Interesting! thanks for elaborating. A week or month ago, a local Ukrainski politician, I thought it was a lady person, proclaimed that using the Russian language the invaders use is like spitting in the face of your home country. She got a hell of a lot of pushback on that. That made it seem that a lot of locals still prefer Russian to Ukrainian language. Can you shed some light on those conflicting sentiments?
Was inspired to educate myself a bit extra on Cyrillic script, so, from the english wiki:
"As of 2011, around 252 million people in Eurasia use it as the official alphabet for their national languages. About half of them are in Russia. "
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"The Slavic languages are conventionally (that is, also on the basis of extralinguistic features) divided into three subgroups: East, South, and West, which together constitute more than 20 languages. Of these, 10 have at least one million speakers and official status as the national languages of the countries in which they are predominantly spoken: Russian, Belarusian and Ukrainian (of the East group), Polish, Czech and Slovak (of the West group), Bulgarian and Macedonian (eastern members of the South group), and Serbo-Croatian and Slovene (western members of the South group) "
Or they want to have others say: "I thought you were defending, why are you crossing the border" and so discredit the defending nation. As if cross border defense is somehow immoral in the face of total fascism and expansionism..
There has been an upward trend in this, so 'that has generally always been true' is not true. I know because I drive proof of it, an EP9 1997 Toyota Starlet. I think the only thing that would really suck is replacing the electric cable tree or bigger dashboard stuff, everything else is basically directly accessible from the hood and trunk. Everyone that has owned a car around me knows that older cars are a lot more accessible for home repairs, so I'm interested to know where you got this?
True, I think a doping league is something we could try. We just have a year or 2 of ONLY doping league, then open the clean league and have 100 % controls. But not all doping is testable, currently..
No not really. I said it a bit vague because I think because of EU mandates more phones will be repairable(Soon TM hopefully). I wholly agree with you about the price of, for example, Fairphones. On the other hand my usage has changed radically from 10y ago, and consequently my phone is holding on much longer, so I'm saving up in the extra years this phone is surviving for a more expensive and arguably worse phone except for the repairability. Every day, it becomes worth more and more to me to be as independent from (large) corpo's as possible, so effectively it's becoming a better and better deal 😊. Same story for laptops, except it's Framework instead of Fairphone
I'm riding this 6a all the way to bricktown, then I'm switching to a repairable alternative. Also never buying Google hardware or registering for Google services ever again.
Oof, state actors already going against their own word and arresting/abducting protestors while they first confirmed they wouldn't.. Can't make out if this is happening now or before PM resignation.
I have feelings on 'both sides of the aisle', but I used to be more grossed out about other peeps unhygienicals. I think that got less and less, because my view of the world around me has become dirtier and dirtier :). Now it's like, what can 2 trillion bacteria even add to the scale? it's all bad anyway!
What about all those usb handshakes? It think it will just drain itself with heat and damage the battery slightly while doing so.