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Riverside

@ Riverside @reddthat.com

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  • What's your favourite historical photo and why?

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  • Someone: takes a selfie with their phone under low lighting conditions

    You: "not a photo, it's the output of an algorithm taking the luminosity from an array of light detectors, giving information of the colour and modifying it according to lighting conditions, and then using specific software to sharpen the original capture*

  • Ukraine's Zelenskyy says his repeated warnings to Europe feel like 'Groundhog Day'

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  • I meant Skiluros, not you, hence me referencing the $2800bn figure they made up

  • What's your favourite historical photo and why?

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  • Nobody wins in war

    The Vietnamese won, as a matter of fact, and liberated themselves from colonialism as a consequence

  • When everyone is super, no one will be

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  • Batteries are already there. I live in Spain (not a manufacturing country), and you can order LiFePO4 batteries of A-grade cells with the best BMS available at prices between 100 and 150€/kWh if you know where to look for. It's ridiculously cheap.

  • Ukraine's Zelenskyy says his repeated warnings to Europe feel like 'Groundhog Day'

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  • Huh? Where have I expressed support for Russian invasion of Ukraine? I'm simply correcting your made-up numbers. Anyone who corrects you is a Russian imperialist?

    Also, why genocidal? Using that word lightly isn't a good thing. It's harmful to actual genocide victims like Gazans to call everything a genocide.

  • Ukraine's Zelenskyy says his repeated warnings to Europe feel like 'Groundhog Day'

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  • So, you CAN compare dollars. You can just delete or edit your previous comment to eliminate the misinformation of $2800bn because you applied inflation twice on the original figure by (for some reason instead of checking it up) assuming Greg hadn't applied it

  • Ukraine's Zelenskyy says his repeated warnings to Europe feel like 'Groundhog Day'

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  • You can compare dollars in a nominal manner if you apply inflation indices, that's what inflation is calculated for. Why did you literally make up the numbers by assuming that it wasn't inflation-adjusted instead of saying "you can't compare dollars"?

  • Ukraine's Zelenskyy says his repeated warnings to Europe feel like 'Groundhog Day'

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  • Edit: the commenter above (Skiluros) made up the $2.8tn figure by applying inflation to a commenter above saying that the USSR had received less money through lend-lease than Ukraine has since the invasion by Russia. This figure Is wrong because the original commenter was already discussing inflation-adjusted figures, and they refuse to correct the mistake.

    According to Wikipedia's article on lend-lease, the USSR got $11.3bn, which today would roughly be $250bn. It's higher than what Greg said (which I assumed was taking inflation into account, hence me cheking), but still lower than what Ukraine has gotten (assuming the $300bn is correct, didn't fact check that).

  • London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires— Founded by Keir Starmer’s comms chief, Portland helps rich clients ‘protect their reputation’ – with a shady, off-the-books service

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  • Better names are Queer Harmer or Kid Starver

  • Ukraine's Zelenskyy says his repeated warnings to Europe feel like 'Groundhog Day'

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  • At what point have we betrayed Ukraine?

    Literally since it is an independent country. Ukraine was, already well before 2022, the poorest country in Europe. The EU-exported model of neoliberalism, austerity and privatization led to catastrophic results for the Ukrainian economy, leading to drug abuse, crime, lack of healthcare, malnutrition, violence and unemployment, resulting in net population losses of above 10 million between 1991 and 2022, counting increased mortality, mass emigration and lack of births. Europe literally hollowed out Ukraine and made it desperately poor.

  • Ukraine's Zelenskyy says his repeated warnings to Europe feel like 'Groundhog Day'

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  • You mean to say western countries are betraying their ally?! No way!!! /s

  • mistakes rule

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  • Skyblock is over 10 years old at this point I'd guess

  • I've wondered since I was a youngin

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  • If by "suspended" you mean pushed back until next elections, then yes, it has been "suspended". This also happened 2 years after the initial law was antidemocratically imposed, so not as a result of the protests.

  • I've wondered since I was a youngin

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  • Rebuilding the country after what exactly? Lmfao

  • I've wondered since I was a youngin

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  • Lmfao. Macron literally used constitutional powers to skip the congress and raise retirement age like two years ago, and protests achieved nothing. French people also elected a center-left government opposed to neoliberal austerity and the president is not allowing for a prime minister of LFI to be chosen, literally blocking the left while the far right threatens to take rule.

  • Europe condemns Trump’s ‘new colonialism’ as Greenland crisis grows

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  • Concern troll* about US imperialism while Trump is in office

  • I've wondered since I was a youngin

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  • Historically, almost all social progress has come from stopping before you kill your oppressor

    The Soviets murdered the Romanov family, and afterwards rose life expectancy from 28 to 65, had the fastest industrialization in human history, defeated Nazism, gained universal healthcare and free education to the highest level, eliminated homelessness and abolished unemployment. Europe mostly half-ass copied some of those policies because the capitalists were afraid of a revolution and have to give many concessions to the organized workers of Europe, hence why this progress did not happen simultaneously in the USA, far from Soviet influence.

    This is because killing your oppressor while creating worker councils who decide democratically how society should progress is a valid strategy for emancipation. No power vacuum if people take that power.

  • I've wondered since I was a youngin

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  • If we're fine with resorting to violence to get what we want, we're no better than them

    This person doesn't know how Nazism was defeated, and how tens of millions of people in Eastern Europe were saved from genocide by military might.

  • I've wondered since I was a youngin

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  • This is how some of the worst atrocities start

    Start? Really? People are being murdered in plain sight without consequences. The governments of the west are collaborating In genocide against Gaza. One in four black men go through jail in the US over their lifetimes. Homelessness is rampant, people are left to die without healthcare, drug abuse skyrockets, people are left unemployed and depressed.

    You don't care about "the worst atrocities", the worst atrocities are happening TODAY and you simply don't care because YOU have not been affected so far.

    So who is the one deciding who gets taged as oppressor?

    The people, democratically, organized in worker councils. Nowadays it's usually old men with wigs deciding who's a criminal, and that's clearly working like shit, we can do better easily.

    Do you murder the oppressor's children as well because they benifited from their perents behavior?

    No, literally no revolution ever has done this except in politically dangerous situations where keeping royal family members alive means danger of reestablishment of monarchy (e.g. Romanov). You're just doing fake atrocity propaganda for something that literally doesn't happen, and ignoring the millions murdered every single year.