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Andrew_nenakhov

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About Andrew_nenakhov

Xabber project leader. Free software enthusiast. Free speech absolutist.

xmpp: andrew.nenakhov@redsolution.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #49010641

    > but it must be said, as genius as Franklin was, sadly .. Some people can't help themselves from bringing irrelevant facts to the conversation.

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    Comment #48873358

    The real reason for dark ages was not the fall of the western roman empire, but the arabian conquests, which turned the international trade highway (the Mediterranean sea) into a h…

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    Comment #48641352

    All the best jokes are only part jokes.

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    Comment #48638563

    > Why a randomized reservation order? Lies, they just want to protect themselves from the German Tank Problem [0] type of analysis. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_tank_p…

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    Comment #48611714

    Yeah right, that worked out for Iranians quite well all these times.

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    Comment #48610776

    You see, the problem is that all exit points of our VPNs are in Europe. These too can be banned quite easily. Where to will we run next, given that this cancer tends to spread?

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    Comment #48610421

    In Russia, they claimed that new measures to block websites are necessary to protect the children online. Of course, they immediately used these new capabilities to block oppositio…

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    Comment #48516454

    ok, after playing this game, I started respecting shepherding dogs' skills even more.

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    Comment #48475048

    Thank you for proving my point. Great example of double-think!

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    Comment #48474571

    Yeah that Schrodinger Russia again: it is being stuck for years, unable to take some small village in Donetsk region, and simultaneously is a grave threat that looms over Europe, r…

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    Comment #48474562

    > Russia, the US, and China are essentially in a kind of military alliance, and that Ukraine is literally the only one openly opposing this alliance. This is highly delusional. Don…

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    Comment #48474389

    In reality, website who don't have any tracking cookies, still hang this banner just in case someone would start harrassing them.

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    Comment #48469109

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    Comment #46605494

    This progressive movement is absolutely totalitarian. As long as you adhere to all mainstream tenets, you're good and virtuous, like pre-2018 JK Rowling. Gay Dumbledore, yay! But i…

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    Comment #46605365

    Many, many commenters here are themselves bathed in a political media echo chamber, just a different one. Ironic, isn't it? If you treat your political opponents as 'insane' instea…

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    Comment #46286227

    There was a period when I was constantly showered with these ads whenever I visited YouTube. It quickly became clear that it was some kind of scam, but YouTube didn't do anything a…

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    Comment #46232800

    Ok now you're defending measures like forcing people to wear masks on a secluded beach and somehow you still call such measures reasonable . Yuck.

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    Comment #46230417

    Right now the government in question is Australian, and I personally wouldn't trust the government which would force citizens to compulsory wear of masks outdoors and alone in cars…

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    Comment #46184183

    > Not at the end. Also back then US had USAID 1960s and 1970s are the end to you, really? USAID, really ? You have already proven that you have a very remote understanding of Russi…

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    Comment #46171734

    You repeat this mantra 'Control of information is a magical thing', but it doesn't become true just because you repeat it. USSR controlled the information far more tightly, yet, no…

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    Comment #46157707

    > Now imagine living not so close to "center" (the mostly white west of the country) You seem to have a very limited understanding of Russia. First, nobody in Russia ever thinks of…

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    Comment #46157627

    How many contractors do you think there are relative to the size of population, so that the previous poster was claiming that was flooded with wealth?? This is just plain nonsense.…