It doesn’t matter… In this conflict, whatever you say will be said to fake news and lies by the other side.

Controlling who can come and settle doesn’t make a state authoritarian.

Current day Switzerland is not Nazi Germany.

Popcorn material

The author has been active on news.ycombinator.com.

I morally support the endeavor, but unfortunately the search algo is trash.

How is this funny?

To be fair, Amsterdam red-light district is really safe, thanks to the windows and cops patrols. The plan to move them outside of the city in some shady areas is lowering the safety for all parties involved. And the reasons behind the move are basically “Won’t Somebody Please Think of the Children?”

SBS made a good documentary about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxn84mAduXo

I support the freedom of the press. But I’m sometimes amazed how westerners, like myself, travel to authoritarian countries, get in trouble, and go “How could it be?! (shocked pikachu face)”

You know how I stay out of trouble? I don’t travel to shithole countries. I stay in my not-perfect, but nice, democratic country.

This being said, I hope she gets freed ASAP.

The issue is that some communities are run by mods who think these are real news

They then tried to use the identification of Thai prostitutes to create accounts on those exchanges in a bid to get those funds back.

Not what I had in mind…

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is much more nuanced. Both countries’ current heads of state are kinda like “all this land is my country’s, the other country should not exist.” It’s unclear who is right.

The Russo-Ukranian conflict is clear. One leader is claiming the land of the other, the other just want it back. Ukraine’s government is not claiming half of Russia.