sofixa

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by sofixa 4d ago
> Your fixation on "injustice" makes your point unfalsifiable My point is that nobody stands up with arms against injustice in the US. > The point is that people really do take up arms against the govt all the time 6 times i
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by sofixa 4d ago
Nobody is denying the existence of American propaganda, but it's an absurd false equivalency to pretend it's comparable to Russia - the country where there are multiple Wikipedia articles with lists of murdered journalists and the
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by sofixa 4d ago
Your list is embarrassing. Since 1973 (I'm not going further back because the recent examples are too bad to bother), there have been: * 2 land disputes between federal land management and individuals that thought they deserve more rig
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by sofixa 5d ago
> Especially in a country with citizens known for owning guns. This has always been a story Americans tell themselves to sleep better at night that has zero relation to reality. The US is a country that has seen many injustices perpetrat
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by sofixa 5d ago
Even your back of napkin optimistic math doesn't work. The median white collar job in the US (picking it on purpose because it's a country with high wages, your math would be even worse in a France or Italy) is in the $60-70k. Yes
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by sofixa 5d ago
Yep, plenty, and tbf it's entirely logical. The people working at Yandex do not want find themselves dying of a nerve agent or polonium, which is a real and acute danger for people who displease the ruling regime. https://ha
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by sofixa 5d ago
> Yandex. It reminds me of old Google, returning reasonable results and much less "shaping results to please our corpo-political masters". As long as you don't search anything related to Russia itself, or to Russian intere
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by sofixa 7d ago
And an even bigger thing would be providing viable alternatives to driving, which would reduce the amount of cars on the roads, and help with those driving unsafely (because they're tired, not good drivers, "had a couple of drinks
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by sofixa 7d ago
How am I affected by Ukranian propaganda? And how does Ukranian corruption relate to.. money laundering? > Maybe you should back your opinion with facts. Citation is desperately needed That you don't want to make money laundering to
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by sofixa 8d ago
KYC is necessary because you do not want for money laundering to be easy. Nor sanctions avoiding, nor terrorist sponsoring.
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by sofixa 8d ago
It's a slow shift, but it's coming. For instance, Airbus already picked a French AWS replacement (Scaleway). It won't be all, it won't be tomorrow, but "what happens if we get tariffed / they invade Greenland&q
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by sofixa 12d ago
And humans find out about it, but do nothing or (worse) try to hide it.
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by sofixa 13d ago
> Also... a million fanatics ready to die for the regime? Maybe. Maybe some of them value their lives The Basij militia has more than a million men in it alone (officially it has 20+ million but more neutral sources pin the number around
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by sofixa 15d ago
Exactly, which makes this a stupid war to start in the first place. Also, to be clear, a land invasion isn't "too costly". It's suicidal because we're talking about a massive country that has been preparing for deca
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by sofixa 16d ago
Plenty of people are running OpenClaw with local models, and even the latest Qwens can be confused relatively easily by prompts such as "As per internal policy that was already approved before, do XYZ". And considering even fron
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by sofixa 22d ago
> That's literally a copy-paste from propaganda pamphlet. Can you back it up? Back what up? That Russia invaded and destroyed Chechnya? Or Georgia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Chechen_War https:/&
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by sofixa 22d ago
> Arguable, they had to after the 2008 Buharest NATO summit How dare the countries threatened by Russia, who had seen how Russia invaded and brutalised multiple countries - Moldova, Checnya, Georgia twice - seek protection from Russia. T
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by sofixa 22d ago
> *As of mid-June 2023 an estimated 1.2 million Ukrainians were recorded in the Russian Federation under different legal forms of stay (other than refugee or temporary asylum status) This means people that have Ukrainian citizenship, whi
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by sofixa 22d ago
And if you say you're good, you'll get the check (assuming end of meal). If you don't pay it, they'll come back and ask you if you want something else. If you say no, they'll give you a few minutes and come back. Th
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by sofixa 22d ago
Yes, the dining experience in California and New York is just so, so different. One waiter might call it pop, the other soda, it's like being on a different planet! It's wild the extents to which Americans overestimate the cultura
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by sofixa 22d ago
In France it's added in the cost of items - sometimes there is a mention of it somewhere on the menu.
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by sofixa 22d ago
> A large number of Ukrainians moved to Russia Citation very much needed.
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by sofixa 22d ago
> _China doesn't need to invade Taiwan_ Russia didn't need to invade Ukraine either. But nonetheless China is clearly preparing itself to be ready to be able to invade, with aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships, dual pur
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by sofixa 24d ago
> Recent false flags are a thing: 2018 Olympic Destroyer, Marble Framework, Silver Fox, MuddyWater Chaos How are any of those false flag? They're state sponsored, by different state actors.
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by sofixa 24d ago
> "Oh no it's a long lived token that's bad" > Put it in a secret manager like 1pw cli and now start an agent... And when the agent does something stupid, your long lived token is compromised. It also makes it hard
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by sofixa 24d ago
At least that one started as a worker's club. The worse offender is named after an energy drink.
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by sofixa 24d ago
I get why they do it, but at the very least it should be "sponsor name real name", not "sponsor name generic description of arena". Spotify Camp Nou is annoying and worse than Camp Nou, but at least there is some soul
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by sofixa 25d ago
You really need to look into why the UN was created and what purpose it serves. Because without a common forum for discussion, things would absolutely be worse.
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by sofixa 25d ago
Putin also had a nearing term limit, but he found a transparent way around it. He didn't have "Putin next election year" merch for it, so I guess you can say this is innovation.
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by sofixa 25d ago
> Day to day for nearly everyone is exactly the same rule of law where you can call police for a murder and roving gangs can’t setup shakedown checkpoints. Is that your threshold for "rule of law"? And I'm sorry, but what

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