Bitrairo @bitrairo@qoto.org

Breezing through Google Data Analytics course and I'm finally learning some SQL. The course is using google's BigQuery, but it's too slow for my liking.
Do you think I'll miss out on something if I'll install some other database/IDE? Any recommendations?

@marathon0 I was talking just about the articles you listed. You on the other hand are just trying to redirect to another bullshit that you found in the media which you never even tried to fact check.
So quickly:
1) Minsk agreements were violated both by separatists/ Kremlin and Ukraine side. But no one denies that Kremlin started all of it unprovoked by aiding separatist both with equipment and manpower on the territory of sovereign state (even Putin himself confirmed they were armed and supported by russian military). Count how many agreements they violated by just that.
2) Bandera group wasn't at all nazi. They were against basically anyone who was against their interests - sovereign state of Ukraine. They fought with and against Germany. Hitler used extremist groups like this everywhere when they needed. Bandera himself was imprisoned by nazi Germany and later refused to help them when he was asked to. They even had Jewish people fighting for them btw. You can look it up easily.
3) There is simply no nazi/ fascist regime in UA. I'm from Slovakia. No one speaks about us being fascist state although we have fascists in our own parliament (opposition). We know them very well. UA have literally zero fascist politicians in their parliament, not even talking about government. Their biggest fascist party got like 2% of the votes in the last elections. If UA is fascist, what are we then? Our fascists are pro-Kremlin btw...
4) Any kind of prosecution of russian-speaking people in UA is nonsense. Even Zelensky is native russian speaker. I know people that went to UA regularly and they spoke only russian and no one cared.
There was even an investigation by OBSE and other organizations that concluded that no genocide was happening on the east of UA.
Only Kremlin is talking about it and provides no proof.

You should start to question your sources of information. Since 2014 all the relevant institutions and organizations are denying Kremlin claims about how they were provoked to invade UA. There was not a single independent investigation that would conclude that Kremlin was right, but many of the contrary.

Please don't widen this conversation to million different topics if you choose to continue it...

@marathon0 two of these articles are in fact just commentary (blogs), one is not at all criticism to Ukraine/Zelensky - it's more about Trump, and one about corruption is from 2015 and if you read it, you would understand that it was "borrowed" problem from previous (pro-Kremlin) governments. Since 2015 the Corruption Perception Index was steadily going up.
So no, there is no twisting of the narrative. There are just criticisms of imperfect country, which haven't deserved to be invaded.

@marathon0 no, it was Berkut police force. There was already forensic investigation on this issue.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/30/magazine/ukraine-protest-video.html

@marathon0 no, there is not. USA supported democratic development in Ukraine since it was founded (like in many other countries), but these protests began and lived because of the public unrest after Yanukovych did not signed association agreement with EU. Like... what would they even sponsor? To buy old tires they burned there? Or to buy ingredients for soup for protesters?

@marathon0 This is great example of pseudo-journalism and kremlin propaganda... For instance, denying of shootings on protesters during maidan by Berkut, which was even filmed, is absurd considering the amount of evidence we have. And claiming basically that they killed themselves is even more crazy than that.

@GNUxeava Paradoxically this behavior can give them more profit by itself.
Many people have preference to buy products from companies with similar ethical leaning even if it's just one time thing. There is also preference not to support companies which don't act/ condemn certain social events etc.

@BlinkRape
literally no one claims that it will only hurt Russia, but it will hurt Russia more than west

@yaksha it's different argument but ok... You are free to calculate the risk yourself - all data is provided.
There might be some isolated instances when risk is higher with vaccination, but for most of us it's totally worth it. Especially for elderly and people with comorbidities.

It's actually job of the healthcare system to find people with higher risk of adverse effects and exclude them from vaccination and it would do it's job better if more people were attending their regular checkups.

@deutrino well, it's coming to mainstream just because scientists weren't able to find sufficient traces of the virus in nature.
It's not that there is enough evidence for lab leak theory - it's more about lack of direct evidence of the natural origin.

@yaksha single digit ARR doesn't mean that vaccination is useless/ gives no significant protection. To imagine things better you can invert the number which gives you NNV (number needed to vaccinate) - how many people need to be vaccinated to protect one individual from getting sick.
Fe. NNV for AZ is 77 (according to data in the picture). So when you vaccinate just 77 people, you'll save 1 from the illness, which can result in hospitalization or even death.

And ofc ARR is highly dependant on specific epidemiologic situation = higher ARR in place with higher infection rate.