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by supergirl 5y ago
Russians have hardship engrained. War is always a fear for them because of what theu’ve been through in WW2. They will not renounce Putin so easily because they believe him when he says this is to avoid a bigger war with NATO
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by supergirl 5y ago
how does stopping selling food in russia punish putin exactly? he’ll just have to switch to eating only the finest caviar domestically sourced instead of cereals? I find it morally questionable that all these corps stopped business in Russ
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by supergirl 5y ago
why do the hackers disclose the hack though? why not keep it silent and abuse more seems pretty easy to hack a SaaS anyway. just need to phish an engineering employee account. often they have superuser access to debug customer issues
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by supergirl 5y ago
yeah that talk is designed to reinforce your bias by mixing a bit of history to make it look scientific. just watch a real history of Russia lecture. you’re basically watching a history lecture from a career spy instead of from a historian.
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by supergirl 5y ago
My point was the explanations in the video are shower thoughts. If you want to understand why Russia is how it is just read a real history work on Russia not this guy’s shower thoughts
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by supergirl 5y ago
> Evaluation of Russia by Finnish Intelligence Colonel I can't take this talk seriously. it's just a bunch of history bits used to explain and reinforce stereotypes about Russians. "Russians like strong leaders" becau
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by supergirl 5y ago
> The author may not _like_ that these are trusted, mainstream, popular sources Because that's not what I'm searching for. Even if we all agree all the Russian sites are propaganda, I still want to be able to search through it.
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by supergirl 5y ago
a search engine is meant for searching text about whatever I ask it. I don’t need it to vet the result based on geopolitics. If I search for “Putin invasion speech” I want articles that show me what Putin said about the invasion ranked
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by supergirl 5y ago
BBC is just way way better at it, way more subtle, having been doing this for 100 years. When push comes to shove they toe the line just like Russian or Chinese media. RT just doesn't have the same funding or talent to make stories mor
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by supergirl 5y ago
well Russia has the money for now, but the West seized it or just refuses to accept any payments from Russia. so it'll only be in "default" for whoever doesn't want to get paid. pretty sure they will pay Chinese investor
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by supergirl 5y ago
> Brave Search doesn’t use secret methods or algorithms to bias or censor results I'm sold. Then I open and type "rt". The autocomplete tells me this is a "state controlled Russia network", while for BBC it says
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by supergirl 5y ago
considering USSR got the brunt of WW2, it's not that bad. peak of USSR was in the 60s anyway, so you should compare at that time. in the 90s, USSR didn't exist anymore
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by supergirl 5y ago
so when Russia constantly says that the West is out to get them, they might actually be right? if FB is so blatant about supporting (yeah, in some countries) violence against Russians, I can't even imagine what goes on in secret.
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by supergirl 5y ago
the USSR didn't do too bad. NK just didn't start with much. Russia has a lot of tech. but look at NK: they have internet, developed nuclear weapons, trying to launch satellites, surviving covid (I assume), did not get invaded by U
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by supergirl 5y ago
what's the bug? that Mozilla should ban this certificate so the West can successfully disrupt Russia's internet?
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by supergirl 5y ago
the leaders of the West are so bad at their jobs of keeping the West safe. the old leaders knew not to push Russia into a corner, considering they got nukes. for example, they made sure the fall of USSR was not too chaotic. the leaders we g
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by supergirl 5y ago
when shit hits the fan, the West is no better than a dictatorship. it's only a fluffy democracy when there is no danger and the war is far away. we got the "free" media blasting every line from the government without any scru
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by supergirl 5y ago
that's funny considering that gambling is so restricted in the Netherlands: only state owned casinos are allowed and online gambling is not allowed
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by supergirl 5y ago
it’s not that Russia can’t pay. the article says Russia probably will choose not to pay. So I don’t think those things apply; it’s not a typical default
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by supergirl 5y ago
sounds like the prediction is that Russia will choose not to pay not that it can’t pay. since the West is confiscating all assets it doesn’t make sense to keep paying debt to the West indeed
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by supergirl 5y ago
"suspend". so they are waiting until it's politically correct to sell diabetes again?
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by supergirl 5y ago
oh, time to get my coins out then, I guess. don't wanna get accidentally marked by some clever script
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Tell HN: Google removes Russian news from results
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by supergirl 5y ago
yes, whether Ukraine would actually launch such a bomb is debatable. it's not like it would change the tide of the war, it would be mostly for revenge. war is very unpredictable. I wouldn't rule out anything.
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by supergirl 5y ago
anything is possible in war. if Ukraine was on the brink of losing everything and they had nuclear weapons, would they not use them against Russia? that's the whole point. if your state is about to cease to exist, you are desperate. fo
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by supergirl 5y ago
> China really don’t care one bit about Russia what's the alternative? does the West care about Russia?
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by supergirl 5y ago
they are slowly ramping up, hoping the west will start to negotiate without having to bomb too much. I guess they might have to in the end
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by supergirl 5y ago
yeah, it’s full throttle on domestic propaganda. it looks like NATO is eager to go to war with Russia. NATO could have avoided this war easily by giving some symbolic win to Russia, placing some sanctions and moving on. but they don’t budge
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by supergirl 5y ago
isn’t it the case that if the enemy launches ICBM you have more time to react than if they launch short rage rockets?
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by supergirl 5y ago
sorry to ruin your hope but it’s unlikely Russia will accept defeat here. they will go in with all they have. nothing to lose anymore.

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