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by mopsi 8mo ago
Noam Chomsky, the man who has spent years analyzing propaganda, is himself a propagandist. Whatever one thinks of Chomsky in general, whatever one thinks of his theories of media manipulation and the mechanisms of state power, Chomsky&
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Not only architecture. I recently saw a dirty Cybertruck and it looked like a cheap prop from a 1980s sci-fi movie. Made me think about how well the average Toyota is designed that it manages to look good even on a cloudy day while covered
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by mopsi 8mo ago
That shows the importance of listening to users. I too tried to learn Blender before the UI overhaul, but with prior 3ds max experience, Blender was infuriatingly counterintuitive; for example, it used the right mouse button instead of the
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by mopsi 9mo ago
Early this month, I was browsing the same sites I always do when Safari on my iPhone suddenly became very sluggish. I closed Safari and reopened it, and poof! Everything was gone: favorites, history, open tabs, everything. This kind of BS h
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by mopsi 9mo ago
> Of course the rhetoric changed as the situation changed. Blaming NATO is just another such rhetoric, put forward because it is the most advantageous in the current situation. It activates fools who begin self-flagellation, and
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by mopsi 9mo ago
> If you look at old interviews of Putin Yes, let's do that: https://x.com/adnashmyash/status/1977146505900573089 2008: "Crimea is not disputed territory of Ukraine, and the issues of Russ
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by mopsi 9mo ago
These were empty words of consolation after the allies decided not to invite Ukraine and Georgia into NATO. Eventually, you will receive a million bucks from me. I am not giving you any timeline or conditions, but trust me, you are on an ir
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by mopsi 9mo ago
That's the beauty of it: the base refuses to even acknowledge that it is a tax, and that it is paid by Americans. The word "tariff" bypasses decades of anti-taxation programming with astonishing ease.
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"Tariff" is indeed a beautiful word; one that led the most virulent anti-taxation crowd to passionately support new taxes. It's a fantastic example of how much the choice of words matters.
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He was mentally disturbed, which kinda proves the point. After returning to Germany, he stabbed a woman for rejecting his advances. Later, he was convicted of shoplifting, and a few years after that he was convicted again of selling stolen
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That tells more about your googling skills than about the availability of the material: https://xcancel.com/maxnesterak/status/2008961959731859757
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> After that, despite his campaign promises to fix relationship with Russia, he never personally met Putin officially. (The only time he met Putin, in an official capacity, was in 2019, with French President Macron and German Chance
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We have seen time and time again how this approach does not work and only invites further aggression. Zelenskyy himself campaigned on, got elected and began pursuing the same things that you suggest: economic development, anti-corruption, a
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by mopsi 9mo ago
> That is where we Indians got lucky. Our founding leaders were smart enough to realise that India joining NATO would lead to China and / or Russia becoming our enemy or India forming a military alliance with Russia would make
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Every time I see this site posted, I can't help but think this is what Wikipedia and other online sources could be. I loved Encarta for all the interactive things I could play with. Instead, for most things, we are stuck with Markdown
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by mopsi 9mo ago
Any topic with little coverage in the training data. LLMs will keep circling around the small bits in the training data, unable synthesize new connections. This is very obvious when trying to use LLMs to modify scripts in vendor-specific la
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by mopsi 9mo ago
A new monument to Soviet leader Josef Stalin was unveiled in the southern Russian city of Volgograd on Wednesday to mark the 80th anniversary of the Soviet victory in the battle of Stalingrad — as Volgograd was known until 1961 — a key
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by mopsi 9mo ago
Polite rejection letters often end with an upbeat, noncommittal note about the possibility of things being different in an undefined future. Saying that this opened the door for Georgia and Ukraine into NATO is incorrect; the allies decided
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by mopsi 9mo ago
There was no such thing as 2008 Bucharest Memorandum, you are probably confusing it with the 1994 Budapest Memorandum. But NATO did hold a summit in Bucharest in 2008. Ukraine and Georgia hoped to get invitations to join NATO. Under Russian
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The former commander-in-chief of Russian ground forces recently gave an interview in which he said that everyone expected Ukraine to fall within three days, due to severe intelligence mistakes regarding Ukraine that reinforced the belief th
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by mopsi 9mo ago
Sony is perhaps a good example. Most of the product categories that they became known for, like radios, cassette players, analog TVs and VCRs, are gone, replaced by PCs, smartphones, Playstation and their media empire and industrial product
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It is always a good idea to have at least a rough understanding of how much operations in your code cost, but sometimes very expensive mistakes end up in non-obvious places. If I have only plain Python installed and a .py file that I want t
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by mopsi 9mo ago
Rejection of fashion has always seemed like a fear of failure to me. Trying to dress well means exposing yourself to evaluation, comparison and the possibility of getting it wrong. The traditions and standards of fashion have accumulated ov
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The largest buyer is Hungary, which is not representative of the EU in general to put it mildly, but a darling of the American far-right. Hungary has also been blocking many of EU's support initiatives: https://www.politico.
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It has more to do with Mafia traditions. Attack dogs like Medvedev and Rogozin[1] threaten to burn everything down if you don't pay up, and Putin plays the more dignified philosopher who sits on a high chair in a mansion and speaks in
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by mopsi 10mo ago
If I recall correctly, Vladimir Chirkin (commander-in-chief of Russian ground forces 2012-2013) said that in the 27 November 2025 interview with Yuri Tamantsev on RBC. I went back to verify it, but the entire interview is now missing from b
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by mopsi 10mo ago
> Since when is it OK for governments to sanction people when they are lawfully expressing disagreement with Govt policies or views? When it stops being a disagreement over policy and becomes a paid job for a foreign government t
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> Loners would be taken care of by the state. They don't wither. How? Where does the state take scarves and tomatoes from if we only produce as much as we need within our own circle and exchange them solely among friends? Th
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Lived in the USSR; it is best explored through small business and personal ownership instead of large words and manifestos. The thing is, work is hard. People need an incentive to put in the hours. If the state requisitions everything above
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> You are free to knit or whittle gifts for friends. What you wouldn't be free to do is setup "mopsi's scarf business" without working through the state. You wouldn't be allowed to take the earning from &quo

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