Уже как-то публиковал карты и соображения по поводу размеров «маленькой» Японии (там еще огромные воды). Эта «маленькость» довольно серьезно продвигалась внутри России, видимо, теми, кто взял деньги за лоббирование отдачи Курильских островов.
Теперь вот случайно попалось видео, где размеры видны без привычного искажения на картах — очень иллюстративно.
Уже как-то публиковал карты и соображения по поводу размеров «маленькой» Японии (там еще огромные воды). Эта «маленькость» довольно серьезно продвигалась внутри России, видимо, теми, кто взял деньги за лоббирование отдачи Курильских островов.
Теперь вот случайно попалось видео, где размеры видны без привычного искажения на картах — очень иллюстративно.
At its heart, Telegram is little more than a messaging app like WhatsApp or Signal. But it also offers open channels that enable a single user, or a group of users, to communicate with large numbers in a method similar to a Twitter account. This has proven to be both a blessing and a curse for Telegram and its users, since these channels can be used for both good and ill. Right now, as Wired reports, the app is a key way for Ukrainians to receive updates from the government during the invasion. Telegram has become more interventionist over time, and has steadily increased its efforts to shut down these accounts. But this has also meant that the company has also engaged with lawmakers more generally, although it maintains that it doesn’t do so willingly. For instance, in September 2021, Telegram reportedly blocked a chat bot in support of (Putin critic) Alexei Navalny during Russia’s most recent parliamentary elections. Pavel Durov was quoted at the time saying that the company was obliged to follow a “legitimate” law of the land. He added that as Apple and Google both follow the law, to violate it would give both platforms a reason to boot the messenger from its stores. The original Telegram channel has expanded into a web of accounts for different locations, including specific pages made for individual Russian cities. There's also an English-language website, which states it is owned by the people who run the Telegram channels. In the United States, Telegram's lower public profile has helped it mostly avoid high level scrutiny from Congress, but it has not gone unnoticed. In 2014, Pavel Durov fled the country after allies of the Kremlin took control of the social networking site most know just as VK. Russia's intelligence agency had asked Durov to turn over the data of anti-Kremlin protesters. Durov refused to do so.
from jp
