The oil port in Russia's St. Petersburg is doing a bit poorly 💥

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People really need to get into using LLMs as *learning tools*. They will never get frustrated, they will never get bored, they will always look things up, they will *always* rephrase things so you get it.

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This is why it's more than a little puzzling to see self-identified leftists ally themselves with Russia. The modern Russian state doesn't look to the USSR for guidance; it looks to the Tsar, who was, almost unfailingly, the most reactionary man in all of Europe

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It's not putting it lightly to say that they truly believe that if not for Lenin, Ukraine would never have been "created" (and any Ukrainian—or anyone who knows anything about Ukrainian history—will tell you Ukraine did not originate with Lenin)

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There was a pretty brief moment in Russian history where Lenin and some Bolsheviks (e.g. Shumskyi) were promoting korenizatsiia, especially as a way to counterbalance Great Russian chauvinism, and Putin et al. view this as the one of the worst things to happen to Russia in its entire history

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