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by paganel 2y ago
There's a recent video with what look to be armed forces (weapons visible, to be more exact) entering a building which is labeled as the Parliament's building [1], so I'd call this a big thing. [1] https://x.com&#x
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by paganel 2y ago
> a couple of companies asked for my HN handle That's kind of shitty. I'm writing this down as in the last 2-3 years I've started to care less and less about any perceived veil (or hypocrisy, to be more honest) on website
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by paganel 2y ago
He did that in the past.
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by paganel 2y ago
> Can you explain your definition of "doxxing" Revealing people names and addresses and implying that they have done something illegal, while the person doing that (this Krebs guy) does not represent the Law/the relevant a
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by paganel 2y ago
That's the thing, plastic is not an "indulgence", is part of everyday life now, more than any other material.
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by paganel 2y ago
Without plastic modern consumerist society as we now experience it wouldn't be possible, as such, that party-goer from the movie The Graduate was very correct in the assumptions he made towards the end of the 1960s. Which is to say,
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by paganel 2y ago
This Krebs guy is a doxxer through and through, I wouldn't take anything that he writes down as being serious. If he thinks he knows something and he has palpable proof for it then he should contact the relevant authorities.
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by paganel 2y ago
The very fact of calling "computer programmers" as "ICs" is part of this syndrome, I'm not sure exactly when it started showing up, I'd say it was popularised by FAANGs, so maybe 2015-2016-ish?
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by paganel 2y ago
The problem with that is that it drains away your life energy in your late 20s and throughout your 30s, and in fact it's not only about draining one's energy, let's say that would be fine up to a point, but it drains away you
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by paganel 2y ago
> It would be beyond naive to assume that Russia would just announce "we're out of tanks, gonna call of the war now!". That is not how supply shortages affect a military. The West has been repeating the mantra of "the
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by paganel 2y ago
Trying to ignore MAD or limited nuclear war and treating them like they won't ever happen is beyond crazy, not sure what they feed you people there in the West in terms of propaganda but for sure it's working. Crazy stuff.
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by paganel 2y ago
You’re correct on that.
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by paganel 2y ago
> run out of quite a lot of equipment [0]. Come on, we're all grown-ups here, let's stop the charade like we're back in March or April of 2022. I'm too lazy to even link to all the Western magazine covers telling us
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by paganel 2y ago
> Do you think we are going to see more ICBMs repurposed for conventional strikes, possibly to avoid cruise missile defenses? As far as I can tell this was more like a warning for the Westerners that next time those ICBMs will be carryin
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by paganel 2y ago
At this point wouldn't it be cheaper to just move the capital to somewhere in the Midlands, and in so doing hitting two birds with one stone? I.e. decongesting London and giving (back) lots of economic opportunities to Midlands itself
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by paganel 2y ago
Russia will not stop taking its land in Kursk back because the Americans tell them to do so, this is just Western delusion, and, as I've said before on this forum, a complete misunderstanding coming from the Westerners on how Russia op
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by paganel 2y ago
Treated by whom?
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by paganel 2y ago
In military/strategic issues they certainly never had anything to say, not even during the dreadful ‘90s.
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by paganel 2y ago
> really needs to be dealt with. Ignoring the passive voice, who do you suggest should deal with that, more precisely? And how do you suggest "dealing" with one of the two nuclear hyper-powers in existence? (the other one bein
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by paganel 2y ago
The Russian oligarchs have no say in any of this, they never have, people in the West still repeating this mantra almost 3 years since the war in Ukraine has started for good is a big part of the reason why the same West is close to militar
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by paganel 2y ago
I'm not sure about Bhutan, because I've never been there, but for sure I think that middle-class life here in Romania (for those that can afford it) is a lot better and more relaxed than middle-class life in Norway (for starters,
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by paganel 2y ago
> Idealism? From some point on, yes, because the modern world was born on many past such idealists. Fetishising material goods and materialism as a whole are a very big explanation for the mess we're now all in at the civilisationa
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by paganel 2y ago
I'm putting all scientists in the same bucket, as they should be put. Science failed all of us miserably during this recent pandemic, but instead of us learning from that experience we continue down the path of "you stupid people
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by paganel 2y ago
Take that with a huge grain of salt, but I've read recently that Hitler was thinking of making Oxford Britain's capital if the German invasion would have successfully happened, so because of that he didn't bomb it. I cannot r
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by paganel 2y ago
> but are by definition past focused, To add to that, and because the GP had mentioned (a "virtual") Clausewitz, "human"/irl strategy itself has in many cases been too focused on said past and, because of that, h
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by paganel 2y ago
> Is gambling more or less harmful than alcohol? Not sure if a serious question, but, yes, it is a lot, a lot more harmful than alcohol. I'm close to mid-40s and by this point in life I got to know both alcoholics (the dreadful &#x2
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by paganel 2y ago
They're joke of tram systems. Yeah, for (West) Germany Munich is an exception, I guess (and I should have added it), but look at cities like Hamburg, which got rid fo their tram network completely back in the day [1]. To say nothing of
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by paganel 2y ago
It's not (only) the high-taxes on the local high-income people that have kept Vienna (and Austria as a whole) still in the game, it's also the fact that they did a sort of economic imperialism throughout Eastern Europe after the W
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by paganel 2y ago
Does the geology related to the current shale revolution from pretty much the same area have anything to do with that past sea? I’m just curious and too lazy to search for it now on my mobile phone
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by paganel 2y ago
> the gap in science that emerged during the Counter-Reformation was enormous, lasted centuries Was it now? I'd say France in the 1800s did a pretty good job about all the science stuff, and until Germany took the lead towards the e

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