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Re: The only tourist in Moldova

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Post by Damogran6 »

SomeoneFromCA wrote: post #348
throwaway290 wrote: post #339

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Sure, they keep water hot in select cities, and the rest is Mukhosransk territory that doesn't matter. You could be from Moscow with that logic! Respectfully you have no idea, planned hot water downtime in summer is reality for most cities in Russia (including SPb with official maximum length of two weeks), don't try to paint it look better than the mess it is. Other post-Soviet countries probably do better, especial…

have you read the original post? > Old Soviet style communities get hot water from central plants, mainly used for heating but also for showers, so when winter is over, they shutdown the heating plants for the season and no hot water at all Because if you reread it, you'll get the ridiculousness of that claim. So what you saying that situation in ex-USSR is such that there is only hot water during the winter. This is…

It's almost as if USSR and China are vast territories and experience might vary.

Re: The only tourist in Moldova

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Post by racional »

swozey wrote: post #318
ossobuco wrote: post #286

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It's funny but personally I'd feel less safe traveling to the USA. The chance of finding myself in the midst of a mass shooting terrifies me. Also being robbed, being involved in a road rage accident. If I was black I'd add to that the possibility of being subjected to police abuse. Without considering the chance I'm for some reason snatched and imprisoned in Guantanamo for the rest of my life without any legal proce…

Yeah it's like Mad Max over here. I'm sure Russia doesn't have tons of road rage (wait, didn't the dashcam trend start there?), may have less guns but rape and domestic violence is absolutely insane (and dv is legal now), and Russia absolutely treats black people with respect (oh wait now the battlefield is full of dead minority conscripts hmm). Maybe the USA just has a lot more news outlets. We don't have Oblasts or…

Do share a few links to stories about the border town rampage and any other particularly notable incidents, if you can.

Re: The only tourist in Moldova

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Post by jahnu »

imp0cat wrote: post #202
jahnu wrote: post #24

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It’s even a good bit further west than Vienna.

Vienna is great, too. Prague and Vienna have a lot in common (great beer, for example).

Prague has even better beer than Vienna’s decent beer. But the wine here is very good :)

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Post by justsomehnguy »

fractallyte wrote: post #203
justsomehnguy wrote: post #175

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... and that's why you go around and policy the usage of the language which isn't even spoken in your own country?

Considering the staggering numbers of Ukrainians killed, maimed, displaced, deported, and more, in the fight for independence from terrorist Russia, referring to that country with its correct name is a sign of respect and acknowledgment.

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Re: The only tourist in Moldova

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Post by [deleted] »

snmx999 wrote: post #291
qingcharles wrote: post #180

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Plenty of people have two passports for this reason. Lots of things in immigration require you to honestly self-report and have no mechanism to validate at the point-of-entry. For instance, many countries without visa requirements will still ask about criminal records in your native country, but have no access to the data to verify if you tell them you've never even had a parking ticket. But if you get caught later d…

Using two passports is not always the solution. As a dual citizen of two countries, I also have two passports. A couple of years ago I travelled to Malta with the passport from the country I currently live in. One week later I flew over to Israel, where I used the passport of my birth country. I was extensively interrogated at the border, because apparently the system flagged me to the border officer as there was no…

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Re: The only tourist in Moldova

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Post by swozey »

vzaliva wrote: post #112
swozey wrote: post #103

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I have a Russian friend who is adamant that I would really enjoy and have a great time in Russia. IIRC he tells me to go to St Pete more than Moscow. But I cannot imagine doing that as an American. It kind of makes me wonder if he's messing with me but he hates Russia and Putin and I don't know why he would. I feel like I would be so unsafe. I'm a very "American" looking person and I only know a handful of Russian wo…

If you go to russia there is a chance of you being arrested on made-up charge just to be used as exchange fund for russian spies or arm dealers arrested in the west. Look up Paul Whelan, Brittney Griner, Michael Calvey, Trevor Reed, and most recently Travis Leake.

Oh yeah I know all about our people over there. Not a chance I'd go post 2014 unless a revolution happens.

They're all sad stories but there's a ballerina who lived in California for decades and was a US citizen (If you were ever Russian, Russia doesn't recognize your new state, you're always Russian) who was arrested last year when visiting I believe a grandma. Her charge was that she donated $25 to a Ukranian refugee fund. She had a few articles last year but not much keeping her in the news. She's going to have a tough time being an immigrant from Russia who donated to Ukraine. I don't think she has a chance of getting out and the women penal colonies like IK-14 are essentially slave factories.

The Ukraine war has taught me a lot about how Russia treats peope, especially women. Field Wives, et al. Now they're releasing female prisoners to Storm Z groups to go to the front line.

https://nypost.com/2024/03/04/world-news/ksenia-karelinas-le...

https://www.rferl.org/a/notorious-russian-women-s-prison-hel...

Re: The only tourist in Moldova

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Post by justsomehnguy »

generic92034 wrote: post #234
racional wrote: post #217

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English is spoken very widely in Ukraine in fact, and was just promoted to an official status (not as a primary language, but to a secondary official status nonetheless) in the past month.

So, maybe that is the difference to the German language? Here in the news you can hear "die Ukraine" (the Ukraine) all the time. And usually any "rules" in the rough vicinity of political correctness, anti-discrimination or simple politeness are meticulously adhered to in German news. Which I am personally fine with.

As GP said, 'English is spoken very widely in Ukraine', though he forgot to add 'now' and 'because someone needs to brigade subreddits and do damage control when UA does something stupid and exposes itself again'[0].

The whole '"the" VS lack of "the"' stems from the Russian/Ukranian language distinction somewhat resembling that 'the regions vs the country' in English.

But again, they do demand Russian speakers everywhere to use the language they claim is not even used in their own country[1] as they see it fits them.

And this is the reason they aren't bothered to demand the same treatment to the Netherlands, the Bahamas and whatever else, and that's why they don't bother with German or any other language - it's just self-esteem and identity issues absolutely, totally unrelevant to anyone in the world.

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/UkraineRussiaReport/comments/1e67jp...

[1] 'not as a primary language, but to a secondary official status nonetheless' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41002437

Re: The only tourist in Moldova

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Post by psunavy03 »

kjkjadksj wrote: post #86
psunavy03 wrote: post #32

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They've already been sold the whole suite of Western air defense systems in addition to the ex-Soviet gear they've already had. Patriot, HAWK, Gepard, etc.

That didn't help the childrens hospital that was hit 9 days ago unfortunately. 40 people died in that strike.

Unfortunately the West can only provide air defense systems, not magic lasers that automatically shoot everything down every time. This is classic terrorism, where the defender has to be right every time, but the attacker only has to be right once.

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Post by elefanten »

ossobuco wrote: post #295
walterlw wrote: post #294

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that same kind of thinking encouraged Russia to go on a 3-day march on Kyiv. Ask an average participant of that march how that has gone for them. Oh wait

Historical facts are not "thinking". I don't get your snark to be honest. These Russians, are they in the room with us right now?

Interesting to hide behind the defense you’re just stating facts while being so imprecise about everything else you’re saying.

Some vague, associative geographic vibes you experience are totally irrelevant to the detailed discussion of what various alcohols are called across (present day) countries.

And gp didn’t mention “Russians” in some vague accusatory sense, they clearly said “Russia” marched. A historical fact as it turns out. And the comparison was also precise: Russia’s pretense to march involved a wishful assertion of how many self-identified “Russians” inhabited the area.

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