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> Now, I am not going around giving my real email out to random sites, though, although even that doesn’t strike me as particularly dangerous. I am fanatically following my rule "o…

> Removing Saddam in itself was good but what it did the wider region was not good. I believe this is the legacy of leaders like Saddam. They build a very messy future for their co…

iqair has pretty sparse coverage, especially in developing areas. A lot of places with really shitty air do not hit the top simply cause the service is effectively blind in those p…

I don't trust LLM enough to handle the maintenance of all the abstraction buried in react / similar library. I caught some of the LLMs taking nasty shortcuts (e.g. removing test co…

Fortunately nobody was aggressive to me. It was vice versa to a point which made me deeply uncomfortable. Once people learned that I am originally from Russia (even though I am not…

Given that the EU after over 3.5 years of full scale invasion still buys Russian oil, should we also treat EU citizens as sponsors of the war?

> Their opinion of our politics is generally separate from how they treat me personally, and I do the same for people of other nationalities. That is such a sane thing to do. I was…

Not sure how much sarcasm did you put in this comment, but banning from entering other countries and disconnecting from visa / mc only hurts. Here's why. I am originally from Russi…

>What happens when the 3 presidents disagree? Maybe the trick is to incentivize consensus-driven decisionmaking? That's where High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina comes i…

In no way this is a good example of such a system, but I still find Bosnia and Herzegovina political system absolutely hilarious. After Dayton peace agreement the literally put eth…

This reminds me how back in my school days I was not allowed to use the internet to prepare research on some random topics (e g. history essay). It was the late 90s when the intern…

This has to be about people who pushes the button. Not about the people who invents the technology. Otherwise you might want to stop all the kitchen knifes production, cause people…

My 2024 top 3: - They would never hurt a fly. Croatian journalist Slavenka Drakulic covered the Hague trial for military crimes in Bosnia war. The book made me rethink how I view t…

> he was under orders to shoot the plane down and now they’re trying to cover it up I highly doubt that's the case. Even though Russia went full evil mode a while ago, it's not tha…

Unlike Xi, Putin and his propaganda machine has literally threatened to use the nuclear power if they have to. Multiple times. Yes, it is considered as a bluff. And most likely it …

The war affects everyone. Some people die, some suffer because they are under shelling or occupation, some suffer cause their loved one die. But those outside war zone suffer as we…

I already posted this in another thread here. This particular change is not because isolationism. Most likely. Russian government added Hetzner to the list of companies who must mo…

There is nothing to do with intelligence. They got on radar of Russian government. Which wanted Hetzner to follow Russian law and move all Russian data to Russia in order to operat…

This is all fun until you talk to someone who is absolutely brainwashed or alien to a peaceful behavior. Do you really want to lose the debate to flat earth advocate? Do you want t…

Sounds like messengers with one to many communication feature (e.g. Telegram) fit this requirement at least partially. It might be not as interactive as mostly of websites, but it …

https://avaika.me/en/ I never really used social media, but wanted to share some photos with my friends and especially senior relatives. So I started this site. (also I was interes…

It's not just recipes. There are tones of questions I often search which have a very specific and short answer. E.g. "how many kangaroos are there in the world?". Ideally I would e…

What if I submit a request on behalf of someone else? Will this someone else get jailed?

Offtopic: I'm genuinely surprised to see "samizdat"[0] as a part of media name from a country way outside ex-Soviet block. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samizdat

So this is basically πfs of the crypto world, right? [0]: https://github.com/philipl/pifs