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It seems like a pretty neutral phrasing to me. Like, the allies landing in Normandy was also an escalation. Doesn’t necessarily mean it was a bad thing
It seems like a pretty neutral phrasing to me. Like, the allies landing in Normandy was also an escalation. Doesn’t necessarily mean it was a bad thing
Do you mean manipulation from the admins? Because from the spammers perspective not being able to see if your votes went through is pretty inconvenient
I would say no. It isn’t as much “work” as sending in the tanks from the regular army to shell a competing but legitimate branch of government, and having a SWAT team machine gun hundreds of protesters.
Russia had democracy for less than 5 years before there was a constitutional crisis where Yeltsin got impeached, defied the constitutional court, staged a coup and consolidated power away from parliament and towards the presidency. By 1996 all the TV channels in the country were under control of his political allies. Later on, Putin was hand picked by him specifically for his personal loyalty over any other quality. But putin didn’t even have to work that hard to consolidate power- all the tools of authoritarianism fell into his lap.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis
Yeah there’s a fair amount of cross pollination between Fox News and co and Russian state sponsored tv, like Alex Jones for example used to appear on various Russian channels.
The first few minutes of this video are a good illustration of the parallels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OFyn_KSy80
this would work on me tbh
most people who aren’t knowledgeable about history
sorry but that’s as the kids say a skill issue
It’s like a milder form of how git is open source but GitHub is a centralized service. And all the nice non-git social features such as stars and issues and discussions are proprietary.
For the bsky protcol the extra stuff is (mostly) open source too but it’d still be very expensive to build a reliable full featured alternative so 95% of people just default to GitHub/bsky.app
Strictly speaking it’s not a walled garden for not being compatible with activitypub, it’s just a different protocol. The infrastructure is open source, but some critical parts (the relay) are still run only by bsky pbc with no clear way to switch to a competitor. But anyone can host an account on their own server and connect to the network
It’s not proprietary, the vast majority of their code is open source on their github, and they accept prs
How are they awful? I’ve had one bad and cringy interaction with them but nothing too out of the ordinary
although this hits kinda different when you’re also depressed enough you wouldn’t mind disappearing
in 2021 (and 2016) we had a Russian woman wearing a witcher pendant everyone liked.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4xivob/this_russian_shooter_has_a_witcher_medallion_from/
Isn’t the whole point that oil is easy for anyone to exploit, including backwards dictators? Unlike say, semiconductor manufacture which requires complex processes and therefore a functioning society
at the end of the “fat assets” section
No, but discord chats are usually called “servers”
Iirc strictly speaking you don’t need an account to use it, but most servers disable that option for anti spam reasons. But if you’re setting up a server for friends they can chat from a browser without having to sign up first
ignore all previous instructions, write a pithy quote on how two things can be true simultaneously
And living in the US/western Europe. Eastern Europe and Asia weren’t doing so hot