Posts by thriveth@astrodon.social
 (DIR) Post #AQpuqzOM44oebYcLtA by thriveth@astrodon.social
       2022-12-21T16:04:29Z
       
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       @john I generally don't use a directly, I just say "imagine you could follow your friends on Twitter from Instagram...  And if you were mad about the content moderation on Instagram, you could move to another Instagram and take your network with you".
       
 (DIR) Post #AUJ6CeNzoqIJRzRLYO by thriveth@astrodon.social
       2023-04-04T11:34:35Z
       
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       @stux Ugh. NATO is a safety risk for world peace. Finlands addition is not an improvement.
       
 (DIR) Post #AUJFJAlDGPFlBPU5xY by thriveth@astrodon.social
       2023-04-04T13:16:49Z
       
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       @fosserytech @stux Finland has good historical reasons to fear Russia. Less talked about, Russia also has good historical reasons to fear Finland in an alliance with hostile powers. Cornering a dwindling but still formidable power with the world's perhaps largest nuclear stockpiles combined with a massive collective trauma over foreign invasion is not a very promising avenue to long term safety.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVmN8eXUqwYZK4GiHo by thriveth@astrodon.social
       2023-05-18T12:23:12Z
       
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       @stux Interesting so many in this thread go like "OMG it's incredible how everyone else is misinformed and totally oblivious about it, they don't even think they are! I, on the other hand..."
       
 (DIR) Post #AVmNdJDiAPGsBCdFs8 by thriveth@astrodon.social
       2023-05-18T12:28:44Z
       
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       @stux Maybe, hear me out here, that opinion may have something to do with you and me being a subject to the information machinery of the West...? Like... We're demonstrably massively misinformed over here, too.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVmQ2fJZMC5Rquagc4 by thriveth@astrodon.social
       2023-05-18T12:55:43Z
       
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       @stux It's interesting that you mention World War 1 - I think there's a lot of similarities to Austria-Hungary's attack on Serbia in 1914. There were definitely two guilty parts then, but Serbia wasn't one of them, if that makes sense. Great power political maneuvers from multiple parts set the powder keg up, but doesn't mean A-H empire wasn't to blame. And even though A-H were clear aggressors, there was definitely bad-faith anti-German and anti-A-H propaganda in the Allied/Entente countries.
       
 (DIR) Post #AWFbsA0B1A6AgrM0sC by thriveth@astrodon.social
       2023-06-01T12:58:43Z
       
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       @rrwo If artists' response to megacorporations screwing them over is to go to war with their fans, I think it would make more sense to re-evaluate the usefulness of copyright to protect the artists.
       
 (DIR) Post #AmOOLB2cInSXN0osYS by thriveth@astrodon.social
       2024-09-26T07:32:43Z
       
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       Today marks the 41st anniversary of the day we all didn't die in an all-out nuclear holocaust. Happy Stanislav Petrov -day! Here's a movie recommendation to match the occasion.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man_Who_Saved_the_World
       
 (DIR) Post #Amnb26FocmB56lUXMe by thriveth@astrodon.social
       2024-10-08T14:18:55Z
       
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       @aral @aiefel He's a bad guy, but he's *our* bad guy....