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by thriftwy 3y ago
During the golden age of mp3/flac KDE's Amarok was awesome, later it had a subpar upgrade to 3.x and was forked off as Clementine, and now Clementine is also becoming creaky...
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Soviet luxury cars for big bosses were called that also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAZ_Chaika I guess when you don't live near the coast, seagulls have this romantic, sea faring, travel vibe.
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Why would you ever expect the opposite, i.e. American students of adventurous, New World colonizing and even Wild West background, to be less rebellous than Chinese students with a family history of 50 generations of tending to a rice field
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It depends. Consumption standards weren't higher, but people had stable income, low-ish crime and industrial economy. Of course it was also untenable.
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> instead of saddling the German people with mountains of debt and economic punishment, they sought to rebuild They did unlearn that lesson by the time Cold War ended...
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It's more creepy.
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We now know that mafias are endorsed by the (deep) state. This is after the situation in Salvador where the government has apparently jailed every single gang member and murder rates fell to average Latin American rates. If Japan wanted Ya
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Why UAE and not Romania does indeed look like a question. Most pre-existing conditions are irrelevant in light of spending $7T. https://www.cpushack.com/2022/09/29/socialist-romania-comput...
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Why would USSR have this famine in Russia and Kazakhstan if the goal was "to subjugate Ukraine"? Indeed why would it even suddenly need subjugating if it was part of Russian state for at least two centuries. If you have any compla
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I mostly see men who care about someone else's truth and justice, while having this huge leeway for things happening in their own backyard, which they objectively cannot affect.
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So you are saying that similar repressive policies were not implemented in present-day Russia and Kazakhstan? Is there any research into comparative severity of policies? As far as I know, Russian peasantry was absolutely not spared in the
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The documents (PDFs linked inline in the article) are insightful. I haven't checked the metadata and my PDF viewer reports correctable encoding errors, but the contents look legit: language/jargon gives no reason to suggest these
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The absense of such campaign would mean that Kremlin has so low esteem of Zelensky that they think any replacement would be to their detriment. And this is even after taking the collateral damage to the Ukrainian image as a whole into accou
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Since bullshit is so cheap, why wouldn't everybody run a campaign to undermine everybody else they don't like at the same time? State actors sure have money to do this.
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> The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union. What does that have to do with hypothetical hatred of Ukrainians?
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I'm not sure why I will be doing all that. A great Ukrainian folk song Zhuravel' was rediscovered by Chstyakov I believe, and is now fertilizing the Russian culture. And it is also obviously in Russian: https://forum.d-
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> Well thank you for that well sourced critique I'm not persuading you to think like that. But the thing is, many Russians see this war as civil war. And that's not unreasonable.
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Okay, okay, so? The point is, there's a hell of a lot of songs, books, science articles, movies, video games and other kinds of content in Russian now . It's standardized, everybody can read, speak and write it. Things are going
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Okay, okay, I don't disagree. Perhaps Russian language is a dialect of Ukrainian. No worries. I don't understand a word of Polish text.
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Еней був парубок моторний І хлопець хоть куди козак, На лихо здався він проворний, Завзятіший од всіх бурлак. So you are saying this is not a dialect of Russian? Any Russian can understand 50% of this text right off ba
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They are mostly in place. You can get "Ukrainian as native tongue" lessons in these "new regions". Not sure about LDNR as there's some stigma, plus the fact that all those regions are predominantly Russian speaking.
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Surzhik spoken everywhere east of Dnieper, in Kiev and and Odessa certainly is a dialect continuum with Russian. Most often it's simply Russian with a Swadesh list of 100 words replaced by their Ukrainian counterpairs, whenever possibl
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by thriftwy 3y ago
> Occitan native speakers: Estimates range from 100,000 to 800,000 total speakers (2007–2012) No assimilation and cultural genocide policy in any form. It has just dwindled to these numbers on its own. Also has no relation to the topic t
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I'm pretty sure that Parisiens saw all other kinds of frenchmen as untermenschen and actively eradricated their languages until, like, late XX century. Since they held absolute political powers nobody was even there to question it. Com
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Russia gets to keep what it got so far¥ and everybody having to deal with it? ¥ modulo international recognition, which Russia does not care that much about.
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So they basically just heroically breached Avdeevka because their boss shouted at them?
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Germans do distinguish between Prussian Germans and Bavarian Germans. Nevertheless it's the same country. Various types of Germans also did have a large number of wars agains one another. Russian position is indeed that Ukrainian claim
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Ukraine was busy closing Russian language schools all across country, including Donbass. The inconvenient truth is that such a policy didn't get any serious reversal during the reign of "pro-Russian, Donbass choice" Yanukovic
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But wasn't that the prime argument for the US previously? "Disregard the wars that the US gets into, have you seen their cars and houses?" And it did work for a long time. People would give you a lot of leeway if you had a ni
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It wasn't done to the full extent (Raiffeisenbank for starters) and does look petty. "We are not confiscating your money from the bank but when you call to withdraw them, we will pretend we can't hear you on the phone".

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