mantas

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by mantas 2y ago
Because European tradition is to have strong bureaucracies steering the „democratic“ processes. And encryption is a wrench hitting those mechanisms. Another one is the raise of all sorts of independent journalists/bloggers/etc. Th
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by mantas 2y ago
When „affirmative action“ ends up changing qualification parameters (e.g. for policy, firefighters or military), it does acknowledge stereotypical gender differences.
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by mantas 2y ago
Yet feminists seem to be happy with „affirmative action“ which has very similar logic.
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by mantas 2y ago
It’s not about deepness of relationships. E.g. raising kids is pretty intense experience. Procreation being one of the main functions of life, people missing such core experiences tend to have a blind spot.
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by mantas 2y ago
Yes. Philosophy should be read by people who want to deconstruct it and then argue with it. Unfortunately laymen love to take it by face value and try to apply it as-is. I guess sort of as marketing. When people buy fancy brands hoping to r
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by mantas 2y ago
Not sure where OP is from, but in my whereabouts „100,000,004“ wouldn’t show up in the wild. We use spaces to separate if really needed.
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by mantas 2y ago
I’d say it applies in a lot of other career paths too. Creating something of quality requires holistic life experience. Otherwise it leads to shallow self-absorbed outcomes. Maybe that’s why enshitification is all the rage nowadays, not jus
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by mantas 2y ago
Is it considered „loaded“ to say that starting a family is um… an option? What a time to be alive.
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by mantas 2y ago
And then people get surprised that somehow it’s exhausting. It was not supposed to be used like that. Just like shopping in a fast fashion lifestyle is exhausting. Compared to buying long lasting outfit once in a while.
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by mantas 2y ago
Life in general requires constant energy. Unless you’re freeloader. Be it relationship, participating in a society or anything else.
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by mantas 2y ago
Staying single is only one of the ways to get out of the dating market.
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by mantas 2y ago
I'm just making fun of claiming that some language is the best, because native speakers themselves say so. Especially talking about such chauvinist culture like muslim arabs.
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by mantas 2y ago
I don’t think so. That brings such bastardized result as English spelling. And there are many different ways and purposes to be best at. For example modern English is compact language with simple grammar. But at the same time it’s rather am
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by mantas 2y ago
According to my tradition, my language is the best of the best. Get off my lawn with your language.
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by mantas 2y ago
More like teenager learns about Tiananmen and Uighurs from AI. Or a joke about men and women in western counterparts.
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by mantas 2y ago
At least for power cables, the point is Lithuanian/Latvian/Estonian grids. Currently they're still connected to Russian grids and frequency is controlled by Russians. But this is about to end on February 8th. On this day Lith
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by mantas 2y ago
Those cables are becoming more interesting as Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia are about to switch from soviet-era electric grids network controlled in Russia to european grids network.
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by mantas 2y ago
Russia has no problems to find a reason. Yet if there're no consequences for their actions, they'll keep pushing the line.
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by mantas 2y ago
Some context. Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia electric grids, as of now, still connected to (part of) Russian grids due to soviet era infrastructure. This is coming to the end as Lithuania/Latvia/Estonia grids should detach fro
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by mantas 2y ago
Yep. And I think it's not only olympics, but the whole sportentainment industry. I used to watch quite a bit of sports. Olympics set, F1, basketball, football, cycling... Now I don't give a damn neither about plays nor results. Th
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by mantas 2y ago
And then Muscovites stole Rus name and tried to pretend they’re the leaders of pan(east)slavism. Probably one of the reasons for the outgoing war. Moscow wants to be the real Kiev. The only way is to destroy it.
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by mantas 2y ago
Why reture from programming? Personally I don’t see programming itself stressful at all. In fact, it’s very relaxing. It is the human side of holding a job, or worse, working at office. Minimize human side, maximize programming and it’s a w
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by mantas 2y ago
IMO it’s better to optimise for today than retirement that may never come. I work on a relaxed software project probably taking a good hit on my salary. My days are relatively little stress. I’ve plenty of time to spend with my son. If I en
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by mantas 2y ago
Simplify your life, go cheap and use extra time to both reduce stress and spend less time in stressful situations. I’m probably an undiagnosed ASD and that’s what I ended up doing and plan to take to more extreme level as life situation all
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by mantas 2y ago
Do they? Different cultures have widely different axioms. E.g. compare Islam and Christianity. Not to begin with cultures far away geographically from each other.
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by mantas 2y ago
Some people just hate their own government so much, they think any other government would be better. Including the known bad guys of the era. Usually this does not work out that well. Point in case - Central Europe after WWII. Chinese astro
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by mantas 2y ago
What’s next, pitting a fence around some field is also freedom-of-speech issue since some people may want to talk in that field?
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by mantas 2y ago
More aid in general - yes. But in the battlefield US was much bigger part. While non-lethal aid is important too, without lethal aid there may be no need for non-lethal support anymore. And even talking about lethal aid, some European coun
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by mantas 2y ago
What’s the point of rationing water to monoculture alfalfa fields? Looks like chips factory in that area makes much more sense.
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by mantas 2y ago
Both pre-tax and take-home are lower in europe. Difference is lower than it looks at first sight. But it's still there. Eastern europe is doing pretty good though. Salaries are very close to western part, but cost of living is waaaay l

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