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narwhal

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  • Latvia bans teaching Russian as second foreign language starting 2026

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  • You misunderstand. I'm not trying to justify these measures. I'm pointing out their policy is not meant to safeguard human rights, but rather to exercise control. If you remember back in 2024 when Georgia introduced the foreign agents law, and EU officials were not happy about it, saying it was a pro russia law. This is what they said as I remember, that such a law was incompatible with european standards. In reality they were just sour that their assets in political interference abroad would lose effectiveness. My comment about garden closing its doors was a reference to back then EU official Josep Borell infamous metaphor comparing europe to a garden and the other countries to a jungle, as such was the fate of Georgia.

  • Latvia bans teaching Russian as second foreign language starting 2026

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  • They consider incompatible with their values to mandate foreign actors indentify as such. The country needs to be wide open for political meddling, otherwise the garden will close its doors.

    Edit: Not defending EU, see my other comment for context.

  • Fake Photoshoot Mission in Kupyansk Ends With Ukrainian Soldiers’ Surrender – POW

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  • They did capture it, but right now seems to be contested.

  • Righting the World's Wrongs

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  • Thanks for not using the "girls vs boys" version.

  • Assange files criminal complaint against Nobel Foundation: Peace prize isn’t a war fund

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  • It's kind of poetic. Nobel made a lot of money selling explosives and was annoyed by how people viewed him as war profiteer, so he used his fortune to create a prize for promoting peace, and now it has evolved into a tool for promoting war, tarnishing his image.

  • Ukraine Support Tracker: Europe fails to offset US aid drop

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  • It's a weird way to protest a country to continue to do its bidding.

  • What's the most painfully obvious thing you've seen have to be written out?

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  • I recently bought a scale for weighting food and had a good laugh reading the manual when I saw "not to be used for illicit substance trade". I imagined some small time drug dealer reacting "damn it".

  • Will an anti advertisement movement ever materialize?

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  • I did bump into this page, but it seems what they do is they buy air time intended for ads and place a kind of subverted piece in what is apparently called "culture jamming". I was hoping more for an organic kind of movement on social media that gets people to talk about the issues more clearly and rethink what is acceptable.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    narwhal @mander.xyz

    Will an anti advertisement movement ever materialize?

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
    narwhal @mander.xyz

    Battle of the Titans

  • My Venezuelan friends say Maduro is a dictator

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  • "Dictatorship vs Democracy" is the new "Savage vs Civilized". Words thrown around without explanation to signal friend and foe in the current ideological framework used to justify imperial conquest.

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    narwhal @mander.xyz

    Regardless of whether it's a legal or criminalized practice, which professions are particularly prone to the influence of money in ways that are considered the most detrimental to society?

  • VERY concerned LMBO

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  • No need to resort to imagination with real verifiable genocide.

  • VERY concerned LMBO

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  • Genocides are real things, so it's important we reliably identify them with factual evidence, not falling for atrocity propaganda. Incorrectly identifying something as genocide is irresponsible much like denying a case of genocide that is actually taking place.

  • VERY concerned LMBO

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  • Where is the evidence? This article is an interview showing two people telling stories, one of which is selling a book, just like Yeonmi Park.I can too volunteer for an interview as I tell how Greenland is genociding left handed people. But nobody will ever want to pay me for that.

  • VERY concerned LMBO

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  • The people that try to equate fake genocide with real genocide are like the school staff punishing bully and victim alike. They are enabling the abuses. Also it must be deeply insulting to the real victims in gaza.

  • What is a celebrated invention/discovery attributed to a single person but, had they not done it at the time, it is likely that someone else would have done it anyway not long after?

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  • Time and "order" are very unimportant with discoveries.

    Im pretty sure historians would disagree with this statement.

  • What is a celebrated invention/discovery attributed to a single person but, had they not done it at the time, it is likely that someone else would have done it anyway not long after?

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  • I think time is an important variable, I should have stressed it more in the question. Sure, we would eventually get to the same ideas, but how long would it take? I suspect some development are somewhat expected as multiple people are simultaneously looking at the same underlying problem, while others come as a little more surprising.

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
    narwhal @mander.xyz

    What is a celebrated invention/discovery attributed to a single person but, had they not done it at the time, it is likely that someone else would have done it anyway not long after?

  • Would you try a FOSS dating app?

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  • It is very simple and few people, but it does work.

  • The World Condemns U.S. Embargo at UN as Hurricane Hits Cuba

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  • I don't remember which hurricane it was that caused a lot of problems in the us a while ago, a real tragedy. Still cuba offered humanitarian help but was refused by washington.

  • Trump Presented With List Of Targets In Venezuela, Including Military Ports And Airports Allegedly Used For Drug-Trafficking

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  • Drug cartels are the new Hamas. Conveniently placed targets that just happen to be where the bombs explode. "Do you condemn Maduro?"

  • President Maduro: U.S. wants to steal the world’s largest oil reserve

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  • The talk about epstein files is laundering the real reason too.Turning a century old trend into just a person being petty.

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    narwhal @mander.xyz

    Another Mindset

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    Meta Dating

  • Science Memes @mander.xyz
    narwhal @mander.xyz

    reDUcTIon iS gAIn