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> You see I even disagree with that. People don't accidentally discover the Guardian, NY Times, Washington Post, Le Monde, Le Figaro via Google, their muscle memory is trained to these publications because that's where they go
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The Economist and FT no, but a lot of the other more mainstream (read by a wider audience) media like Guardian, NY Times, Washington Post, Le Monde, Le Figaro, etc. depend a lot on Google traffic. There were numerous legal disputes over thi
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> unemployment rate dropped from 5.8% in 2020 to 2.3% in 2025 Because a massive amount of men were conscripted? > GDP is surging https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_broken_window Spending ~30% of the cou
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That's why RIA had an article announcing the successful taking of Ukraine ready and published it by mistake, right: https://web.archive.org/web/20220226051154/https://ria.ru/20... Right? Right?
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> Everyone there is doing fine. As long as they don't say anything critical against the regime. Or have the misfortune of flying in/around Russia while morons are at the trigger of surface to air missiles (cf. MH17 and Azerbaij
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> And the Russian military has gained real battle tested knowledge. Yes, on using human wave attacks, trenches, and cheap Iranian drones. Oh, and at the cost of almost all trained troops and modern equipment. Not a very good deal. > I
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Czechia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Vrb%C4%9Btice_ammunition_... Bulgaria: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/01/arms-dealer-10... Poland: https://www.the
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Doesn't sound like it's the fault of the website, but of your government and maybe CloudFlare (although they could be blocking you because of the TLS error's underlying reason, not because you're in Russia).
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> Even Proton Mail ended up ratting to the French, Answering to court orders isn't "ratting". You either answer court orders or go to prison.
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> Your basic hackernews believes that e.g. Google is out there selling all your personal information To add to this, any mention of "telemetry" is taken to mean your PII being taken by bad actors to abuse, instead of what it is
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What was indirect about it? Donating to the inauguration fund was clearly and directly a bribe.
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Indeed, it escalated quite quickly to somewhat under the table in the first term, but the second term hadn't already started and it was all out in the open. With some discontent (especially around the comic depicting it that got denied
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Nope, they are mainstream only among people paid by Russia, such as the Marine Le Pen's and Tim Pool's of the world and people who can see they're being paid by Russia, yet still decide to trust them and by extension Russian
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It's rare because it's wrong.
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> But in matters of foreign policy, the media is entirely controlled by the state Frankly, this is an insane opinion to hold. Go check what Le Monde and Le Figaro have to say on Israel, and then shut up. > If you want to know what act
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You continue with the false equivalences trying to smudge reality. And assuming that if I recognise facts, it's because I belong to the tribe that currently recognises those facts too. > The reason you're emotionally disregulat
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Thank you for proving my point. On one hand, we have the unquestionable and undeniable facts that Russia invaded Ukraine and is committing atrocities against its civilian population, up to and including literal genocide (kidnapping children
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Because that would only reinforce the already problematic bubbles where people only see what feeds their opinions, often to disastrous results (cf. the various epidemics and deaths due to anti-vaxxers or even worse, downright genocides).
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While unlikely, there have been issues before that took decades to surface (e.g. Aloha Airlines where a 737 manufactured more than a decade earlier became a cabriolet due to Boeing underestimating sea water corrosion and short flight cycles
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It's hard to take this comparison seriously because Rocket League is a (mostly) online game for which an active connection to active servers (and thus a cost to the developer). Also, there is no burnt husk. It's like you paying to
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> many of the most popular programming languages like Go and Python use them as part of their syntax Go doesn't use tabs or whitespace as a part of its syntax. It's a part of the formatting, but not the syntax of the language.
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Only if you ignore reality and redefine science with an absurdly narrow definition (mostly focused on trans folks) and ignore everything else. One side claims absolutely ironclad proven wrong things like "ectopic pregnancies can just b
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> This is false. Power usage everywhere is highest when the sun is shining While the biggest peak is around midday, the second biggest is in the evening (most people are home, cooking, watching TV/listening to music/playing vid
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> You can go to like 60-80% renewable with barely any storage in the system That depends on the renewable type (e.g. 60% hydro is fine; 60% solar is not, because the sun goes down at night, and there can be extended periods of overcast w
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> The BBC is not only a domestic tool, but a global tool for controlling the image of the British state and perceived lack of corruption And they control it by exposing that the MI5 is covering woman abusing pedophiles ?
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As worrying as this story is, I find it interesting and consoling that the BBC, which is a state owned media, didn't hesitate and even strongly pushed to investigate and publish a story of abuse at another government agency. They weren

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