Buy Whatever you like! On a Maslows scale of humans needs. Jewellery is in Self Esteem, or in some cases Self-Actualisation step, so If you want buy diamonds if you don't want don't buy diamonds. Tbh I'm kinda tired to see this COSMO type rants on the front-page of hacker news.
Do you really think china and other hostile countries will halt anything because Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and some other guys signed a letter? Also what about Musks tesla itself they are using AI for FSD and no one bats an eye
You do realize only a fraction of demonstration was arrested, and that for every person who risked getting beaten up and arrested there are many of his friends and relatives who support his views
That's why we have polls and statistics, instead of relying on the "most vocal" and supposedly "most courageous" people that "brave" the streets to protest. I personally don't buy it.
Any political poll conducted on an authoritarian state will not be trustworthy either. It's like going to a black neighborhood on the US and doing a poll on marijuana use. Many people will not admit to illegal activity. This is something an statistics professor will say in any basic introductory course.
10k is absolutely something in an authoritarian country when there is no free speech at all or freedom of assembly. And serious repercussions for those seen as against Putin.
You cannot claim that the only people who are against Putin are those who took part in illegal protests that are punished with hefty fines and arrests. Not everyone is that brave.
While Putin might have high rating in the polls, his party United Russia could win only 50% of seats in Moscow Parliament in 2019 (after most popular independent candidates were not allowed to be in the ballot). Furthermore, members of United Russia nominated as independent candidates to hide their party affiliation. If you believe that only ten thousands people are against the government then how can you explain this?
Another example is that Navalny was denied to register a political party for many years. If he has only 1% or 2% of supporters, as propaganda claims, why deny registering a party? Let him take part in election and get his deserved 1% with a disgrace (by the way, in 2013 Moscow Mayor election he got 27% of votes and obviously that was the last election he was allowed to take part in).
So from the above facts I can conclude that Putin's support is not absolute. There are reasons why he doesn't allow to hold fair elections, why protests are not allowed, why all major mass media are controlled by the government and Internet is censored. You don't need this with true 80% voter support.
nailed it. That's a bias I'm surprised very few people are able to grasp in the Internets, the same urban liberals ( from any country really ) or higher class tend to favor Western social networks, or be simply pro-Western, thus completely biaising the " I'm [Insert your nationality here] .. blablabla "
It's especially rampant on Global South or emerging countries, while the richer people can actually afford slacking on Reddit responding to a mostly Anglophone audience.
The Russian company forced to comply with Russia part says it all. They are aiding regime, don't see them prioritizing real results over propaganda in serps. And who owns yandex yet another rich guy with ties from government. At the moment tbh everything from Russia is a poison pill including open source software.
Anybody speaking against is fascist. Navalny’s organisation is terroristic organisation… Also putting USSR uniforms on hockey players during the games. The only thing which I find funny that a lot of people are getting fed up by this BS both in Russia and outside. And I know people whose parents are living in Russia not getting visas to enter Russia. Old folks and fools maybe fooled that trying to get the might of soviet times is a good idea, but I doubt that guys who saw what ex-soviet countries and soviet satellite countries achieved can tell that they are Top notch country.
It's a mistake to conflate Putin's interests with those of Russia. His continued attempts to bolster hostile far-right strawmen into something more substantial puts his actions in direct conflict with those he claims to represent. His divide-and-rule politics puts him into a state of active, ongoing conflict with all of us.
Because you can't enforce every rule in practice. There's a chance it will creep up on up on a long drive and you don't notice. There's a chance you pass out suddenly or something else happens that prevents you from steering - same system should kick in. And finally, even if you behave perfectly, it's in your interest that the person coming from the other side does have such system.
Lane assist isn’t lane centering, it doesn’t keep your car in the middle of the lane, and just applies a small steering input if you drift out of lane.
The systems tend to be quite noisy and annoying, and also won’t keep you in lane by themselves, and they normally result in the car “ping-ponging” between the lane markers until the system gives up and stops applying input. There is nothing about these systems that would cause to actual rely on them, they’re simply too annoying and uncomfortable.
That's like saying that ABS gives you a false sense of security because you can stop in situations you wouldn't be able to otherwise - but obviously the solution isn't to get rid of ABS, it's to learn where the limit of the system is.
