I'm on a desktop, but from your screenshot I found: https://www.reddit.com/r/popular/ with the trendingbar.

Thanks

An important point that must be considered as we further develop the tech. Thanks for sharing insight into the field.

Now do US!

Which is why technology development for this kind of stuff must be aggressively persued. If we want to avoid a rapid fluctuation in our carrying capacity we must shift away from traditional agriculture and further develop our hydroponics and vitromeat technologies. The boons are too important to ignore. We can improve processes.

At this point, these people need to use common sense

For a brief moment I thought it said "dong" and wonder what exactly does an AK-47 shaped dildo looks like.

You must not know what a journalist is

To elaborate, I personally see his actions as inherently brave. He must have had an understanding of the risks involved, and chose to do it anyway based on his beliefs.

If I were in his shoes, and not being as socially-minded as he clearly is, it would be a stupid decision to make. I honestly value mine and my wife's well being above the entire rest of humanity. Making the choice he did would be counter-productive to what I want, and therefore stupid. I am sure he weighed up his responsibilities and moral imperatives and came to the best decision he could, and I frankly don't have the balls to call someone like that stupid.

All that aside, bravery is not a trait that is in any way related to ethics or morality. A terrorist can be brave. The ability to overcome situational fear and act (which is generally what ends up being called bravery) is a useful trait, and can be used for good. That doesn't mean it is always used for good. Bravery can be selfish - if you overcome fear to do something for your benefit at the cost of others, that's still bravery.

In my eyes, this guy did not only make a brave choice. He made a positive moral choice, too. That earns a lot of respect, in my eyes, geopolitical consequences be damned.

You are greatly misunderstanding the point of coupling hydroponics and vitromeat tech if you are worried about different regional dietary practices. There is no reason why different regions of the world couldn't grow different crops and meat based off their cultural practices. Food facilities simply means more food growing options, including crops that typically aren't grown in a region because the growth environment is contained and not typically susceptible to weather. All it does is open the door to more types of food including the ones already in the region.

It's sort of incredible that SA both before and after Apartheid is equally awful, just in different ways.

I wonder if NATO/Europe could put up something similar to the great firewall of China, except around Russia, to contain it?

I'm no expert, but even using a VPN located outside Moscovy would require that VPN provider to connect to the client in Russia, which the firewall could block.

Inb4 "muh internet freedom"... Your internet freedom is already controlled by corporate interests, and has become a vector for warfare, massive amounts of fraud. The internet can't be the wild west when it can take out a country's power infrastructure, medical services or senior's pension plans. It's time for some defense against Russia, and while we're at it, china. They've both already got it, tho they will no doubt cry discrimination the minute we follow their lead.

I honestly don't know why any foriegn person doesnt get hll out of Russia. Common sense would telk you that you are in jeopardy of getting arrested .

West China was overrun by communists, and want the rest of the world to think they're the legit China.

Because they want control over what people think, say, hear, moralize and do.

If you are wondering how much protection we can expect from the NSA: One Vulcan Files document shows Russian engineers recommending Russia add to its own capabilities by using hacking tools stolen in 2016 from the US National Security Agency and posted online.

More likely, because he met his contact in the vague vicinity of that facility, they will allege he did so for the sake of data collection. Nice false parallel narrative to all the Russians detained for surveilling sensitive locations across Europe recently.

A 75 year old agency is a long time to acquire data and people. They have a lot of practice to fall back on.

Wonder how you sell this to potential recruits?

It's most likely that you are going to die because there is no time to train you and we do not have the right equipment or food to feed you, but we certainly will buy your family some sausages and some bread when you die, does that sound good to you?

These two things aren’t mutually exclusive.

The type of person who becomes a good journalist places a high value on covering truth, even if it puts them in harm’s way.

A bunch of people are just here to criticize this person for taking a danger that I am quite sure they were already well aware of so that the world could learn more about what’s going on over there, but sure the rest of y’all just sit here and continue to confidently state the obvious while thinking you’re saying something insightful or clever. 🙄

And I’m not directing this at you, /u/Culverin

I understood your point quite well, the problem is your solution won't work at any kind of national or worldwide scale. Having an arbitrarily valued currency is the inevitable end state of any kind of economy spanning more than a couple thousand people clustered in the same place geographically.

Using your example of someone having survival knowledge versus practically useless pieces of paper only matters under the assumptions that:

1. There is no viable method of fast, mass transit.

2. There is no viable method of (near enough) instantaneous communication.

3. There is no longer a functional, centralized federal government.

I find your insinuation that anyone (myself included) who doesn't agree with you on this point is a:

>genetically modified sheep like you are so domesticated it's not even funny

To be quite insulting, so this is the last time I will respond to you.

Have a good rest of your life!

That’s a great way to put it.

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The proxy has become the proxer

I agree with everything you said. I also think birds aren’t real.

>Does that make him brave or stupid?

I think that's something that is almost inevitably in the eye of the beholder at the time, and at the whims of history later.