The situation with Arzhah is a bit tricky:

Officially, Armenia admitted Atzhah is Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan said "it's our territory, we are goint to ethnically cleanse it", which they did. Neither Armenia nor Russia did nothing about it. Conlusion: Russia is guilty

'member when HN wasn't attracting technically illiterate people?

I think that has been over since marketers got involved. Remember raw water trending? That is paying for the privilege of drinking non-potable water.

Not a good barometer.

FWIW some of the most crazy, hyperbolic stuff comes from the oldest accounts. Maybe they've gone senile.

My pocket theory is that tech advanced so much that more people reverted to the natural state of magical thinking. Yandex bots living in small electronic boxes = evil spirits living in old tree trunks or ugly rocks. Both can lead honest people astray and do sinful things

A nice touch of ageism there, so techy...you should talk to Donald Knuth...

I once got into a "debate" with WalterBright and I mean, I dunno. The man's accomplished far more than me, but like.

Yeah old people what do they know... https://www.youtube.com/shorts/j8rqIEHBU14

I feel there are good reasons for it. First, it's dangerous in terms of traffic and crime. Second, it's immense and not really interesting between points of interest. I follow a couple of motorcycle bloggers and it feels underwhelming compared to the neighboring countries

Would that also apply to the U.S and if not, why ?

There are thousands of miles of bikepacking routes around the US where one will hardly see any cars, so traffic is not a big concern, nor the kind of (mostly dense urban) environments where violent crime is likely, so crime is not a big concern.

You have been promoted to proletariat

> I delved into

delved

> I have done very well since

How about Canada? Did it become better or worse since then?

My ancestors were dirt farmers with absolutely nothing despite their health and work ethic that moved here in the 1930s. Do we think Canada is better than then?

We really, really under value the impact of low income, low education immigrants imo.

Eg. The railway that created this country was built by low income Chinese workers that probably didn't even speak English.

Canada doesn't exist without the effort of low income, low education people.

I was born Canada. Lived here my whole life. I'm ~40ish years old

It's absolutely become worse since the 80s

I get a lot of shit from my fellow countrymen when I say it. Rose colored glasses, etc

But nah. It's way harder to be successful here than it was even 20 years ago

This is just true everywhere though.

Not, it's not. Most of asian countries got better in the last 20 years

And ironically, not Japan.

Name a few.

because of outsourcing?

Depends on how trusted account/apps are. I have some old apps that are reviewed in 2-3 hours every time

>some sort of plan

George Friedman, The Next Decade

> Friedman [...] advocates a deal with Iran which would essentially allow it a secure sphere of influence in the region and an alliance with Turkey to counterbalance Iran and Israel.

Seems to be in contradiction.

I think the idea is 3 regimes in power to keep a balance between them instead of two rivals?

Autonomous drones + false flag attacks

edit: wtf, why did I just receive so much gift tokens on my openai account?

Wow, will they change the iranian flag back to the real one?