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are these exposed screws ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mao_Zedong Mao's policies were responsible for vast numbers of deaths, with estimates ranging from 40 to 80 million victims due to starvation, persecution, prison labour, and mass executions, and his government was described as totalitarian. And that's just Mao. Chinese emperors and feudal lords were known for their cruelty. Why don't you educate yourself about the subject before posting disinformation.

I'm sure that could be arranged if you were to decide becoming a customer of AN, i.e. pay them money for the service.

it's the first hit when googling "radio kawaii tokyo" https://onlineradiobox.com/jp/jpoppowerplaykawaii/

I dislike the majority of K-Pop music, except for a few which are great for driving in the night on the Autobahn or for cleaning my room, washing the dishes... For example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7_lSP8Vc3o some K-pop / J-pop are also great as background noise for working - I listen to Tokyo Radio Kawaii, non stop Jap girl groups, no ads :) I wouldn't call either music though.

Ignorance is not an opinion and deserves no respect other than being corrected politely.

I guess I am, since I don't get replies to my arguments. Or maybe he's just too overwhelmed by the undeniable truth that he finds it impossible to respond. It's rather ironic, as he posts in this thread, and I am the threadstarter, but he ignores my posts, lol.

You should rephrase, I don't understand who your post is about

You ignore users that disagree with you - that's different.

Ukraine has negotiated. 1993, Budapest Memorandum. Russia took Ukraine's nuclear weapons in exchange of guaranteeing its independence and borders.

I find it disturbing that people like this can put others on ignore and then continue to post their ignorant drivel without risk of being contradicted by the posters who know the most about the subject at hand.

I downloaded and read the file, since I have been moderating forums for over 20 years, some very toxic, and I would have welcomed some fresh insights into the problem. But I found the document underwhelming. Of 10 pages in total, there are 5 pages of content, but the font is very big, like when I was a student and lacked inspiration, lol. Maybe it can serve as a short introduction for new moderators and new forum owners regarding the basics, making rules and the handful of tools they describe. Other than that it doesn't bring any insights at all, and is seriously lacking in the tools department. How to prevent bot registrations ? How to place individual users on pre-moderation ? How to prevent spam ? How to use BHL / Blacklists / Spamcop ? How to recognize multiple accounts and banned users coming back with new usernames ? How to handle VPN / anonymizers / proxies / TOR ? What are today's tools for permanent fingerprinting / persistent cookies against fraud ? How to prevent phishing ? Just to name a few issues.

apparently you are ignorant of, among other things, the meaning of "nested quote". educate yourself: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nested_quotation that rule is probably left over from previous forum versions which allowed for quotation of nested quotations. the current version's UI prevents this anyway. you would probably also benefit from educating yourself on the other subjects this thread is about.

What a ridiculous thing to say. At the very least, the USA have achieved that Ukraine still exists as an independent country today. Your comments about how countries should submit to Ruzzia are disgusting. What first hand or second hand experience or memories of Soviet / Russian occupation and oppression do you have ? I have family in the former Democratic Republic of Germany and currently in Ukraine.

you don't know the persons - they deserved every bit of it

I told to some female acquaintances of mine (of no consequence) that filling the nose bridge changes the angle and looks of their eyes and makes the previously cute Thai eyes unattractive after the operation. Almost all were quite upset with that comment. "up to me" quite certainly so, I said, but up to me to find these eyes attractive or not...

Regarding my first post in this thread, it seems that Ukrainian defences are holding for the moment. The situation is reminiscent of Bakhmut, with the difference that Avdiivka has benefited from years of fortification work, since 2014. I wonder if the Ukrainians aren't holding back some firepower, just enough to make the Ruzzians believe they could breakthrough if the just throw enough men at it. I hope that is the case.

Maybe. But that would be the worst outcome that can be anticipated based on the current situation. And that's thanks to Western support to Ukraine. If there had been no support, Putin's Ruzzians would now probably already have made Ukraine a puppet state and invaded Moldova, as well as launching provocative hostile actions against the Baltic States. And the Chinese would be all over the Spratly, weighing attacking Taiwan or not. Instead, Putin's ambitions have been severely cut back. The West stopping now would of course be not only a betrayal but also a huge strategic mistake. Putin's Ruzzia is an ENEMY. The little man is a machiavelic, evil paranoid narcisst and cannot be allowed to develop any further plans.

As you mention USA (and by extension, NATO) "staying too long", this joke told by Zelensky at Letterman's late night show comes to mind: “Two Jewish guys from Odesa meet up,” Zelensky says. “One asks the other: ‘So what’s the situation? What are people saying?'" “And he goes, ‘What are people saying? They are saying it’s a war.'” “What kind of war?” “Russia is fighting NATO.” “Are you serious?” “Yes, yes! Russia is fighting NATO.” “So how’s it going?” “Well, 70,000 Russian soldiers are dead. The missile stockpile has almost been depleted. A lot of equipment is damaged, blown up.” “And what about NATO?” “What about NATO? NATO hasn’t even arrived yet.” The joke is almost a year old, so of course the figures need to be updated, multiplied by 4 or 5. So much about "staying"

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"tiny" certainly has a different meaning in the West than in Thailand.

I wouldn't buy an Apple product. Nearly everything is wrong on all levels with Apple.

Until 3-4 days ago many news and videos were gloating over Ruzzian losses in Avdiivka, describing the terricon as formidable defensive ground. Now there are much less news from Avdiivka, the terricon appears to have been taken by Ruzzia, it is marked as under Ruzzian control on deepstatemap. https://deepstatemap.live/#15/48.1829/37.7153 Meanwhile, Ukraine evacuates civilians from the region: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russia-disregards-losses-presses-ukraines-avdiivka-2023-10-25/ The Ruzzians sent 3 brigades in, lost at least one: https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidaxe/2023/10/23/the-russians-sent-three-brigades-toward-avdiivka-just-two-came-back Ruzzian losses during that offensive are probably between 7000 and 10.000 personnel and about 200 armored vehicles in the last 10 days. https://news.yahoo.com/none-made-sense-understanding-russia-213145335.html Despite these losses, they are still pressing on. I do not fully understand how this war is waged and why these attacks cannot be squashed be the defenders. For example, the French CAESAR SPG shoots 6 shots a minute, a battery of them can thus fire 48 rounds per minute at 40+ Kilometers with a precision of a few meters. Even just one salvo of 155mm fragmentation rounds would annihilate everything in a smaller target area, and I do mean everything. Let's imagine a full minute of fragmentation barrage. Then, mines can also be deployed via artillery or rocket artillery. So I wonder about why this isn't done, there must be reasons I don't understand.

I would expect labs to be able to send the sample for a culture.

what ? the labs don't have tests to detect bacteria in urine ?