jevgeni

No they are not. They are designed to prevent authoritarianism. The Weimar republic with all of its absolute, unqualified freedoms didn't work out that great.

Do you want to take a test and get a license to work on AI? Because that's how you are going to get there.

No, I'm asking how many people will donate, if everybody thinks that it's not urgent and somebody else will?

Which is still true.

Sure. And if you accept those images or not is your thing. Their banners are super annoying at only 2% conversion rate. What will it be without those banners?

Yes, it's in a whiny tone. The fact that it will go down is your interpretation. An alternative interpretation could be "98% of people get asymmetric value out of Wikipedia, please make it less asymmetric".

In fact, if they stop begging, what percentage of their users will contribute? Will it remain at 2%?

Laying off 15% of your staff is huge. If it's driven by a hire-and-fire approach, then that's even worse, because that shows Meta can't manage their way out of a paper bag.

Wait, so you're just going to ignore each point of mine every time I give you evidence and switch to something else? Because right now it looks to me like you're saying "Ignore what you know, pay attention only to the articles I cherry pick for you".

Kind of like calling Bandera's collaboration with the Abwehr "nazism", but pretending that it wasn't nazism or even nazi-collaboration, when Stalin signed a pact with Hitler to divide Europe and conducted joint military invasion of Poland in full knowledge of what will happen to the Jewish population there...

No visas until you guys work on your own self-awareness! :D

P.S. Just to make it a bit easier for you, because I suspect The Cult of the 9th Of May is interfering here, but Ukrainians understand that history is not a Marvel movie - heroes can be flawed to say the least. Just because OUN/UPAs actions were criminal against Poles and Jews doesn't negate the fact that their fight against the Nazis and russians were heroic. THAT'S HOW BAD YOU GUYS WERE.

Really? Which war crimes and which war?

Oh look, a (presumably) russian lecturing me about my country’s history with an OPINION piece, while simultaneously knowing dick-didly about it.

Receipts:

https://m.knesset.gov.il/EN/activity/Documents/SpeechPdf/Por...

https://www.rferl.org/a/1068362.html

I'm not interested in talking about collective guilt until you acknowledge how it impacted Germany. Everything else is just you whining about loosing your privilege.

That's what I was talking about from the beginning. If you were talking about something else, that's on you.

The lengths this guy will go to, to deny his country's ethno-fascist roots. Russian-exceptionalism is a hard drug to come down from.

I'm fine on my investments, thank you.

Since silver is often the byproduct of mining gold, the energy price should be pretty close, I'd think...

Crypto-bros reinventing the (train-wreck of) labour theory of value is my favorite genre of HN comments.

Yet you are still hurt for some reason.

Communicate better.

To reitterate:

> Denying visas is not "failing to recognize between combatants and non-combatants". It is denying a privilege that the russian government has messed up for their own citizens. EU or USA don't owe you anything. The russian government does.

Does your girl identify culturally with putinist russia and its values? Did she actively support the russian government since 2014?

So you cherry pick facts from the time when they weren't even a formal group or cleaned up by the National Guard, you disingenuously then equate Azov battalion with a random ultra-right march from 2019 and refuse to acknowledge or educate yourself about the literal ethnofascist policies of russia. Well done.

Then sort it out. Telling you guys to sort your country out is not "genocide".

Of course it does. Or is Russian, Belarusian or Yiddish an official language somewhere in the EU?

How dare I seethe! Majority of russians support the ethnic cleansing of my homeland, but seething - that's going too far.

You literally set the subject:

> And how is visa ban justified?

Don't the russians claim they are at war with whole of NATO? And by the way, thank you for this push, now we'll finally ween Germany of its russian gas dependency.

Literally in the sources you quote:

> Classes taught in ethnic minority languages will be allowed at Ukrainian-language schools, and some subjects at Ukrainian-language universities can be taught in English or one of the official languages of the European Union.

And yes, maybe the Ukrainian language that has been repressed by russia since 19th century at the latest needs a bit of an affirmative action.

Do you feel entitled to a comfy holiday in Kabul?

Are you dang?

"IS AVAILABLE". Teaching in Russian is also available in Ukraine. The problem that law is solving is that Ukrainian isn't available everywhere(!). It's not about optional courses, it's minimal standards. Nobody is preventing schools from teaching russian (as a subject). But Ukrainian is the state language. Are you saying that minimal standards in Ukraine should be education in russian at the cost of ukrainian?

So it's not a pure energy cost of mining now?

> Who cares about it's recent political pivoting?

People who vote for them.

You have zero evidence that the regiment follows a neonazi agenda. Neither does the National Guard, the Army, nor the government. Not to mention that Azov itself is multiethnic.

Russians on the other hand have filtration camps and TV hosts on government channels call for nuclear war, ethnic cleansing and destruction of the Ukrainian national identity. Thank god they have nice logos though, otherwise they'd seem like Nazis! /s

> Beg your pardon? You were the one to bring up the topic of ethnicity, not me.

I didn't make any ethnic assertions. You started the "brothers slavs" trope.

> And specifically, what symbols so commonly associated...

Again, "symbol scary". Azov has no stated political goals against any minority / groups of population. AfD has. FN has. UKIP has.

> Duke Nukem had a reboot and an aniversary edition a few years ago...

Are they as popular as the original then?

> Is this a verifiable claim?

Ask a russian.

Life is a slippery slope towards death.

Collective responsibility seems to have worked for post-WW2 Germany though. And made the society as a whole stronger.

Denying visas is not "failing to recognize between combatants and non-combatants". It is denying a privilege that the russian government has messed up for their own citizens. EU or USA don't owe you anything. The russian government does.

Personally, I have zero interest in letting someone into my country for them later to claim that learning my language is "nazism".

I just inverted the logic of the original comment and a argumentative device. I see no evidence for what you are saying.