kescusay

kescusay , 1 year ago to politics in Brutal New Poll Shows Trump Losing Big to Biden, Even With Third Party Spoiler

Yep. Polls are getting less reliable anyway, because so many of them rely on landlines, and some segments of the population are less likely to respond to surveys than others.

kescusay , 1 year ago to world in What happened to the Crimea bridge and why is it important?

Nope! Not what I meant at all. Hope that clears it up for ya.

kescusay , 1 year ago to news in Trump stole Israeli artifacts from White House

The Joker: “I may be a literal deranged clown with an obsession for a guy in a bat suit, but even I’m not as cartoonish as this Trump guy.”

kescusay , 1 year ago to showerthoughts in If someone built an anti spam AI bot to answer spam calls the phone lines would just be call centre bots talking to AI bots

Funny you should mention that… www.lennytroll.com

kescusay , 1 year ago to technology in So after interrogating Google Bard, I asked it to summarize its own lies and misleading statements…

I wish you had shared the rest of the conversation, so we could see Bard’s lies in context.

kescusay , 1 year ago to world in What happened to the Crimea bridge and why is it important?

We’d all prefer a non-war lens of Crimea. You’re right, it was a cool and interesting place, and hopefully still will be when the war is over.

But Russia has no say over whether another country’s territory will be used as Russia’s military port. The fact is, Ukraine was amenable to hosting Russia’s military there, so long as Russia didn’t try to actually own the land, but they’ve forfeited their right to use it now.

Ultimately, Russia’s military will be ousted from Crimea along with the rest of Ukraine, and that will be that. Had they never annexed it or escalated to open warfare, they would still be operating there freely today, with a much friendlier Ukraine happily hosting them.

kescusay , 1 year ago to technology in The spam bots have now found Threads, as company announces its own ‘rate limits’

a more miserable place.

Fixed that. I can’t imagine a platform less appealing than Threads.

kescusay , 1 year ago to world in What happened to the Crimea bridge and why is it important?

I never said Russia didn’t operate the checkpoints. But prior to 2014, Crimea was indisputably Ukrainian territory, and Russia operated security checkpoints inside Ukraine at Ukraine’s discretion.

No one is claiming that the annexation of Crimea involved violence at the scale of the current war, but it was not non-violent, either. Characterizing it as just “signing of papers” is false.

It’s extremely painful discussing these topics with people online whose only understanding of these regions comes through the lens of this war.

What other lens should we look at the annexation through? It was clearly the early stages of this war.

kescusay , 1 year ago to world in What happened to the Crimea bridge and why is it important?

This is a gross and flagrant distortion of events in Crimea leading up to the illegal annexation. It leaves out the fact that the operation of the checkpoints was still subject to Ukrainian governmental oversight, the fact that prior to the take-over, Russia illegally brought soldiers in unmarked uniforms over the border (the “little green men”), and the fact that the “changeover” was far from violence-free, let alone just a “signing of papers.”

kescusay , 1 year ago to world in HELLO WORLD!

To build on what @C4RCOSA said, the appropriate response to a tanky or suspected state-owned propaganda account is to debunk it and report it.

kescusay , 1 year ago to world in What happened to the Crimea bridge and why is it important?

As others have pointed out, Crimea is not 82% Russian. The majority of the populace speaks Russian, but a shared language does not indicate a shared culture. They don’t want to be part of Russia, and were illegally invaded.

kescusay , 1 year ago to world in HELLO WORLD!

Have you thought about coordinating with the other internationally-focused news communities in the fediverse?

kescusay , 1 year ago to world in What happened to the Crimea bridge and why is it important?

At this point, any Russian families remaining in Crimea really should leave for their own safety. They know full well they live on stolen land.

kescusay , 1 year ago to technology in Twitter now blocking all DMs from non-Twitter Blue subscribers by default

Ever see Glass Onion? Musk (and spez) are Miles Bron.

kescusay , 1 year ago to technology in New research puts age of universe at 26.7 billion years, nearly twice as old as previously believed

Yeah, I’m not convinced, either. It seems like every couple of years, someone puts out an announcement that Lambda CDM is dead, other scientists take a look, and a much quieter announcement correcting their work gets put out.