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https://newlinesmag.com/ has been a favorite of mine lately if you wanna give that a try, it's got global coverage and there's always something interesting to read

doing some reason.. uhh intuitioning i imagine brazil and portugal might have some sort of a visa-free deal going on in which case llama 4 might actually be right here?

see the problem here is you somehow associate socialism -- i.e. socialist urbanism and architecture -- with dystopia

i still remember the first time i tried pierogi at a music festival in Poland after a few beers -- they were amazing but years later that experience was overshadowed when i tried t…

anecdotal, but my experience a year ago when i travelled international was: 2/2 delays by OEBB that made me miss connections (and absolutely rude and inconsiderate customer service…

sadly no, it is an unsolved problem of scholarly publishing imo. on the one hand you have the reputable journals following the traditional publishing process that take pride in the…

a desk rejection is when the editor in chief (or managing editor, or whoever is the one first receiving the submitted paper) decides to reject the submission without sending it out…

GP is getting downvoted because it's a shit take. ethnic tensions in Kosovo date back to before the break up of Yugoslavia -- like early 1980s at the latest. Serbia may feel that n…

This piece of investigative journalism has been posted on HN some 9 months ago. I'm reposting it now because a) it's a really thoroughly researched article, and b) it's presented i…

shown themselves to you maybe, but have in mind that post 1945 plenty of couped/invaded countries around the world could come up with a convincing case painting US as a bad actor t…

it's 2/2 real world cases so 'all cases' seems like a legit conclusion to me, but if you can come with an ethical hypothetical a-bomb dropping scenario i'm all ears

imagine Russia using the same justification for dropping one on a Ukrainian city and suddenly all complexity and nuance is gone it's morally indefensible in all cases

i haven't heard / read his speeches but isn't that just regular political speech? 'we'll make x great again' where they invoke some mythical glorious past x and make grand promises…

where does this notion of 'protecting the whole Europe from fascist hordes' come from? has there been any indication that Russia genuinely intended to steamroll Europe if they had …

according to Derna's deputy mayor quoted in [1] "the dams have not been maintained since 2002", so it seems unlikely that NATO intervention is to blame (though that was my kneejerk…

localized... Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Libya, Egypt and that's just this storm. a lot of other countries in Europe got hit by severe floods earlier. it's definitely been a weird su…

yes and if i'm reading it correctly, the article says banning women from schools is a remnant of tribal law, which is why they favour sharia law -- the lesser evil apparently given…

well that's a relief

effective accelerationism apparently

why do you think that? like sure, i suppose every nation dreams of being the top dog ruling the world, and China even has a realistic shot at it but i never got any 'we want to des…

oh great that's another 7 interesting books i'll download and never get to actually read jk thanks for posting this!

eh are they really making more money with 9,99 tickets or are they just losing less money (on that particular flight i mean)

> Personal guess, I think that Russia is also strongly responsible for the current bullshit going on in Bosnia the 'current' bullshit has been going on for decades though; there's …