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That's quite telling that you don't consider GUR (Ukrainian Main Directorate of Intelligence) a reputable source))

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Directorate_of_Intelligen...

And I know only two Ursulas, the other one wrote about wizards.

>And for that reason the EU, India, China and Russia will build their own Starlink alternatives.

I don't know about the rest, but Russia started working on its own Starlink well before the war. We have the North and Siberia where satellite internet is the only option. Another target market is Russian Railways which would love to have internet in the trains not only when they pass areas with mobile coverage.

> the huge upside for Starlink outside of Africa or India

Which together have four times more people than the EU. Needs of the many outweigh, you know

So does Ursula

>Can the Kremlin just join us in the 21st century already?

You mean like bombing a school and murdering 120 children like the US did in Iran? [0]

Or like striking a college with multiple drones and killing 21 students like the Ukrainian regime did in the Eastern Ukraine? [1]

Thank you very much, but no. We, Russians, would rather stay who we are and not join you.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Minab_school_attack#Death...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Starobilsk_strike#Casualt...

Yep, we agree much more than disagree. Let the worms stay in that can)

>Only the repression is not yet so harsh (arguably).

Is it?

France: "Article 431-9-1, now stipulates a sentence of one year's imprisonment and a fine of €15,000 for voluntarily concealing all or part of the face "without legitimate reason" whilst attending a demonstration "during or at the end of which disturbances to public order are committed or are likely to be committed."" [0]

Meanwhile in Canada: "Bill C-309 became law, banning the wearing of masks during a riot or unlawful assembly, carrying a maximum ten-year prison sentence with a conviction of the offence." [1]

But I don't understand, right, it's different, Georgian masked rioters are pro-democracy freedom fighters, and protesters in the West are forces of darkness.

[0] https://www.lemonde.fr/en/les-decodeurs/article/2023/05/12/i...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventing_Persons_from_Concea...

>that Russia treated Estonia like an imperial colony

You mean extracting resources, not developing local industry, especially heavy industry, and forcing to buy all the staff from metropolis?

>I don't think its fair to paint all who fled into the forests in such broad strokes

That's what Estonians nationalists tell.

"The findings of this article have implications for understanding Baltic and European collective memory. The studied memoirs consistently share the same themes: the Baltic states were purely victims of the Soviets and Nazis; Soviet occupation was worse than Nazi occupation for the titular ethnicities; the Baltic Waffen-SS legions did not commit atrocities; and the Holocaust was solely a German crime. As scholars have argued (Katz Citation2016, Citation2017; Mälksoo Citation2014; Radonić Citation2018; Subotić Citation2019), these rhetorical strategies represent an adaptation to, rather than an acceptance of, the Western narrative of the Holocaust in Estonia and Latvia. This is evident in the omission of Jewish Bolshevism as a threat to Europe and the distancing of Estonians and Latvians from involvement in genocide, which produces a clear-cut story of patriotic defense against the genocidal Soviet Union. The adaptation has had an effect on the wider European narrative, as increasingly more European politicians and commentators buy into the argument that communism was equal to fascism. In striving to emphasize the European credentials of the Baltic states, without accepting any responsibility for assisting – knowingly or unknowingly – in the genocidal Nazi project, Estonian and Latvian Legion veterans have produced a revisionist version of World War II history. In their narrative, which mimics wartime Nazi propaganda, collaboration with Nazi Germany demonstrated their essential Europeanness in the face of Asian Bolshevism. While they may lack some of the political correctness of official discourse, their arguments, with the exception of one author, correspond to the hegemonic narrative in the Baltic states today." [0]

[0] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01629778.2023.2...

I wouldn't call a deception "lifehack".

But anyway, what makes Chichikov's "lifehack" "a result of having to work around the government that is seen more as an occupying force rather than the will of the people"?

>I don't think anyone would disagree there weren't people who committed terrible crimes

Please help me parse your triple negatives.

You think everyone would agree there weren't people who committed terrible crimes?

>who refused to assimilate into the independent country

"Cultural genocide may also involve forced assimilation, as well as the suppression of a language or cultural activities that do not conform to the destroyer's notion of what is appropriate" [0]

>are the ones holding most of the blame here

Blaming the victim. Classic.

>Estonia is an exemplar in upholding human rights since regaining independence.

You must be kidding. Or you just don't count Russians as human.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_genocide

I wonder if the story of "alien" passports[0] and creeping ethnic cleansing[1] in the independent Estonia will make into the game.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_alien's_passport

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Estonia#Ethnic...

And Estonian patriots enthusiastically helped[0] German Nazis make Estonia the first judenfrei (free of Jews) country if you don't count Luxembourg.[1]

These patriots had to flee to the forests when the time came to answer for their part in Holocaust and other crimes.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_Estonia#Eston...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judenfrei

Thank you for being familiar with Russian culture, but I don't remember these classics writing about casual link between oppression, suffering, depression and hacker mindset.

Me and cyberax are both Russians, except I never wanted to emigrate

I still don't see how the government comes into play

>This mindset is very much a result of centuries of having to work around the government that is seen more as an occupying force rather than the will of the people.

How do you people come up with such stories?

>Domestic dissent in Russia rising, polls moving and even some propagandists either raging impotently or calling out Putin directly.

I wouldn't be glad about it.

Some dissenters are calling for using tactical nukes, switching the economy to full military production and total mobilization

The most of the cost is GPU, not power.

Demand for AI is global (except for Anthropic, haha).

When you build a DC that works only when the sun is shining, you are wasting half of you GPU capacity

>Seems already a bit mad not to standardise internationally on a rough blueprint

How do you evolve the design then?

>Symlinks are a pain if you're on Windows

How so?

God Emperor will rule Earth for 3500 years!

>Seems fine to me.

So punishing countries and companies for trading with Russia is fine, but punishing countries for selling drones to Ukraine is not. Got it.

Again, you haven't answered any questions.

What are these "sources" you allude to?

How can they possibly know the size of Russian population?

So, what's your answer to the question:

There are over million of Ukrainian expats in Russia and the ones I know hate post-2014 Kiev regime with passion. Is that the case where expats are right?

Why is it a strawman?

>Expats are usually right about their home countries - they're the ones with the most data points.

These are your own words. I'm just asking if they apply to the opinion of some of the Ukrainian expats living in Russia

>Why shouldn't "the West", actually many separate autonomous countries, be able to sell to whoever they want?

I don't know, why aren't companies from "many separate autonomous countries" able to sell to Russia whatever they want? They would be punished by American and the EU's primary and secondary sanctions for that

>Sources differ (Rosstat is very very questionable), but consensus is that there were 145 million people in Russia in 2022, and this year there are only 143 million.

So what is that? Sources differ or there is "consensus"? What are these "sources" and how can they possibly know the size of Russian population?

>That trend line is devastating and unrecoverable, especially with the rate of decline increasing.

So more propaganda promising Russia's collapse/implosion/other_scary_words. There has been a lot of such scaremongering in the last 35 years and today it's just a marker of Western propaganda.

>Expats are usually right about their home countries - they're the ones with the most data points.

How so?

They don't live in the country and don't have a clue about what life is like there now. They read Western media and "opposition" news sites (living off State Department and EU grants) and those sources validate their decision to leave Russia.

There are over million of Ukrainian expats in Russia and the ones I know hate post-2014 Kiev regime with passion. Is that the case where expats are right?