Haha! Yeah, I do this with requirements creep:

• Can you also compete task C while you're there?
• Sure! In this timeframe which features are you prepared to sacrifice to make it happen?
• ...I'll think about it

Works every time!

Had a bad experience with Nym. It's not compatible with GrapheneOS. It runs, but there's a data limit that in my experience kept getting artificially hit by the forming and breaking of connections that occurs when switching GOS profiles. Maybe this happens less on stock Android?

Regardless, I had to keep contacting their support for extensions. In 6 years, I haven't yet had to contact Mullvad support. It just works!

I experienced DNS leaks when Nym claimed it was 'fully' connected. Mullvad.net could 'see' where I was located. That's not considering that in general the connection with Nym was much slower than Mullvad. Nym offered me an extended free trial, but I haven't claimed it yet. Reckon they'll need another couple of years to iron out the obvious issues.

In summary, Nym felt like a very early prototype much more than a production-ready service.

Thank you!

Is there an introductory text you would recommend to learn more? I've looked on websites for nearby political parties and it seems things are under construction!

So what does a Marxist-Leninist do in the west? Is it possible to live life in accordance with whatever principles that represents without too many contradictions?

Thank you for this. Probably the first genuine attempt to answer my question without a single attack or ounce of vitriol :)

I do I see this argument, I really do! But this description does imply a sense of global altruism in Russia's foreign policy. Even if Russia's actions could be interpreted that way, how can outsiders trust Russia's starting of wars and territorial expansion as anything other than selfish?

I ask this knowing full well that the west/north is guilty of atrocities over the same period. The issue is simply that I am in the west/north and I'd probably sooner see the world transition into anarchy than I would see it controlled by yet another powerful elite.

The kind of communism I want to see is one by the people for the people. I wouldn't trust Putin or any of the current leaders to seize the world then give it back to us. Do you believe otherwise?

Depends what you do on Windows. As someone who never really got into gaming and who loved programming it was the obvious choice.

Windows singularly fails in some of the most basic operations you could want from an OS. It makes me so angry the way it takes so long to copy a bunch of files, for example. Or if it won't delete some files because one 'is still in use' but it won't tell me which one or which program is using it! Why? Its infuriating.

Linux has none of these issues. And with a enough time, native ports of some of the games I used to play became available. I would never go back to Windows now.

I'm trying to work out if you're a Russian activist or if you're a chronically online kid who stays up far too late and whose mind is so pickled by articles written by those of the calibre of flat earthers that he's completely lost balance and proportionality.

That's not to say there aren't any nuggets of truth in what you're saying, simply that you've taken these data points and you've joined them up so as to produce a picture that is unrecognisable. And for what? What's your aim?

The difference between you and I is that I'm not the one trying to drop 'truth bombs'. I'm not angry. I'm not insisting that everything I believe is true. This is how I can tell you're young. You believe you know a lot, but you have no wisdom.

If you're not a Russian activist in Russia or a country whose policy it is to support Russia, then I genuinely wish you luck. Having not only the opinions you have with your mindset and apparent need to control other people is going to get you into a lot of trouble. If you are in Russia or a country who supports Russia then I can understand why you talk the way you do. You'd be under the influence of a completely different set of propaganda.

You really are a twisted one. Good luck out there buddy. You're going to need it.

Yeah, OK buddy. You can tell yourself that, but you have no idea what I know. So I'll hang on my western liberalism just now. Ta.

Again, this is 2022. And again is exclusively looking at hash tags on Twitter. Here's the actual source https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-19097-1_3

What genuine conclusions can we reach here? That Ukraine is heavily appealing to the west for support? That's a widely known fact.

Does this activity validate Russia's position, and can we assume they aren't engaged in propaganda on VK or other social networks more popular in their country? No!

It's also widely known that Russia's challenge is convincing their country to send their sons to war. That's going to put a massively different spin on the nature of the propaganda and where it can be found.

Even if I concede your bot ratio argument. The bottom line here is that I'm staggered by the opinions so easily found here, and I'm doing what I can to test various theories I have to understand what's actually going on. So far I've been shown nothing genuinely surprising or new, except for the wild interpretations of much more sober facts.

I'm genuinely asking for information here. You talk as though my lack of understanding is some kind of position I choose to maintain. There are very few cases in which I would choose to dehumanise anyone. Except for perhaps the most extreme incidents of violent crime.

I'm someone who wants to learn what you know. Tell me.