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During the outbreak of the Ukraine war, this role was taken up by Twitter Spaces.
by ditn 4y ago
During the outbreak of the Ukraine war, this role was taken up by Twitter Spaces.
- unsupp0rted 4y agoTwitter Spaces... perhaps for people in the West with intellectual curiosity about the play by play. For people on the ground it was Telegram groups and channels. "TG" is huge in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus.
- rjzzleep 4y agoIt's really odd that people on HN see the world as west vs. Slavic countries. The world is MUCH bigger than that, and telegram has much wider spread than that. But yes, twitter spaces is tiny fringe space even in the "west"(a term that always bothered me given how the world is round, and how Australia, New Zealand, and Japan are somehow part of "the West").
- protonbob 4y agoI suppose that's because they are heavily influenced by western European countries. Two of the countries you mentioned are part of the British Commonwealth.
- kqr 4y agoFor what it's worth, when I hear "the West" I think of what would on a global, historical scale be known as the "far west", i.e. mainly north and western Europe. (The "near west" would be the cultures just to the east of the Mediterranean, I suppose.) I would never bunch Oceanic or Asian cultures in there. I'm surprised to hear other people use it in a broader sense. At some point one is talking about cultures that are so different it's no longer meaningful to generalise across them.
- executive 4y agoin political context, "the West" is referring to the concept of "Western democracies"
- RF_Savage 4y agoYeah, Twitter spaces is a tiny niche. I know nobody who has used them for anything, but almost everybody uses Telegram. And I'm "In the West".
- dotancohen 4y ago> a term that always bothered me given how the world is round Historical quirks of language are everywhere. Atheists still say Good Bye (God by with you) when they part, and say Bless You when you sneeze.
- sneak 4y agoI have substituted "gesundheit" ("health") for "bless you" for this very reason.
- herewulf 4y agoLikewise. It's pretty amazing how widespread a German word such as this managed to become.
- Lio 4y agoWell if any German word isn't kaputt we should definitely borrow it into English.
- unsupp0rted 4y agoAt some point gesundheit made it into the zeitgeist and I feel schadenfreude for the people who said it wouldn't.
- dotancohen 4y agoWhy not simply say "Health" then? How is cultural assimilation any better than a phrase that has not had religious connotations for a century and a half?
- thombat 4y agoSounds like a shortened "Your health!" which as a toast should be accompanied by all present having a charged glass in their hand.
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