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@YoWebster @xfRVQPYybA @ka8alpha А какая разница, какой у него паспорт?)

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@IAmSagzee > In your century, an empire had to march its boots into Moscow to destroy a state

A small correction: in 1812, the capital was St. Petersburg, not Moscow.

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@HeerRozenwater @IAmSagzee Ukraine was created by the Bolsheviks out of a part of the Russian state. Read up on the forced Ukrainization.

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@YoWebster @xfRVQPYybA @ka8alpha Типичная казахская фамилия

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@AlekseyKabanov @GarikSable Дуров уехал в 2022?

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@Johnbissecker @BrianMcDonaldIE Вы не знаете, что такое бедность, если пишете подобное.

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@incel_kommando @Alex_Oloyede2 Как минимум одну в августе взяли на передовой https://t.co/ZlHBERg3WL

[Nikola Mirkovic @1NikolaMirkovic]

« Pour lui, une dette, c’était le commencement de l’esclavage. Il se disait même qu’un créancier est pire qu’un maître ; car un maître ne possède que votre personne, un créancier possède votre dignité et peut la souffleter. »
Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

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@BrianMcDonaldIE Помню, был даже случай, когда Путин сам поправлял переводчицу

[The Medieval Scholar @MedievalScholar]

The Spanish Inquisition was not how it was portrayed by modern media and pop culture. By modern standards it was harsh, absolutely. But the reality of the Spanish Inquisition is this:

Executions were only used in a small minority of cases, torture was also used in a small minority.

The great majority of people who were brought before the inquisition, many of the cases ended with acquittal, dismissal, or relatively mild religious penalties.

The punishments given by the inquisition could include things like prayers, fasting, pilgrimage, attending Mass, wearing a penitential garment, fines, temporary loss of property or office, or periods of imprisonment.

This is what happened to the majority of people.

The inquisition itself didn’t even carry out the executions, they were handed over to the secular authorities.

[Shakes, A Large And Particular Man @TheFatAmerican]

The function of the Mercator map was to enable safe sailing and trade

By stretching the poles, you can draw a line between any two points (any two sea ports) and the angle with respect to north will be constant

This was called a rhumb line: it’s longer than the shortest line that travels a globe, but you can calculate it very easy

This was very useful when it was extremely hard to calculate longitude and ships often got lost.

With the Mercator projection, you can just calculate your rhumb line and, even if you get blown off course, you know roughly what angle to be traveling in, so you can find your way

This is long outdated technology, but it was extremely important in its day.

The new “Equal-area Projection” serves no such practical purpose. It exists to soothe neurotic liberals who are upset that Africa isn’t large enough on Mercator and that this distortion is harmful to Africa

Its adoption reflects an affluent society where the underlying purpose of things is forgotten and the only function left is for objects to be symbols that signal belief (liberal beliefs)

[Brian McDonald @BrianMcDonaldIE]

So Hungary is merely a breakaway Khanty republic which has enjoyed an unusually long period of de facto independence?

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@Jerzy1192067 @Thorkill65 В чем смысл сравнивать количество? Тогда уж площадь

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@dylantredrea @kamilkazani Нет

[Russians With Attitude @RWApodcast]

The lead editorial "On Soviet Constitution Day" (Izvestia, July 4, 1926):

"Petit-bourgeois circles regard with great disapproval the transformation of the old, outwardly unitary Russian Empire into a federative republic, and then of this republic into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. According to widespread views — particularly common in official and intelligentsia circles of the formerly 'great' Russian nationality — this transformation harbors the threat of growing disunion, discord, and disintegration."

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@lenarrrik @FikusikLeona нет таких крепостей которые не могли бы взять большевики!

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@BunkerChe @Zhitnipalzhi Очевидно же - если у человека есть нормальная работа или сбережения, он вряд ли читает дождь

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@GYakov1990 @BrianMcDonaldIE Россия имеет богатый опыт демократии ещё со времен Новгородской республики

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@irreverenttakes @BrianMcDonaldIE Последние десятилетия "нацистами" называют всех подряд, слово утратило изначальный смысл. Молодёжь любит немецкие машины и шутить про Гитлера.

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@xyendelson Достаточно популярный на Руси ствол. И на полотешках часто вышивали