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harmonics

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    Comment #48009108

    No, you're simply being a bigoted ass. I am not surprised that your comments are not dead, as it's been perfectly acceptable to insinuate various things about certain groups of peo…

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    Comment #47900422

    As someone who has been using Cyrillic writing all my life, I've never noticed this bloat you're speaking of, honestly... Maybe if you're one of those AI behemots who works with ex…

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    Comment #47861237

    I am blessed with living in one of the most polluted areas in the world (PM2.5 going into thousands of µg/m³ in winter; summers are not much better due to dense chemical smog). Can…

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    Comment #47785420

    What are you on about? rutracker, libgen, sci-hub, z-lib are all Russian/ex-Soviet projects and cater heavily to westerners. I'm 99% sure archive.is and anna's-archive are also in …

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    Comment #47166071

    > Settlements used to be covered in smog due to coal fires for example. Used to? Lots of them still are. Right now there's 150 µg/m³ of PM2.5 outside my window, and it's a "clean" …

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    Comment #47144526

    Nah, you've simply never lived in a country which is afraid of its own population and does (or tried to) MITM internet traffic. Mine does both, there was a scandal several years ag…

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    Comment #46825841

    I've always been wondering why buckwheat isn't more popular in western countries. It has a similar nutritional profile with high levels of fiber, vitamins and minerals. It's been a…

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    Comment #46690514

    Several garages near my house have people living in them, and they burn anything that burns -- plastic bottles, pieces of used tires, rags soaked in used motor oil. I'm pissed as h…

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    Comment #46690370

    I know developed countries have a very different understanding of the word "clean", but in my city -- which is stuck in the 18th century -- the difference between winter and summer…

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    Comment #46690302

    My parents were the same until I forced them to install an air purifier, and showed them the filter after running it for one winter (with windows always closed). It was snow white …

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    Comment #46690160

    No. I would have mentioned Almaty as it's big enough so that at least some people would have heard about it. I'm in this dump: https://aqicn.org/station/@517492/ Almaty also has te…

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    Comment #46690060

    IQAir has shit coverage. I live in Kazakhstan in a city at the eastern part of the country, near the border with Chinese Xinjiang, where PM2.5 levels regularly exceed 1000 µg/m³ (t…