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by paganel 3y ago
I’m exactly like that, this is why I can browse the web with no ad-blocker installed with almost no issue, by default I just ignore all banners. Curiously enough the same thing does not happen when watching regular TV programs. I’ve stopped
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by paganel 3y ago
We were very self-sufficient, autarchic, you could say, the only actual money that we were daily exchanging was for bread and stuff that was difficult to grow locally (this was a mountain village), such as tomatoes or melons, but those only
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by paganel 3y ago
Even if they're non-Americans, this is a verily heavily American-influenced forum so the people here most probably have more American habits compared to the average people in their countries. > That's a bit universal for what&#
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by paganel 3y ago
I could see that happening, in the mid-1990s me, my brother and my grandma were still spending a day or two every autumn trying to get rid of those damn Colorado bugs, this was all happening in my grandma's potato field in an Eastern-E
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by paganel 3y ago
You're not going to eat re-heated food that you've had at the restaurant a few hours prior, no-one who cares about food ever does (unless you're an American, maybe).
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by paganel 3y ago
>NB that "returning money to the shareholders" is ultimately what companies are for That's debatable in many instances of the modern economic system. Of course, some instances of capitalism focus on that particular goal yo
907.
by paganel 3y ago
The BBC going at it, as usual. They've been on a roll the last couple of years, a step up though compared to "Gaddafi's soldiers are high on Viagra all the time!!" [1] [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/wo
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by paganel 3y ago
Plus, there were no sidewalks to begin with, the road in my grandma's village close to the Carpathians Mountains still hasn't got one (they've only paved over what it used to be the village road about 10 years ago). And peopl
909.
by paganel 3y ago
That mostly says something about the socio-economic status of the people commenting in here, going to any big Walmart-like store in the Western world most of the bikes for sale there are still made of steel, not of aluminium or other light
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by paganel 3y ago
Going by my (bad) analogy, in theory, yes, that is what that would mean. More to the point, if we're not able to decide whenever it is exactly that an apple stops being an apple once we start eating it that could mean that the apple-ne
911.
by paganel 3y ago
I was commenting it from the other side, i.e. I see this as a "fear campaign" (for lack of a better expression) carried out by Western intelligence services. All of the sudden we should trust the CIA that there are unidentified dr
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by paganel 3y ago
The Switchblade has been a failure in the most recent conflict in Ukraine, the Ukrainians themselves have come up with much better and, more importantly, much cheaper alternatives.
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by paganel 3y ago
At least this is a step from "Chinese weather balloons have invaded the contiguous territory of the United States!". I wonder what they'll come up with next.
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by paganel 3y ago
Are you sure you have two apples on your desk? What happens if you take a small bite? Is it still two apples? When will said apple "cease" to exist as an unit while you're eating it? If the Old Greeks [1] haven't been ab
915.
by paganel 3y ago
The IAEA is in fact the only institution that I can trust from that list, Iraq 2003 made me trust them, but I'd leave anything WHO-related as politically-tainted (this recent pandemic has proved it) and, as I've said, anything dir
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by paganel 3y ago
> No adverse health effects among Fukushima residents or power station workers have been documented that are directly attributable to radiation exposure from the accident. Not the OP, but who has done those studies? Were they an independ
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by paganel 3y ago
I stand by my point, if half of the population can be ideologically "switched"/manipulated by a smartphone app then the original ideology (I would assume liberal-democracy in the case of US) wasn't that heavily implanted
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by paganel 3y ago
If American democracy goes down because of "foreign influencers" from platforms like TikTok then it means that it wasn't all that strong to begin with.
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by paganel 3y ago
Splitting up needs to happen for big and monopolistic US companies, no ifs, no buts. That is if they still want to keep a technological edge in the next 10-15 years. I personally don’t think that the forced split-up will happen, the direct
920.
by paganel 3y ago
It makes it more honest, for one thing. And second, it may sound as a paradox, but those authoritarian leaders are more connected with the masses and their needs (and vice-versa) compared to a pseudo-democratic and very opaque assembly comp
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by paganel 3y ago
Let us care for ourselves, we did just fine before (we actually fought the Soviets/Russians on their home turf before, unlike the majority of the Western countries), and use those troops you mention for the defense of your own realms,
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by paganel 3y ago
My country, Romania, has no effective say in this matter at the EU level. As for the European Parliament and its democratic legitimacy, the lesser said the better. We also used to have “elected” representatives under Ceausescu’s Romania, wi
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by paganel 3y ago
My country, Romania, had in fact signed a pact with the USSR after 1989, so not all Eastern European countries would have been against it.
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by paganel 3y ago
> their goal is up to Lisbon That was in fact Mitterand's goal in late 1989 - early 1990, the other way round, that is, until the Americans (well, the honorable James Baker) freaked out and nothing came out of it. I still think from
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by paganel 3y ago
Because, firstly, EU is not a country, I'm a EU citizen and I certainly do not approve of this policy but there's no way for me (or for other people who think the same as me) to vote out the people that make those decisions (I&#x2
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by paganel 3y ago
The banning happens before anyone gets to publish anything, so, no, I cannot tell you exactly what samizdat copies of Ion Antonescu biographies there are in the wild. What I can link to is stuff like this [1], meaning the US Embassy here
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by paganel 3y ago
That's just lame, sorry to say it. I'll start with the end by saying that most probably voice command won't work in a downpour, for the simple reason that downpours are usually associated with lots of noise that will cancel o
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by paganel 3y ago
There are lots of books that don't get published in ideologically-controlled Western countries anymore. For example trying to write a balanced biography of the military leader that got us (Romania) into WW2 [1] alongside the Germans ha
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by paganel 3y ago
These are direct quotes from the article: > However, the researchers discovered that these environmental barriers do not consistently favor Eurasia over other continents. This finding directly challenges Diamond’s assertion that Eurasia’
930.
by paganel 3y ago
We'll have to wait and see, for the moment I think it's mere posturing coming from some European leaders. To begin with, the European nuclear deterrent when it comes to keeping Russian on their toes is a joke compared to what the

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