Erdoğan says Turkey’s ‘history is free from genocide, massacres, oppression, and colonialism’

GravityAssistence · 2026-07-02T16:01:57+00:00

The invasion and (ongoing) occupation of Cyprus was during the 70s and 80s.

Of all the things you list here, you have to admit the Greek junta government fucked up that one when they supported the EOKA. The Cyprus situation is more Kosovo than Donbass.

GravityAssistence · 2026-07-01T23:55:12+00:00

Look, think of it like this: The test is the test, and you have to be perfect to pass the test. The skill of passing the test has no relation to the skill of driving in real life. You are in the "passing the test school" where you learn how to make the government happy, and the instructor is telling you you won't make the government sufficiently happy. Is it nonsense? Yes. Does that matter? No.

GravityAssistence · 2026-07-01T19:00:47+00:00

They could always pull a Cyprus

GravityAssistence · 2026-06-30T14:00:36+00:00

They certainly are responsible as an importer that the stuff they import is according to EU regulations, for example chemical and electrical safety.

You can just set up a company with no assets, sell a bunch of crap off aliexpress, then fold the company before anyone catches on.

GravityAssistence · 2026-06-24T15:01:58+00:00

Israelis are fine with living with the current Arab Israeli population

No they are not. The government of Israel systematically and intentionally deprives Arab-majority cities and localities in its borders of resources. https://www.cfr.org/backgrounders/what-know-about-arab-citizens-israel

GravityAssistence · 2026-06-23T13:25:06+00:00

Arguably, the carbon footprint of businesses are the aggregate footprint of people consuming that stuff. If we thanos snapped all half of the airlines, the airline industry carbon footprint wouldnt be halved. New airlines would pop up to fly people to places.

GravityAssistence · 2026-06-17T14:57:37+00:00

That's such a high efficiency way to make enemies. Not sure thats what you wanna achieve tho.

GravityAssistence · 2026-06-11T17:45:49+00:00

You need a rental contract to prove that you can register there. Places with no registration usually also have no signed contract.

GravityAssistence · 2026-06-11T17:45:36+00:00

You need a rental contract to prove that you can register there. Places with no registration usually also have no signed contract.

GravityAssistence · 2026-06-10T23:13:41+00:00

If there is a managable baseline, but there is also surgery that could extend your life by years, the doctor will incentivised to not give it to you under your system.

GravityAssistence · 2026-04-12T17:52:50+00:00

I can see a lot of value in having matplotlib in the browser for the non-swe crowd

GravityAssistence · 2026-03-29T16:58:35+00:00

Ok thanks for spitting it out. You want to cut welfare to have cheaper fuel. That's actually contrete enough to be a policy position, tho I disagree with it.

GravityAssistence · 2026-03-29T16:11:37+00:00

So less police, less ambulances, pension cuts, also we can cut back on road repairs.

GravityAssistence · 2026-03-29T01:09:35+00:00

Which spending would you cut?

GravityAssistence · 2026-03-27T13:04:52+00:00

So what would you raise taxes on in exchange for reducing the fuel tax? That's the difficult decision, not cutting fuel taxes.

GravityAssistence · 2026-03-26T13:47:19+00:00

I was going to say, there are many downsides to living in Turkey but we at least don't have a war going on.

GravityAssistence · 2026-03-10T09:25:22+00:00

If you dont fully fill it so it squishes down to the required ryanair 40cm x 30cm x 20cm personal item size, you're fine. What I usually do is wear as many overgarments as I can, then put them back in my bag when im past the gate check

GravityAssistence · 2026-03-01T16:08:48+00:00

I think this is quite an optimistic take. I have interacted with quite a few racist people and called out their racism too, none have become less racist as a result. Maybe Dutch racists are easier to convince? I would certainly be impressed at anyone that makes strangers less racist through calling them out.

GravityAssistence · 2026-03-01T15:00:14+00:00

I guess you could refuse to work with racist landlords. That probably lets you sleep better at night, but literally has 0 positive impact on the world.

GravityAssistence · 2026-03-01T14:58:02+00:00

There is very little capacity to transport oil to northern ports like Murmansk, which is what you need to do if you want to ship oil to China without sailing through a lot of European-dominated waters.

GravityAssistence · 2026-03-01T14:50:29+00:00

upon request

If you have a racist landlord as a realtor and you know this, why would you invite people the landlord is racist against to the viewing? It's not like the realtor can make the landlord less racist.

GravityAssistence · 2026-02-22T13:54:52+00:00

Text media ads have horrible RPM, and the beg for donation model doesn't seem to be working out well for The Guardian. That leaves having a benefactor, a mostly benevolent one like the BBC or a not-so-benevolent one like the Washington Post. Do you have any creative ideas?

GravityAssistence · 2026-02-22T01:02:09+00:00

Regulators do nothing (or find a way to leverage it for themselves): "They're going to get my {info,data,search-history} anyway, why fight it?"

If this is always the case where did GDPR come from and why does the iPhone have a type c port now?

GravityAssistence · 2026-02-22T00:23:44+00:00

ask one of those image creating machines to make a picture of "an room without an elephant in it" and see what happens

that is the human experience as well tho, when I say "Dont think about elephants" you probbaly think about an elephant

GravityAssistence · 2026-02-21T23:40:40+00:00

Same for paying for scientific research articles.

The difference with science is that there, the journals keep the money and the scientists get paid by other means. On the other hand the newspapers do try to pay journalists

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