EB-Barrington

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by EB-Barrington 7mo ago
Thanks, I looked into it. I seem to have a few flagged comments, but I'm not yet fully hellbanned. I guess I have to be a little less political on here.
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by EB-Barrington 7mo ago
China is repressive, autocratic, dictatorial, illiberal, unaccountable, coercive, censorious, surveillance-heavy, propagandistic, corrupt, brutal, heavy-handed, intolerant, secretive, and very very very militarised. Just an FYI.
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by EB-Barrington 9mo ago
When this war is over, the first and main thing Ukraine should do is prepare for another russian invasion.
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by EB-Barrington 10mo ago
Nice. I'm an ex-tour guide, and had many jovial discussions with a colleague who toured Myanmar and LOVED the food - he knew I thought it was pretty average, at best. Of course, that crazy guy didn't really like Thai food...
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by EB-Barrington 10mo ago
Example: in Australia there is an organisation named APRA AMCOS. A friend had a job with them, his job was to visit businesses, see if they were playing music, take evidence of such, and then that business would receive an invoice for the r
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by EB-Barrington 2y ago
In remote parts of the Chernobyl exclusion zone, I saw wild approach closely and then be hand-fed. I had the same thoughts as you - these animals don't behave as expected - it's like they haven't yet learned that humans can b
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by EB-Barrington 2y ago
From someone who used to do a lot of this sort of thing around the time of this blog post (even in my fifties now,I still do): I often thought I was taking photos of buildings and spaces that would soon not exist. In hindsight, I was correc
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by EB-Barrington 2y ago
Soviets, not russians. The Soviet forces consisted of people from fifteen present day countries, only one of which was russia. More non-russians were lost than russians Considering how many millions of people the Soviet Union murdered in it
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by EB-Barrington 2y ago
Wind, current, tides, your own boat at risk as well as other people's boats alongside... docking can certainly get the heart pumping. (Liveaboard cruiser here)
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by EB-Barrington 3y ago
Can anyone in Belgrade tell me: is smoking still allowed in Kafana's? (other than Cafes in Vienna, Serbia was the last refuge of the smoker in Europe) Edit: just clicked the link, smoking continues. Damn I miss Serbia. (I once watched
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by EB-Barrington 3y ago
Regular russians are being forced to accept the consequences of their fellow compatriots raping, murdering, killing civilians and destroying civilian infrastructure, and all-round generic war-criming, multiple times on a daily basis for alm
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by EB-Barrington 3y ago
I was living in Kyiv during the last Chernobyl fires (2020) - they were BIG. There have been others - it's a very dry place in summer.
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by EB-Barrington 4y ago
I'm not American. And, I'm capable of seeing more than one evil in this world.
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by EB-Barrington 4y ago
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by EB-Barrington 4y ago
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by EB-Barrington 4y ago
Russia is committing to a genocidal war, this is why they have sanctions against them. They are literally state-sponsors of terrorism and they're funding privately operated terrorist groups. Rapes, murders, destruction of civilian infr
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by EB-Barrington 4y ago
Challenge your friends at every opportunity - don't let it slide.
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by EB-Barrington 4y ago
'bad guys' didn't need quotations. What Russia and Russians are doing in Ukraine is pure evil. They are well and truly the bad guys in this war - afterall, they started it.
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by EB-Barrington 4y ago
Across the border: Ukraine completely stopped alcohol sales for the first couple of months (approx) of the war. Bars* and restaurants were closed, markets would not sell alcohol to anyone. * there was a single bar open in Kyiv - where the f
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by EB-Barrington 4y ago
I have literally called for the death of a well known politician on Facebook and Twitter. My posts still stand. I'm against censorship - fortunately I'm calling for the death of a right wing politician, hence that's ok - as t
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by EB-Barrington 4y ago
Eat up Martha (one of the 200,000 former Newton owners here)
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by EB-Barrington 4y ago
More info here from Portuguese news source: https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2022-07-31/5-rescued-af... Discussion amongst "cruisers", common terminology for people who live on boats: https:/&#
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by EB-Barrington 4y ago
Hi, yes, as true at it ever was. Indeed, the choice is wider than all the paid streaming services combined.
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by EB-Barrington 4y ago
One reason: it serves no other function.
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by EB-Barrington 4y ago
Weirdly, I'm not in any of those categories, and yet, I haven't been mobilized. Nor have the countless numbers of men I see every day, walking around central Kyiv. Heroim Slava.
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by EB-Barrington 4y ago
Without timelines being specified, undoubtedly Ukraine will expel Russia from Crimea, and Russia as we know it will be over.
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by EB-Barrington 4y ago
Hello from Kyiv. Surrounding Kyiv several months ago, were thousands of items of Russian military hardware, plus thousands of troups. After most were destroyed/liquidated/killed, the remainder ran away like the barbarian cowards t
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Russia fines Google $365 mil over YouTube videos containing “prohibited” content(theverge.com)
4 points by EB-Barrington 4y ago|0 comments
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by EB-Barrington 4y ago
Russia is either specifically targeting civilian infrastructure, or their weapons are not as good as you're implying. Which one is it? Hello from Kyiv.
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by EB-Barrington 4y ago
Current events tell us the US was right. Russia instigated the war, there is no "or not".

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