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[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Somehow missed this thread. Huzzah to Yuri!

 

Event was (and still is) celebrated in USSR (Russia) since 1962 as "Day of Cosmonautics", from 2001 to 2022 as "Yuri's Night" in US (https://futurism.com/space-conference-censors-yuri-gagarin) and since 2017 as "International Day of Human Space Flight" by the UN.

Pictured: Yuri Gagarin with daughters Galya & Lena, and Ira Komarova. 1965, New Year's Eve.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This really is gold, thank you for sharing. "Not only would indiscriminate attacks on civilians be arguably immoral, she points out, they’d potentially invite other countries to do the same, or worse."

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Well, Chekhov fits well between Dostoyevsky and Saltykov-Shchedrin.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Can't quite access the link, so here it is: the link

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thank you, once again.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Thank you for sharing. Do you happen to know what particular events lyrics refer to? Something around 1964? Edit: found after cursory search https://people.wku.edu/charles.smith/MALVINA/mr073.htm

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

To be fair - Johnny Silverhand we meet is a heavily modified verison. Both memories, personality and (possibly) appearance are altered by someone, who may or may not be Yorinobu Arasaka.

Then there is base tabletop, creator of which (M. Pondsmith) is said to favour Nomads.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

"Who is laughing now?" - mice, probably.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

There are already good advices here - but I would like to suggest something that seems obvious, but might still be overlooked: consider several most likely questions your professor will ask, and prepare answers for them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Also happens in other locales (i.e. Moscow), to similiar effect.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Alternatively, add "Original by" above / in front of the signature.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

This is funny, because it is true. But also sad, for exact same reason.

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