sun
2yr ago
What? No. Sovereignity is specifically about the control you have over the territory. Pride is more about keeping face.
sun
2yr ago
I think sacrificing lives to defend a country's sovereignity against an invader is generally more excusable than sacrificing lives to a technical accident by not accepting aid. I'm sure the same Ukrainians that are the sacrifices in the former case would generally be more eager to sacrifice themselves in the former case than in the latter.
Indeed, I've heard quite a few opinions to the effect of "I will sacrifice my life if I have to, to defend my country/my family/my culture/kill those fuckers". I've heard "I will sacrifice my life if it means my country doesn't have to show weakness" far less often.
sun
2yr ago
I had not ever seen "враньё" used as a specific term. Perhaps it is a Kremlinologist artifact?
sun
2yr ago
I agree it's propagandistic, for it to be "completely" so it would have to be completely untruthful.
sun
2yr ago
In other words, objective truth is more important to me than either your ego or your life.
No, your ego is nore important to you than objective truth. Objective truth does not require that people accept it; it is enough to be correct. "I am correct and you must admit it" is the ego speaking.
sun
2yr ago
And that is comical. Interesting that people who laugh at conspiracies involving "Russian bots" fall to the same temptation of accusing anyone of being a "glowie", or an "Ukrobot".
To be fair, the people who are referred to as "Ukrobots" do exist. I doubt they'd consider obscure heretic forums to be worth astroturfing, though, as opposed to Russian Telegram channels.
sun
2yr ago
I'd be very, very surprised if you actually believed that no one never tried to convince Russia with words, as opposed to trying to set this frankly absurd assumption (Russia has diplomats and embassies, and so do its opponents) as the null hypothesis.
sun
2yr ago
Something like that. It's a common lexical trope in Russian to refer to a certain kind of toy cube set, with a big letter and the corresponding word+picture on them. Since some of those sets were bad Chinese bootlegs, the words don't always match. Sometimes a joke is made by saying one word but implying another with the letter.
sun
2yr ago
I can only conclude that this Facebook post was designed to be completely propagandistic
What did you expect, an expert and impartial strategic analysis?
When addressing one's people, your own side's defeat is generally not considered as an option.
sun
2yr ago
"Early Life" is the section in a person's page on Wikipedia that usually mentions if they were born in a Jewish family.
sun
2yr ago
If you train on all variables except race and black people are ceteris paribus less likely to repay, won't that just create a distinct cluster unexplained by any visible variables? Sounds simple enough to then take an average of all such clusters.
sun
2yr ago
What it definitely was, was a big middle finger to the Red Tribe. And I didn't go to the film to see people making hand gestures.
I don't suppose you boycotted the Captain America movies as well, on account of them implying America is best represented by a white blonde athletic man?
sun
2yr ago
Are you familiar with Dwarf Fortress?
Regarding RPGs, many old-school roguelikes probably count. Ancient Domains of Mystery is one.
sun
2yr ago
Of all questionable acts Ukrainians have been engaging in, I count removing a piece of bronze among the least questionable. I don't think we'll find any agreement on whether it's good to fetishize the past to this extent.
sun
2yr ago
It's not even "truth-seeking" to preserve the statues. No truth is lost by destroying a statue. Perhaps if they invented other history in its place, then it would count. As it stands, it is merely a refusal to honor some sort of aesthetic consistency. "How come you want to eat your cake when you've had it 300 years ago?"
sun
2yr ago
Vandalism is morally reprehensible.
When I had learned this, it was in the context of "a bunch of antisocials destroying things the larger society likes and makes use of". It does not translate well to "destroying a symbol of an empire whose inheritor is kind of literally invading you and destroying things you like, with part of their justification being exactly that some chick of theirs founded the city you live in".
sun
2yr ago
You're proposing a nonexistent dichotomy in the first place.
There is no law that forbids toppling statues of founders once they are no longer aligned with the current ideology/national myth/what have you. You're not owed your legacy forever and ever, deal with it.
So? Did Odessa disappear in a puff of historical consistency?
All that "legacy" is for Ukraine right now is a casus belli for Russia.
sun
2yr ago
If you want the dictionary meaning, you can refer to the dictionary. Suffice to say that if it, as another poster advocates, takes becoming space North Korea forever to remain "human", then I am against remaining human, whatever its definition.
Because (and when) I can be sure that the current government will treat me better than the other guys.
The other guys marching in with tanks and artillery seems to make people less assured that they'd be better than the current government.
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