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McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • So, what you're saying is that the countries that sided with the West got a better deal than the ones that became Russian puppets?

    • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • Eastern European countries that opened to western trade and diplomatic relationships improved significantly.

    Eastern European countries that became Russian puppets didn't.

    Explain that.

    • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • Because the Black Sea Fleet is station in Sevastopol and Sevastopol is a vital strategic resource? Are we speaking the same language?

    So if the US has a fleet statinoned in another contry's territory, should they just be allowed to take it?

    Non-sequitor?

    What don't you follow?

    Do you also support US-backed countries to take territory as they see fit? Or does that only apply to countries you like?

    Okay so you know that UA was shelling Donbass and killing people for years, and the Rada was very openly hostile to the Russian speaking Ukrainian minority, right?

    A Russian-backed separatist group starts a conflict and Ukraine responds.

    Does Ukraine not have the right to defend their territory?

    Could I get a sticker instead?

    You can get some crayons to munch on.

    • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • I don't have the time for the classic tankie "reply with a wall of text and deflections", I actually have a real job to attend to. But some main points.

    Do you know that the Russian Black Sea Fleet is based in Sevastopol? Did you know that it’s an incredibly important strategic asset? What do nation states do when an incredibly important strategic asset is threatened? Do they defend it?

    Do you also know that Russia took Sevastopol from Ukraine back in 2014?

    Tell me, do you also support Israel's claims on Palestinian territory?

    Do you know what the Russian Federation’s stated causus belli for the invasion is?

    Yes.

    Do you know what the causis belli for the US's invasion of Iraq was? Are you stupid enough to believe that one as well? Or does believing causus belli only applies to whatever country is not an ally of the US?

    What do you know?

    I know you should get a gold medal on mental gymnastics and double standards.

    • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • So, why didn't Belarus improve at the same rate as the Baltic countries?

    They both started from the bottom, right?

    • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • Funny how living standards in the ex-soviet countries have improved considerably since joining the EU, but that has not been the case for the ones that chose to be kept under Russia's sphere of influence. 🤔

    Looks like the EU is really bad at looting, they should learn from Russia.

    • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • I would say most leftists (specially the libertarian type), are not on the side of Russia on this.

    Tankies have just been really loud with their mental gymnastics lately.

    • McConnell on Ukraine proxy war: "We haven’t lost a single American in this war. Most of the money that we spend, is spent on replenishing weapons, so it’s actually employing people here."[paraphrased]

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  • Russia invades a neighbour who dares to attempt to have stronger ties to the west.

    West supplies neighbour with weapons to defend itself.

    Tankies on Lemmy: "oh no, Russia is being oppressed"

    • Apps uninstalling themselves?

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  • Does anyone have access to your machine (local or remote)? This sounds every odd.

    • This post knows where you're viewing it from (Lemmy doesn't proxy external images)

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  • Thanks for the heads-up.

    Routing my Lemmy mobile app through orbot from now on. Seems to have fixed the issue.

    • What's some really unpopular opinion you have?

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  • The fact that you're getting downvoted means that you're on topic.

    • OpenAI finally admitted they're crawling the web to profit off of GPT. Block it from your sites using robots.txt.

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  • While that is true, it does divert peoples' clicks.

    Imagine you wrote a quality tech tutorial blog. Is it ok for OpenAI to take your content, train their models, and divert your previous readers away from your blog?

    It's an open ethical question that it's not straightforward to answer.

    EDIT: yes people also learn things and repost them. But the scale at which ChatGPT operates is unprecedented. We should probably let policy catch up. Otherwise we'll end up with the mess we currently have by letting Google and Facebook collect data for years without restrictions.

    • Which sites do you blacklist from your internet searches?

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  • In SearXNG you can redirect, or block domains (but you still need to define them). You need to enable the "Hostname replace" pluging in the setting.yaml

     
        
enabled_plugins:
  - 'Hostname replace'  # see hostname_replace configuration below

    And then define the rules like this:

     
        
hostname_replace:
#   My redirects
  '(.*\.)?reddit\.com$': 'old.reddit.com'
#   My filters
  'slant\.co': false
  'dailymail\.co\.uk': false

    • Which sites do you blacklist from your internet searches?

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  • Added to the filters. Thanks!

    I would already not click it when searching for news, might as well automate it.

    • Which sites do you blacklist from your internet searches?

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  • Those ublock lists are interesting. Will definitely be stealing them for my searxng config.

    Thanks!

    • What are some good RSS feeds to subscribe to?

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    • Chinese embassy slams Moscow over Russian border incident

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  • Tankies.

    • What's your favorite programming language and what about it do you like?

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  • By versatility, I'm also including the ecosystem. Julia doesn't seem to be anywhere near python on that.

    However, I've heard good things, it's on my to-do list.

    • What's your favorite programming language and what about it do you like?

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  • Python for its versatility.

    Rust for its strictness and speed.

    • Belgium also bans TikTok on government phones

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  • China to allow every US based social network when?

    Oh who am I kidding.