FaibleEstimeDeSoi
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FaibleEstimeDeSoi
27d ago
And it wasn't something that specifically Russians did. Collectivization which caused the famine was a communist project mostly supported by local communists. Documents related to Holodomor were in part written in Ukrainian by Ukrainians.
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
27d ago
Yeah that was typo, but I meant to write 18th century mostly relating to Dzungars and some other lesser scale nomadic activity. I think while Tamerlane truly was the last one to really "wreck" Eurasia singlehandedly, nomads as a whole still did enormous damage all around for a long time afterwards. Crimean khanate for example was still at large and commencing massive raids for much of 18th century.
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
28d ago
Yeah obviously they are flanderized version of the real life cultures, but I don't think that authentic clothing matters that much. They do commonly use bows in the books. And while ACOUP has pedantic in its name it's still too nitpicky, not to mention ideologically captured to be a good source of critique. Like can you imagine there is no description of Dothraki art and music, that means that Martin is racist and/or ignorant, not that it just isn't very interesting thing to focus on.
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
28d ago
I would say yes, while still understanding that there are many specific examples where you can justify it. But here many nuances and arguments for no longer apply. Like for example the question of deterrence is already solved, it's already shown that any future war wouldn't be a walk in the park.
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
28d ago
Dothraki are feared for the same reason that similar nomads wrecked Eurasia from the taming of horses up to 19th century. Mounted warriors are very powerful both with bow and melee weapons and in nomadic tribal social structure almost every man can take on that role if needed.
Braavos is clearly modeled on Italian merchant republics, specifically Venice and to a lesser extent Genoa. I would recommend Roger Crowley's "City of Fortune: How Venice Won and Lost a Naval Empire" to see many problems that rich navally dominant city with mercenary military can have in maintaining its dominance. In short enemies can build fleet too, you are reliant on your trade partners and it's not always easy to translate your wealth into military power.
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
28d ago
"they" that you talking about is an abstract nation-state entity called "Ukraine" and/or its rulers. We peaceniks don't mean them when we say that immediate ceasefire is in everyone's interest. We talk about actual everyday people who suffer, who are locked in this country and are forced to fight. I don't see how nationalists' tears about lines on the map or pride of a certain someone are worth hundreds deaths every day.
If Ukrainians actually want to fight to the end then open the borders, make army volunteer only, maybe pay enough to recruit people willingly(which is still terrible because this willingness both in Ukraine and Russia comes from the utter poverty that its rulers are responsible for). If the problem is with security after the war then you can either get it with joining Nato or at least adjacent web of alliances or you don't and continuing the war won't solve this.
I think your sentiment is mostly sourced from cats being less popular than dogs in the US. Thus with less common interaction small parts of cat owners(like already mentioned "cat ladies") have more influence on your perception of them as group. In Russia where cats are much more popular, nobody thinks that they are somehow feminine. People here written about feminine traits of the cats and masculine ones of the dogs, but you can easily do it vice versa. Like this for example: Dogs are clingy, always asking for your attention, while cats are independent, have their own hustle(if you let them go outdoors) and capable of caring for themselves(washing, going on toilet).
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
2mo ago
Russia has the world’s highest abortion rate
It's not true and haven't been for a long time. Just look at the current data.
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
3mo ago
I think it's just because people have much more to lose now. Your normal standard of living is big enough so you don't have to diverge from a safe railroded life path to live well. Why would you commit if by doing so you limiting your own options and open up yourself to failure?
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
3mo ago
Or maybe omission of it was meant as a message of no longer delaying the "depose" part.
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
5mo ago
Again, please write something that strengthens this parallel other than that she is relatively young compared to other politicians. What issues can be her Perestroika, her Glasnost, her liquor ban?
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
6mo ago
Why write so many questions when you clearly already have intended answers for them? Why make another post for the same discussion?
In the end this is meaningless, taste is subjective and I can't do nothing except to say "actually fifth prison cell is good if you give me more shelf space". Yes, majority of people do agree that classical buildings are better looking than modern pragmatic boxes, but they do not think in architectural styles, they mostly think in terms of what is "cool". And I don't see majority of people disagreeing with this gymnasium building being something cool and novel.
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
6mo ago
I am not saying that they didn't intend for her to be evil, with the notes of gray but still clearly a villian. I am more poiting out radical political reading on this which is I think clearly wasn't intended. Most likely they just wanted to make a cool scene and make Lilith more sympathetic by putting word about freedom in her mouth and making the opposition be bigoted church which worships another asshole.
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
6mo ago
I think you misunderstood my point. I am talking about AAA game with fairly standard(and quite good) modern narrative complete with mainstream liberal norms, which in the process of making story more complex and gray most likely unintentionally opens itself to the radical interpretation. Similar thing often happens with villains that do something "to save the planet" or "destroy oppressive society", which are points that far-leftist generally agree with. I am not saying that it is intended or correct reading. And I don't get what you mean by "my philosophy".
What sort of surreal standard of notoriety is this?
5k followers is not much especially on twitter, I have that many on one of the platforms with almost no effort invested and I think most of the people here either can do the same or already done it.
Currently playing Diablo 4 and this cutscene genuinely stunned me in the sense of how it unintentionally conveys perspective of religious reactionaries so well(maybe I wrong here of course, can't read creators' minds). There is plenty of modern mainstream woke stuff in the game. racially diverse cast with good roles for minority characters, angel that was mostly good in lore previously was made into a selfish coward, et cetera. But here we have demonic figure offering freedom from religious obligations and societal constraints, freedom that leads to the brutal killing of a priest who was the one man who resisted the temptation, freedom to be beautiful in sin. That could have been short story told in a tweet by an anon with 5k followers, instead it's a main plot point in AAA game. And normies don't see it, because idk, priest was mean. I am not in any way religious or conservative, but it's interesting to see their views being represented even most likely without them being involved in production.
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
6mo ago
That one has too many questionable decisions to count.
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
6mo ago
Idk about radios but you can read the aforementioned book to get all the details about backwardness and ridiculous inefficiency of nazi economy. They had their moments because their opponents weren't much better and for most of the war their main one(USSR) had economical system even more backward and inefficient.
It's funny that you mention Diamond zebras thing because it's one of the greatest examples of WNs not being able to read. Diamond specifically makes a point of distinctioning between taming and domesticating animals. Elephants were tamed many times throught history but they aren't domesticated because it is hard to engage in selection with that animal. Also, he again writes not about abstract possibility of domestication, but of it feasibility and desurebility for Neolithic tribesman on large time scales that are necessary for this. Of course in modern times some Siberian biologists can and did domesticated foxes in half of century but I don't think we should consider native European population more dumb because they didn't do it thousands of years ago.
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
7mo ago
I picked up Forgotten City on sale some time ago and finally gave it a try. Great game, highly recommend, don't want to say too much to avoid spoilers. Running around the ancient ruins and learning everyone's plotline is quite engaging.
Dunno why everybody liked it. If you already experienced time loop story you can already guess what you would be doing whole game.
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
7mo ago
I think it's quite obvious that both sides stated positions aren't their actual final positions for the hypothetical peace treaty if it was signed right now. They just have no reason to downgrade their stated goals before any negotiations.
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
7mo ago
Thank you, it, while not ideally, does work.
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
7mo ago
Does anybody here knows how to find old reddit posts from a specific subreddit? There is no search for oldest, no option for specific dates and even scrolling down for top of all time will not work because of 1000 listed posts limit. Previously there were a couple of api based solutions but they got bricked recently. It would be very strange if there wasn't a way of doing this considering that all the posts are there and are accessible through links to this day.
Posting this in Friday fun because I need this to autisticly read discussions of the game/book/film from when it released, not for anything useful.
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
8mo ago
Completely agree with you, but also I don't see how Republicans could conserve their policy positions in popular vote system. There is huge demographic change going on that is realistically irreversible, but also generally US population is very progressive and there is little momentum going on in other direction compared to, for example Europe. I think the only way this changes in the near future is emergence of some great figure that can run on bipartisanship platform leaning left on economic issues and right on social ones either from an established party or even as third party break out like Ross Perrot, Trump could have been such figure but he wasn't.
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
8mo ago
Wanted to write basically the same thing but you beat me to it. Free speech make sense in prosperous and stable liberal democracy because its enemies are mostly harmless. You can't say the same about Weimar republic.
FaibleEstimeDeSoi
8mo ago
But this system of laws and punishment clearly does influence outcomes, like a slope guides water downhill. And criminals are to blame in the same way as tsunami is to blame for its victims, I can get angry at both. Also our whole society does stand on the assumption of free will so you just learn to put up with thism
I would say that Russian tech is quite successful for their position. It's obviously hampered by lawlessness, economic isolation and brain drain, but it did win the competition with American analogues in their own country, which you can't say of any other European IT sector. And it happened before government bans.
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