aiilns

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by aiilns 2y ago
As a Greek, a) lots of people lost their jobs during the crisis, could barely make ends meet or even committed suicide; those people certainly didn't fill the taverns. B) It is true that Greeks won't cut on food/going out as
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by aiilns 2y ago
Again you are extremely wrong on this. However it is clear that you hold such misanthropic views that I won't be able to make you even slightly consider a perspective based on the value of equality and human dignity.
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by aiilns 2y ago
> If the treatment is expensive, then only net-productive individuals would be able to afford it, meaning we would gain the benefit of contributors contributing for longer, without net-recipients receiving for longer. Because rich people
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by aiilns 2y ago
I don't think you're right. I won't pretend to be an expert on any of this, but as a speaker of modern Greek I can confidently say that λαβύρινθος (labyrinth) is the only word in Greek to describe both your definition of a la
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by aiilns 2y ago
> We are the world champions of strikes and yet, somehow, doctors rarely go on strike. I do not know why. When talking about public healthcare, strikes mean little. State won't care unless the strike is massive enough to attract med
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by aiilns 3y ago
Autark comes from ancient greek αυτάρκης (same in modern greek) which is made up from two words αυτός (he) & αρκώ (v) which means suffice, so self-sufficient. I wasn't aware that this word existed in English but I love coming acros
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by aiilns 3y ago
Oh yes, and when support ends it's practically impossible to use a phone. I've never understood people talking about "support", still rocking a 7 year old phone (have changed the battery) with fairly recent lineageos. On
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by aiilns 3y ago
Greeks.
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by aiilns 3y ago
Let me get this straight. You're asking what's stopping people from walking everywhere? And instead of thinking for like 5 seconds and realizing someone may work 15km away from home you write a senseless comment about people drivi
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by aiilns 4y ago
Not so in Greece. Salaries are way lower than 3,5-4k per month. Doctors, for example, in public hospitals get around 2k per month and the consultants maybe around 2,5-3k.
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by aiilns 4y ago
> President Donald Trump repeated a highly misleading claim on Friday that Germany will soon depend on Russia for 50 percent to 70 percent of its energy needs. Then the article spends significant time pointing out that Russian natural ga
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by aiilns 4y ago
...enter Greece.
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by aiilns 4y ago
It's because Pokémon Go was a product designed for manipulating people. One of the first attempts at mass behavioral modification. Most Google products make sense when you think in data extraction terms & behavioral modification. I
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by aiilns 4y ago
Turkey is in NATO, not in the EU. I believe elections are to happen next year, although democracy in Turkey is probably not going to get better for it.
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by aiilns 4y ago
Are doctors not already telling people to eat healthy & exercise? > 12 hours work/day > ads for unhealthy food > lots of cheap tasty unhealthy food products in supermarkets Have we really done the best we can as societies
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by aiilns 4y ago
Could be, it carries the same meaning in modern Greek.
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by aiilns 4y ago
Facebook, twitter, etc left-leaning in the US sense where left is right and right is near the edge of the right spectrum I get. But people-empowering? These large platforms are very much anti-democratic and anti-empowering people. Even more
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by aiilns 4y ago
One roadblock for GNOME on mobile is a proper maps/navigation app. On android there exist a couple using openstreetmaps (like organic maps) but no offline maps & navigation programme for Linux. Anyway I hope things will improve in
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by aiilns 4y ago
> I can’t see there being a compelling legal argument to disallow photos > that hasn’t been codified federally The world is moving faster than law, I'd even go as far as to say that it almost always has been. What gets put into l
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by aiilns 4y ago
Thinking of myself as a parent I'd be quite angry if photos of my children ended up on Instagram (private profiles or not) or any company's servers. So in your place, knowing how brazen everyone is with privacy I'd actually b
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by aiilns 4y ago
And it's not just the expectation of impermanence. Those photos are forever and for everyone as you say. Reachable by anyone, anytime for whatever reason.
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by aiilns 4y ago
I do understand where you're coming from, but I was growing up in the 2000s and the (primary & later secondary) school took photos that were shared first on official blogs/sites and then later posted on facebook/twitter w
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by aiilns 4y ago
I'm not entirely sure that that is the case and Germany was the primary reason for NATO forming. It surely was meant to hinder the spread of communism/Soviets. And yes, a defense alliance can be flexible and change its objectives
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by aiilns 4y ago
Obviously you are unaware of basic history of how NATO was created to halt the communist/Soviet "threat". Please, look up "History of NATO" on Wikipedia. So, for NATO there _was_ a _defined threat_ it sought to prot
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by aiilns 4y ago
I won't pretend to be an expert on the matter, but I do not agree with your view. For one, I think you are seriously misrepresenting USA's position. It's the biggest military power in the West and possibly the world, a countr
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by aiilns 4y ago
So because the USA has advanced weapons and other bases close enough to reach Moscow, it doesn't make sense that Putin/Russia would be concerned by NATO expansion even closer to Moscow, right next to their borders?
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by aiilns 4y ago
Then from whom is the alliance defending themselves, if not from those not into the alliance? For example, a defense alliance that included all nations, would defend against aliens. I repeat, a defense alliance must be, by definition, prote
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by aiilns 4y ago
Yes, "annexed" by Russians from Nazi Germany. As in, becoming part of the Soviet Union since the Red Army had taken the city near the end of WWII after the Russians and British had bombed ~90% of the city.
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by aiilns 4y ago
>Russia/Russian government is allowed to perceive it any way he wants, but that might not dictate NATO policy. Also, picking this from a comment of yours further below: >In the end, not sure it really matters how Russia sees the

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