Raiko Uri

[Raiko Uri @raikouri]

Does anybody use live translation apps (PC or phone)? I need to listen to a physical meeting in Latvian and would like live translation. Google translate is an option, but usually not good enough.

[Meelis Atonen @mellatonen12]

Navalnaya is just Russian imperialist. I had Soviet passport and so what? I am citizen of Estonian Republic!

[Raiko Uri @raikouri]

@runnel @viljararakas Loomulikult. Kui me vaatame tihedalt täis ehitatud suurlinnu maailmas, siis seal on kinnisvarahinnad alati madalamad kui ümbruses ning keegi ei taha ka neis linnades elada. Paljud neist on praktiliselt inimtühjad.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

The Dutch public broadcaster made a sketch on the current situation of the world

[Raiko Uri @raikouri]

@cryptobeastreal @NoContextHumans Biden actually got 51% of the vote.

[Liisu Lass @liisulass]

võtke liivakast! #piinlik

[Raiko Uri @raikouri]

@kajarkase No ma ei tea, kui need ennustajad jälle eksivad.

[Raiko Uri @raikouri]

Väga hästi argumenteeritud ja selgitatud tekst, mis võtab kokku valimisõiguse küsimuse Põhiseaduse aspektist.

[Rahvusringhääling @err_ee]

Raidla: valimisõiguse äravõtmine põhiseadust muutmata devalveeriks selle mõtet | Eesti | ERR https://t.co/fqgsbOe7MH

[Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB]

The problem with appeasement is you eventually run out of other people’s countries.

[Raiko Uri @raikouri]

What is the procedure of changing the Secretary General of UN? Alternatively, what is the procedure of dismantling the organisation?
On the picture - head of UN bowing to internationally wanted war criminal (according to ICC).

[Raiko Uri @raikouri]

@runnel Mina võtsingi viimati Foruse takso. Hind tuli ka sama.

[Raiko Uri @raikouri]

Some novel ideas on a path to net zero.

[Wide Awake Media @wideawake_media]

Bioethicist S. Matthew Liao: In order to fight "climate change", we should genetically modify humans to be intolerant to meat.

"If we eat less meat, we could significantly reduce our greenhouse gas emissions."

"Now, some people would be willing to eat less meat, but they lack the willpower. Human engineering could help."

"We could artificially induce intolerance to meat, and in this way, we can create an aversion to eating eco-unfriendly food."

[Raiko Uri @raikouri]

@simonmontefiore So can we summarise that historically, Russia has fought well and prevailed when fighting for its own territory (Napoleon, WWII), but has been oftenly defeated when it's leaders have taken them to pointless foreign incursions (Crimean, Japan, even WWI)?

[Raiko Uri @raikouri]

@DarthPutinKGB No. Joe just says that these episodes are not included in "Russian history".

[Raiko Uri @raikouri]

Lihtsalt jätan selle siia. Pärastiseks.

[Ben Meiselas @meiselasb]

This morning, Donald Trump posted the following:

1. Photo of VP Harris and Hillary Clinton with text: “Funny how blowjobs impacted both their careers differently...”

2. Photo of VP Harris in an orange prison jumpsuit.

3. Multiple QAnon posts saying “Nothing can stop what is coming” with QAnon slogan “WWG1WGA.”

4. Photo of Obama and text asking followers to repost if they want Obama to be tried before a public military tribunal.

5. A post saying the DOJ and FBI were found guilty of crimes.

6. A post using the hashtag “Second American Revolution.”

7. A post that says “the Dirtbag Dem Criminal Organization in DC” is interfering with the election.

8. A post saying the January 6 Committee engaged in “sedition” and must “be indicted.”

9. Random photos of him and AI lions.

This was all before 10:00 AM. As always, here are the receipts https://t.co/GnMgMuHq5a

[Raiko Uri @raikouri]

@martinsmutov @KristenMichalPM Worry not! Valitsusel on 5 head ideed, kuidas ettevõtteid rohkem maksustada (koalitsioonilepingu variant, Ligi ettepanek ja sotside kolm salajast alternatiivi). Küllap need majanduse käima tõmbavad!

[S Sebag Montefiore @simonmontefiore]

Israel stymies Hezbollah's Attack
A comment on the media covering the most complicated story in the world at the moment - badly.
It is fascinating how yesterday the coverage of the Hezbollah 'revenge' attack on Israel and Israel's successful preemption was covered completely wrongly by all the major reputable oldfashioned media greats - BBC, ITV, NYT, all of whom claimed that Israel was attacking and 'escalating' and Hezbollah, a victim of Israeli 'escalation', was reacting.
This was despite that fact that Hezbollah launched unprovoked attacks on Israel on 8Oct and ever since has bombarded N Israel, most recently leading to the massacre of Druze children playing football. Hezbollah has so far sent 8000 missiles. But despite the fact that Hezbollah itself was announcing and boasting of its huge attack on Israel at the time, the media ignored this and instead announced on all major bulletins that Israel was escalating war to which Hezbollah the victim was reacting..... In other words, our prestige media was actually altering the story in order to cover up what Hezbollah was not only admitting but boasting about in public announcements that we could read on say twitter.
It was only next day that the story changed and these media reported the story correctly, partly because Hezbollah chief Nasrullah himself broadcast and said that Hezbollah had with great success hit Israel (though incidentally he also great exaggerated Hezbollah's success and did not even mention that Israel had destroyed many missile launchers on the ground....)
This follows a pattern that has repeated itself ever since Oct7 where a dramatic event happens, it is quickly packaged by Hamas or Hezbollah into a shocking tragedy or escalation which is then reported widely by all media (particularly a few effective terrorist assets who unquestioningly repeat their stories without any attempt to confirm them @skynews @BBCNews ) and politicians issue shocked denunciations.
Often Hamas Houthi or Hezbollah elements have in fact boasted of their own crimes online, filmed on their own cameras, but in these cases, Western media actually protects them from their own admissions (as happened on Oct 7 where Hamas fighters were downloading atrocities while Western professors well known historians and correspondents were insisting these were lies, crimes that noble resistance fighters would never commit.)
Gradually (usually thanks to twitter, FB, whatsapp and osint etc) it emerges many of these stories are actually.... urr.... untrue. Totally untrue. There was no massacre or it was not Israel that was escalating but the v opposite was true - as in this case. And noone sees the need to correct themselves afterwards.
This is not just about the extreme bias against Israel in the coverage. But that is part of it. Once admired outlets like BBC have such entrenched bias that they automatically publish an anti Israel story even when the evidence available online and on the wires contradicts it openly. (I am not grumbling about cricitism of Israel per se. There is lots of criticise in what is happening in Israel today and that is rightly reported - particularly this week the disgusting attacks by fanatic settlers on Palestinians in the West Bank; the pyromaniacal provocations on Temple Mount and WBank by the repellent BenGvir, the illtreatment of Palestinian prisoners and more...)
But what this means is: as a reader and listener, if you still believe in these media, you are sometimes being told the truth and sometimes you are being fed a total lie. Even if you are anti-Israel but would like to hear the truth (there are many anti-Israel fanatics who dont want to hear the truth but this doesnt apply to them), you can no longer depend on BBC Sky NYT particularly in the early stages of a story. They have been repeatedly wrong and stubbornly refuse to self correct and learn from their mistakes.
This is a cousin of the fashion for media to censor and ban stories that are against their perceived interests: for example there was the famous story of Hunter Biden's computer, the ludicrous intelligence dossier 'compiled' against Trump; the most recently the fact that President Biden was deteriorating mentally and physically was concealed; his health and dynamism promoted even though everyone knew it was a lie. Except the poor readers of course who trusted the story. Then the story changed: Biden was so old that he had to go and VP Kamala Harris became the candidate...
This matters because our liberal democracies depend on a trusted media that gives truthful news - even on complex fastmoving stories like US presidential politics or even more so the Middle East. But this is not happening. We all attack worrying aspects of Twitter etc but actually we need these outlets in order to check the BBC for example because, due to an extraordinary process of self mutilation and degradation, our great media institutions are destroying their own prestige and trust thanks to their own cultures, factionalism activism sectarianism, whatever you want to call it.
From now on everyone should check the prestige media but since its often not just wrong but upsidedownly wrong, one should check online on FB,
whatapp Twitter etc, with trusted commentators and threads and with OSINT sources and others to find out what is really happening. The self harm to these prestige media has already hugely helped malign powers, Russia, Iran, China, not to speak of terrorists who are opposed to everything every value we believe in such as Hezbollah, corrupting and tainting the trust in media that is so essential to our open societies. If the prestige media does not at some point correct itself, our democracies will be hugely undermined....
This is partly about resisting lies, but partly too about resisting autocracy and disinformation. Our values are worth fighting you and you the reader, the consumer, the citizen can help by pointing out when these stories are false and demanding accurate reporting. Or go elsewhere.
If they are lying about these things, soon they will be misleading readers on something that really matters to you immediately.... and the moment will be lost

https://t.co/YKxar7GcLr via @WSJopinion

[Raiko Uri @raikouri]

Mis maa see on, kus arvame et laste ette panna pedagoogighariduseta inimesed, kelle keelest õpilased ka päris hästi aru ei saa, annab meile häid tulemusi hariduses või sidususes?