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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Comedy Central. Technically not an article, but Jon Stewart (also technically not a journalist, but imho he was better at being one than actual journalists) was pretty open about opposing the Iraq war. I assume in Russia he’d already be ser
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
What would the alternative be if US banned all independent media sources (like Russia did)?
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If those workers are fine with a substantial fail in their QoL. It’s gonna be most painful for the oligarchs and people in their environment who are used to consuming massive amounts of foreign goods. Btw even the USSR which was generally m
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
And Chernobyl killed magnitude s less people in total than the number that dies directly or indirectly due to fossil furl emissions.
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
‘ The motivation of a soldier should exclusively be to serve their country, not financial or status (e.g. citizenship) gain.’ No successful professional military has ever worked like this. Basically you want a an army comprised mainly of fa
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
It sounds as if you’re complaining about Russian troops being massacred in Ukraine themselves. It should be ‘massacres by Russian troops’ (I assume)
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
The Cathars were mostly tolerated by the local authorities and nobility in the south of France though. The Albigensian were basically a land grab by the nobles in northern France in expense of their souther brethren and nothing more (why wo
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
But stirrups hd already been available in Europe for hundreds of years prior to the Mongol invasions
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Well even with internet they couldn’t legally collect any user data without an explicit permission let alone sell it to third parties.
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Or increase their prices by 20$/€ to offset the loss in data/ad revenue.
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
You can still buy a brand which doesn’t do that, had an LG, Phillips and a Sony TV in recent years none of them did that or had any ads.
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Unregulated markets are very rarely ‘free’. Without government interference we ussually end up with a monopoly/oligoply who do whatever they and basically start acting like the government.
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Alternatively Walmart just could threaten Vizio that they’ll stop stocking Vizio TVs if they don’t stop doing shit like this. Cheap TVs are a commodity it’s not like Walmart couldn’t easily replace them with some other supplier. And it’s no
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Thanks, but you sound like the last person I’d want to take a history lesson from. Btw, why do you presume I don’t know anything about the history of Ukrainian Russia relations? : D
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
I think you might underestimating how bad things were in the past. For instance if Amazon warehouse workers in Colombia decided to form an union and strike for better working conditions, could Jeff Bezos call the secretary of state and ask
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Yes, the transition wasn’t very smooth though. In cases with little foreign interference, it was more like: Absolutist monarchy -> violent jacobin style revolution -> ??? (a lot of war and dead people)-> reactionaries come back to
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
The are actually two Serbian states: the independent Serbia with Belgrade as it’s capital and Republika Srpska (a constituent state in Bosnia and Hercegovina). While I’m not denying that there was some collusion between the two, they largel
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
So please share how exactly do you think NATO instigated this conflict and left Russia no other choice but to start this absurd war?
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Usually the monarchy/dictatorship was overthrown to be replaced by a somewhat more democratic government (both peacefully or violently). Autocrats rarely were willing to give up any of their power voluntarily and paradoxically in the
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
That maybe true, but I deeply believe that currently western governments are generally least corrupt that they have ever been historically. In the 1920s the US army was basically a mercenary force for hire by large banks and corporations. I
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Because Russian troops put down a violent revolt just couple few months ago. It’s not unlikely Tokayev would had lost power without the Russian intervention (I won’t pretend I understand what actually happened there, the whole chain of even
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Maybe because US still had free press and (to some extent, but in a much better state than Russia) the rule of law in 2003?
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Are margins on Macs higher than on iPhones? I’d assume at least with Intel they were lower than for iOS devices. Also basically all Apple’s direct competitors both in the PC and smartphone businesses operate on paltry margins in comparison
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Sorry, there was a typo in my comment (very -> were). What I wanted to say is that the situation in Europe is actually better in most places now than it was in the past.
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
On the other hand Play Store is much more hostile to it’s users compared to Apple.
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Yes they do it completely for free on macOS. How can they afford this without a 30% cut on all software sold by anyone?
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Considering that never happened on Android I think it’s even less likely in Apple’s case. Unless the EU explicitly requires Apple to show window allowing the user to pick the app stores he wants to use like they sid with web browsers
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Why do you think Apple still makes Macs? According to your argument it should be a net loss for them.
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
And yet another the average person living in any developed country (also to a lesser but still significant degree in all of countries) is much better off, in almost every conceivable way, than his ancestors were when the total world populat
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by yywwbbn 5y ago
Having less/very few children would be an awful if we care about the next generation. You’d end up with much larger proportion of older people in the total population. This would result in a massively increase in per capita healthcare

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