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by nickpp 5y ago
Buffer to what? Russia already has a sizable NATO border.
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by nickpp 5y ago
Oh you mean the government that won the elections promising to bring Ukraine into Europe, then made a full 180 into Russia's waiting arms - thus proving itself Putin's puppet and betrayer of its people? The same government Putin w
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by nickpp 5y ago
The price to stop a madman with nukes and drunk with power increases with time and appeasements. You may hope that sacrificing people and countries now to his insane desires will buy the rest of the world time, but in reality that time will
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by nickpp 5y ago
And yet it is Russia invading and killing its neighbors as we speak, not the US (which admittedly is quite far from perfect too). As someone who lived under Soviet occupation, we never had any doubt which one is the evil empire. Joining NAT
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by nickpp 5y ago
The question is if there is any PC video card able to connect to this display.
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by nickpp 5y ago
In the latest Windows 11 there are a bunch of native OS dialog which are not high-dpi aware and look pixelated on my 4K monitor. If even Microsoft can’t be bothered, what do you expect from app developers?!
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by nickpp 5y ago
If it’s a matter of dosage then who knows how many joints they smoked in the 70s vs how many hits today?
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by nickpp 5y ago
There is a dead (why?!) sibling comment: most of the refugees are women and children. Male Ukrainian nationals between 18 and 60 years old aren’t allowed to leave the country.
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by nickpp 5y ago
How many distinct leaders in the last 20 years did Ukraine have and how many Russia? It’s not just "slightly" more democratic.
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by nickpp 5y ago
That was 80 years ago and since then the Soviet Communist regime killed more people than Hitler. Their "good deeds" are becoming thinner and thinner.
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by nickpp 5y ago
Putin's allies (the few that are left) are other dictators and madmen. The free world has a duty to protect and fight against them and others like them.
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by nickpp 5y ago
Serbia was an aggressor in the Yugoslavian Wars. Ukraine is just defending from an invasion.
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by nickpp 5y ago
Motives matter too. Bombing of Serbia was to stop a bellicose regime and the humanitarian crisis it was creating. It was like bombing Russia right now, which I'd support fully hearted, if it was a possibility.
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by nickpp 5y ago
I am afraid it's worse than that. Western oil and gas buyers paid for death and destruction of Ukraine. That means all of us. Our heating and gas money financed Russian military. This is why it's so important right now to help Ukr
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by nickpp 5y ago
Salaries closer aligned with the productivity in our field will massively increase inequality.
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by nickpp 5y ago
We could have a nuclear accident every year and it still wouldn't equal the damage we are doing burning fossil fuels. But as airplane crashes became rarer the more we flew, so will nuclear accidents the more we build and use nuclear po
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by nickpp 5y ago
Classic counterexample being Tim’s predecessor, Steve Jobs who took Apple from the brink and changed it into the most successful company of all time.
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by nickpp 5y ago
Right here, debating with y’all the merits of tabs versus spaces.
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by nickpp 5y ago
Every puppet has his or her limit though.
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by nickpp 5y ago
And what if Ukrainians disagree? Maybe because they prefer freedom and choosing their own destiny?
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by nickpp 5y ago
Nuclear is expensive due to red tape and onerous regulations. Those exist in such exaggerated amounts because of green's antinuclear lobby. Turns out environmentalists of the 20th century are directly responsible for global warming.
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by nickpp 5y ago
How does all that compare to continuing to burn coal and gas and dumping humongous quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere? Maybe nuclear waste storage is not yet solved, but it is a long term problem while global warming is already here. I’d
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by nickpp 5y ago
Sorry, I didn't know. That's horrifying.
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by nickpp 5y ago
Both the PRC and NK are the (ideological) children of USSR.
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by nickpp 5y ago
Also he lived his first 38 years under the Soviets, working in one of their most emblematic institutions, the KGB. He is not only a product of the inhumane ideology that drove the USSR, he embodies it. You can see it in his disregard of hum
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by nickpp 5y ago
Everybody has done much worse over the years. But today, right now, it's Russia invading and killing their neighbors.
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by nickpp 5y ago
The dictator's playbook is always the same...
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by nickpp 5y ago
Yeah, I know it's trendy and useful to muddy the waters convince people we're all the same but we aren't really: some of us invade and kill their neighbors when they show signs of becoming "too independent".
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by nickpp 5y ago
You are reading wrong: I am in Eastern Europe and I have Russians ancestry so hating Russians would mean hating myself. I can't do much really and I am just wondering here how we can solve this mess...
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by nickpp 5y ago
"Imagine if the good guys were bad and the bad guys good." But they aren't. And you know why? Because you can't have creativity and innovations without freedom. You can't have money and success without a population

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