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by thriftwy 3y ago
"Country Blocked Access to this page is forbidden"
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by thriftwy 3y ago
It's no longer original if it happened on some other website.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Such mosaics were very popular in ex-USSR. Many of these are lost or degraded now, but some remain in good shape and preserved.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
That does sound high profile. Why did they tour him through Russia though? Talk about unwanted attention. And why ruin this lucrative business via stupid fraud?
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Why did they burn it to the ground them? Why does Petlinsky, who tells the whole story, talks to Spiegel in Dubai? Why the prospective spy Marsalek is driven around the country and gets to know all the namedrops? If something, it seems that
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by thriftwy 3y ago
> The anti-revolutionary activities were being orchestrated by the FSB’s Fifth Service, the Russian organization’s foreign intelligence arm. One can only wonder what SBU was doing in the meantime...
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by thriftwy 3y ago
What was in it for Russia? The missing 1.9 billions would be an interesting asset for e.g. NK secret services, but for Russia it's a drop in a bucket.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
What about ATP? We depend on it but it has to come from somewhere. See https://shkrobius.livejournal.com/401292.html
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Russian has a huge population of native Russian speakers who understand all lexical, grammatic and phonetic quirks of their language. Then they call the shots.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Why not just ask LLM whether it thinks the snippet is kooky, before adding it into LLM training set? You don't need tools in the age of AI, just ass an AI pipeline step.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I have them on the bottom for 20 years. The first thing I'll change on fresh system. Glad I won't need to do that anymore. I wonder if "new tab" button is always visible now too.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I'm using KDE for 20 years already because it has great miscellaneous apps (though it's less important in 2024), slick integration between components and nice all-encompassing settings app. I do tweak a few things when I boot up
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by thriftwy 3y ago
KDE should probably invest in better defaults if these need tweaking. People don't usually dig in the settings menu unless something is bothering them. If there are great opt-in features they're going to stay off.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
> Wild boars are neither endangered, nor are they native to Norway, so those do not detract from conservationist efforts in any way That's exactly the spirit, right. The West will invent the rules, according to which it does not hav
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by thriftwy 3y ago
So in Russia there's this Pleistocene Park, which is a part of tundra where grazing animals are left to be in hopes of recovering the ancient arctic steppe landscape. I hope they still exist and get some finance in the current polit-ec
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Non-reactive usually implies forever chemical.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
That does sound line a Unity moment. I wonder if the execs really learn nothing, or they enjoy conjuring competition out of thin air.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
What if it's "dwindle" or "oscillate not far from zero" for humanity?
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by thriftwy 3y ago
A lot of dynamic systems go off the rails and destruct, though. We haven't seen any population rebounds yet. Not even close.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
But these (the fleeing and fighting ones) are not my people. My people are living sparsely (but overurbanized) and have not enough children. Totally not obliged to welcome them in, though with modern political world structure will have no c
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by thriftwy 3y ago
You assume that population will stabilize despite fertility falling univerasally all around the globe (with tiny but highly unpleasant exceptions). The economic issues are only projected to get worse. There are no known mechanisms for ferti
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by thriftwy 3y ago
So you're expecting that somebody else will start doing the right thing instead of you?
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Why would they want to beat up Japan? What's in it for China?
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Perhaps not to zero, maybe it was just an "algae bloom" of humanity. From which it would dwindle to half a billion thinly distibuted around the globe. And that's a medium scenario. If some kind of collapse happens, we may dip
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Why? Why do you assume that people ever start procreating, when they are below replacement most everywhere? When does it stop? Why do you assume it does?
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by thriftwy 3y ago
China will very soon have exactly the same "old and tired" problems. What are they going to do, beat each other with clutches while being accompanied by their drip lines? And why?
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Many of the countries claimed they are service sector dominated, until they understood that service sector jobs are basically menial, low income positions doing things that do not scale. There is proliferation of those. I can't imagin
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by thriftwy 3y ago
With both Japan and Ukraine leading in depopulation, no amount of population swapping between them will save either one.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Quite obvious, I want there to be more people if my culture around, whereas I do not mind whether the rest of the cultures dwindle to the numbers more appropriate for them. Everybody is more or less like that, and here is where the issue ro
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How is that solar shade of yours coming along?

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