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  • NATO’s proxy

    Ah, you’re one of those lying scoundrels.

    You guys are so of full of shit. You don’t speak Ukrainian or russian. You’ve never lived in Ukraine (or russian).

    Just repeating russian talking points purely out of malice and a lack of humanity.

    Fucking fake “leftists”. I hope one day you and your family will be on the recieving end of russian genocidal imperialism and you will experience what you wish for Ukrainians on the occupied territories.



  • How does that contradict what I said?

    And that’s if we take Cuba’s foreign ministry at its word. Cuba has just entered a missile cooperation agreement with russia and yet they can’t ask russia to stop this?

    Not to mention that Cuba is an island on the other side of the world with has strict exit controls for its citizens (look up Uzbekistan on a mapping service).





























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    I strongly disagree. Even the section on his articles about trans kids shows that Singal is able to show a measure of nuance and understanding with respect to the critiques of his work.

    Not to mention the more global context. Are you sure that non-english speaking trans folks would have the same attitude (i.e. they may have their own opinions and priorities)? The reason I mention this is that I have some exposure to the local LGBT community and their attitudes don’t always align with “Western” expectations.


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    Bluesky is of course just another American social media company. If they are not shit now, they will be once they get bigger. The American model has reached a dead end and it’s not suitable for good products, competition and real innovation.

    Side note, it’s been a while since I’ve lived in the US, so my knowledge of local “culture wars” is from online sources, but the article is incorrect in claiming that Jesse Singal is a transphobe. I say this as someone who often disagrees with him.

    I will add that many of the commentators in his substack are unhinged and likely transphobes.




  • I am talking about a more higher level.

    Imagine the meetings of mail.ru/VK leadership on new UX and initiatives. They are not idiots and they may have good ideas and yet it is reasonable to be sceptical of their ability to implement such initiatives (even if there is genuine desire) because they operate under certain restrictive parameters.

    And so does Google. A high-level example, they will always claim any regulation is bad even if it does has zero impact on their business. Even if regulation may be the best option forward.

    Do you trust mail.ru/VK? I don’t trust mail.ru/VK or Google, irrespective of the situation at hand.

    Now back to the low level stuff, this thing will be abandoned in a year or two once the product manager gets promoted. We’ve seen this before and we will see it again.