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Cat Mattress posted:Everyone knows what caused the ruin of this city and the death of its inhabitants, it was the demon invasion. I think you'll find that it was actually the WW2 Soviet Army.
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3peat posted:I haven't posted one of these in a long time; here's the latest iteration of who romanians like/hate Still clinging to the fantasy of somehow being a Latin people  Is there a historical reason for the relatively high dislike of Ukrainians that I don't know about? Are they just seen as Russians lite?
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Baronjutter posted:Romanians hate Iran more than Hungary, that's insane. Has there been an influx of Iranian asylum seekers lately or what could explain this?
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Torrannor posted:Still clinging to the fantasy of somehow being a Latin people Romania hates any country it touches because of sacred clay being taken some time in the last 2,000 years. Hungary and Romania specially hate each other because there's a lot of bad clay between them.
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Baronjutter posted:Romania hates any country it touches because of sacred clay being taken some time in the last 2,000 years. Hungary and Romania specially hate each other because there's a lot of bad clay between them.  countries.
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Looks like Russia is chasing American and French aircraft carriers, with NATO anti-submarine warfare planes searching for at least one Oscar II "carrier killer" sub. https://theaviationist.com/?p=40704 quote:According to military sources close to The Aviationist, a big hunt is underway in the eastern Med: several MPA aircraft, including U.S. Navy P-8 Poseidon jets operating from NAS Sigonella, Sicily, are looking for one, possibly two, Russian Navy submarines operating in the vicinity of a group of warships of the NATO Maritime Group.
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Torrannor posted:Still clinging to the fantasy of somehow being a Latin people Part of what is now Ukraine was stolen from Romania by the Soviet Union in 1940.
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OH well I'm sure this is absolutely nothing to worry about.NPR posted:In what could mark an escalation of tensions with the West, commercial satellite images suggest that Russia is moving a new generation of nuclear-capable missiles into Eastern Europe.
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Tor is being blocked in Belarus. https://ooni.torproject.org/post/belarus-fries-onion/
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Brown Moses is our Nate Silver really, mock all you want folks
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AceRimmer posted:Brown Moses is our Nate Silver really, mock all you want folks
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Oracle posted:OH well I'm sure this is absolutely nothing to worry about. Veli-Pekka is, he was part of the team who worked on the MH17 stuff, he ended up being hired by the Finnish military because of it. Jeffrey Lewis runs Armscontrolwonk and does a bunch of different stuff at Monterey University in Canada on non-proliferation, a lot with remote sensing on open source material. They been running a crowdsourced satellite analysis project for a while.
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Brown Moses posted:Veli-Pekka is, he was part of the team who worked on the MH17 stuff, he ended up being hired by the Finnish military because of it. Jeffrey Lewis runs Armscontrolwonk and does a bunch of different stuff at Monterey University in Canada on non-proliferation, a lot with remote sensing on open source material. They been running a crowdsourced satellite analysis project for a while.  Which thread did you get mad this time?
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AceRimmer posted:Brown Moses is our Nate Silver really, mock all you want folks I have no idea why people think this is mockery. Wiki is of course a source, among many others. When you're doing an investigation you use any source that is even remotely credible or related. You cast a wide net and start winnowing it down based on consistency and cross-checking. It only works as mockery if you're deliberately looking for dumb things that distort the truth for the benefit of people who are impressed by those things.
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Deteriorata posted:It only works as mockery if you're deliberately looking for dumb things that distort the truth for the benefit of people who are impressed by those things.  -Bobby Jindal
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Middle Eastern politics thread I take it then. 
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Middle Eastern politics thread I take it then. 
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NATO only pays me to police this and the other one.
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cinci zoo sniper posted:Middle Eastern politics thread I take it then. Some new guys came in and started going off on BM and his cronies over the past week or so. It was funny at the start but went on for 6 pages.
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AceRimmer posted:Brown Moses is our Nate Silver really, mock all you want folks Can't be, too much hair/not shook enough. More generally, do people not get that that was stated that way as a joke line?
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AceRimmer posted:Appropriate analogy: Man, Conflict was such a great game. I remember using nukes against Iran without blowing up the world, got placed under U.N. sanctions, and ending up outlasting the sanctions. Also, they used The The's "Sweet Bird Of Truth" as one of their loading screens. Dodoman posted:Some new guys came in and started going off on BM and his cronies over the past week or so. It was funny at the start but went on for 6 pages. They were supposedly a bunch of tankies (or guys impersonating tankies) from C-SPAM's Manly Marxist Memes thread.
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Brown Moses posted:NATO only pays me to police this and the other one. you should just admit it, you're just Caro's sidekick and he the one calling all the shots
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Twilight Struggle for $15 on Steam, masterfully ported to PC, is one of my highlights of 2016. I can't imagine a better educational tool for understanding the Cold War personally, particularly the crisis management aspect. Young Freud posted:[quote="Pajser" post="467244055"]
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Brown Moses posted:Veli-Pekka is, he was part of the team who worked on the MH17 stuff, he ended up being hired by the Finnish military because of it. Jeffrey Lewis runs Armscontrolwonk and does a bunch of different stuff at Monterey University in Canada on non-proliferation, a lot with remote sensing on open source material. They been running a crowdsourced satellite analysis project for a while.
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There needs to be a version of Papers Please for internet shitposting.
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Forever shook Remember the Ukraine War began around the 25 years later of 'Twin Peaks' Dead...wrapped in plastic. Remember the Leveson Inquiry? I knew even then the NSA surveillance was the Damocles sword just waiting to slice through the tabloids. The Truth is Out There... (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Mc Do Well posted:Forever shook McDowell please return to the loving embrace of Maoism-Third Worldism so that your posts make more sense.
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Kurtofan posted:Russian is a really cool language to listen to You should try their (not awful byproduct of Soviet attempts to produce pop) music: https://youtu.be/v21sCcBl0nw While that is quite old, thank god that their indie scene finally grew out of its "we must sing in English so as to be internationally marketable" phase. The above dig aside, the one modern group that tries to emulate the main Soviet state-endorsed style of popular music is actually pretty good.
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Don't break you country dummies  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INc4eOgEpUU
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All their music videos are Gogol Bordello for Yugoslavia, pretty cool band.
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jonnypeh posted:Estonia also getting sugar tax and car registration tax (which applies every time the car gets a new owner in the registry, that also means used cars). Can you please elaborate on the car registration tax? Social media in Latvia is routinely overran by self-employed people and micro/small business owners, etc who keep pointing to the favorable tax regime of Estonia as being extremely small business friendly and use that to oppose even reasonable (not that those are very common) attempts to change the tax code. Car registration and road taxes is one of the most commonly brought up examples.
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I am not sure that is the case, really. They are moving out of the flat income tax pit and apparently, whatever it is they do with their education policy is paying off, as Estonia boasts really good PISA scores. And, for whatever that's worth, I can see Estonian companies in my industry being noticeably more together and in line with Nordic/Western European thinking, than their Latvian or Lithuanian counterparts. On the other hand, they seem to be riding the tech startup cargo cult really hard. So win some, lose some?
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Tonton Macoute posted:I am not sure that is the case, really. They are moving out of the flat income tax pit and apparently, whatever it is they do with their education policy is paying off, as Estonia boasts really good PISA scores. And, for whatever that's worth, I can see Estonian companies in my industry being noticeably more together and in line with Nordic/Western European thinking, than their Latvian or Lithuanian counterparts.
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Tonton Macoute posted:Can you please elaborate on the car registration tax? Social media in Latvia is routinely overran by self-employed people and micro/small business owners, etc who keep pointing to the favorable tax regime of Estonia as being extremely small business friendly and use that to oppose even reasonable (not that those are very common) attempts to change the tax code. Car registration and road taxes is one of the most commonly brought up examples. I'm not entirely sure of the details, currently we have this thing with firms getting some sort of tax exemptions off their cars, so as a result we have a number of one-man firms buying an expensive car for the sole purpose of using it for the owner's private purpose. There's even a term for putting down your expenses as "office supplies", "business lunch" while in reality it was something else, and it's punishable by one law or another. And here is a related sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rSmj2ZB01A Okay. So this new tax has nothing to do with that. quote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't the Estonian economic reforms that created the business-friendly environment end up netting only a short-term gain, and backfired in the long run? From how I see it, what used to work no longer works because the growth has gone down to < 1%. It did serve us well for all those years though, starting with early 90s minus the recession of 2008-2011. edit: We got this thing with profits, if reinvested no tax applies. If paid out, income tax applies. Some big companies like Swedbank can decide to give the government a substantial "gift" (meaning higher tax revenue) if they decide to pay out dividends. Though they've also done that thing where they loan that money out to their parent company on good terms and we can kiss it goodbye. It also costs a lot to hire Estonians. Here, try this tax calculator (which happens to be in English): http://www.kalkulaator.ee/?lang=3&page=1 jonnypeh fucked around with this message at 17:46 on Dec 11, 2016 |
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Despite having a fairly high average wage in the region about 70% of estonians make less than the average. That makes it hard to get rid of the flat tax rate. They are trying to supplement the tax revenue they lose with trying to change up the tax system with tax hikes on fuels, alcohol and the newly proposed car registration tax. The car tax has seen some revisions with the first iteration being a tax on engine power of the car paid once when first registering the car, all subsequent transactions with the car were exempt from it. The idea that is being floated now is that you need to pay a tax every time the car changes owners, the sum is governed by CO emissions or the engine power of the car. That would mean that if you were to buy an older car the tax would be higher than the percieved value of the car itself.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3sBayYseEM Putin brought his Japanese doge to bark at Japanese people. 
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