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El Guiri
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Thats a very complex measure. Ive read some great papers that were only good as they summarised and unified many previous bits of research into a cohesive theory on a subject. How much research is truly new?

I thought medication for propaganda was supposed to be bitcoin and touching grass but am sure an appreciation for finely cut ladieswear helps to ground many too

Is that an oft repeated propaganda piece there?

Everybody loves America, thats why they want to live there.

Everybody hates America and there's enemies everywhere.

What a schitzophrenic propaganda!

People are still using the term "international norms" in comuniques. How quaint

I said incentive. You seem to imply conquest of land is incentive. As a European, I always found the conceit in Europe astonishing. There's literally no incentive for Russia to expand. No resources, old population, every single nation is essentially insolvent. I love Europe but I find people there seem to have trouble seeing reality at tines. In the past 20 years, the only thing innovated is regulation, censorship and increased methods of taxation. I fail to see any uncentive. Russia doesn't even have enough population to fully exploit their vast resources and maybe NATO is irrelevant and trying to look for enemies to maintain relevance. Every time I go back, all I see is stagnation. Its sad but if Europeans started recognising their enemy is in Brussels, there might be less violence.

I got a bit wrapped up this weekend mostly cause injured back and so wasnt out so much. I therefore overlooked a simple rule have been trying to follow. I find any big sensational media flooding story that naturally illicits emotional response is worth trying to simply park for 3 days. It seems to pass the clickbait threshold requiment, and gets past the seeming guesswork that people are doing along the way. It seems to me, one gets a clearer picture of events and lower instinctive emotional reaction which is probably healthier. We are exposed to more information that we can really handle these days. Imagine someone in a major city only 100 years ago and how long news would take to reach them.

A gracious comment. I think thats happening to all of us a times and this weekend was fairly rough for many. I was keeping in touch with frazzled friend whose father was stuck in iran so I get it. I tend to consider outbursts online as possibly cathartic at times. Its for everyone to decide how to take them and maintain empathy. I hope current situation not affecting you or family negatively.

Replying to Avatar cryptowolf

Prior to world war 1 there was no such concept as Ukrainian. It was the border region of the Russian empire for centuries.

Long term projects by Czechs, Poles and Austrians, attempted to tear ethinic Russians away from their identity under Austrian occuption in the western border lands of the Russian empire.

Occupied Russian people were economically and socially coerced to identify as Ruthenians/Ruthenes/Rusyns/Rusnaks.

This was built on top of previous attempts at converting them religiously from Christian Orthodoxy to a new hybrid between that and catholicism called the Byzantine Church or Uniate Church. Slowly transforming the local population by means of language, ethnicity and religion into something artifificial.

After world war 1, Vladimir Lenin granted Ukraine an artificial identity. Its name became Ukraine meaning "Border Region". This identity was a member republic of the Soviet Union. At this time there was still no such thing as a codified Ukrainian language, nor is there one today, nor do a majority of Ukrainians even speak Ukrainian but rather Russian or various Russian dialects.

Stepan Bandera the notorious Nazi and Russophobe, funded by the CIA during ww2, rallied followers from Galicia (eastern Polish lands), to support Hitler and massacre Russians.

These nazi elements were not wiped at the end of ww2 completely by Stalin, and have been revived now under Peto Poroshenko and Volodomyr Zelensky.

from 2014 to 2018 14, 000 ethnic Russians, mostly women and children were brutally tortured and murdered by Azov Batalliion and other nazi armies in the Ukraine.

Putin was criticised heavily in Russia for waiting 8 years to intervene and protect Russians under ethnic cleansing attacks from Ukraine.

Here we are today. The Ukraine was granted independence by the Soviet Union based on NEUTRALITY and nuclear disarmament.

The deal for unifying Germany was "NOT ONE INCH EASTWARD" for NATO. NATO expansion into the Ukraine and statements from its president wanting to re-arm nuclearly and the ethnic genocide were the "incentives" (reasons) for the Russian invasion.

Thats one of the most concise historical summaries have seen written. So we can possibly align on there being multiple incentives which include ethinicity, historical context as well as resource control. Rather a mess and way too many innocents in the cross hairs. But simple, it is not

When I get that comment, I put them on slightly firmer ground. Take a property price they know of from 5 years ago. Convert to gold price equivalent. Then bring both forward to present, see the shock on their face and suggest they now try with bitcoin

First of all thanks for mentioning boxwood. Looked it up. Been green fingered all my life and always loved gardening but mostly edible stuff and didn’t even know what that was! Good to learn something new even if so basic you feel really dumb.

My take on incentive for Ukraine colour revolution was massive increase in Nat gas production in USA from unconventional resource boom in conjunction with development and improvement of LNG technology. The highest cost market for Nat gas is Europe. The main constraints to making USA LNG a viable option is control or removal of Russian Nat gas (Ukraine pass through pipelines and nordstream) and the Qatari and Iranian Nat gas flowing from south pars through the planned pipeline through Syria. Interestingly it was only 2 weeks prior to the uprising there, that the Syrian govt had decided a pipeline route that was more in Iranian interest than Qatar. All random little events am sure.

I didn’t touch grass or boxwood but went for a walk on the beach followed by a little road though the jungle. Very grounding but there really are vast numbers of ants out right now. Have to walk rather fast to avoid them climbing up yer legs!

Living in the past can open feelings of guilt or regret for many.

Living in the future can promote feelings of fear.

In the present, bitcoin dropped to 99k. Stack some fucking says and wallow in elation instead!

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Does nostr:npub18m76awca3y37hkvuneavuw6pjj4525fw90necxmadrvjg0sdy6qsngq955 have a dark mode on iOS? If so I can’t find it 🤔

I usually use nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg but for some reason it doesn’t render my follower count accurately, always exploring clients and finding what works best!

I love that primal has dark mode, easier on the eyes and just looks cooler in my opinion 🙌🏼

I think it defaults with phone default. Just checked, went to iPhone settings and changed in display and Damus changed

Am British sir. And not whining. Push what you like. Am trying to figure out why there’s such a tendency to start threads on a topic that then seems to swerve to team choosing, that is all. One must hope that bitcoin fixes this a little too. Have a great day!

Why you pushing Ukraine stuff mate? I really couldn't give a rats ass about it to be honest. Borders change and oligarchs have fun as innocents die. The whole thing should just be stopped. If that means changing a few borders to keep bear boy and cokehead happy, so be it. I literally only mentioned that I wouldn't put Putin in the same camp as Bibi and Trump. I just don't think he's as much of an actual instigator of violence as Bibi and he's simply not as much of a monosyllabic grifter as Trump. I personally don't care. I'd like people to just stop killing everywhere because it seems somewhat against what most people on this planet actually want.

I will point out that the response article source is quite funny. I would steer clear of using articles published by the no. 1 dictator alma mater on the planet. Go with Kings college or some institution one can take a little more seriously. Whilst I get LSE somewhat look up at by some, they always struck me as a propaganda arm of Mi6.

Exactly. Any Rand wrote before we simply threw all accountability out of the window. Whilst her commentary still stands, the principles espoused require a return to the idea of accountability somewhere. Seems rather hard to find

Oh 100%. All am saying is that for many businessmen, there's no consequences. Probably why Adam Smith made some pretty disparaging comments about publicly traded companies. Fiat corrupts the ownership of consequences and permits corruption that passes cost on from the responsible parties to the general population.

Thats why all these analyses are done on raw death data. No cause. If one wants to find another causal reason considering the increase in deaths is temporally related to start of injections. Its the only global change and one can temporally tie by nation. To refute requires another hypothesis. This is not hard, its not a discussion at this stage. There are abundant papers demonstrating causality of pathogenesis as well. This is the highest probability UNLESS proven otherwise but the burden of proof is definitely on the other side. Hell even the top biologists in Japan openly and publicly call the injections bioweapons.