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by mopsi 2mo ago
> Then Ukraine chose to abruptly end the talks following the intervention of the West, allegedly Boris John in particular. Didn't happen. You keep repeating a misquoted soundbite from one of Ukraine's negotiators. David
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by mopsi 2mo ago
> They seem utterly bewildered by the fact Ukraine is even attacking Russia at all, it doesn't seem to make any sense to them. There was a recent comment chain on HN that showcased very well the pretzel that a surprisingly l
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by mopsi 3mo ago
Announcement: https://www.ecb.europa.eu/press/pr/date/2026/html/ecb.pr2607... Public survey: https://surveys.ecb.europa.eu/10b/neweuro/
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Future euro banknote design proposals(ecb.europa.eu)
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by mopsi 3mo ago
> Things were accelerating rapidly on the Ukraine-NATO front. They weren't. Ukraine is still nowhere near getting a membership action plan, which is the formal start of membership negotiations. We saw with Finland and Sweden
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by mopsi 3mo ago
No, that's just an impotent power fantasy. Even among the hardcore nationalist crowd (the so-called "Z-society"), support for the use of nuclear weapons remains a fringe position, because nuclear weapons are not known to spaw
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by mopsi 3mo ago
1. Wanted in 2008, did not get an invitation, and that was the end of it. Russia invaded in 2014 because of deepening Ukraine-EU trade ties. 2. Most of Eastern Europe has been in NATO for over 20 years and has not seen any permanent station
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by mopsi 3mo ago
> Why do you see that institute as the authority on the secession of Donetsk and Lugansk? It is one of the most respected courts on the planet, and the verdict is long and detailed when it comes to describing the smokescreen Rus
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by mopsi 3mo ago
> With Donetsk and Lugansk, Russia did not annex; those areas seceded from Ukraine, declared independence and fought a protracted war against the Ukrainian Army for some years. The European Court of Human Rights investigated this
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by mopsi 3mo ago
> Russia shouldn’t tolerate NATO troops stationed on one of its longest land borders. There weren't any anywhere in Eastern Europe before Russia invaded Ukraine.
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by mopsi 3mo ago
> NATO is certainly participating: > * It supplies most ammunition and arms and much of the equipment. NATO is a coordination office. Its purpose is to provide the higher levels of command structure to coordinate multi-natio
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by mopsi 3mo ago
Rechargeable batteries have become very good and very cheap. IKEA sells 4xAA batteries for 8€, made in Japan, last 500-1000 cycles. Many "non-user-serviceable" devices actually have them inside; they're just not accessible wi
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by mopsi 3mo ago
"The Great Patriotic War" is a propagandistic term that selectively frames the war as something that happened between 1941 and 1945, to obscure USSR's role in the first few years of the war. It diverts attention from the join
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by mopsi 3mo ago
What a load of nonsense. When the USSR collapsed in 1991, the citizens of the USSR had to choose their future. If they were in countries that declared independence from the USSR as it was falling apart, they could become citizens of those c
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by mopsi 3mo ago
> And Estonian patriots enthusiastically helped[0] German Nazis make Estonia the first judenfrei (free of Jews) country if you don't count Luxembourg.[1] They famously didn't. The German occupation authorities' pre
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by mopsi 3mo ago
It is not about the longevity of the medium, but control and preservation. If something is on a disk and can be played or viewed without requiring a revokable permission, then you can preserve it and access it any time you want. If you need
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by mopsi 3mo ago
Steam is an exception. It's privately-owned and reasonably well-managed. In another 20 years, private equity might very well take it over and give it a customary milking. You have no way of preventing the loss of access to everything y
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by mopsi 3mo ago
Thank you! That was not available the last time I checked.
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by mopsi 3mo ago
Does Immich support read-only source folders yet? I'd like to keep the original files intact, but allow Immich to index them.
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by mopsi 3mo ago
That's also a good argument for completely removing rainbow flags from everything, in more countries than one. Will we see that happening?
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by mopsi 3mo ago
To add to this, sneakers with a barely visible fuzzy fabric bottom are one of the best examples of tariff engineering: https://www.gazetc.com/blog/2010/08/sneaking-through-us-cust...
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by mopsi 3mo ago
There was nothing "American-led" about the fact that societies that had been forced by Russia into submission for the entirety of the Cold War rushed toward whatever alliances they could to prevent the same thing from ever happeni
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by mopsi 4mo ago
> I've had enough. Time for a Swiss foreign policy. George Washington was right: No foreign entanglements or peacetime alliances. We'll handle our continent, and you handle yours. Cooperation with allies has lasted so
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by mopsi 4mo ago
> This is 101-level UN stuff. If Ukrainian diplomats were unaware that Russia can veto Security Council resolutions, that means they were totally incompetent. There are ways around it, if there's a will: https://e
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by mopsi 4mo ago
"UN Security Council action" is a broad term that can include deployment of international UN-led military forces, as in the Korean War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Command A few years prior t
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by mopsi 4mo ago
The brainrotting effects of social media are increasingly being recognized. The effects of porn are not as noticeable in schools and workplaces.
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by mopsi 4mo ago
Indeed. The 2004 chat snippet is notable because it displayed attitude that was uncommon at the time. Zuck made it mainstream.
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by mopsi 4mo ago
"Amazing" is a little generous for script kiddie stuff from the early 2000s. The author has yet to learn the extent to which civilization depends on people not being cunts to one another for no good reason.
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by mopsi 4mo ago
I prefer not to have views of my home permanently archived and made available to anyone in the world, unless they can present a reasonable need for it. City planners? Go ahead. Local people for navigation purposes? Go ahead. But some random
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by mopsi 4mo ago
> Heck, I hate street views disfigured by huge privacy blobs. Why should you - from the other side of the planet - have an unrestricted view into my front garden at your fingertips?

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