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[–] aleph@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago (49 children)

Oh, so you're saying that Russia illegally annexing Crimea in 2014 wasn't an invasion of Ukraine?

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (53 children)

So you're saying that Russia didn't invade Ukraine first, before the separatist-controlled areas were shelled?

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (5 children)

You mean when Russia first invaded Ukraine?

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (87 children)

... because this time the US is backing Ukraine against the aggressor, whereas in 2004 it was the aggressor?

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I think any society that equates social worth with financial success is vulnerable to this tragic phenomenon, especially if the responsibility for failing to become "successful" is laid solely on the shoulders of the individual rather than on society itself.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 27 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Hide all memes and shitposts would be way more useful for me, personally.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I would imagine that a high proportion of atheists had some experience of religion as a child.

Me, I was raised Catholic, which certainly helped me score highly in the quiz.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

On 21 July, a man attacked commuters in the capital, killing one person and stabbing three more at a subway station. He later told police he lived a miserable life and "wanted to make others miserable too".

Well if that isn't a succinct summary of why many of these attacks happen. So often, they are carried out by alienated and angry young men who want to punish society for some reason.

They tend to be more dramatic in the US because citizens have access to guns, but the underlying causes are similar.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

No, it's not the same as any other phone. Pixels get reviewed well because the reviewers get units that have been double checked and ensured that they are defect-free, and they are not used for very long before the verdicts get published.

If you go to places like r/GooglePixel or any of the Lemmy alternatives, they're full of users complaining about the finicky connectivity, bad displays, or unreliable fingerprint readers, in numbers that are far higher per-user than other brands.

Google phones sell significantly fewer units than, say, Samsung, but they have noticeably more users complaining about technical issues.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Google phones are top class.

If you get lucky in their QC lottery, perhaps.

https://www.xda-developers.com/google-pixel-fold-quality-control/

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

They really should have titled this The History of Western Philosophy, because it reinforces the mistaken belief that the Greeks invented systematic philosophical thought.

In fact, Indian philosophers were debating monism vs dualism, the existences of the soul and of God, and even suggested the idea that matter was composed of fundamental building blocks (atoms) at round the same time as the Greeks, or even earlier, and their philosophical tradition had started over a thousand years before that.

Here's a timeline of Eastern philosophy

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