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dua2020··on Ukraine reaches breaking point in Russia’s war
Unbiased media reporting can simply say 'the Russians claim' and there you go.

America/NATO and Ukraine can claim what they want in the media and are quoted constantly.

There is a lack of non-aligned third-party verification of anything in this conflict so it's the least the media can do.

If you would like to see what putting arms in the hands of fundamentalists to fight for the US/NATOs side see Syria, Iraq, Nicaragua, Afghanistan, Libya etc

dua2020··on Jailed Navalny calls for anti-war protests across Russia on Sunday
Indeed you are right, no moral equivalence is implied.

But in the long run, white supremacists should not be looked to as an appropriate or effective opposition to Putin.

And it is interesting that the western media can't find any one else to be the face of liberal democracy in Russia, is it because they can't find one or because they are just too lazy to check Navalny's actual position on things.

dua2020··on Jailed Navalny calls for anti-war protests across Russia on Sunday
"But on review, Amnesty International concluded that comments made by Navalny some 15 years ago, including a video which appears to compare immigrants to cockroaches, amounted to "hate speech" which was incompatible with the label "prisoner of conscience"."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-56181084

dua2020··on Under the Hood of World’s First 500-Mile EV
Interesting that such a blocky and traditional looking design can claim to get a Coefficient of drag of 0.21

The Mercedes-Benz EQS (similar luxury class) is much more gloopy looking and claims 0.2

dua2020··on UK MP speech about freedoms censored by YouTube
This is a government which is in the process of criminalising protest under a deliberately vague 'public nuisance' clause. They only want freedom of expression for their views and not for those that oppose them.
dua2020··on Helm is a personal server that lives where you do
yunohost is a decent FOSS self-hosting debian-based OS, they even offer a free DDNS service/domain, a nice web gui to install apps/services and one can always ssh in and config manually
dua2020··on People Staring at Computers
This is such an elegant, insightful, funny and thrilling piece!
dua2020··on UK Rail services to come under unified state control
A concession means the private company operates the railway for a set fee and a set operational standard, the state owner will retain ticket revenue (and risk). This is how the London Overground concession works.

A franchise basically gives all operation responsibilities and ticket revenue to the private operator, in return, the private operator gives a lump sum bid for the contract at the beginning.

dua2020··on Ditching meat isn’t the answer for climate change. Better farming is

  "Writing meat off completely is taking the easy way out."
Why not take the easy way out?
dua2020··on Impossible Foods raises $200M in fresh funding
Too right, soy never caused a pandemic...
dua2020··on Impossible Foods raises $200M in fresh funding
Most cows are not grass-fed (too expensive, too much land required) and are therefore in cages being fed... soy based products.