Nostr notes by kravietz

No, he did not - he just didn't understand that he's ...

2026-04-16T16:28:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…xnup
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No, he did not - he just didn't understand that he's testing a DEMO app which uses MOCK authentication services where documentation literally says "For an easy introduction, the project provides pre-configured hosted services that allow you to test the Age Verification App and its core components without the need for complex local setup."

https://ageverification.dev/#quick-start-with-hosted-test-services

And it's actually great news because the #AgeCheck based on ...

2026-04-16T06:52:51Z

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And it's actually great news because the #AgeCheck based on #EUDigitalWallet protects user's privacy against both the government and the private website operator as explained here https://krvtz.net/en/posts/eu-digital-wallet.html

Compare that against the existing commercial age check and #KYC companies owned by some shady Russian figures from fucking Cyprus and doing anything they like with your personal data https://rekt.news/who-vets-vetters

I live in the EU and water utilities are public here. That's ...

2026-04-15T06:20:20Z

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I live in the EU and water utilities are public here. That's the whole point of regulation established by democratically elected governments. If you elect libertarian lunatics in the US under the hype of 'deregulate all', don't expect they will take care of your interests.

But that's now what she says. What she describes is simple ...

2026-04-07T15:00:35Z

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But that's now what she says. What she describes is simple cost-benefit analysis known since 1950's which basically allows you to assign natural resources financial value to demonstrate that their brainless usage or pollution generates costs of the economy. This is precisely how acid rains were stopped using cap & trade - industry was made to pay for sulphur oxides they previously just dumped into the air "because air is free and unlimited". Tokenizing seems to be just another iteration of the US & US obsession on charging for everything "so that the mob doesn't get used to getting anything for free".

US water companies have discovered this decades ago - what's ...

2026-04-06T22:16:22Z

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US water companies have discovered this decades ago - what's wrong with this?

He already stopped these in 2025. Since then he's only been ...

2026-04-01T22:36:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…4fav
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He already stopped these in 2025. Since then he's only been selling them to EU who then deliver it to Ukraine.

Who did 7 October 2023? 🤔

2026-03-18T19:13:21Z

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Who did 7 October 2023? 🤔

Fully agreed but then you got this: ...

2026-03-18T16:33:43Z

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Fully agreed but then you got this:

This is already working pretty well in EU members like Estonia ...

2026-03-18T16:31:38Z

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This is already working pretty well in EU members like Estonia and Poland, so it's now only matter of scaling up for the whole EU.

She is a well known for very well informed and well-tested ...

2026-03-18T16:30:53Z

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She is a well known for very well informed and well-tested analyses, such as defending Assad and Putin... 🤡

Fediverse also working, and range of topics covered is 100x ...

2026-03-18T16:28:22Z

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Fediverse also working, and range of topics covered is 100x broader than Nostr which is 99% crypto bros talking about other crypto bros 😆

Of course he didn't - how would he do it? Article 5 can be ...

2026-03-18T16:27:16Z

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Of course he didn't - how would he do it? Article 5 can be invoked in a NATO member is attacked by a third country, not enters an offensive war against one.

I knew GNU C Compiler had a paramount impact on global economy ...

2026-03-13T07:56:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…j540
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I knew GNU C Compiler had a paramount impact on global economy but this 🤔

You known who was the first ICJ genocide suspect? Putin.

2026-03-13T07:54:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…hyc2
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You known who was the first ICJ genocide suspect? Putin.

Ukraine and the rest of Eastern Europe (Estonia, Poland etc) have ...

2026-03-12T10:30:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…ctat
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Ukraine and the rest of Eastern Europe (Estonia, Poland etc) have warned everyone already back in 2014 how this is going to end if the world is soft on Russia but they were dismissed as "russophobic". .. 🤷

Is there any Mearsheimer prediction that had not failed? He's ...

2026-03-12T10:28:01Z

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Is there any Mearsheimer prediction that had not failed? He's now comparable to Chomsky in the quality of his assessments 😆

Is there any Sachs forecast that didn't fail miserably?

2026-03-11T13:57:09Z

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Is there any Sachs forecast that didn't fail miserably?

Wait, where's all the libertarians and cryptocurrency czars? ...

2026-03-11T13:56:15Z

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Wait, where's all the libertarians and cryptocurrency czars? Don't say they cowardly returned to their oppressive and high tax US and EU countries? 😆

Interestingly, no EV owners are to be seen in these queues...

2026-03-10T10:33:23Z

In reply to nevent1q…vasm
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Interestingly, no EV owners are to be seen in these queues...

Maybe you have an overrepresentation of Russia Today followers in ...

2026-03-10T10:31:45Z

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Maybe you have an overrepresentation of Russia Today followers in your area, because where I live there's zero queues.

LocoScript on Amstrad PCW

2026-03-10T10:30:47Z

In reply to nevent1q…lhuj
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LocoScript on Amstrad PCW

Sorry morons, you're late to the party 😆 Also, this story ...

2026-03-09T21:27:20Z

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Sorry morons, you're late to the party 😆 Also, this story is complete bullshit, there's no queues on petrol stations in the UK

Yes brother ...

2026-03-09T21:25:08Z

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Yes brother

This moron is always late to the party 😆 ...

2026-03-09T21:24:48Z

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This moron is always late to the party 😆

Is it the guy who failed literally EVERY prediction he made, who ...

2026-03-09T21:23:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…yp84
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Is it the guy who failed literally EVERY prediction he made, who ridiculed the Ukraine invasion in 2022 and Venezuela invasion in 2025? 🤔

Well, if you call $1.5 billion (!) fine on Alex Jones or banning ...

2026-02-15T12:02:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…vpeg
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Well, if you call $1.5 billion (!) fine on Alex Jones or banning books from libraries "absolute free speech"... then okay

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-02-13/europe-doesn-t-want-maga-s-version-of-free-speech?taid=698ebdefe03fbc0001017bd0

Russia invading Ukraine in 2022...

2026-02-07T13:17:43Z

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Russia invading Ukraine in 2022...

Balkans is the best place in the world 👌

2026-02-07T13:16:55Z

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Balkans is the best place in the world 👌

When he says "they" does he mean Google, Meta, X and ...

2026-02-07T13:16:15Z

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When he says "they" does he mean Google, Meta, X and other US big tech companies?

The moron hasn't apparently noticed that Russia has violated ...

2026-02-07T13:15:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…mz7l
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The moron hasn't apparently noticed that Russia has violated every single agreement it signed with Ukraine recognising its sovereignty in 1991, 1994, 1997 and then numerous border treaties 2000-2013, while he accused NATO of violating imaginary "rules" that nobody has every signed anywhere.

Tate has some experience as he's himself under investigation ...

2026-02-07T08:57:09Z

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Tate has some experience as he's himself under investigation for trafficking minors, sex with a minor and money laundering. What a great authority to follow! 🤮

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2026-02-07T08:54:35Z

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https://futurism.com/future-society/cryptocurrency-jeffrey-epstein-bitcoin

Well Alex Jones was fined $1'500'000'000 ($1.5b) by ...

2026-02-07T08:54:11Z

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Well Alex Jones was fined $1'500'000'000 ($1.5b) by an US court so consider yourself lucky. Comparing these fines in absolute numbers, there's ~48'000 more #censorship in the US than in Germany.

Or simply Jan

2026-02-07T08:52:23Z

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Or simply Jan

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2026-02-07T08:51:11Z

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https://futurism.com/future-society/cryptocurrency-jeffrey-epstein-bitcoin

Well, for now it collapsed from $123k to $68k, so cope. Mining ...

2026-02-07T08:35:48Z

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Well, for now it collapsed from $123k to $68k, so cope. Mining cost is ~$90k.

Russia invades Ukraine in 2022, colorized

2026-02-07T08:33:05Z

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Russia invades Ukraine in 2022, colorized

You can always go to jmail.world and search for yourself - ...

2026-02-04T14:56:04Z

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You can always go to jmail.world and search for yourself - here's sample Epstein routine email, many of such there https://www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA02404627?email=EFTA02404627-4 so no, it's not some hearsay as you imply but solid evidence base collected over more than a decade

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/HAUNmMmXkAIr2t2?format=jpg&name=large

This particular one is here ...

2026-02-04T13:07:32Z

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This particular one is here https://www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA02404627?email=EFTA02404627-4

At 00:26 you understand it was no conspiracy theory from the ...

2026-02-04T13:04:02Z

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At 00:26 you understand it was no conspiracy theory from the start when the CIA assassin appears on the roof behind

Guys who mastered flooding the Internet with "unverified ...

2026-02-04T12:52:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…548f
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Guys who mastered flooding the Internet with "unverified claims" about literally anything complain about "unverified claims" about Trump 😆 😆

Russia has one the largest prevalence of HIV, STD, divorce and ...

2026-02-02T13:24:09Z

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Russia has one the largest prevalence of HIV, STD, divorce and abortions... and they speak of "degenerate West"? 😆

What a moron, what did you expect if right in 1992 you had a KGB ...

2026-02-02T13:20:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…2cfd
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What a moron, what did you expect if right in 1992 you had a KGB coup trying to restore USSR, in 1993 you had another coup where tanks fired at your White House, in 1994 you started bombing Grozny, the signed a peace with them in 1997 only to restart bombing them in 1999? Oh wait, and in the meantime in 1997 you've stolen $5 billion IMF aid (today $20b) to prevent the financial crisis, which then ruined Russia's economy... which you, of course, blamed on the West?

"Russian forces have suffered approximately 1.2 million ...

2026-01-31T11:30:40Z

"Russian forces have suffered approximately 1.2 million casualties (killed, wounded, and missing) and as many as 325,000 killed since February 2022. No major power has suffered anywhere near these numbers of casualties or fatalities in any war since World War II. Second, Russian forces are advancing remarkably slowly on the battlefield. In the Pokrovsk offensive, for example, Russian forces advanced at an average rate of just 70 meters per day."

https://www.csis.org/analysis/russias-grinding-war-ukraine

#Russia #Ukraine

Interesting how strictly people interpret this 'interference ...

2026-01-27T18:45:45Z

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Interesting how strictly people interpret this 'interference and obstruction' (add possession of weapons) in case of ICE when the same people were very relaxed when it came to 6 January 2023 mob attacking guards or Proud Boys equipped with assault weapons on almost every protest they attended to 🤔

If you're 15+ years old, you don't need to worry about ...

2026-01-27T18:43:09Z

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If you're 15+ years old, you don't need to worry about "ruining your freedom online". If you aren't then there's many ways how your "freedom is ruined", for example parents telling you to to wash dishes after yourself but this is generally socially acceptable.

Also, the ban only applies to the most toxic for-profit "social" media such as Facebook or TikTok, young people will be still easily able to access Fediverse or even Nostr, although the concentration of crypto bros here also makes it more commercial than social.

Good, a whole generation spared from commercial brainwashing...

2026-01-26T22:50:24Z

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Good, a whole generation spared from commercial brainwashing...

Russia winning the war: ...

2026-01-26T19:18:03Z

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Russia winning the war:

Okay, so it's a bit like the PV owners who boast about being ...

2026-01-26T19:15:42Z

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Okay, so it's a bit like the PV owners who boast about being "100% independent" but then relying on grid connection to have actual 24/7 supply ;)

> everything the town provides must be self-sufficient Do they ...

2026-01-26T13:10:35Z

In reply to nevent1q…etnh
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> everything the town provides must be self-sufficient

Do they have any cancer treatment or just send their cancer patients upstream to the public healthcare provider? Because on a town scale cancer therapies will be NEVER "self-sufficient", that can only work when you have millions of public insurance payers whereas number of cancer patients remains quite stable and relatively small.

> The problem with government funded healthcare is that it is ...

2026-01-26T13:09:02Z

In reply to nevent1q…etnh
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> The problem with government funded healthcare is that it is not cheaper over time

Data shows otherwise, source: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy-vs-health-expenditure

And the funding model (public vs private) is orthogonal to using or not using the price signals - nothing prevents you from using market information to determine best value for money, which is precisely what most EU providers do, for sure UK NHS and PL NFZ (out of those I know). Both have massive statistical divisions who constantly analyse available market offerings both for drugs and service providers and change them in order to optimise their costs.

That's also precisely what US private providers do all the time, except they are optimising for the FINANCIAL profit of their shareholders, while NHS/NFZ optimise for the health benefit of their patients.

You're 100% right about moronic energy policies pushed by ...

2026-01-26T10:31:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…nmps
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You're 100% right about moronic energy policies pushed by Germany up until 2021 but EU, if anything, played a positive role here - it was EU and Member States other than Germany that since 2015 had been pushing the EU energy diversification directive which at the end of the day prevented much larger disaster when Russians executed their blackmail in 2021. The battle to save nuclear power was also a complex game of interests where EU played a positive role by providing the scientific assessment (JRC etc) to counter the hysterical arguments from German "greens" and gas industry. Trump routinely blames "EU" for continuing to purchase Russian gas and oil four years into the war, but there's nothing further from truth - it's not "EU", it's a small group of Member States which do so exclusively because energy policies is one of many competences that are explicitly excluded from EU subsidiarity which means these countries are free to do so until they agree to stop these purchases voluntarily - which should happen from 1 January 2027.

And also no, the legal status of ICE does matter a lot because ...

2026-01-26T10:24:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…lhg4
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And also no, the legal status of ICE does matter a lot because they do not have legal enforcement rights against US citizens, for example - which is something they're routinely violating too.

Does that also apply to the people who stormed the Capitol on 6 ...

2026-01-26T10:23:44Z

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Does that also apply to the people who stormed the Capitol on 6 Jan 2023? Interestingly, many of them were armed, none of them 'complied', may attacked police and Capitol guards, yet none of them were shot. Moreover, most of them were then pardoned and then some of them were jailed again for common crimes. Try to imagine MAGA reaction if any of them were actually shot on 6 Jan for 'noncompliance'.

Russia kicked itself out from the Western market by annexing ...

2026-01-25T15:03:38Z

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Russia kicked itself out from the Western market by annexing Crimea and invading Ukraine. As a reminder, the 2014 EU sanctions were personally targeted at specific companies and individuals, but then Putin introduced actually harsh sanctions on food imports (!) from EU punishing Russian consumers 😆

The primary reason for funding things publicly is that's ...

2026-01-25T12:48:55Z

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The primary reason for funding things publicly is that's it's much cheaper in the first place. If 100 km highway costs you $100m then 100m citizens chip in $1 and everyone benefits from faster transport and travel, which boosts the business and that $100m returns in taxes and saved time, multiplied.

If you do the same privately, you need to factor in private profit of the investor, operator and the investment banks, which on such projects can make up to 60% of the extra cost. So not only you're paying 160% more but then everyone is exposed to the whims of some UAE investment funds who don't give shit about travel time in your country and they only care about short term profit.

Same goes for water utilities, electricity utilities, nuclear power plants, and healthcare. Especially the latter is a no brainer because it's lottery where anyone can be hit by a chronic disease that is extremely costly in treatment and this is precisely the last thing that any private insurer wants to have anything to do with.

As a reminder, Russia has confiscated - or, as you call it, ...

2026-01-25T12:42:34Z

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As a reminder, Russia has confiscated - or, as you call it, stolen - 95% assets of European companies leaving Russia. They simply imposed newly invented taxes and forced "discounts" as a condition to leave. Logically, Europe should have "leveled Russia with rockets" long ago, yes?

It's not "police". ICE is literally Immigration and ...

2026-01-25T12:40:47Z

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It's not "police". ICE is literally Immigration and Customs (!) Enforcement.

You can save your dignity by finally passing the Russian money to ...

2026-01-24T15:28:31Z

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You can save your dignity by finally passing the Russian money to Ukraine...

It's the very opposite of centralised TBH https://w-social.eu

2026-01-23T11:05:45Z

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It's the very opposite of centralised TBH https://w-social.eu

Sounds like bullshit, https://w-social.eu does exist already and ...

2026-01-23T11:01:31Z

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Sounds like bullshit, https://w-social.eu does exist already and it's just a portal page for Fediverse/Mastodon

I don't know, I'm being ironic. Since I've heard some ...

2026-01-22T21:42:27Z

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I don't know, I'm being ironic. Since I've heard some Americans call public healthcare "socialism" I've completely lost faith in semantics 😆 Especially when they then refer to Adam Smith, clearly proving they haven't read a single word of Adam Smith's books 🤦

Nuclear power at 5.6 gCO2eq/kWh an 95% capacity factor.

2026-01-22T17:47:55Z

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Nuclear power at 5.6 gCO2eq/kWh an 95% capacity factor.

Isn't that SOCIALISM? What happened to the (in)famous ...

2026-01-22T17:47:02Z

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Isn't that SOCIALISM? What happened to the (in)famous laissez-faire which US has desperately trying to impose on other countries?

Meanwhile the address has been published: The Board of Peace, ...

2026-01-20T21:30:58Z

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Meanwhile the address has been published:

The Board of Peace, Oude Waalsdorperweg 10 2597 AK The Hague The Netherlands

They don't really match their surrounding 🤔

2026-01-20T21:30:05Z

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They don't really match their surrounding 🤔

In a friendly gesture, Trump announced the location of the future ...

2026-01-20T21:28:56Z

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In a friendly gesture, Trump announced the location of the future Board of Peace to which he invited Putin and Lukashenka:

The Board of Peace, Oude Waalsdorperweg 10 2597 AK The Hague The Netherlands

You can't do free market to America!!! 😱

2026-01-20T21:28:05Z

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You can't do free market to America!!! 😱

May 2025, Marco Rubio on #Mauritius and #Chagos islands ...

2026-01-20T15:07:19Z

May 2025, Marco Rubio on #Mauritius and #Chagos islands

Well, you started it in 2014 dickhead...

2026-01-20T15:06:19Z

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Well, you started it in 2014 dickhead...

What a clown... Russia invaded Crimea in 2014 and for a month ...

2026-01-20T15:05:36Z

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What a clown... Russia invaded Crimea in 2014 and for a month pretended 'it's not us', then invaded Donbas and didn't have balls to admit it's their troops for 8 years.

True, EU never fined anyone $1.5 billion for even the worst ...

2026-01-18T22:41:13Z

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True, EU never fined anyone $1.5 billion for even the worst libel, like the US did to Alex Jones for his lies about Sandy Hook 😀

And "forced draft" is an oxymoron. Every draft in a ...

2026-01-18T18:50:32Z

In reply to nevent1q…354e
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And "forced draft" is an oxymoron. Every draft in a country at war is by definition "forced". which is precisely why Putin is desperately trying to avoid it as he knows it would cause massive discontent with a plausible risk of rebellion. Ukraine was invaded and is fighting for literal survival, so it doesn't have much choice.

I always wondered are these screenshots made for literal morons ...

2026-01-18T18:48:45Z

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I always wondered are these screenshots made for literal morons with these color pen highlights in a two line sentence? 🤔

Maybe if she's exclusively watching Russia Today, she can ...

2026-01-18T14:50:16Z

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Maybe if she's exclusively watching Russia Today, she can indeed think everyone is "strangely quiet"

Miserable morons

2026-01-18T14:47:44Z

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Miserable morons

It's interesting how many people have internalised vile yet ...

2026-01-17T19:32:54Z

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It's interesting how many people have internalised vile yet entirely baseless propaganda about EU coming from people who had not been actually ever elected by anyone like Musk, Vance or Thiel.

Can you imagine the scale of this dude's inferiority complex ...

2026-01-17T13:17:29Z

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Can you imagine the scale of this dude's inferiority complex that he has to compensate using fake gold bars? 🤔

He also promised to fight corruption, make Russia into fifth ...

2026-01-17T13:16:32Z

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He also promised to fight corruption, make Russia into fifth largest economies of the world and not to attack Ukraine 😜

Musk, Zuck, Thiel aren't billionaires? 🤔

2026-01-17T13:14:37Z

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Musk, Zuck, Thiel aren't billionaires? 🤔

Just like he helped Syria, Iran and Venezuela, fucking reverse ...

2026-01-16T07:22:50Z

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Just like he helped Syria, Iran and Venezuela, fucking reverse Midas 😆

Great idea, after he fucks out of Ukraine, pays reparations and ...

2026-01-16T07:21:05Z

In reply to nevent1q…cel7
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Great idea, after he fucks out of Ukraine, pays reparations and send Alexey Milchakov to jal.

This mean clearly has an inferiority complex...

2026-01-16T07:20:01Z

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This mean clearly has an inferiority complex...

You may want to check MeshCore as well, same LoRa and mesh but ...

2026-01-16T07:19:06Z

In reply to nevent1q…dypk
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You may want to check MeshCore as well, same LoRa and mesh but slightly better architecture and reach.

And timber! Chinese companies are logging Siberian tayga at such ...

2026-01-16T07:15:44Z

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And timber! Chinese companies are logging Siberian tayga at such a massive scale and speed that it's easily visible from satellite - just look at Google Maps around the Lake Baikal e.g. here https://maps.app.goo.gl/e7Ytfjy9JBv75VHx5 These are thousands of km2 of forest being quietly logged and taken to China, which only contributed to the environmental degradation of Russia. Their environmental activists have been alarming about it for a long time but nobody cares.

I don't think #Russia cares about mineral reserves because if ...

2026-01-16T07:11:01Z

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I don't think #Russia cares about mineral reserves because if they did, they wouldn't ruin them to the ground in #Donbass and flood all the mines, rendering them useless.

The only natural resource in #Ukraine they care about is humans. Thanks to Putin's policies Russia is in a massive demographic decline, flooded by immigrants from Asia so grab of 30m Slavic population would be a huge boost for their racial obsession.

As an added bonus, they could easily mobilize 1m of men in Ukraine and send them to conquer further West while preserving their precious Moscow party boys. And we know that because that's precisely what they in Donbas in 2021 - mobilised locals and sent them to die for Putin fighting against their former neighbours.

If speaking Russian makes you automatically property of Putin, ...

2026-01-16T07:06:06Z

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If speaking Russian makes you automatically property of Putin, then speaking English makes you property of the British crown, yes? 🤔

1) Nuclear phase-out 2) Nord Stream 2 3) "Wir schaffen ...

2026-01-13T15:51:59Z

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1) Nuclear phase-out
2) Nord Stream 2
3) "Wir schaffen das"

Can you now rewrite that in English because I'm not sure what ...

2026-01-13T15:40:58Z

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Can you now rewrite that in English because I'm not sure what to say

Why do you think an alcoholic and a mediocree FSB operative are ...

2026-01-13T15:40:31Z

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Why do you think an alcoholic and a mediocree FSB operative are the only possible leaders for Russia? You really don't wish them well.

Putin said sanctions are good for Russia. Putin can't be ...

2026-01-13T15:39:40Z

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Putin said sanctions are good for Russia. Putin can't be wrong.

Also, in case he possibly was wrong and sanctions aren't good for Russia - FAFO, he asked for them.

You shouldn't have asked that question because it only ...

2026-01-13T15:30:52Z

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You shouldn't have asked that question because it only demonstrates the scale of Putin's failure - having all the natural resources in the world he managed to get his contry's GDP overcome by Poland that has none of these and started from the same level in 1991

On personal note - I actually was in Russia in 2002 and every ...

2026-01-13T15:22:55Z

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On personal note - I actually was in Russia in 2002 and every years since so I saw that done in real time.

Sorry, but in 2002 Russia still had free media, independent ...

2026-01-13T15:20:21Z

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Sorry, but in 2002 Russia still had free media, independent judiciary and actual political opposition. It took Putin a while to dismantle all that, take over NTV and all other private media, kill or exile opposition leaders and blackmail judges to serve rulings that he needed. After 10 years of the Chechen wars in which thousands of Russians were killed by other Russians, the public opposition to war was too strong and Putin too weak. It took him another 10 years to change that.

Unless it's Bitcoin, ofc

2026-01-13T15:15:36Z

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Unless it's Bitcoin, ofc

If Zelensku was actually funneling money out of Ukraine at war ...

2026-01-13T15:09:46Z

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If Zelensku was actually funneling money out of Ukraine at war time, he'd be already hanged on the first lamp post the second it was made public. Unlike Russians, Ukrainian do have free media and aren't cowardly pussies who only moan kneeling in front of their tsar.

Here's how far Russians have advanced on one of the critical ...

2026-01-13T08:35:16Z

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Here's how far Russians have advanced on one of the critical directions of Horlivka since 2022 - 16 km...

By the way, here's how far Russians have advanced on one of ...

2026-01-13T08:34:44Z

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By the way, here's how far Russians have advanced on one of the critical directions (Horlivka) since 2022

According to Facebook own rules you can't have a FB account ...

2026-01-12T13:52:28Z

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According to Facebook own rules you can't have a FB account if you're younger than 13 and there's ton of restrictions if you're 13-18 - all according to US FB own rules - so what's exactly your problem?

Classic Matthew 7:3-5: "Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?"

Ok, but that's a criticism so generic that it's at the ...

2026-01-12T07:21:52Z

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Ok, but that's a criticism so generic that it's at the verge of being meaningless. By the way, European Commission is technically not elected but it's composed of heads of Member States who are nominated by democratically elected governments - that's a feature, not a bug. And US presidential elections aren't direct either - they are cast through the electoral votes, for reasons. Legislative initiative in EU does not exclusively sit with EC - EP can and does ask for new laws and EC does not have right to reject it at its own discretion. Plus it's not only EP that has this right - there's also direct citizen's legislative initiative where enough signatures gets you EC obliged to consider a draft regulation as if it was raised by EP - https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/_en

It's all complex but when compared to most nation state laws the EU process is much more transparent and more democratic, although it is much less decisive - there's no presidential decrees etc which is both a limitation at times of war, but also a safeguard against what happened in Russia and is now happening in the US

I very much recommend this book as it goes into great detail on how EU works from inside, dispelling many myths:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Enraged-Citizens-European-Democratic-Deficits/dp/0857423622