StopSpreadingBullshit
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StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
I don't think those are comparable. Signal-boosting some offensive tweet written by a nobody might increase his visibility tenfold. Meanwhile signal-boosting public information about Musk will increase risk to him or his family only marginally.
And as we can plainly see, none of them have eliminated poverty, and the harder they try this method the more disastrous the consequences get. QED.
None of the countries with police and a penal system eliminated crime => We should abolish police. QED
I think having people pay for the commons is necessary.
Where does paying for commons end and unjust redistribution starts? Public schools? Public infrastructure in some Podunk and rural areas where just a handful of people would benefit from it at the expense of urban folk?
Also oftentimes "libertarians" (not necessarily you) forget their opposition to redistributive "theft" as long as their favorite topic is concerned. Ah, so great for Orban to implement policies that might increase fertility, like cash payments to young parents! We should subsidize local businesses to compete with China! Veterans should have access to cheap healthcare and education!
It's evil
And some might say that not giving when you are able to is evil
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs%2022:9&version=KJV
I am not an advocate for redistributive policies, but I don't find "you will not reduce poverty by gifting the poor the rich's wealth" argument persuasive.
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
How would you go about resolving this disagreement?
A large number of gender reassignment surgeries, for example.
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
I was never asked about NATO membership, would vote against it.
Knowing your kind, people like you rarely ever vote, and know culture war figures from the US better than their local representatives. "Local corruption? Nah, what about transsexuals in Virginia?"
Roughly 40% of Slovaks agree with me.
Less than the support of Tiso party in 1938 elections? Good.
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
Don't thank me
Yes, no need to thank a fifth columnist.
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
Yes, yes. Why would anything be wiped from the internet? Kolomoisky is investigated.
It's there for anyone to see — like the fact that Slovakia is one of the most corrupt states in Europe — worse than Georgia or Rwanda. Nothing wrong with it — you made a great progress since mid 90s, being in EU and all that.
Now, Slovakia isn't a normal country, but at least half of the parties wouldn't tolerate something like this, and it definitely wouldn't fly anywhere in western Europe.
But that's interesting — right? The only people who like to talk about Ukrainian corruption or Hunter Biden so much are Orbanites from Hungary, russophiles from Bulgaria, Slovakia in your case, MAGA people (who are linked to Paul Manafort — one of the most corrupt people in recent Ukrainian and American history), Trump himself — all exemplars of honesty and incorruptibility. I find it hilarious. Clean your own stables.
But thanks for Zuzanas.
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
Yes. Why not? Again — Russia specifically targeted power plants and substation.
It's the simplest and most logical explanation. Russians launched almost 100 missiles at power plants and substations across the country, why would Ukrainian purposefully sabotage it? Also it's unlikely that Russians targeted one power plant, but an AA missile fell on another.
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
Theft is immoral. And something given has no value.
Those two are normative statements.
You will not reduce poverty by gifting the poor the rich's wealth.
And this statement is positive, and it doesn't follow from those before it.
It doesn't work.
That's what almost every state in the world does (except Haiti, maybe). Including Singapore, Nordic countries, United States... Or are you a hardcore libertarian who is against taxation?
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
In any normal county, a politician whose junkie son gets $50k a month from a sinecure in a famously corrupt country overseas would instantly be embroiled in a huge scandal.
Says a person from Slovakia 😩
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
No, that disproves your assertion that Shokin was fired on behest of Biden Sr because the latter wanted Shokin not to investigate his son. Of course, you could say that it WAS the real reason, and Biden just used reputation of Shokin being a corrupt prosecutor for plausible deniability in getting him fired. But then argue accordingly, not just put it as an undeniable fact.
Also Hunter Biden didn't commit any crime according to Ukrainian law by working there. Zlochevsky, the head of Burisma, most likely did - but then it was during presidential term of Yanukovich, a figure very much beloved by some on American far right and far left, deposed by the evil CIA.
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
where disposing of those people would have been a natural choice that would have been very advantageous to Russia if optics of PoW treatment were not a concern
Did you miss what happened at Elenovka? Or do you find Russian version plausible, that it was a Ukrainian strike on their own people because "they started to talk about crimes of Zelensky"? By the way, UN had to disband the group tasked with investigating what happened there because Russia denied the investigators access.
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shamil_Basayev#Abkhaz%E2%80%93Georgian_conflict
In a July 2020 interview, the former Russian Federal Security Service chief Sergei Stepashin admitted that Basayev cooperated with military intelligence while fighting against Georgian government in Abkhazia
And also Russia evacuated Georgian military from Sukhumi and protect Shevardnadze in Poti. Perhaps the absence of a civil war in Georgia or refusal to use army against regions with separatist sentiments would help more than minor excesses and the supply of weapons in the interests of all parties to the conflict.
It were not "minor" excesses. Russian assistance to Abkhaz separatists was extensive and well documented.
But I am not ready to justify desire of Ukrainian government to kill because they did not want to lose some of their power.
Then don't. But if the Ukrainian government did not act on military activity by Russian proxies in Donbass, there would had been another Ukrainian government.
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
Well, your view of the Ossetian-Georgian and Abkhaz-Georgian conflicts is slightly simplified.
Those are not "complicated" conflicts, just like Donbass War wasn't complicated. Without Russian involvement, most likely Georgia would have won. Basayev was supported by Russians back then (so you aren't correct that Chechens acted fully independently), but Russian support to Abkhaz separatist (both military and financial) was much more wider in scope. They even supported separatist with their air force.
the region that wanted independence from Georgia.
You do know that Abkhazia back then was 50% Georgian by population?
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
real-time location doxxing
Is it though? I haven't followed this Musk saga, but aren't they just tell where the jet that belongs to Elon is?
It's like if Lady Gaga had a concert, than some people on twitter would say "hey, Lady Gaga will be at this Concert Hall at 19:00", it wouldn't be considered "doxxing" really. Flight radar and such are great tools that are beneficial to our society.
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
Second, proxy wars. Georgia is a perfect example. The creation of a supply and training base for Chechen fighters through the Caucasus mountains is a catastrophic threat that almost nothing can counter
You probably haven't heard about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_Abkhazia_(1992–1993)
Russian meddling in affairs of its neighbors began long before 2008, or Chechen Wars. So it was really the other way around — fighters from North Caucasus (including Chechens) supported by RF invaded Georgia and fought against government forces, and eventually prevailed. Also they participated in cleansing of ethnic Georgians there. It really shows how disingenuous this argument is
we invade neighboring countries, incite instability there; oh how awful, now they hate us, we must invade them to secure our borders!
Dude, Flight Radar and smartphones with digital cameras exist, if high profile people move around, it is usually noticed.
Now prove that he is in Israel or Cyprus, and not in Vanuatu.
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
He is either in Israel of Cyprus but Israel is the most likely location.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=tNuRUY0Pxew
Here he is, visiting an Anti-Corruption Agency in Kyiv for questioning several days ago. So you just don't know basic facts.
Btw, just out of curiosity, how did you find themotte? I noticed that you’re not a native English speaker and only post about Ukraine when it comes up.
I read Scott back when he was posting on lesswrong, so I might ask you the same question. Did you come here from /r/conservative, /r/conspiracy or some other subreddit filled with low information people? Because it certainly looks like that.
post about Ukraine when it comes up.
I just posted here 3 times, I think. Yes, I am not really interested in discussing some outrage du jour about transsexuals or whatever constantly preoccupies your mind. Just called out ignorant comments several times (were those yours as well?)
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
You believe heroes can have offshore banking accounts paid for by corrupt oligarchs now hiding in Israel
btw, you betrayed your ignorance on the subject by not knowing that Kolomoisky is not in Israel right now, and he wasn't there for the last 2 years. As well by the fact there is a case opened against him in Ukraine, so he stays there. Before talking about things, you better educate yourself.
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
in less asthetically pleasing ways than most fish
Maybe due to familiarity bias? People see fish rostrums every now and then, but those of insects only in documentaries and books, usually in relatively late childhood.
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
What oil? There is less oil reserves in Ukraine than in Belarus.
Export of oil and fertilizers is a huge source of Belarus income. Cheap oil and gas from Russia are necessary for those industries to be viable, and are de facto subsidies from RF to Belarus. Lukashenka's regime , despite being much more brutal than Ukrainian even during Yanukovich times, ensured that most enterprises were state owned, and larger share of profits stayed in Belarus (unlike Ukraine, where whole industries got privatized, their owners through lobbying avoided large taxes, and profits were rerouted to tax havens somewhere in Cyprus and later used to buy mansions in Nice).
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
It's already in PPP terms, cost of living is adjusted for.
OK, I didn't check your link. Anyway, I cannot speak for everyone, but this difference of 20% is pretty negligible in comparison to living in a country where I wouldn't be beaten by riot police if I'd decided to attend an anti-government demonstration. If you post on this forum, you supposedly value such freedoms (yes, yes, Ukraine is far from perfect when it comes to civil rights, but we are comparing Ukraine and Russia, not Ukraine and Denmark).
That Ukrainian oligarchs were enriched during this process does not mean Russia...
Russia was actively corrupting Ukrainian politicians and oligarchs through its gas, check RosUkrEnergo for example, they weren't just passive bearers of gifts like you want them to present here.
...Soviets was evil for providing all these steel mills
Stop this Soviet-built-Ukrainian-industry bullshit. Ukraine, for example, had a major role in developing Russian oil industry in Western Siberia during Soviet times.
That doesn't make any sense.
I phrased it poorly. Many countries like Cuba, Mozambique, India and such were major borrowers from USSR. They went on becoming borrowers from Russia, not Ukraine or any other post-Soviet state.
If Russia gets 75% of Soviet assets and Ukraine 15% but Russia pays all of Ukraine's share of Soviet debt
From a purely mathematical standpoint — not necessary. If the total assets, for example, were 250 bn USD, and the total debt was 25 bn USD, it would be beneficial for Russia to repay those 25 bn instead of Ukraine, in comparison to the scenario of Russian/Ukrainian split of 70%/20%, but Ukraine repaying all of its supposed share (5 bn in this example) themselves. Don't forget that Russia got all the nukes, most of the Black Sea fleet and all other Fleets, Soviet gold reserves, property abroad like embassies etc.
StopSpreadingBullshit
1yr ago
In the thread down below memory palaces are discussed, but I wonder whether there any benefits to mastering mnemonics apart from getting good at memorizing vocabulary, learning trivia, and mastering some tricks like memorizing thousands of digits of pi, or decks of cards?
Most of mnemonic techniques use "encoding" — you associate whatever you want to memorize with an image, or a place. Some knowledge is easily encoded this way: kanjis, for example, can be split into "primitives", those "primitives" can be associated with images, and a story can be constructed around those images. For example, a kanji for "tea" (茶) can be split into "grass" (艹), "an umbrella" (个), and "a tree" (木). The same with the reading — it is phonetically (and in this case, etymologically) similar to "cha" — "tea" in multiple Slavic languages. But even if you don't know Slavic languages, you can associate it with a "chalice" (imagine drinking tea from a chalice), or any other word with "cha" syllable in it.
The same with lists (of presidents, or historical events, or bones in your body) — you construct a dictionary (key:value pair) of sorts, then link it through a story. There are alternative methods — like using acronyms (e.g. HOMES for Great Lakes — Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior), but they still use a hook of some sort.
Also digits — you can associate each one (or even a double-digit number) with an object, and then build a story with those objects. Cards. Names.
Less pliable are mathematical formulas, proofs, formulas of chemical compounds, programming syntax, general concepts and definitions. Sure, you can use the methods mentioned above for it — but it looks unnatural and just not practical; just look at some suggestions here
https://forum.artofmemory.com/t/memorising-maths-formulas/27834/14
At some point you might start thinking whether it'd be worth to construct an intricate series of associations for a single formula, or just to spend 10 minutes over several months using Anki, or even — gasp! solving problems — though, to be honest, I couldn't even memorize the formula for the square or the cube of a binomial back in school despite using it a thousand times, I had to derive it every time. And many would criticize such methods for substituting understanding for rot memorization.
Of course, mathematics, chemistry, programming — all of them already deal with more or less structured information. Knowing that a carbon atom might form only 4 bonds in an organic compound is already sort of a mnemonic. Or the names for standard methods in programming — it's "insert()" and "pop()", not "sldhslfjgfoophs()" and "fhsjhdyfty()". Do you really need tricks to supplement those in-built mnemonics?
Besides, is any of it really relevant in the modern world (apart from learning languages, and maybe some trivia)? In the age of GitHub Copilot and Wikipedia? Sure, you need to memorize the core concepts, but it can be done in sufficient time through the regular studying, practice and spaced repetition. After that, one might think, the memorization brings only diminishing returns. Are successful people in their fields — do they use mnemonics and make a significant effort to memorize things (apart from doctors and lawyers preparing for their exams)?
What are your thoughts?
Are you about that?
https://lb.ua/economics/2014/12/28/290814_donbass_zadolzhal_byudzhetu_bolee_1.html
Forcing Ukraine to pay for amenities it had to buy from Russia, and then had to transfer to Russian-occupied territories?
Also:
The occupying power has the duty to ensure that the adequate provision of food and medical supplies is provided, as well as clothing, bedding, means of shelter, other supplies essential to the survival of the civilian population of the occupied territory, and objects necessary for religious worship (GCIV Arts. 55, 58; API Art. 69).
Let's not pretend that for Eastern European aficionados of American Culture War it is something more than a hobby and an outrage porn. Slovakian politics, I would presume, is just boring in comparison to American.
I don't believe it's true, but that's what they like to tell to justify them participating in Culture War. The general advise "to touch grass" still applies.
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