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Political jokes in Russia / Soviet Union(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by mipsi 2y ago|0 comments
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by mipsi 2y ago
My inner voice of Nostalgia just whispered: All the gorgeous pixels gone with the wind.
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by mipsi 2y ago
That's quite a misrepresentation of his statements. "I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be supporting Russian aggression..." is certainly not about grievance. As a matter of fact, the russian aggression is real and n
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by mipsi 2y ago
There has never been an "unprovoked aggression against Yugoslavia". More than 130K people were killed and 4 million displaced (mainly by Serb troops) and people begged for an intervention, which came to late (think about Sarajevo,
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by mipsi 2y ago
Did you just realized that Torvald is not racist or anti-russian at all? He didn't block any russian maintainers until today (more than 2 years after russia turning genocidal imperial again).
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by mipsi 2y ago
Didn't you just complain about Linus being rude?
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by mipsi 2y ago
I just put your "demonizing people because of their home nation" into perspective, dude. Staying in russia as a kernel maintainer and playing the political ignorant is just lost.
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by mipsi 2y ago
You missed the point, he didn't mention history in general, but specifically "Finnish history". In this respect it's not about British colonialism but more about about Russian imperialism / Stalinism (see Russo-Fin
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by mipsi 2y ago
Nearly 1 million Russians left Russia because they didn't want to end as ghouls in an imperial war, that's demonizing AND killing people because of their home nation.
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by mipsi 2y ago
And even when intentionally doing nothing, there is some obscure desire to measure how much nothing we are actually doing. Hence the idle counter.
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by mipsi 2y ago
The media is the message
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by mipsi 2y ago
There is some irony hidden in the remark that his wife sent him the inspiring quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson, that compares books to meals having eaten.
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by mipsi 2y ago
Would like to add the colloquial expression for writing bad code and in general writing something without due diligence: "hinrotzen"
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by mipsi 3y ago
After reading this, Snowpiercer doesn't feel that awkward anymore.
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by mipsi 3y ago
I'm not sure how to define a Russian win? Taking Kyiv? Regime change?
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by mipsi 3y ago
RIP. After all the attacks and humiliation going back and opposing the evil lord is testimony for having skin in the game (BTW, Snowden still in Moscow?).
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by mipsi 3y ago
"Mama Cozzi's Pizza Kitchen 12" Veggie Cauliflower Crust Deli Pizza" Pizza with Cauliflower? WTF or just an Easter egg?
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by mipsi 3y ago
Which brings me to the idea, that mandatory handwriting could a more efficient indoctrination tool than typewriting.
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by mipsi 3y ago
In terms of Murphy: "If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it."
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by mipsi 5y ago
Any crowdfunding project that aims at Putins removal?
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by mipsi 5y ago
> Black markets are markets that break existing legislation, not markets that are free from legislation. Your statement "black markets are not markets without legislation" logically implies such existence. I regard legislation
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by mipsi 5y ago
That would imply the existence of legal "black markets".
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by mipsi 5y ago
I think its common to call markets without legislation "black markets".
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by mipsi 5y ago
OSI model of Human Resource Management?
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by mipsi 5y ago
Cartoons are an excellent medium for pinpointing archetypes in the world around us. I just missed the cartoon drawings in Atlas Shrugged.
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by mipsi 5y ago
So what's the difference between a booster and a recent vax (<2 months)?
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Flu is still with us (2020)(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by mipsi 5y ago|0 comments
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by mipsi 5y ago
I would not overemphasize the cultural differences between the Balkan people and call Yugoslavia a super state. The history of the people there is intertwined and national divisions are very much superimposed by ideologists.
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Angelo Badalamenti explains how he wrote Laura Palmer's Theme (2019)(youtube.com)
2 points by mipsi 5y ago|0 comments
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by mipsi 5y ago
Exactly. The next time I ditch coke for water, share price will drop by 1.7%.

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