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by thriftwy 3y ago
At the turn of XX century, in St. Petersburg they would lay rails on the ice of Neva and get a tram going across the river [1] Will not possible nowdays due to a combination of climate change and the fact that megapolis makes its own weathe
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by thriftwy 3y ago
"The reason we can say space pirates does not exist is that HSBC does not have a subdivision dedicated to catering to such clients"
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Since it is actually a nasty, acid rain causing, Sulfur Oxide.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I won't call the bearded Pashinyan "a girlfriend", but it is the other way around: Armenia basically tell Russia they break up with them to join another relationship. However, the other side does not look like they want Armen
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Armenia has suffered a national tragedy which they then turned into circus by their accusations against Russia. They neither recognized Karabakh as their own nor did they put up a serious fight. But they can's shut up telling everybody
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I just don't remember any of those attempts. Which year was that? I remember the disastrous Obama's great reset which caused these relations to deteriorate at greatly accelerated rate. I also remember how bad they were during COVI
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I'm not sure what's wrong with socialist Czech or DDR. They've got the Communism lite try before you buy inoculated package and now they squeal like a pig being butchered. Russians saw many orders of magnitude worse things th
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I think I don't struggle to imagine how Eastern Europeans loved Russia, Soviet Union and Communism just 40 years back. 80 years back, Eastern Europeans just loved Germany and Hitler. Now they are huge fans of the USA. This time it&#x27
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by thriftwy 3y ago
What if Donbass took a tour of independent Ukraine and changed their mind, especially as Kiev crowds have ousted the president that they all voted for? Granted, he wasn't any good, but he was likely the best one Ukraine will ever have,
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by thriftwy 3y ago
> who had been living under Russian tyranny for several centuries Most of these countries Russia never touched, or fought off of Turks and then let them be. They never lived under Russia's anything . Were it Czechs live under sever
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by thriftwy 3y ago
If these countries are "armed to the teeth", Russia will invade some of these countries. Both sides will point fingers at each other while some Eastern European homes burn. Eventually the prospect of horrible death while grasping
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by thriftwy 3y ago
There is no good way out of the situation where both sides are armed to the teeth. The best bet is a political failure of one of the sides. If that does not happen, these sabers will be rattling from time to time. If Russia's (and Chin
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Then you will have a permanent war in Europe, get used to it and make yourself comfortable.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I wonder when you will arrive at the understanding that if Russia is not going to have more revolutions, then you are going to have to live alongside Russia on the tiniest of continents and it would be best for both sides to learn how. Is&#
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by thriftwy 3y ago
> local journalists don't want to be murdered in a forest I can see this pronounced difference between Palestinean journalists and journalists specializing in Russia. The former are present on the ground and fall victim to the curre
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by thriftwy 3y ago
With the current rate of attacks Ukraine is not able to cause any noticeable infrastructural issues, and anything beyond approximately the Volga river is not reachable by any weapon systems. It's sort of a moving target like "How
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Well, at the current point of time Russia's economy and infrastructure are mostly intact. I'm not sure why is that for a dramatic change. If you look at Iran, it also has its infrastructure in quite OK conditions - perhaps in bett
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by thriftwy 3y ago
If we look at the tech giants, almost none of them has retained the original founders at the helm, and I guess for the same reason that leading a huge corporation requires a very specific life style and compromises, than tech founders are u
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I am Russian and personally I know nobody with the former or the latter experience. I don't doubt such cases exist somewhere out there. But the prevalence of such revelations is from people re-posting emigrant press, who often do not h
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by thriftwy 3y ago
95% of what Yandex N.V. owns is ООО Яндекс business in Russia. I don't even believe they are keeping Yandex assets in Belarus and Kazakhstan. So that becomes a box that is mostly empty. I don't believe anybody is going to pay for
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Volozh could stay in Moscow and keep Yandex, though he was not acting CEO for some time. But, he decided he prefers Israel (residing "behind the bump" in general sense). In modern political climate, you have to choose between havi
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by thriftwy 3y ago
More like Alphabet selling off its Google and downscaling two orders of magnitude. Don't think it will get the cash, it probably has obligations for almost every cent, so this would be a virtual deal mostly.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Interesting, because I have another person on a HN thread scolding me for calling Soviet regime communism. I would like people to either reconcile this between themselves or stop pretending like they can correct on well-defined term usage.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
So the path of a small nation in the shadow of petro dictatorships seems to be getting that petro dictatorship to build you a nuclear plant and supply fuel, so that you can continue to badmouth them from warmth and safety.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
It was still way more socialist than what California or South European left wants. Soviet Union had socialized assigned housing, affirmative action policy and equalized wages right from the start. Still, it is largely ignored by socialist L
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by thriftwy 3y ago
> Imagine sitting here and tolerating people pejoratively calling people "communists". Also tolerated - by calling them "Russians". The logic goes, if there's nothing innately wrong with Communism then Russians (
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by thriftwy 3y ago
It is well-known that people radicalize when they are excluded from political process. Wikipedia is notorious for excluding ordinary contributors from the process. Anybody can revert your change and that takes precedence over what you did,
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by thriftwy 3y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39019573 An amusing discussion where the OP says Wikipedia is here to stay, and every answer is downvoted, most of them flagged. All of them voicing concerns of some validity. This is su
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by thriftwy 3y ago
So how is all that independence going? Did it pan out? Are they another France yet? I don't see how you can blame an ethnic group for anything and not feel ashamed, in 2024. Turns out, it's completely fine if the blamed ethnicity
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by thriftwy 3y ago
My ancestors were the literal serfs - what the heck do I need to be ashamed of? Imagine a Russian-speaking dude in Ulyanovsk in 1985 bring told he should be ashamed of his treatment of another Russian-speaking dude in Kharkov. And on what a

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