Somehow Nuremberg trials said Galizia division was not guilty of war crimes?
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by mantas 3y ago
The post-war resistance had close ties to local nazi-aligned units though. Both to get guns/ammo and pool together the interested people.
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by mantas 3y ago
Big portion of that blood is on soviets hands. Both for stabbing Poland and Baltic states in the back. And then running pro-soviet underground resistance that did little to stop nazis but was very successful in triggering well-known nazi re
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by mantas 3y ago
What „that way“? Against soviets? Here you didn't need to be a nazi to end up with nazis setting up soviet resistance. There was no third option.
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by mantas 3y ago
Poland? Resistance in Baltic states and Ukraine?
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by mantas 3y ago
The main Waffen SS and ethnic units in eastern europe were two different things. You're thinking about SS units formed in Nazi Gerrmany-proper. Ethnic units, while technically a part of Waffen SS, were quite a different story. At least
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by mantas 3y ago
And that division did fight against Russians. It's a shame westerners love to paint everything with a broad brush and don't look into details during WW2 in territories between Nazis and Soviets.
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by mantas 3y ago
From your link: > the Galician Division has not specifically been found guilty of any war crimes by any war tribunal or commission
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by mantas 3y ago
I'm not very familiar with this particular person. But in those parts of europe it was common to join Nazi-adjoint (SS or otherwise) formations to defend against inevitable comeback of Soviets. After experiencing Soviets first-hand in
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by mantas 3y ago
Eh. In those parts of europe Soviets/Russians was the evil. First, Soviets/Russians came in 1939. Atrocities started (Katyn, Rainiai, mass deportations to Gulag, pick your favourite). Then Nazis came as a new management and stoppe
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by mantas 3y ago
Alcohol is usually taxed. Just like tobacco. Although sugar and other harmful substances should join the former.

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