> almost all are incarcerated
> right approach
WTF?!
Not having home is not a crime. What Łukašenka regime does is immoral, unconstitutional and contrary to human rights.
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> right approach
WTF?!
Not having home is not a crime. What Łukašenka regime does is immoral, unconstitutional and contrary to human rights.
I'd say it's because of the better wealth distribution. Belarus has always fared better in things like Gini index, because while Russia theoretically has a lot of money, that money is more concentrated.
Attributing it to "European" and specifically "Catholic" population seems wrong to me. There is nothing inherently "civilised" about Europeans or Catholics.
> no homeless
I assure you, there is enough homelessness in Belarus.
E.g. https://www.belhelcom.org/be/news/byazdomnyya-lyudzi-i-prava... https://34mag.net/post/yak-dapamagchy-byazdomnym
I don't know the evolution of the terms in question, but I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't!
Like, what is a beach (or пляж)? It's basically берег (riverbank/seashore) but intended for recreation use. Did people of the past have enough time to recreationally use their seashores/riverbanks? I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't.
Same about furniture/мебель. I would assume that in the past (at least in the villages), people would often have benches, beds, tables custom-made specifically for their house, and they would not be meant to be moved out.
Мебель/furniture presupposes that people produce it in one place, and then people move it to their house, and this was often not the case in the past.
If your bed is made when your house is built, and cannot be moved out because bed frame goes directly into your wall, is that still furniture? Is furniture a useful word to describe that?
(Not sure about screens)
So do I.
Nice comes from nescius 'ignorant'.
Travel according to the most common version comes from tripalium, a torture device.
If you assume that genocide must be about killing because it comes from a Latin word for killing, then being nice should be about being ignorant because it comes from a Latin word for ignorant.
- 'nice' means 'ignorant', - 'to travel' means 'to suffer torture',
and a lot of other interesting (but incorrect) ideas about what words mean.
This is, first and foremost, a societal problem: low prestige of a language, discrimination of its speakers, economic hardships that force people to leave their communities, lingering effects of colonisation in language politics and so on.
While technology is certainly useful, it cannot fix the root of the problems.
Maybe some people got the information 3 months ago, but definitely not all of customers.
What the girlfriend did was convince him to go, not bring therapist to the same room and start the session without him knowing in advance.
It's not a good idea to just dump your interests on someone. You need to get them interested first, convince something is interesting. For this, you learn more about the person first and then try to show how that poem is relevant to them.
Also, different people are different, have different experiences, and different works of art resonate with them. If The Waste Land helped you to "go deeper", it doesn't necessarily mean it would have the same effect on other people. And that is OK.
People don't force (potential) romantic partners to do things they don't want to do anymore.
This includes listening to poetry.
If one sees that other person is not interested in an action they're suggesting (and this includes looking at the manicure and at the wall), one just doesn't force them.
Consent is important not just in sex, consent is important in anything people do together. This includes communal poetry reading.
And in 2023, much more people talk about consent
We need more discussion about dating apps (e.g. I think creators of such apps are not incentivised to empower users to create long-lasting relationships, as such users would stop paying for the app), but this is not it.
E.g. the first line of a poem from linguamongolia.com, "saiqan časutu čağan ağulan-dur" (see http://www.linguamongolia.com/reso1.html , White Mountains document for original script) would be written "сайхан цаст цагаан уулд" (saihan cast cağan uuld) in Khalkha Mongolian orthography, if I'm not mistaken.
But then, sometimes Google Translate is happily combining two languages. E.g. it can translate from Crimean Tatar, but it will detect it as Tatar, even though it's a different language...
Mongolian script, from the link presented here, has actually switched from being horizontal to being vertical (under influence of Chinese).
I'm not sure about Zoom, but since their FAQ includes info on EU VAT, I assume they have taken care of it, too: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/360021487812-EU-VA...
People literally take animal intestines, fill then with other pieces of meat and leave them to dry...
If you think about it, sausages are as strange as kiviaq.
That was actually a test case I've tried. Asked it to write a text in Middle Egyptian. It wrote gibberish.
Asked it to translate it. It admitted that it was just a random hieroglyph salad with no meaning at all.
It's quite bad even at Belarusian, regularly producing impossible word forms, incorrectly using words and so on, mis-recognizing the language as Ukrainian, etc.
Self-driving cars only work on some roads specifically adapted for self-driving cars, and even then they require a team of specialists constantly monitoring them (so it's not very self-driving, the driver just moved to another place).
If they require a specially designed roads, they don't replace cars, they replace trams. And trams are much more efficient, so they don't really replace even them.
You can't put a self-driving car on a random road and expect it to work.
I use an eeePC laptop with 2 Gb or RAM as my home computer. It's quite usable with Linux.
Not that I'm planning to install Win11 on it, but the assumption that 2GB is enough only for embedded devices is incorrect.
I've attributed this to the increased number of notes, but after reading the article, I'm starting to think it might be because of the programming decisions, at least partially
"Forgejo" is not ideal in Esperanto, because both "for" 'away' and "gejo" 'gay man' are totally valid Esperanto words, and "forgejo" is a valid combination (even though it's hard to understand what "away-gay" should mean); compare "foriri" 'go away' or "forigi" 'do away with, remove' xD
> Second, as malware-laden PDFs are unfortunately still a thing, the less need there is to open a PDF locally, the more it helps your system security.
To read PDFs, Firefox downloads them locally, so that is not what differentiates it from other PDF-reading software.
Sure, maybe Firefox's viewers is more secure than Adobe's, but in the end both parse PDFs locally.
All letters in cursive and italic are slanted to the right. Iceland becomes Iceland, with top part of each letter going right and bottom part going left.
So, if you just wanted to write a slash in cursive, you'd end up with /. That's just a normal slash, a result of writing a line according to the general direction of the writing.
And the slash that defies the general direction of the writing is 'backslash'. For this, you have to move your hand back from your normal writing position.
I don't agree that my scenario requires more assumptions that scenarios 1 and 2.
3. Russia is operating pro-Ukrainian bots to influence pro-Ukrainian people.
The bots pretend to be pro-Ukrainian but then try to influence the public opinion in the ways that are useful to Russia.
Not sure what to make out of this
Like... Followers are people with their own agency! Even if they tend to read someone more often then the others, you can't treat this in same way as the wealth distribution
I think the cause and effect are reversed here: people choose the identity to reflect their political views. So, those who still choose the Russian identity often do so because they support Russia; but it's not a static group, their numbers are dwindling.
I believe that a lot of people who used to consider themselves Russians have now embraced Ukrainian identity to distance themselves from Russia.
The 'ethnic Russians' and 'ethnic Ukrainians' in Ukraine has much more to do with self-identification than with anything else.
(I have an example of my grandfather. Having born near Khabarovsk, he moved to Lviv when he was twenty-some.
He considered himself ethnic Ukrainian, while all his family that stayed in Russia consider themselves ethnic Russians.
They have the same family history: some of their grandparents emigrated from Ukraine, so it wasn't a made-up identity. But it was a choice: my grandpa, living in Ukraine, considered himself ethnic Ukrainian, and his sister in Kamchatka considers herself ethnic Russian.)
'Ethnic Russians' and 'ethnic Ukrainians' are not some stable groups where members of one cannot become members of another. Basically any Ukrainian can claim to be ethnic Russian, and almost any Russian from Ukraine (except perhaps late immigrants — but even those can usually find some Ukrainian roots) can claim to be ethnic Ukrainian.
> The inevitable outcome is that > like with Crimea, Russia will > successfully annex the parts > of Ukraine that are > overwhelmingly populated > by Russians who prefer > Russian rule.
I don't think such parts exist. After 2014, Ukrainians have had a good chance to see what happens in places conquered by Russia, so Russia is fooling no one: no one would look at Donetsk and say 'nice, I want my city to be like this!'.