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India should probably have given more aid to the Ukrainian people, and helped broker ceasefires or humanitarian pauses. But to destroy our relationship with Russia would be risking famine and economic collapse (see how the significantly richer EU has suffered from lack of oil).

Ironic you mention that Ukraine was unfair to Indians when the Russians are literally kidnapping them and forcing them to work.

The first happened two years ago; the second has only come to light recently. If the Russian state is found to have been complicit in the latter, public opinion will doubtless change.

Just to clarify, Evangelion is basically saying 'don't guilt-trip teens into being soldiers, don't put them under the power of horny adults (however well-meaning), don't bully them or treat them like lab mice, and definitely don't cut them off from civilian society and the chance to form normal human friendships'. Seems some people saw all of that and only remembered the cool mechas.

If you can't beat them, ban them?

R is partly based on S.

"Self-inflicted" as in, if he hadn't talked to the regulators, the wound wouldn't have occured.

I don't see anyone here switching to linux on their personal pc other than the IT students who are forced to install kali linux.

I think someone is pulling your leg. All the IT / engineering students I know use either a normal Linux distribution like Ubuntu, or Windows. Kali is for cybersecurity people and wannabe h4X0rs.

Do these private computers run a properly licensed version of Windows? What's the cost for a license? Same as in other countries?

Only the big ones. Pirated Windows is extremely cheap, and Microsoft doesn't care too much as they want people using Windows. A new proper licence would be Rs 5,000 to Rs 10,000. This is a considerable sum for the average Indian.

Is there more Linux expertise available than in other countries?

I don't know that much about other countries. I do know that we are probably the most Linux-friendly country in the world. But most of the senior people in the FOSS community are from Europe / US / East Asia.

Most schools in India already use some distribution of Linux.

The government is probably the biggest customer you can get as a vendor / manufacturer. You'd be insane to not give them whatever support they ask for.

There is definitely a section that feels this way, at least with regards to the UK. Fortunately, there are a small minority (for now).

India's neutrality is due to several factors all aligning in the same direction:-

• We need wheat, fertilisers and oil from Russia.
• Most Indians, across the political spectrum, have a positive view of Russia due to all the things they did for us during the Cold War. Most Indians wouldn't know what a Ukraine is.
• The Ukrainian police (and many citizens) attacked Indian students and workers trying to leave the country when the war began. They were also accused of using Indians and Africans as human shields. Ukraine and NATO are also supporting the Gaza genocide.

(I'm guessing there is also some schadenfreude, at least among some people, at seeing a European country getting colonised by a semi-Asian one.)

Also, India has a one-China policy and does not usually comment on the internal affairs of other countries.

There was a recent paper saying exactly this.

And how can those small third parties grow if people don't vote for them?

Their homeland?

Many Indian languages allow words in a logical unit to be stringed together as long as it sounds okay (so basically, avoid consonant - consonant joining).

The problem is that Indian languages belong to three or four language families. In contrast, all European languages (except Basque, Hungarian and Finnish) belong to one language family.

Put another way, Hindi, Sanskrit and English are more similar to each other (all Indo-European) than any of them are to Ladakhi (Sino-Tibetan), Munda (Austroasiatic) or Tamil (Dravidian).

When an Indian speaks English as a second language, it will be influenced by their first language. But the effect of Punjabi would be quite different from that of Telegu, which in turn would be quite different from that of Zo.

I had the opposite experience. Lemmy's World News is much less racist than Reddit's. So many articles about events in Asia, Africa, etc.

Yes, but if you throw a small light stone at the right angle, you can make in bounce off the water. That's much more fun.

It is, in cases where it works, probably the best available method we have for finding the truth.

But there are a lot of questions it cannot answer, it can still give the wrong result just by chance, and the results are only as good as the assumptions you made. The last point is particularly important, and can allow bias to creep in even when all the experiments are done correctly.

Finally, real scientists often do not (and sometimes cannot) follow the scientific method perfectly, due to all sorts of reasons.

It's not that it can't practically be followed, it is just that everyone running after H-index or whatever the hot thing is now has resulted in a drop in quality.