keewee7

>From reports, most Russians seem to be against this war already.

What? The majority of Russians support the war. However many of them don't know the full extent of the war.

>But the current trend of private companies just stopping service in Russia really targets ordinary Russians and just increases their paranoia.

And that is how you make the Kremlin change their mind.

>Imagine being traumatized by decades of Soviet repression and isolation... and then having all that come back in a week.

The worst repression in the Soviet Union was not Communism. The worst repression was the Russian repression of minorities and non-Russian Soviet states.

>Are you seriously suggesting Ukrainians want a war with Russia?

Yes, they want to wage a defensive war against the invaders.

Putin and Lavrov have said Ukraine is a historical mistake. They want to assimilate Ukraine into Russia and commit cultural genocide.

Ukrainians have every right to kill the Russian invaders. The West has every right to put sanctions on Russia and support the Ukrainian resistance.

You're repeating Kremlin lies. Nobody is responsible for this war except Russia.

>proxy war

Again a comment that subtly blames the West.

This is not a proxy war. The only war right now is an unprovoked Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Yesterday I saw claims that "half of Ukraine is pro-Russia" and the revolution against the corrupt dictator in 2014 was a CIA coup.

The vast majority of Ukrainians are anti-Russia and pro-EU. Russia's actions since 2014 have also made them pro-NATO.

Putin and Lavrov have said Ukraine is a historical mistake. They want to assimilate Ukraine into Russia and commit cultural genocide.

Ukrainians have every right to kill the Russian invaders. The West has every right to put sanctions on Russia and support the Ukrainian resistance.

It's insane how much Kremlin apologia there is on HN.

Some comments are saying we shouldn't put sanctions on Russia or support the Ukrainian resistance because it will prolong the war and civilian casualties.

Putin and Lavrov have said that Ukraine is a historical mistake that should be undone. They want to assimilate Ukraine into Russia. Commit cultural genocide. How is the very existence of a nation and people not worth supporting?

>Mearsheimer thinks that the United States would have benefited from allying themselves with Russia

Why do we need Russia? Their GDP is smaller than Italy's.

>We encouraged Zelensky to talk about acquiring nukes

This is literally Kremlin lies and talking points.

Meanwhile Nord Stream 1 still flows at full throttle.

Spring has just started, close the Russian pipes.

In the 2000s and 2010s Russia lowered bandwidth on Western social media (and webmail) platforms to promote local alternatives. It worked and most Russians are not on Facebook, twitter and reddit.

However Russia failed to suppress and replicate YouTube that is the only massively popular Western platform in Russia.

The posh ruling elite in Moscow and StP want to deceive the West into thinking Russia is a mad dog that is too dangerous to bother. They want to scare the West from imposing total economic sanctions. They want to scare the West from supplying the Ukrainian resistance.

Always remember Russia is a rational actor no matter how much Putin and Lavrov are fear mongering about sanctions leading to a nuclear WW3. The French foreign minister was the first to call out their bluff yesterday. I hope more Western leaders will follow.

Russian military videos on TikTok are coordinated propaganda and misinformation.

There is no way that hundreds of Russian soldiers posted TikToks on the same morning revealing their locations and movements.

The intention of this is to both misdirect from actual large-scale Russian movements and to lower Ukrainian morale: "Look how easy and fun it is for us to invade you".

There is no way that hundreds of Russian soldiers posted TikToks on the same morning revealing their locations and movements.

This is coordinated propaganda. It's meant to both misdirect from actual large-scale Russian movements and to lower Ukrainian morale: "Look how easy and fun it is for us to invade you".

Russia is intentionally hyping up the risk of nuclear war and WW3.

Western leaders should impose total sanctions on Russia but also calm their own populations that there will not be any military confrontation with Russia.

Tucker Carlson and the rest of the Republican party's support for Russia boils down to "we need Russian support against China".

Have they actually been to Russia? The country is intensely anti-Western and already on the verge of becoming a Chinese puppet state.

Every Western country should impose total sanctions on Russia. Stop all trade with Russia.

They only forbid Russian residents from having direct access to production servers. That means sysadmin and devops roles. Russians are employed in other positions.

This includes being subscribed to r/worldnews and r/politics.

As an EU citizen I want an immediate ban on fossil fuel imports from Russia.

I have noticed that a lot of tech and startup clubs on Clubhouse were created by users from India and Iran. Today the clubs are still dominated by users from these countries.

Nothing wrong with that but that also indicates the usual clickfarm spammers from developing countries had unfiltered access to Clubhouse from day 1.

This might sound elitist but it's probably a good idea that C2C apps get their first batch of users and community leaders from high income countries before branching out to the rest of the world.

How do you do marketing when the target demographic uses adblocking?

It's because Facebook and Google tolerates far-right content on their platforms. That is why they're being targeted by progressive MEPs from the EU and liberal American media.

As an EU citizen I will not miss Facebook but it's healthy to be aware of what is actually going on instead of pretending Brussels care about my privacy.

This is actually an interesting case study of who is spreading and consuming fake news.

This fake news reached the top of reddit and trended on Twitter. Both are dominated by users who think of themselves as smarter than the fake news consuming boomers on Facebook.

In my country it was reported by both the tabloids and mainstream media. Only the publicly owned Danmarks Radio (Danish BBC) didn't spread this fake news.

The goal is to create European state enterprises to replace Microsoft, Google, Facebook etc. These privacy regulations were championed by socialist MEPs.

The activist MEPs in the EU who have pushed for these regulations are overwhelmingly (German) socialists.

I support their work to protect the privacy of EU citizens. But I'm also aware that their goal is to replace Microsoft, Google, Facebook etc. with state-owned European enterprises.

European state enterprises can be surprisingly efficient. However keep the Germans out of it. German government IT is still in the Middle Ages. Let countries like Denmark and Estonia build the future of European IT.

>The EU combined is the largest economic region in the world.

It's not 2011 anymore. The GDP of the US has surpassed the GDP of the EU.

I was thinking over a really long time period. There is at least 20-30 more years of general purpose programming being a highly sought after skill. But with time most programming is going to be done by AI that is directed by domain experts.

It's interesting that AI is being aggressively applied to areas where AI practitioners are domain experts. Think programming, data analysis etc.

We programmers and data scientists might find ourselves among the first half of knowledge workers to be replaced and not among the last as we previously thought.