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871.
by mantas 4y ago
Neither the sea nor mountains work from Kaliningrad. The border with Belarus is pretty good terrain with a fair amount of roads too.
872.
by mantas 4y ago
In my case it was out-of-country website with a local TLD.
873.
by mantas 4y ago
Old news? Few years ago I got a similar notification. A government agency here in Lithuania was happy to remind that my wordpress instance was outdated.
874.
by mantas 4y ago
Mindless consumers? Yes. Citizens? Not so much. There’s so much more to life than better product at lower price.
875.
by mantas 4y ago
Better question is do we need creative and innovative culture. It's rather destructive when everyone wants to be a creator and nobody is willing to do hard not-so-fancy jobs. Somebody has to do plumbing and install electricity for all
876.
by mantas 4y ago
> in some parts of Europe there's a discussion to let the infected go to work Discussions? It's already a thing at least here in Lithuania. Unless you're seriously ill with side effects, you're good to go.
877.
by mantas 4y ago
More like you should participate in community building. If you ain’t building your community, someone else will build it for you and come banging at your door. Democracy doesn’t work in uninformed passive society.
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by mantas 4y ago
Personally I learned programming in the evenings after school when I was 12-15. Sure that counts as „parents providing for me“ and my parents weren't farmers. But even in farming it's not like you work 24/7. And when air is c
879.
by mantas 4y ago
Old laptops are cheap. And piracy is non-issue. Learning to program is not rocket science. And that is pretty easy to learn too nowadays, just a bit harder to practice. Many of the subsistence farmers have a crapton of knowledge about their
880.
by mantas 4y ago
As a citizen of „2nd world“ country that had (and still has to some extent) it's share of being a sweatshop... I'd rather say globalization is good for developing nations and the rich of the developed. It brings the middle class a
881.
by mantas 4y ago
The crowd that isn’t happy with Musk probably wouldn’t be happy with Theil… Musk is asshat saying stupid things. While Theil is both further in the same political direction and much smarter.
882.
by mantas 4y ago
Popcorn ready
883.
by mantas 4y ago
More like France + Germany and maybe UK.
884.
by mantas 4y ago
> Russia's Dacha model Well, the hard part to replicate is destroying economy to force people to use those collective gardens. Shops were next to empty. Commercial variety was non existent. The rigid command economy didn't allo
885.
by mantas 4y ago
Grass trimmer is a good one.
886.
by mantas 4y ago
Unless someone has plenty of inheritance or won a lottery... That's leeching. In my corner of EU (and I believe in many other parts too), workforce (including actively looking for work), students and pensioners are automatically insure
887.
by mantas 4y ago
WTF is „work-shy“? Unemployed-and-happy-about it? Either you work, in education or pay up for your time off. Not all „foreigners“ is illegal migrants. Doctor should control insurance status. Regardless if it's local or illegal migrant.
888.
by mantas 4y ago
Ah yes, let the citizens pay for illegal migrants healthcare while business owners capitalize on cheap workforce. Externalise expenses, internalise profits. Yay. And yes, immigration is a problem once it becomes a way to fuck over local wor
889.
by mantas 4y ago
Who is paying the doctor if patient is not insured? Unless doctor wants to work pro bono on his own time.
890.
by mantas 4y ago
Ads-based model don’t stop you from finding a cosy news source.
891.
by mantas 4y ago
> In the majority of the world, there arent 'party lines'. There are party PROGRAMS Party lines still exist in multi-party systems. Some parties are known to never deliver. Other parties are tiny and won’t ever make it to parli
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by mantas 4y ago
Meeting ending at 00:00 means you go to sleep at 01:00 or so. That may be fine if you can sleep on till 9:00. But if the rest of the house wakes up at 6:30 to make their schedule… you’re in for a trouble.
893.
by mantas 4y ago
Sure checks out for my whereabouts in Eastern Europe... And it’s not just USSR legacy. It was there for a looong time since feudal era.
894.
by mantas 4y ago
Crime follows money. Wether going to better-off city parts or even travelling internationally. Not only targets are more wealthy, but „you don't shit where you eat“ is important too. You don't want to accidentally rob a friend&#x2
895.
by mantas 4y ago
I'm not sure if it's pure idealism. It feels like in previous era politicians much more prestigious career. And people were valuing prestige over €€€ much more. Sort of like clothing. Now people want to be comfy and go in tshirts.
896.
by mantas 4y ago
It's the same in many other countries. They just ain't that big and language barrier prevents from looking deeper into BS that is going on there. Overall the issue is that this career route does not pay well. E.g. in my country a
897.
by mantas 4y ago
There was a proposal by Russia to start supplying gas via NS2 few days ago. Even discussions of lifting some sanctions would be nasty.
898.
by mantas 4y ago
Interior as in shared spaces interior.
899.
by mantas 4y ago
Both pipelines were not operating for a while. They’d be helpful after the war to get gas as reparations though.
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by mantas 4y ago
Keep in mind that original nordstream was destroyed while Russia offered to supply gas via nordstream II which is repairable. If only EU and US would lift sanctions. Great excuse to get NS2 going! How convenient for Russia, huh?

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