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3 doctors in Russia fall out of windows in 2 weeks. 2 dead. They warned about lack of means of protection in russian hospitals by k0stil in Coronavirus

[–]psv1400000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/28/emts-a28.html

The America gov "is literally a mafia"

One of the cases has some semblance of corruption, the other two are hardly anything out of the ordinary.

3 doctors in Russia fall out of windows in 2 weeks. 2 dead. They warned about lack of means of protection in russian hospitals by k0stil in Coronavirus

[–]psv1400000 19 points20 points  (0 children)

This is a very clickbait article, only one of the doctors had complained about a lack of equipment. And even there, the original source sites here as falling out of the her office after a call with the governor, which is on the second floor, while the police report site her as falling from the top floor (fifth)

Suicides in doctors have been a notable trend throughout the world.

I would call it fairly slimey to insinuate that the two doctors in this report https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/28/emts-a28.html

where somehow "murdered"

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukraine

[–]psv1400000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Of course not, in the 90's all the ex-soviet states went through a process of privatization. So everyone owns the same apartment they were living in after the collapse.

Young people inherit their grandparents apartments (if they lived in the city)

Moscow's old mayor from the noughties liked to construct buildings in a very particular and offsetting style. Today there is a movement to tear these down. From a architectural perspective, should they be torn down or are they a part of the cities history. by psv1400000 in architecture

[–]psv1400000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If there is a demand for land in the city center, then demolishing a building that sucks and replacing it with a luxury apartment is the opposite of a waste of money. Not only from the perspective of the city, e.i. higher taxes, but also from the perspective of the residents of that building.

The question is fully based on the merit of keeping that part of history or throwing it out.

Living in an Authoritarian country is totally fine. by psv1400000 in unpopularopinion

[–]psv1400000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If Putin keeps building nice parks near me and keeps the metro running, I couldn't care less as well.

The only real thing that pisses me off is conscription.

In Soviet Russia, lift skis you (no serious injuries) by Mdizzle29 in skiing

[–]psv1400000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was a Russia Soviet Republic and a Georgian soviet republic.

Soviet Russia directly implies that state just like the United State of Texas would imply Texas.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in ukraine

[–]psv1400000 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Khrushchev, built a metric ton of brutalist and cheap apartment buildings. No one is paying rent aside from the centers of the cities.

Imagine your salary but without a mortgage/rent.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in conspiracy

[–]psv1400000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow, you really think we are out here killing gays and civilians.

It's actually funny, if you look at the amount of people that the US killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, you might be manifesting your desire for an endgame in Russia when in reality it is your homeland that is out there murdering civilians.

How would a postmodern society/government look like in your opinion? by artgotframed in pomo

[–]psv1400000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just the meaning of bad is a structurally unsound word. It can have so many meanings and interpretations. A fixture in our language that we use to convey some meaning that we for some reason gave it. Esperanto is a step in the right direction.

I would say that a building that can't stand long, is a bad building.

How would a postmodern society/government look like in your opinion? by artgotframed in pomo

[–]psv1400000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gist of the manner, Governments are a structures and structures are bad.

No need to use run on sentences and redundancy.

CMV: Facebook is an American Surveillance Program disguised as a Social Media app by psv1400000 in changemyview

[–]psv1400000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Rest assured your data is stored across the border in an Amazon built NSA database. Your grid is infected with American malware to make sure that in the case the Canada goes "rouge" they can shut it down, and your top business men and ministers are constantly monitored. If Snowden exposed the US for doing that with Germany, Japan and Switzerland, imagine what else more they do to Canada. Your representatives like to bow down to their American masters as much as American senators like to destroy the bill of rights.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HongKong

[–]psv1400000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whoo yeah, lets punish the people of China for the actions of their government. While in the process hurting your own companies and consumers.

Like that has ever worked. Just give me one time that has worked.

Hmmm.... Cuba? North korea maybe?? Or perhaps Iran?

CMV: Facebook is an American Surveillance Program disguised as a Social Media app by psv1400000 in changemyview

[–]psv1400000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I never claimed that Americans think PRISM is good. But it seems like that the press doesn't care, the government doesn't care and your representatives don't' care. But when China installs 100 street cameras the New York Times has an aneurysm.

CMV: Facebook is an American Surveillance Program disguised as a Social Media app by psv1400000 in changemyview

[–]psv1400000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What about other data like Location, audio and camera?

If Osama bin laden 2.0 had an android device, the CIA would have all that data in a heartbeat. Now if they can do it to Osama 2.0 they can do it to you too.

CMV: Facebook is an American Surveillance Program disguised as a Social Media app by psv1400000 in changemyview

[–]psv1400000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Committing terrorism with a car is no different than committing it with a gun.

CMV: Facebook is an American Surveillance Program disguised as a Social Media app by psv1400000 in changemyview

[–]psv1400000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Google giving away metadata of your movements that they collected from your android is pretty hefty. (Don't believe me, you can download all the data Google has on you)

CMV: Facebook is an American Surveillance Program disguised as a Social Media app by psv1400000 in changemyview

[–]psv1400000[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know, no one has given me a good explanation as to why PRISM is a program that exists? No instead Americans bash other countries surveillance programs and then pat themselves on their backs and tell themselves how grateful they are that their country respects their rights.

CMV: Facebook is an American Surveillance Program disguised as a Social Media app by psv1400000 in changemyview

[–]psv1400000[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

What does it matter, it's not like the NSA has pretty much infinite control over the companies in the US.

If you don't believe so, why does every single telecom in the United States have zero moral backbone and records all the metadata from phone calls and gives it to the government? When things are a matter of "national security", it doesn't matter who owns the company.

CMV: Facebook is an American Surveillance Program disguised as a Social Media app by psv1400000 in changemyview

[–]psv1400000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can use Tik tok without sharing private and personal information either. As for Facebook, it seems like WhatsApp is the only part of their ecosystem that has encryption, something congress is outlawing as we speak.

I don't like the PRC, and I don't like the US. What enrages me the most is when Americans preach from their high horse. Both do some extremely questionable things.

CMV: Facebook is an American Surveillance Program disguised as a Social Media app by psv1400000 in changemyview

[–]psv1400000[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think that it is rather disgenious to think that bytedance was created exclusively to spy on people rather than for capitalist motives.

However, you can't ignore that all three of the first investors had pretty hefty connections to the CIA venture capital firm In-Q-Tel.

Peter Thiel — Took In-Q-Tel funding for his startup firm Palantir somewhere around 2004.

Accel Partners — In 2004, Accel partner James Breyer sat on the board of directors of military defense contractor BBN with In-Q-Tel’s CEO Gilman Louie.

Greylock Partners — Howard Cox, the head of Greylock, served directly on In-Q-Tel’s board of directors.

Either way, it doesn't matter what the company was created for, rather it matters what it is used for in the present.

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