friedturkey

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by friedturkey 5y ago
It's the same as acknowledging that the Taliban wouldn't exist without American and Russian interference in the region. Azov and the Taliban are bad, yeah. But they appeared because of foreign threats. None of this would happen if
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by friedturkey 5y ago
The very first paragraph of Wikipedia even says Azov formed as a consequence of something. That reason? To push Russian forces out of their country. If Russia weren't terrorizing the region, Azov would not exist . Russia pays to astro
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by friedturkey 5y ago
America has a large portion of English speakers. It historically had a large portion of people with direct ties to the UK. Haiti had plenty of people with ties to France and still has French speakers. Taiwan has Chinese speakers and people
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Do you think Russia's funding of terrorist groups in the eastern portions of Ukraine known for atrocities against civilians could've influenced that decision? Or maybe going back farther Russia's sudden seizure of Crimea with
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by friedturkey 5y ago
I don't think Ukraine was even being seriously considered for NATO until Russia decided to surround the country with its military recently. It's like punching someone, some guy passing by tells you to stop, then you justify your r
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by friedturkey 5y ago
"Expansion" makes it sound like something that happened to Eastern Europe against their will--not that those countries actively wanted to join. Those countries actively bid to join NATO because they feared Russia expanding into Ea
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by friedturkey 5y ago
I remember seeing broken down cars pretty often as a kid. Just driving 30 minutes to the grocery store on weekends and seeing (or being) one wasn’t that uncommon. I noticed at one point that I stopped seeing broken down cars. Sure, I’ll see
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by friedturkey 5y ago
It doesn't explicitly. But in practice it would. If a kid asks "Why are there two daddies in the book?", a huge can of worms is opened. It'll be selectively applied by people with political motivations and administrators
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by friedturkey 5y ago
7/11 prepares their sandwiches in centralized factories. They’ll deep fry things in store, but anything chilled is shipped as-is from hours away.
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Yeah. I always grab them from behind so I can immediately tell whether or not they’re completely empty bread. Most of the time they are. There’s no magic. They’re just sandwiches that look pretty because they push everything to the very edg
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Protein intake that low is just insane if you’re doing exercise that much. Your body will accumulate injuries fast, unless you’re defining exercise as lifting 1kg “dumbbells”. Cutting carbs that much would mean you’re getting virtually all
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Plenty of people eat tomatoes and pasta quite often so it’s also not an unreasonable test case.
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by friedturkey 5y ago
I once walked down a street that had hundreds of them. Being bored and interested in spiders, I picked up a twig to provoke them a bit and see how they responded. Some of them would furiously try to bite the stick and I could feel their fan
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by friedturkey 5y ago
I mean there’s the Wagner Group very conspicuously using a German name despite being Russian and familiar skull design acting as a paramilitary organization in Russia’s “liberation” activities. [1] There’s the fact 90% of Ukraine was comple
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Russia is also a known hotbed for neonazis. So is Alabama. Just because a region has small factions of race extremists it doesn’t mean they’re blowing up nuclear reactors. But Russia’s history of false flag operations and whataboutism are s
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by friedturkey 5y ago
It’s useful to know what some people are fed and what the source of “their” opinions may be. It’s also useful to see what overdone propaganda is like to have a solid reference point for when our own countries try to do the same.
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by friedturkey 5y ago
With a move away from fossil fuels, CO2 will become less of a concern.
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by friedturkey 5y ago
So long as the people with guns have their bellies full, not much will happen in Russia. Just like as much as the world wants North Korea to change and become more free, most of the people enforcing the law can’t imagine living any other wa
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by friedturkey 5y ago
I'm guessing at this point it's dominate Ukraine at any means necessary and ride out sanctions until they start to slacken after countries like Germany, etc need gas and are willing to accept that Ukraine is an extinct country to
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by friedturkey 5y ago
White space and pop ups aren’t part of design? That’s a very strict definition. Design is also merely a function of market dynamics, hence why it changes with trends and not to improve function.
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Registration forms in Japan are definitely worse than anywhere else on earth. Strict text length limits (last name can’t fit in 4 characters? Sucks for you), randomly flip flopping between characters being full width and half width, having
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by friedturkey 5y ago
I’ve come to prefer Japanese web design over western design in general. It can be messy at times, but you don’t have endless pop ups asking you to sign up for their “newsletter” ad spam that is sold off to third parties(nobody reads those—y
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Amazon item product pages are standardized. Rakuten item pages are basically all their own unique geocities webpage and even the ordering procedure isn’t fully standardized. It’s a mess dealing with orders from Rakuten. I’m often searching
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by friedturkey 5y ago
The comments here are basically several variations of "I'm Russian and in the process of fleeing my country after getting beaten up by police" or "I'm Russian and actively against my home country's government a
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by friedturkey 5y ago
It seems like they're banning people who simply have a background in that country. There are a few words for that philosophy, and legality of that business practice becomes questionable.
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Will you also block countries that use their tax dollars to arrest and kill LGBT people? Or countries that are involved in other unjust wars? It's fine if you do, but this wording reads like cringy bandwagoning. I highly doubt you won&
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by friedturkey 5y ago
> Some idiot will try this, but will quickly learn and revert or go under. Or, more than likely, every major software company in a certain domain will coincidentally release metered software in the same time period and small indie develo
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by friedturkey 5y ago
Not sure about that one. Loads of evidence came out about Trump voters filling out ballots for dead relatives and republican-funded recounts coming out with results less favorable for them. You won't lose your job talking about the tru
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by friedturkey 5y ago
I think times have changed quite a bit. Poland was always thrown to the dogs before, but now it's a pretty decently respected country. It also has economic value to the EU as a whole.
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by friedturkey 5y ago
This sounds like some freshman "free thinker" stuff. Your thoughts aren't anything original. Everything you think is a result of the input you've accepted. One day you'll grow up and cringe about this goofy hill you

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