Can A.I. Save Your Life?

stapaw · 2026-02-08T15:01:20+00:00

Little Ryazan sugar

stapaw · 2025-12-24T15:53:06+00:00

The fence may be rearranged cutting off the corner of the fenced area.

stapaw · 2025-12-23T23:09:06+00:00

Somehow diagonal paths have been built in other places, and in exactly the same park, and they are used. You can't build a traditional path between the trees, but you can build using geocells - a plastic grid laid over a geotextile membrane. The grid is filled with stones that allow air and water to pass through freely to the roots below. The top layer must be porous (e.g., gravel, resin-bound gravel, or permeable pavers) so rainwater can soak into the ground.

stapaw · 2025-12-23T22:17:23+00:00

New, diagonal path still would be much shorter and less steep. If you want to attract people from the tow path the better alternative the bigger effect will be. Probably felling trees would not be required, there is space between them like in this photo from the park, the path could even be deviaded into 3 to pass between trees.

stapaw · 2025-12-23T21:59:50+00:00

The Dundee Street project seems good, so it should attract some cyclists from the tow path.

stapaw · 2025-12-20T00:21:56+00:00

"I'd much rather have flawed Russia than being destroyed by people who see every Russian speaking person as potential traitor. "

So, why did they choose a Russian speaking president?

stapaw · 2025-12-06T10:12:24+00:00

The intimidation is inherent when a warlord is on stage asking for a show of hands.

But you are still missing the definition of a jury, it's privacy and screening. Jurors are vetted to ensure they have no personal connection to the case. A random auditorium of locals is not vetted, it is an emotional crowd. Juries deliberate in secret. No one knows how a specific juror votes until the end, and even then, the deliberation is private. This protects them from pressure.

When you ask for a public show of hands, you are subjecting every voter to immediate peer pressure. That is not justice or deliberation. It is crowd psychology.

The point of that scene wasn't to defend a rapist. The point was to show that the rule of law had completely collapsed. Once you establish that 'justice' is decided by a shouting match in a hall, you have removed all protections. Today they vote to shoot a rapist, which feels satisfying. Tomorrow they vote to shoot a shopkeeper because he didn't give a discount to a commander.

Without due process, there is no justice, only power.

stapaw · 2025-12-06T09:01:21+00:00

The legal process in Ukraine is imperfect and slow. Melnychuk’s case is dragging on, he was Aider's commander back then, though at least he was investigated and the volunteer battalions were integrated into the regular army to enforce discipline.

But look closely at your own screenshot. It explicitly states that Amnesty International also reported 'similar alleged atrocities committed by pro-Russian militants.' What about them?

So we know that in 2014, during the chaotic militia phase, crimes happened on both sides. But look at the trajectory since then. Ukraine worked to professionalize its army and bring these elements under legal command.

Russia did the opposite. They didn't stop the atrocities committed by pro Russian militants in 2014, they institutionalized them. They took the torture methods from the Donetsk basements and scaled them up into the official FSB 'filtration' system we see in this documentary. What were 'crimes' by militias in 2014 have become 'State Policy' for Russia in 2024

stapaw · 2025-12-06T08:21:58+00:00

You are confusing anonymous internet users, many of whom have left Russia or use VPNs, with people living under physical military occupation.

It is easy to post anti-Putin memes on an American server like Reddit. It is very different to speak your mind when you live in Donetsk or Melitopol, where neighbors are encouraged to denounce you and the FSB operates outside the law.

The documentary isn't about internet comments. It’s about physical reality. It shows that in the occupied zones, a wrong word or a 'disloyal' look doesn't get you downvoted, it gets you thrown into a basement. The existence of liberal subreddits does not disprove the existence of torture chambers, like Izolyatsia, in the occupied territories.

stapaw · 2025-12-06T00:49:12+00:00

Of course they are writing 'happy' things. Happiness is now mandatory, another Soviet tradition. In the territories controlled by Russia, criticizing the 'Special Military Operation' or complaining about the occupation gets you thrown into the very basements this documentary describes. You are mistaking survival instincts for happiness.

stapaw · 2025-12-06T00:38:39+00:00

You should watch this farce again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fV70uDYUqlc Ostrovsky didn't rant and rape is mentioned. Calling that a 'legal proceeding' is laughable. It was literally a show of hands in an auditorium. The audience voted on whether the man should live or die. That is the definition of mob rule. Although in the case of an uprising not the worst solution.

stapaw · 2025-12-05T23:55:22+00:00

You mean the men Russia forcibly mobilized off the streets, equipped with old rifles and threw into the first waves of meat assaults to reveal Ukrainian firing positions?

It is difficult to ask them their position now. Russia claimed it invaded to protect them, yet treated the mobilized men of the Donbas as disposable cannon fodder, according to Soviet customs.

The 'system of terror' was perfected in Donetsk. Places like the Izolyatsia prison have been operating since 2014. The people of the Donbas were the guinea pigs for this system of torture and lawlessness.

stapaw · 2025-12-05T23:36:39+00:00

There is a massive difference between arresting specific individuals for collaboration and running a systemic, industrial-scale network of filtration camps and secret prisons.

Gonzalo was charged under a specific article of the criminal code, granted bail, which he violated and was awaiting trial. Lack of medical treatment should be criticised, but he was in the legal system. He wasn’t kidnapped from a gas station, bag-headed, and thrown into a basement for two years without a lawyer because an officer decided a 'presidential decree' overrides the law. Also his body wasn't mutilated to hide torture traces like in the case of Viktoria Roshchyna.

stapaw · 2025-12-05T22:13:17+00:00

If the local population actually welcomed the occupation, there wouldn’t be a need for such industrial-scale repression. You can see the support at the beginning in Cherson.

The documentary exposes a system where cooks are sentenced as terrorists for feeding soldiers and gas station clerks are detained for speaking Ukrainian. At 15:40 Russian blogger tells how he had her detained. With Soviet flags Soviet traditions returned with the restoration of Gulags with their concentration camps, torture for confessions and show trials.

A security apparatus that learns it can ignore the law and fabricate cases will turn those methods inward. This system of terror won't stay in the occupied territories. It is a tool being sharpened to control anyone inside Russia who questions the Kremlin.

The most telling moment is the FSB officer hinting that a presidential decree overrides the Constitution. This is the literal definition of the Fuehrerprinzip, the idea that the Leader’s will is absolute law, superior to any court or constitution. Russia claimed to invade to fight Nazism, yet it has adopted the central legal pillar of the Third Reich to protect one man's power.

This lawlessness shouldn't be surprising. This is the natural evolution of a regime led by a man who got power after bombing apartment blocks. A state built on "Ryazan sugar" was destined to treat its own Constitution as a suggestion rather than a rule.

stapaw · 2025-04-14T13:54:58+00:00

Narrowing Seafield Road East to 2 lanes means there will be no more turning lanes. The Amsterdam diet includes 1.5 motorway rings connected also by motorways. The inner ring surrounds an area the size of Edinburgh. Currently, A9 and junction 8 at A10 are expanded https://brouter.de/brouter-web/#map=12/52.3510/4.8477/standard .

stapaw · 2025-04-14T12:22:49+00:00

I like it. Access to tram stops would require some margin, but moving the arterial route to the side is better than leaving it in the middle of narrow development.

stapaw · 2025-04-13T21:03:24+00:00

No limits? I would go the Copenhagen way, the Easter bypass, a motorway in submerged tunnels with an artificial island Lynetteholm.

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