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by mopsi 5d ago
> I think we have to distinguish between people who outright post Russian propaganda like Scott Ritter and people like Greenwald and Mearsheimer who say the Ukraine war is a US proxy war and was provoked. The Russian government l
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by mopsi 6d ago
It was Berlin and not Tokyo, I believe. Germany kept producing newsreels until the very end. Many of them are now on Youtube, a very interesting watch on how to frame things positively.
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by mopsi 13d ago
If Russia does not have "an infinite capacity for pain", then it does not sound like an unwinnable war. Ukraine estimates that they need to inflict at least 50 000 casualties a month to break the backbone of Russian military. The
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by mopsi 13d ago
> to make for this thing to end Why should it end after concessions? You've just validated their strategy. There is surprisingly little realism among the crowd calling themselves realists.
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by mopsi 17d ago
You resolve it the same way you handle in-store cash purchases of products that turn out to be faulty. There is no reason why fraud and contract violation must be handled by unelected and unaccountable payment processor, when the government
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by mopsi 17d ago
Unfortunately my proposal to set up a K8s cluster to host 5 HTML pages and a dozen jpegs was not approved, so I had to make some compromises this time.
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by mopsi 18d ago
It's free hosting. Push to github and changes to the website appear in 30 seconds. Even the build step for the static site is handled by Cloudflare. And I'm satisfied with Cloudflare's explanation to the free hosting: the mor
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by mopsi 18d ago
> The hidden cost, of course, is that the NSA learns everything there is to know about you and your customers. That depends heavily on the kind of site you're hosting there. I have a small site on Cloudflare that lists a bri
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by mopsi 19d ago
That basically exists, but runs on external hardware: https://kodi.tv/ There's no need for the TV to be anything but a dumb screen that has only "power on", "power off", "volume up", &quot
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by mopsi 19d ago
And not only that, but also has settings (configurable per channel) to skip intros/outros, tangents, etc. It's the superior Youtube experience that, funnily enough, is not available on paid platforms like Apple TV.
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by mopsi 19d ago
> How about this: Consider our loss of support for Ukraine as an abandonment of aspirations of hegemony in Eastern Europe. But you are not abandoning those aspirations, that's the problem. The US has spent decades embedding
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by mopsi 20d ago
Indeed. The interpretation that served as a justification for US interventionism came almost a century later (the Roosevelt Corollary in 1904). In its original form, the Monroe doctrine declared attempts by European monarchies to reconquer
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by mopsi 20d ago
In English, impeachment is often used loosely to mean parliamentary removal from office, which happened there. You're the one spreading misinformation with cope about foreign coups when Ukrainians simply kicked your clown out of their
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by mopsi 20d ago
There was no coup: Parliament votes 328-0 to impeach Yanukovych on Feb. 22; sets May 25 for new election
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by mopsi 24d ago
> That was a rather obvious false flag attempt, presumably from Ukraine. German officials have identified two Russians behind this, one of them linked to Russian secret services, and a number of other countries where those people
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by mopsi 24d ago
Indeed! Interesting that leaving a bottom margin for Rolodex didn't become a design standard.
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by mopsi 26d ago
Most countries with a modern bureaucracy actually do maintain an official database of geographic feature names of some sort to ensure consistency in government documents. But their naming is not binding to anyone else, of course.
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by mopsi 1mo ago
But it is such a strange, superficial flood of propaganda; preaching is perhaps a better word. The main concern remains heat retention and that's what buildings will remain optimized for. My house has 65 cm / 2 ft stone walls, whi
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by mopsi 1mo ago
The AC propaganda coming from the US this year is really strange and out of proportion. About ten times as many people die from the cold in Europe as die from the heat.
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by mopsi 1mo ago
> And why were the Soviets forced to make a pact with Nazi Germany? It was because the western powers rejected good-faith Soviet efforts to make a defence pact against the Nazis in the first place. Nobody forced the USSR to enter
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by mopsi 1mo ago
Does this mean that Google will soon stop showing reddit posts in search results? I've occasionally found helpful tips there for rare issues that are not covered anywhere else.
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by mopsi 1mo ago
Your narrative on the Winter War is very flawed. For starters, it was not fought before WWII, but from late November 1939 to mid-March 1940, which puts it between the invasion of Poland and the fall of France. It was a part of the broader
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by mopsi 1mo ago
> Demanding "security guarantees" while undermining Russian security is oxymoronic. Talking about security of the largest violator of security in Europe is oxymoronic without the oxy part. Europeans still have Russian
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by mopsi 1mo ago
What's wrong with bombing Yugoslavia? The bombing campaign cost about 500 lives, but put an end to a decade-long series of wars that had killed 140 000 people and made 4 million refugees. Never seen anyone explain what exactly the grie
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by mopsi 2mo ago
See? You don't even address the ideas anymore, but resort to taking cheap shots. All the passion is gone and what's left is an almost mechanical repetition of "coup, coup, midwifed, midwifed".
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by mopsi 2mo ago
> The promise of NATO membership in 2008 No, that was a polite "no" without any timeline, and was widely criticised as such at the time, and nowadays widely called a mistake, including by former NATO Secretary-General R
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by mopsi 2mo ago
> It is not "greatest hits", it is simply a view much closer to truth than the western (US) version of events. No, it is the political equivalent of Viagra-advertising copypastas that litter unmaintained Blogspot and Wo
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by mopsi 2mo ago
This greatests hits compilation of a Russian troll factory has become awfully stale.
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by mopsi 2mo ago
> Doing all of the piracy stuff with VPNs and navigating torrent sites and getting a setup where you can play files on your TV is an order of magnitude more work. It's not 2003 anymore. If "navigating torrent sites&quot
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by mopsi 2mo ago
Ask HN: Is every headline just a Betteridge headline now? We analyzed 10M articles and found most questions don't need answers I built a classifier that tells you if a headline ends in a question mark for engagement We replaced all hea

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