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  • There’s a Russian Pravda and a Ukrainian Pravda.

    Both extremely partisan. Neither what I’d call reliable sources of news but you’ve probably seen propaganda from both.

    Of course the Ukrainian Pravda has literally been able to print facts, unguilded, and they’ve matched what they would say as propaganda anyway so it’s appeared like a reputable news source recently.

    That’s what happens when Russia genuinely does things like use chemical weapons (cs gas) banned by the Geneva convention.

    (For those wondering, even though cs gas is used in riots the convention bans all gas based weapons as they target indiscriminately and could easily be mistaken for nerve agents by either side. Leading to either accidental use of nerve agents or accidental retaliation with something similarly destructive)

    Or when the Russians directly hit a nuclear reactor 3 times.

    Meanwhile the Russian Pravda has to manufacture its propaganda, like claiming an Islamic State attack which Islamic State issued video evidence of and claimed was somehow Ukrainian.







  • Rights framed in a constitution are important.

    The responsibility of the government is to uphold law and the rights that law protects.

    But a legislator sets the law, so without rights being part of a constitution, the government gets no responsibility from a constitution.

    The most important stuff is all pertaining to elections. How the government gets elected being in the constitution stops the government changing that before an election.

    Then rights directly effecting elections. Speech, protest, anti-discrimination.

    Can’t have those changed before the ballot.

    Everything else can and should be part of a separate bill or constitution of rights.




  • Absolutely. The reason these things don’t last is because it’s not worth the investment to redevelop and maintain.

    I’m just pointing out that’s the reason to move to where there is investment and sustainability in the product.

    Firefox cut funding for maintaining an option due to low usage. Speculative investment in a replacement fell flat.

    Google cuts investment for the same reasons and that happens often. They speculate on a new product then cut it if it doesn’t work out for them.

    Neither company doing this is a bad thing.

    The problem most people have is they are late to move to a mature product, which then having reached maturity is assessed as either a success or failure. Then due to low usage it’s cut.

    Then they’re looking for the next mature product. Again ignoring sustainability. Which is then also cut.



  • Portugal. They’ve essentially been doing this for years.

    Drugs are decriminalised and in themselves legal.

    It’s still technically a crime to use them but generally you are treated as a patient with addiction. Not a criminal.

    There’s still a massive body of criminal law around supplying, and producing them.

    So they are not dismantling controls on drugs but targeting the issues drugs cause instead of criminalising users needlessly.

    Not perfect there but certainly lessons to be learnt.


  • Firefox has also had issues in this regard.

    “Firefox’s built-in support for web feeds and Live Bookmarks was removed with the release of Firefox version 64 in December 2018.”

    https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/feed-reader-replacements-firefox

    They pushed “Pocket” over RSS.

    Now they’re depreciating the Mac pocket app and it’s clearly not going to do well in the future.

    5 years of moving people away from RSS to another service, to then start to depreciate that service.

    5 years from the major redesign of google reader from 2008 to 2013 and closing it down.

    My lesson. Expect to change your software for the web every 4 years or so. If it lasts longer it’s a bonus. But chances are if you make the effort to move to the best (and most recently developed) candidate every 4 years you’ll be in a good place.

    You know when software gets stale, you know when there are better options, use them.

    Sometimes your current choice gets a new round of development, sometimes it goes stale.




  • They wish to disrupt trade. And disrupt the narrative of the war.

    Evidence: they’re disrupting trade. We’re talking about this.

    My entire point is that pollution and article is irrelevant.

    No side is perfect but there’s one side who have ultimately orchestrated that part of the world to the place it’s in now.

    The US put the extremists in charge in Iran because of the Red scare.

    The US put the extremists in charge in Saudi Arabia for the oil supply.

    The US has supported Israel’s stance against any non-jew in creating an apartheid state.

    The US has given weapons to several sides.

    The US has directly bombed several countries.

    All while not supporting the Arab spring and grass roots push for democracy.

    “Not perfect” doesn’t cut it. The US is aggressively colonialist, just as the British were before them.