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221·8 days agoI hope you’re right. Because in general the reaction of the Russian population to the war has been so meek, I’m starting to doubt it would be any different once recruitment starts hitting the biggest cities.
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Nah, he’s already an expert.
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61·21 days agoEhh, that ‘Yugoslavia’ was kind of like having SSSR break up but Russia and Belarus sticking together and calling themselves ‘SSSR’.
69·27 days agoMeta did not immediately respond to Ars’ request for comment and has maintained throughout the litigation that AI training on LibGen was “fair use.”
When I upload a single half century old photo to Wikipedia, I have to fill out a relatively complicated form proving that it meets “fair use” standards. Internet Archive got legally fucked for allowing people to read their book scans without restriction for a while. And now these absolute cunts have the gall to defer to “fair use”! I really wonder if the same authors and publishing houses who sued IA will do anything about this.
Right, people shouldn’t inform themselves, we should all get our news only from online forums and blogs you politically agree with.
Well then… Your comment showed up first when I opened the comments, and without any other context it baffled me.
I am honestly a bit impressed by how you managed to read all this into OP’s pic. Literally nothing there is about using Facebook, being guilted(???) into using it, nothing suggests that leftists shouldn’t build their own spaces. Are you really responding to the pic or to something else?
but with a sciencey flair.
Tbh the test at 16personalities has almost no sciency flair at all, as far as I see, its main appeal and likely reason for popularity is the cute illustrations.
They can switch to Cyrillic: az, buki, vedi, glagol’, dobro… Then Futhark, and so on, there’s no lack of alphabet systems out there. The preference for Greek is kind of lazy.
And then also how is it bridged to glowie?
Just like how you have “newfag” and its more civilised equivalent “newbie” (though the two terms are more independent from each other, the latter is older).
where did you see that and what makes you think this association extends into the wider world?
Youtube, 4chan and similar shithole sites that directly followed Terry Davis, and which initially formed and adopted the lingo. Many such people are also in the circles that focus on privacy, distrust of the state and big tech companies bordering on paranoid, etc. (4chan’s /g/ in particular)
I have seen the old r/waterniggers
It was just r/waterniggas. And IIRC it wasn’t generally meant to be racist, so the shift to r/hydrohomies was tolerated. They got banned just due to the name, not behaviour of the users. It’s really not equivalent to people laughing at and making memes out of a schizophrenic man spouting racism.
It’s safe to say that the vast majority of people using the term know about its origin, and it’s not mere association, but literal origin (see the video above), and also the original form “glownigger” is still widely used (it’s bizarre that it’s on the end of the list on Wikipedia, in fact, after some forms that are probably barely used). Otherwise “glowie” doesn’t make much sense at all, doesn’t it? It’s a softened version pto avoid the overt racism, but it still gives a wink to it.
they actually had this thing called indian plays in both soviet countries and germany
Americans are so racist they have to fabricate nonexistent racist stuff elsewhere to feel better about their own racism. Impressive.
Check the link in my comment. Or see the video that’s the source of the term - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbG6u86t4bA
I was suspicious at first too, but now as weird as the whole scenario looks my skepticism has weakened (e.g. people say he’s been missing from work during the shooting, the unibrow may have been simply visually deformed by the shitty camera, etc.).
But you know what, I think it’s better to stop trying to be smarter than what is reasonably possible, and at the very least wait and see what he and his lawyer will have to say in the court. E.g. if the evidence was fabricated, they will certainly try to argue that. Not everything about the story will clear up, but some things can, and I say it’s better to wait it out with a bit of patience.
Besides, what if it really wasn’t Luigi and we’ve all been duped? How will the fanboys and fangirls lusting after him feel? What will the smart businessmen do with their leftover Saint Luigi candles?
Are there any real pretensions on the territory on China’s part? It sounds like it would just cause more problems than it’s worth (though it’s not like that fact prevented Putin from attacking Ukraine), and possibly kill off BRICS.