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by mopsi 2y ago
Functionality is crippled when using without a smartphone, and when you use it with a smartphone app, it acts as a proxy that provides network access. Collecting data on the smartphone and uploading it during firmware update or other networ
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by mopsi 2y ago
Major Chinese security camera brands like Hikvision and Dahua have also been banned from critical infrastructure. They can be at least isolated at network level; more complex devices like drones usually require cloud connection to function.
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by mopsi 2y ago
> They're controlled by Putin. There is a pretty solid argument that his inner circle is a mafia with nuclear weapons. What ended up happening is only a few shades improved on terrorists; it isn't particularly encouraging to ha
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by mopsi 2y ago
> We need an actual case for why we are supporting what is going on in Ukraine. The case for me is that I live a few hundred kilometers from Russian border. If Ukraine falls, I'll be next and scenes like this will be happening on my
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by mopsi 2y ago
326 000 is 5 days' worth in terms of Russian invasion of Ukraine at its peak intensity. Those who are 30 and under have seen only a one year when Russia has not been at war - during the economic crisis that followed Asian financial cri
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by mopsi 2y ago
> As a comparison: Germany had 3000 tanks during the cold war. Now they have 300, 200 operational. Russia looses so many tanks every month, and actually builds 100-200 new ones every month. New production is 10 tanks a month at best, whi
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> I have also never heard anyone in East Germany complain about what Russian (Soviet, actually - there were more than just Russians in the USSR and Red Army) troops did at the end of WW2. Then you have a huge blind spot. I'll let a
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by mopsi 2y ago
It is very difficult to believe their ignorance if you watch things like the currently circulating video of Tim Pool pounding a table and screaming how Ukraine is the enemy of the United States[1]. I found it a comically forced and poor att
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by mopsi 2y ago
Ukraine is a major global producer of grain. Russian attacks on Ukrainian Black Sea ports and grain storage facilities disrupted normal trade and contributed to food crises all over the world. Western air defense systems currently protect U
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by mopsi 2y ago
> Well, he “ran away” because insurrectionists were trying to kill him. Nope. He ran away because his entire political backing vanished overnight after bodies piled up. His own party disowned him and issued a statement condemning his cri
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by mopsi 2y ago
> How many of these countries or their news media acknowledge the illegal and unconstitutional coup in Ukraine in 2014, which ousted a pro Russia democratically elected president through force? There was no such thing. This "pro Rus
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by mopsi 2y ago
> Colonialism developed as a concept describing European colonial empires of the modern era, which spread globally from the 15th century to the mid-20th century. The concept was developed from European colonial empires, but it describes
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by mopsi 2y ago
Google itself is the leech and parasite. It has embedded itself into private correspondence, discovery of internet resources, and a ton of other things, going as far as vacuuming up offline credit card transactions to spy on people. Google
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by mopsi 2y ago
Levada has published this to answer such questions: https://www.levada.ru/en/2023/04/24/are-meaningful-public-op... In short, insignificant number of people refuse to answer, and answers cannot be discar
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by mopsi 2y ago
Levada is the last independent pollster left in Russia. Here are their latest results: https://www.levada.ru/cp/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/3.png
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by mopsi 2y ago
The support has been consistently around 75%.
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by mopsi 2y ago
> Parties in control of a government are not the people of that country The war against Ukraine has overwhelming support among the population, as do the underlying cultural narratives about Russian superiority that make the population tu
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by mopsi 2y ago
> Why do we just dismiss what the Russians keep saying? They keep saying they don’t want US weapon systems on their border. If you listen to Russians, then you're left with an impression that they are being surrounded by US weapons
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by mopsi 2y ago
The quoted parts have nothing to with how the events really unfolded. US military aid to Ukraine remained at stable 300-400m USD per year in the six years preceding the full-scale invasion - without a "counter-escalation". The opp
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by mopsi 2y ago
There was no coup in Ukraine. The sitting president killed over 100 protestors and fled the country in face of jailtime. Ukraine's parliament unanimously voted to hold new elections, and the government that assembled as a result of the
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by mopsi 2y ago
Indeed, Putin and his cronies should be hanged for starting the war.
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by mopsi 2y ago
Reports from trustworthy sources stress that their numbers severely undercount victims due to lack of access. We have propaganda videos from the beachfront, but no access to the mass graves around Mariupol that can be seen from space. Not t
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by mopsi 2y ago
Every day that keeps Russian rapists and murderers away from more Ukrainian cities, towns and villages is a victory. There is nothing meaningless about protecting your loved ones from the fate that people in the occupied territories have su
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by mopsi 2y ago
The experience of the occupied territories tells that it doesn't.
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by mopsi 2y ago
> lol ok genocide of hundreds of children who are actually still alive. I wish genocide was always like this. Children abducted from Native Americans and forced into abusive charter schools also lived, but that doesn't make it any l
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> No, the charges are "unlawful deportation and transfer of Ukrainian children from occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation", and we're talking about "at least hundreds of children". This has nothing
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> There's no genocide ongoing in Ukraine. No international authority has declared or recognized what's going on as genocide. Putin is literally an international fugitive wanted by the ICC for genocide. > Looting and raping i
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by mopsi 2y ago
> People have been pointing out that NATO expansion was raising tension with Russia since the fall of the USSR. NATO does not expand on its own like a dough left on a windowsill. My country is in NATO because we were scared stiff when we
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by mopsi 2y ago
You are ridiculously overintellectualizing the situation by trying to construct a rational argument for the Russian invasion of Ukraine. There isn't any more rational argument for it than there was for the German murder of Jews by the
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by mopsi 2y ago
Why? That's a very mild way to put it. Entire generations of people were robbed of freedoms and natural progress of their society. Most of Central and Eastern Europe will catch up with the rest by around 2040-2050. Moldova will be luck

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