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by thriftwy 3y ago
European newcomers also catch up and adapt all the time. It's not like they're living the way they did in 1910s or 1960s. It's disingenous to suggest that indigenous tribes should have some fixed set of behaviors. They have t
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Also well known is Russian recursive salad: tomato, cucumber, salad. (Where the salad the consituent is an alias for lettuce) I can't imagine Russians mixing vodka with water, though.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
If you have a VPN with Russian location, you will get absolutely no ads at all. 24 February 2022 virtually gave the whole country YouTube Premium.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
But what if I want band A to cover song B for me? Trivial to do with neural networks.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
We are way overdue for having a service which would completely back up any bit if information you ever put your eye at, in a private cloud, with search.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
That would be awful. No more neuro covers? No more Hitler singing?
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by thriftwy 3y ago
It already did?
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Soviet > A communist. Yugoslav > An unfaithful communist. These good relations with USA did real good when their country was obliterated to shreds when it was no longer needed. Sigh.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
"People's democracy" is actually the regime when there's a single ruling party system but it calls itself democratic because it is comprised of, you know, the people . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Well, yeah, but it's the same way on the other side of the Curtain: Such as, France had its own nuclear weapons and was in complicated relationship with NATO, but it gets totally conflated into the Western bloc with no reservations. Sa
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by thriftwy 3y ago
As I see, it means something akin to "People's Democracy" which is an alternative terms of some other left authoritarian regimes.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
It's a surprising sight to see Western companies showing no interest in 25 million strong economy.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
'Soviet' is not a name, it is a political term, so I don't see why you cannot apply it to countries with USSR-like regimes, even if they don't carry S in their name. For the curious, it is translated as 'council&#x2
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Sometimes a banana is just a banana. Nomads did make these lands uninhabitable due to danger of death, not unlike malaria; and these lands did undergo the relevant nomad displacement/swamp draining before they could be settled by peasa
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by thriftwy 3y ago
> was not the sole or even necessarily a primary means of economic subsistence Because peasants were good at hiding and plain out avoided living where they would be an easy raiding target. Which is my point exactly.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
And every man, too. If you conflate these two options, though, it does not make sense to discuss anything with you.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I absolutely agree with you, we do not need to do anything in the name of progress. Legacy absolutely should be cultivated and remembered. But never at the cost of rejecting further motion. Pastoral life was great why it was going on (eve
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by thriftwy 3y ago
That's the human beings who would gladly enslave your ancestors and congratulate it. And race is totally, totally irrelevant here. The next thing you will probably say, USA isn't island?
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by thriftwy 3y ago
We do not have to use DDT till the end of times, but we do have to try newer and newer things. Including carbon neutral living, it's just that it looks more like pointless religious practice now. Art is great. Let's always be tryi
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Many people before 1960 were human because they excercised curiousity and wanted to go forth. Many people today are trying to return to animal state, like you are contemplating it. An illegal immigrant crossing the sea for better living is
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Such raids will also happen annually. Why not? They led to large chunk of most fertile lands of Eurasia[1] ( not having any permanent population way into the second millenium. They absolutely treat peasants as a resource and they will over-
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Yes, we do absolutely need to put things in space and have computers, because it is the way to progress and see what's next possible in this setting, and then decide what to do while having even more opportunities and options. If we ar
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Plain old racism is people who live on an island then cross the ocean in the boat and then treat locals as inferiors. People who live alongside nomads for millenia and exchange raids / conquests are not racists. The former should never
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Are you seriously conflating getting all of your relatives killed in a raid and you being captured to be shipped overseas to be treated like an animal for the rest of your life - with getting married within the commnunity where you were b
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by thriftwy 3y ago
> Huge swaths of eurasian landmass is uninhabitable because of harsh climate This gets repeated over and over but looks false. Why is the city of Ryazan on five centuries older than the city of Voronezh just 200 km to the south? One is i
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Agricultural lifestyle isn't great per se, but once you create a centralized state and industrialize it becomes no-brainer. We do not know other way to put stuff in space and make computers than agriculture followed by industrializatio
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Sure, but since most of my ancestors were peasants, and since we have too few examples of modern successful nomadic societies, I believe my PoV is reasonable. The tragedy is that their society will be raiding; will be taking people and sell
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by thriftwy 3y ago
I think it is super obvious that not all of the non-athletes are nerds. So the description is misleading.
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Nomads basically made huge swaths of Eurasian land uninhabitable to peasant communities because your settlement will be raided until it ceases to exist. In this fashion they were not unlike malaria and tsetse fly. Eventually, settled societ
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by thriftwy 3y ago
Economies do not usually collapse to that extent. You are implying that somehow Egypt will turn into Somalia-style failed state (evrn Venezuela is able to guard its borders), which will almost certainly not happen. Economy collapses are mor

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