nivenkos

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by nivenkos 4y ago
The centrist mindset is just "Russia is bad. This was a bad thing. Therefore Russia must have done it." That's as deep as it goes.
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No it won't, because now they have no alternative. Before, the protesters wanted to force the government to open NS2 and end the gas crisis. Now there is no alternative.
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Just look at cancel culture. It can be anything from opposing the war in Ukraine to opposing lockdowns, or mandatory masks, etc.
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The biggest weakness IMO is that you still have to memorise the transitivity of every root verb.
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Interlingua is even better for the Romance mutual intelligibility. Esperanto has a lot of Slavic and Germanic influence too.
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Why? The USA has absolute power over Europe. This is just a demonstration of that. No country will complain or do anything. And it'll just be forgotten about like the extraordinary renditions, the May 1947 crises, etc.
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https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2022/09/02/diplomacy-watch...
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The UK is in much better shape than Hungary, Poland, Germany and Italy...
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by nivenkos 4y ago
By building nuclear power plants and electrifying industry over the last 15 years since the Litvinenko poisoning, etc. But joining the war this year was crazy given the current situation, Europe is doomed.
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More than my mortgage payment, utter insanity. And to think you can get an Xbox Series X for around 500 EUR now. PC Gaming is dead.
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US salaries are often triple even Western European salaries. Like at Amazon I earnt about $75k in Western Europe, the same job in the USA would be $165k (you can see the bands). And that's before even considering the tax differences. T
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And literally the mafia in Sicily if you're talking about the USA.
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Yeah, with Zola, Hyde, etc. and Github pages there's really no excuse. Makes it so hard to refer to in the future.
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Exactly, I remember when the internet was heralded as a step against racism by removing any bias you normally see - like skin colour, accent, etc. But now a set of Americans seem dedicated to shoehorn it in. It seems bizarre that everyone f
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by nivenkos 4y ago
I find the hardest thing is having something deep enough that I'd want to write about it, and feel that it'd be useful to refer to in the future or for others to read. Normally I do it alongside FOSS contributions, etc. - but with
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Looks amazing, I'll have to see if I can set it up on desktop mode for the docked Steam Deck.
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And Azerbaijan...
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Now I just miss Rust when writing Scala.
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Research in Academia... in Europe. I was paid ~30k.
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> I find this a bit condescending. Is it? I moved from ML and Physics research to optimising the sale of imaginary currencies in mobile games, because the pay and stability is so much better. It's a great shame that academia is terr
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The rich will flee to Hawaii and NZ, etc. meanwhile we suffer the consequences of their decisions with electricity and natural gas shortages, hyper-inflation and rising interest rates. The government should bring in capital controls and sei
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Wow, it sounds even more interesting than OpenTTD with CargoDist and FIRS.
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Tax wealth, not income.
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It isn't for no reason. You don't have to agree with them to understand their position in supporting the self-determination of Russian descendants in the Donbass after Euromaidan, and in not recognising Khrushchev's arbitrary
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by nivenkos 4y ago
But it's Europe's decision to effectively attack Russia that has caused the problem though. We could've just stayed neutral and opened NS2 and avoided any issues, whilst investing in nuclear power for the future. There was no
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by nivenkos 4y ago
Algeria hasn't been very stable either though: https://elpais.com/economia/2021-10-31/argelia-cierra-el-gas... https://www.france24.com/es/europa/20220428-amenazas-corte-s...
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by nivenkos 4y ago
> Europe could have chosen the US as a trading partner over Russia For 1000x the price maybe. LNG is crazy expensive to produce, handle and transport. And the USA is very, very far away.
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Even back with the poisoning of Litvinenko, etc. But tbh even since the 1970s, we know peak oil is coming. Nuclear fission and fusion plus full electrification of industry, transport and homes, and renewable energy investment should be abso
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As a European, we know - we've already lost ~25% of the value of our savings and purchasing power between double-digit inflation and the Euro crashing >20% in less than a year. But our governments are so committed to this path, ther
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That's how GANs work...

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