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That's rather self-evident.

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Source https://notesfrompoland.com/2025/03/28/poland-pushes-for-eu-to-scrap-daylight-saving-time/

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Obviously, that's just a bug that needs to be fixed. Or Ukrainian hackers at work.

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Should going to school be legal if you can just MAKE MONEY during that time instead? You can ask Grok if you need any info.

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Coming up next: removing school hours so as not to conflict with day shifts.

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(I was very amused not a long time ago when someone was suspecting they were getting scammed as the person they were chatting with seemed too handsome, and it turned out they were sent photos of Delon)

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Well, you probably don't need a Nobel Prize to realize that trickle-down economics is a sham 😀

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The best tactic against Trump seems to be to give him something that he can use to claim victory, but it doesn't actually have to be a meaningful concession, so probably something like that will happen.

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The news this tweet is referring to would be more honestly summarized as “the EU is thinking about what to say”, so that's not very informative so far.

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On the other hand, the premium plan costs $30 a year. If the alternative to that is Google News, then it's probably money well spent.

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I think it's a good tool to spot the reporting bias, but at the end of the day, it's just a news aggregator with some added features.

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I've managed without it, but seems like it's worth it for the convenience or if you want to practice constructive doomscrolling.

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It only risks the end of Russia, and they're not suicidal.

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The endgame would be convincing Russia that bullying everyone into submission is not a viable strategy anymore.

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Obviously, not all is Kremlin propaganda, sometimes it can be just the logic of “if the US is bad, it follows that Russia is less bad” that misses the point in that case. The “ending the war” narrative actually is propaganda, though. Russia could end the war anytime it wished to; it just wants to do it on terms that strip Ukraine of as much sovereignty as possible. That requires convincing the Western public that the support should be dropped.

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Yes, Ukraine would have eventually fallen without the support, but how does it make the support bad? The Ukrainians are not the fascists in this story.

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I don't think there's one that's 100% reliable, you basically have to learn to spot the bias and read between the lines. If there's talk about the Western imperialism in the context of Ukraine, you should immediately get suspicious, as it's usually used to divert the attention from the one that's actually more relevant to that war: the Russian imperialism. Taking the proxy war claim as the example: yes, you could say the West was happy to use it as a proxy war, but it just isn't factual to claim that it instigated it. In fact, if Ukraine hadn't put up so much resistance in the beginning, it's rather likely that the West's response wouldn't have been drastically stronger than the performative “oh no, that's a bad thing to do, Russia”. Just as it happened with the invasion of Georgia in 2008.

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I turned the interview on, and he instantly reminded me of Pablo González (who also was supposed to be “wrongly detained”, but in the end turned out to be a GRU operative), so I looked at his articles and–would you believe!–they full of usual Kremlin's talking points. I can't comment on the specific claims he makes in the interview, as I'd rather spare myself two hours of listening to that sort of thing…

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