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    What is a diaspora population supposed to do if their current country of citizenship is at war with their ancestral homeland?

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  • I was gonna joke that you could show up as a raging trigger-happy and bloodthirsty gun-fanatic. But in the current climate, that is probably a rather qualifying factor.

    In all seriousness, if this is important to you there is no way around doing your own research. There are always ways.

    For example, in the book "How to Win an Information War" it is mentioned that allies at some point flew flyers over Nazi troops that gave instructions on how to temporarily get symptoms of a serious illness that would potentially allow them to leave the front.Tbf I don't remember if that was one of those that didn't actually work and just got nazis actually fucked up, or helped reduce their numbers and morale. But you get the gist.

  • are there any street tips you all can share?

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  • The defense with the feet I got from someone who had to defend themselves multiple times. I don't remember the details, but it's about the easier way to keep distance from their mouth without it biting onto anything... idk. I'd say, check some youtube videos or other resources of people who talk from experience. :)

    I think another important reason is to keep the face away. If you were to use your fists, you'd have to lean forward, bringing your face closer to their mouth. You're also not allowing them to bite anywhere, like your legs. Of course, much like a knife fight, you don't wanna be in this situation in the first place.

    The palm thing, if you're already doing a lot of other things right, it probably doesn't matter much. But I find it signals more intent that you mean no harm. And by the time they come that close to you, I don't see them attacking you, like ever. And if they were to show hostile behaviour beforehand, you have time to change your hand position and stand up.

  • are there any street tips you all can share?

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  • Like this

    I would say, the psychology behind is that we grip into our palms. So it's harder to hide something behind your palms. You're showing in every way you are not backstabbing them.

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    What is a diaspora population supposed to do if their current country of citizenship is at war with their ancestral homeland?

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  • Germany has quite the culture of draft dodging.

    I remember all kinds of stories. Smoking like a chimney and getting drunk as fuck before and dressing like a tourist with a camera as you enter the mandatory meeting thing.

    Of course the criteria to get drafted are different through places and time, but try to figure out the process, and what would eliminate you from getting drafted.

    Also, it's literally in one of those declassified CIA handbooks, that one of the ways to hijack an organisation from the inside is to be incompetent as fuck. Eager, but incompetent. Report any meaningless thing that technically is report worthy, to clog up the pipelines, make meetings way too long and talk about meaningless details.

  • are there any street tips you all can share?

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  • Stray dogs:If you pass somewhere and there are suddenly stray dogs in your way, just squat down and show your hands. Hands down, palms up. If they come to sniff and shit, keep your palms below their face. Basically let them come to you. When they trust you, you can pat the top of the head. But patting the top of the head before they know you can be dangerous, as you might use them to hit them, for example.

    Usually within seconds the whole pack comes to get some love :)

    I've never been attacked by a dog this way. But if a dog would come at me, actually aggressive and not slow down, I hear you should use your feet to defend yourself.

    Don't just walk through their territory.

  • Other things like kiwix for reading/learning

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  • It can be harder to surveil private conversations if everyone just used sign language.

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  • Yes, please! Wired headphones also really don't last long if used daily as a built-in mic replacement.

  • pwned: do you pronounce it as "pohned" "pawned" or "owned"

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  • Yup, I also think of chess when I read it, so pawned - turned into a pawn, demoted to the weakest piece, etc. If I read owned, then it's owned.

    Pineapple on pizza is correct vim is better than emacs debian is the best linux distro startrek is a bad show

  • Are Memoirs and Autobiographies partly fictional? How the f do people remember so much detail?

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  • On a related note, I don't remember the best resources I've come across, but here's something for a bit of an idea:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_error

    Legally, there is the concept of contemporaneous notes in many countries. Meaning if you write something down shortly after the event occured it can have legal validity.

    There is also hypnotherapy, EMDR, and other forms of therapy, where many people can access memories that they couldn't. I was surprised myself how many memories I could access with EMDR.

    I find the concept appears to be similar to meditation and lots of sensory information + association. How stuff felt, sounded, smelled, where you felt in your body etc.

    Less related, but there's also Method of Loci etc. to remember lots of very specific things

  • What do you think is the best course of action to address cult movements, either as a whole or on an individual level?

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  • Sorry, hard disagree.

    I also don't want to argue. So feel free to say what you like about this, but I won't respond. I'll just drop some thoughts for consideration.

    1. Cults don't have to be religious, and even then there's a difference
    2. Harm doesn't just come from being militant or political
    3. The mechanisms of disbanding suck as much as the criminal justice system and states in general do
    4. This isn't just about the US

    Jehovas Witnesses, Moonies, Scientology and so many more are still ongoing. Cult mechanism are literally some of closest stuff to brainwashing there is. They are malign. The followers are victims, and collectively this absolutely should be addressed.

    Also, I am not offering any kind of solution here, I.e. to just go after the cults and disband them. As others have said it's nuanced.

  • What's your least favorite type of question to see asked in these types of communities?

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  • I really don't mind the vast majority. Unless it's really dumb, hateful or repetitive, I'm good. It's just one more thing to scroll past, if I'm not interested. Though I do notice people with cool input running for the hills when the questions aren't 'exquisite' enough and places can turn dull.

  • Who are prominent figures vilified by Western media and where can I learn from them in a different light?

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  • I'm not arguing against that, just drawing attention to what kind of 'light' they are given. It's not like there are only two perspectives.

  • What would be interesting to bring to a home made pizza party?

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  • Walnuts, figs, honey, mozzarella, blue cheese, rucola and parmesan

  • Who are prominent figures vilified by Western media and where can I learn from them in a different light?

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  • Note to others. The quality of the links isn't great. And there seems to be an authoritarian communist et al. bias. Cross-reference stuff, and consider biases.

  • Retired WoW players, how does that part of your life shade your current life?

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  • The dumbest game I've ever played. Escaped into it as a kid on release and got addicted. Sure the initial journey to 60 was pretty magical. It was my first mmo, and I had played WC3 a lot before.

    But my god, the dunning krueger effect, the toxicity, the community. Just terrible imo. And of course the utter unfulfilling time sink.I've also been quite a competitive gamer, having played a lot of cs, dota and wc3 ladder, some semi-professionally. And WoW is simply not it.

    I learned how evil Blizzard is, how addicted I can get to certain games, etc. yeah, the one word that comes to mind looking back at it is "stupid".

  • We always hear/read about Goverments cencoring the internet. What is something that the US is not knowing is being censored?

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  • LOL pretty much went the same path as you. Tried some other search engines (don't have a searxng one though). And it's only that IRC log. So, personally couldn't find any evidence. But also doesn't seem that important, since the concept appears to be the most important part.

  • What do I need to read to get where you're coming from?

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  • We always hear/read about Goverments cencoring the internet. What is something that the US is not knowing is being censored?

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  • I hesitate to post both of these, because I don't wanna get into conspiracy stuff. But both are not well known, and I hear a lot of it keeps getting deleted.

    EDIT: The first one appears to be quite popular in podcasts and tabloids. So I'll just say it's an interesting mystery, where I have no idea what gets deleted and what doesn't.

    Many questions about the case of: Gabriela Rico Jiménez

    Warning: pretty dark rabbit hole

    And quite a lot of stuff pointing towards Ghislaine Maxwell having been a reddit supermod: https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/r45a5n/here_is_the_evidence_that_reddit_user_maxwellhill/

  • What is the most attractive quality in a person that instantly makes them desirable?

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  • Aside from all the things that are instant turn-offs...

    Being hopeful.Also seem to get drawn to BPD

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    adhd_traco @piefed.social

    Melancholic isolation in art and other media?