Do you really think Ukraine could have done anything against Russia? If Russia invaded Ukraine as you claim, Ukraine would now be under Russian jurisdiction. It's obvious Russia never invaded Ukraine.
As for Crimea, there was a referendum and considering Ukraine decided to ban Russian language and voted other anti-Russians policies, it's quite obvious no Russian would have wanted to stay in Ukraine. I live in Quebec, and you can be sure that if Canada decided to ban the French language, Quebec would leave Canada quite fast.
So no, Russia never invaded anything. On the other hand, not only it's kind of obvious the coup in Ukraine was supported by the US, but Russia did leak evidence showing the US controlled Ukraine's election after the coup.
I agree it's not mutually exclusive, but it correlates nonetheless. All our behaviors, including "social behavior", are mainly a result of physical or psychological needs. More than that, when someone "feels lonely", it certainly does indicate dependence.
From my own experience, young people are now a lot more socially dependent than they were 30 years ago. I see that particularly in the workplace, as young people need a lot more social support than before. Not only do they lack agency, but many times it's to a point where without frequent social support, they have difficulties doing their work because of emotional discomfort.
Here's a tip. men also respond better when you take their concerns seriously, rather than assuming they are just being angsty because clearly they have nothing to complain about.
Maybe it's time we recognize that being "extremely social" is in fact a mental illness. To me, our society that pushes socialization to the extreme instead of teaching children and encouraging adults to be independent is a sick society.
So a 13-year-old girl declared she was gang rape. A journalist picked up the story and some Russian TV channel talked about it, without making sure the rape was real. This kind of sloppy journalism is common everywhere. I live in Quebec and here absolutely all mainstream media will do it (the only difference is our media will hide the ethnicity of the alleged rapist if he's black or Muslim).
Then Russia's Foreign Minister made a comment implying the German police could try to minimize the case to protect asylum seekers. Considering the German police did exactly that after the Cologne attacks (as well as other multiple attacks in other German cities), also considering that the police admit it was at least statutory rape, yet try to minimize this as "child abuse", I'd say the comment was justified.
Then, the BBC decided to use this story about this sloppy journalism and a somewhat legitimate comment from a Russian Minister to try to spin it into some kind of "Russian propaganda".
The truth is this article is an example of anti-Russian propaganda, not an example of the supposed Russian propaganda. This BBC story is an example of the typical "fake news" that plagues our mainstream media. And the fact that you can't see it is frightening.
As I said, it was obviously made with the intent of trolling those SJW actors. And as for "it came from Trump's android phone", you are just imagining a scenario to fit your point. Sorry, but I don't care about what you imagine.
1. The problem is not that "real wages" are down, it's that kids nowadays are born with a taste for luxury. I'm not that old, but when I was in college we didn't have cellphones, computers, the vast majority of us didn't have cars, and we didn't spend much on clothing or leisure.
2. I'm not American, but can't students borrow money in order to pay for their tuition fees in the US? I just did a search and I can see the annual tuition fee for community colleges is $3,357/year, which can then be followed by two more years at a state college for $9,139/year. This means a total of $24,992 tuition fees to get a full degree. Can you explain to me why American kids can't afford higher education?
3. And you think we were not "exhausted"?
4. The "precious little snowflake" attitude is simply because kids nowadays are overprotected and don't face any hardship. Guess what, when we were kids, we never had "positive reinforcement" at home. We were constantly told our opinions were worthless because we were just kids. We were told to obey and shut up. Also, our parents were not always there to constantly take care of us. Kids act now like "precious little snowflake" because they are treated like royalty.
This tweet is not in the style of Trump, so it was most probably made by his staff. Also, it was obviously made with the intent of trolling those SJW actors.
That's an extremely broad interpretation of rights to life and liberty. What's next? Americans suing the US government for not having done enough research to find a cure for cancer?
Clinton thinking MAD principle is still in effect is exactly why she might start a conventional war with Russia. The US military is a lot more powerful than Russia's military, so a conventional war against Russia for Syria would be an easy win for the US. Economically, it would show Russian weapons are crap, and so help the US weapon industry. Politically, it would destroy the BRICS association and weaken the growing influence of China. Militarily, it would result in an easy expansion of NATO, something Clinton also wants.
This is not a reason to dislike Trump, but this is a reason to dislike Clinton, who is pushing for this ridiculous anti-Russia propaganda. It's almost as if Clinton is trying to create a justification for an attack against Russia (for example to impose the no-fly zone over Syria that she wants).
BTW, I'm Canadian so I don't care that much about the US election, still I kind of don't like the warmongering attitude of Clinton. When it comes to attacking small countries like Libya, I don't care that much (even if I don't approve of it), but the idea of the US going to war against Russia do frighten me.
So can you tell us what happened in Crimea? Because I live in Canada and although my good government insists that Russia "invaded" Crimea, that's not what I saw in the news. The news reported a referendum and the referendum was won overwhelmingly by the people who wanted to leave Ukraine. I know the Western narrative is that the referendum was a fraud, but considering there was no revolt or even any significant protest in Crimea after that referendum, it seems obvious to me this Western narrative is false.
And you know what? If a referendum was also held in the Eastern Ukraine part controlled by the rebels, I'm pretty sure the result would also be to join Russia.
Of course you have the right to believe the Western propaganda, but then I've got some prime beachfront property you might be interested in...
When will Slashdot fix its broken moderation system? Saying Ukraine was not, historically, a part of Ukraine is the truth. The fact that one user moderated this comment as "troll" and another moderated it as "flamebait" shows that Slashdot moderation system is abused by people who use it for political reason.
The same way anonymous user often post shitty comments, anonymous moderators often act as assholes. Slashdot should publish the user name of people who moderates.
I'm 47. When I was a young boy, regular alkaline batteries were pretty much the same as what we have now. I did see some cheap batteries leak, but those were the exception. Almost no one was using rechargeable batteries, that's true, but it was because we didn't care about the environment and found buying batteries and changing batteries more convenient. As an example, in 80s I bought a Sony Walkman F-601 which came with a rechargeable battery giving me about 10 hours of tape and 40 hours of radio, but I still found recharging it a pain in the ass so I often used the external case to use two regular AA batteries instead.
Batteries did improve, but not as much as you make it look.
Eradicate poverty? But we already have, at least in Western countries. People living in "poverty" have access to better housing condition (with heating, lighting, sewage, water, etc), better food, and much, much better health care than a king from the past.
Poverty is like voltage. It's not a representation of what people have, but a representation of a difference between what different people have. The only way to eradicate poverty would be to live in a communist system. No thank you.
Like a normal person would do? I wonder who as those "normal" people. Personally, if I see a kid jumping in front of my car, I would brake, I would try to avoid the kid if I have the space to do it, but I would not roll my car in a ditch and I certainly would not put my life in danger. And considering the number of pedestrians who are killed each year, I'd say that I'm the "normal" person.
Your reasoning is based on a false premise. Things like Tesla are not AI vehicles, there are not even self-driving cars. The closest we have is the one from Google, and it's not ready yet. It's not even close to being ready. Right now, we have zero statistics about self-driving cars.
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Can you give me a list of those "significant" countries? Because it looks to me that what you call "the world" is quite small.
Are you saying the mighty Ukrainian army was able to beat the weak Russian army?
Do you really think Ukraine could have done anything against Russia? If Russia invaded Ukraine as you claim, Ukraine would now be under Russian jurisdiction. It's obvious Russia never invaded Ukraine.
As for Crimea, there was a referendum and considering Ukraine decided to ban Russian language and voted other anti-Russians policies, it's quite obvious no Russian would have wanted to stay in Ukraine. I live in Quebec, and you can be sure that if Canada decided to ban the French language, Quebec would leave Canada quite fast.
So no, Russia never invaded anything. On the other hand, not only it's kind of obvious the coup in Ukraine was supported by the US, but Russia did leak evidence showing the US controlled Ukraine's election after the coup.
I agree it's not mutually exclusive, but it correlates nonetheless. All our behaviors, including "social behavior", are mainly a result of physical or psychological needs. More than that, when someone "feels lonely", it certainly does indicate dependence.
From my own experience, young people are now a lot more socially dependent than they were 30 years ago. I see that particularly in the workplace, as young people need a lot more social support than before. Not only do they lack agency, but many times it's to a point where without frequent social support, they have difficulties doing their work because of emotional discomfort.
Here's a tip. men also respond better when you take their concerns seriously, rather than assuming they are just being angsty because clearly they have nothing to complain about.
Maybe it's time we recognize that being "extremely social" is in fact a mental illness. To me, our society that pushes socialization to the extreme instead of teaching children and encouraging adults to be independent is a sick society.
The US is a democracy that is not a tyranny of the majority. As someone who is not American, I wish more "democracies" would be like the US.
Where I live, most taxi drivers are self-employed, yet their rate is set by law and they can't charge what they want.
So a 13-year-old girl declared she was gang rape. A journalist picked up the story and some Russian TV channel talked about it, without making sure the rape was real. This kind of sloppy journalism is common everywhere. I live in Quebec and here absolutely all mainstream media will do it (the only difference is our media will hide the ethnicity of the alleged rapist if he's black or Muslim).
Then Russia's Foreign Minister made a comment implying the German police could try to minimize the case to protect asylum seekers. Considering the German police did exactly that after the Cologne attacks (as well as other multiple attacks in other German cities), also considering that the police admit it was at least statutory rape, yet try to minimize this as "child abuse", I'd say the comment was justified.
Then, the BBC decided to use this story about this sloppy journalism and a somewhat legitimate comment from a Russian Minister to try to spin it into some kind of "Russian propaganda".
The truth is this article is an example of anti-Russian propaganda, not an example of the supposed Russian propaganda. This BBC story is an example of the typical "fake news" that plagues our mainstream media. And the fact that you can't see it is frightening.
As I said, it was obviously made with the intent of trolling those SJW actors. And as for "it came from Trump's android phone", you are just imagining a scenario to fit your point. Sorry, but I don't care about what you imagine.
1. The problem is not that "real wages" are down, it's that kids nowadays are born with a taste for luxury. I'm not that old, but when I was in college we didn't have cellphones, computers, the vast majority of us didn't have cars, and we didn't spend much on clothing or leisure.
2. I'm not American, but can't students borrow money in order to pay for their tuition fees in the US? I just did a search and I can see the annual tuition fee for community colleges is $3,357/year, which can then be followed by two more years at a state college for $9,139/year. This means a total of $24,992 tuition fees to get a full degree. Can you explain to me why American kids can't afford higher education?
3. And you think we were not "exhausted"?
4. The "precious little snowflake" attitude is simply because kids nowadays are overprotected and don't face any hardship. Guess what, when we were kids, we never had "positive reinforcement" at home. We were constantly told our opinions were worthless because we were just kids. We were told to obey and shut up. Also, our parents were not always there to constantly take care of us. Kids act now like "precious little snowflake" because they are treated like royalty.
This tweet is not in the style of Trump, so it was most probably made by his staff. Also, it was obviously made with the intent of trolling those SJW actors.
That's an extremely broad interpretation of rights to life and liberty. What's next? Americans suing the US government for not having done enough research to find a cure for cancer?
to make it more acceptable to today's audience
Yeah, because today's audience prefers to be in a nice echo chamber rather than having to face something that could challenge their ideas.
So the tyranny of the minority is better? Because in the end, when you are forced to comply to something you don't agree with, it's always tyranny.
Clinton thinking MAD principle is still in effect is exactly why she might start a conventional war with Russia. The US military is a lot more powerful than Russia's military, so a conventional war against Russia for Syria would be an easy win for the US. Economically, it would show Russian weapons are crap, and so help the US weapon industry. Politically, it would destroy the BRICS association and weaken the growing influence of China. Militarily, it would result in an easy expansion of NATO, something Clinton also wants.
This is not a reason to dislike Trump, but this is a reason to dislike Clinton, who is pushing for this ridiculous anti-Russia propaganda. It's almost as if Clinton is trying to create a justification for an attack against Russia (for example to impose the no-fly zone over Syria that she wants).
BTW, I'm Canadian so I don't care that much about the US election, still I kind of don't like the warmongering attitude of Clinton. When it comes to attacking small countries like Libya, I don't care that much (even if I don't approve of it), but the idea of the US going to war against Russia do frighten me.
So can you tell us what happened in Crimea? Because I live in Canada and although my good government insists that Russia "invaded" Crimea, that's not what I saw in the news. The news reported a referendum and the referendum was won overwhelmingly by the people who wanted to leave Ukraine. I know the Western narrative is that the referendum was a fraud, but considering there was no revolt or even any significant protest in Crimea after that referendum, it seems obvious to me this Western narrative is false.
And you know what? If a referendum was also held in the Eastern Ukraine part controlled by the rebels, I'm pretty sure the result would also be to join Russia.
Of course you have the right to believe the Western propaganda, but then I've got some prime beachfront property you might be interested in...
When will Slashdot fix its broken moderation system? Saying Ukraine was not, historically, a part of Ukraine is the truth. The fact that one user moderated this comment as "troll" and another moderated it as "flamebait" shows that Slashdot moderation system is abused by people who use it for political reason.
The same way anonymous user often post shitty comments, anonymous moderators often act as assholes. Slashdot should publish the user name of people who moderates.
Against Russia, F-22 will be shot down by S-400.
I'm 47. When I was a young boy, regular alkaline batteries were pretty much the same as what we have now. I did see some cheap batteries leak, but those were the exception. Almost no one was using rechargeable batteries, that's true, but it was because we didn't care about the environment and found buying batteries and changing batteries more convenient. As an example, in 80s I bought a Sony Walkman F-601 which came with a rechargeable battery giving me about 10 hours of tape and 40 hours of radio, but I still found recharging it a pain in the ass so I often used the external case to use two regular AA batteries instead.
Batteries did improve, but not as much as you make it look.
Eradicate poverty? But we already have, at least in Western countries. People living in "poverty" have access to better housing condition (with heating, lighting, sewage, water, etc), better food, and much, much better health care than a king from the past.
Poverty is like voltage. It's not a representation of what people have, but a representation of a difference between what different people have. The only way to eradicate poverty would be to live in a communist system. No thank you.
The ID of the "kid" is 321193, yours is 668651. I wonder who is the kid.
More seriously, you should avoid using this kind of childish insult. It only makes you look immature.
Like a normal person would do? I wonder who as those "normal" people. Personally, if I see a kid jumping in front of my car, I would brake, I would try to avoid the kid if I have the space to do it, but I would not roll my car in a ditch and I certainly would not put my life in danger. And considering the number of pedestrians who are killed each year, I'd say that I'm the "normal" person.
Your reasoning is based on a false premise. Things like Tesla are not AI vehicles, there are not even self-driving cars. The closest we have is the one from Google, and it's not ready yet. It's not even close to being ready. Right now, we have zero statistics about self-driving cars.