I’m not sure i get what you mean, why put dissident between quotation marks? Do you doubt he is?

He was a member of the Right Cause political party and was expected to become chairman of its Moscow section. Chichvarkin currently lives in London, from where he has campaigned against corruption in Russia and president Vladimir Putin personally.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Chichvarkin

do you just happen to know them

I recognise the name, because of all the posts.

is there a way to check for this kind of thing?

Not sure how but since he posted on other instances i guess those posts are still up.

I might be wrong about the nature of the account, that’s why I’m asking after all

Glad you do, might be the only way to find out what others think

doesn’t look like a person interested in engaging with other persons

I agree it doesnt seem he is interested in engaging with other persons. Which means he could be an automated bot, and i’m not saying he couldn’t be. I am saying i dont think he is, because of the quality of his posts. Both the content is good and it’s placed well. But i can’t give you a definite answer unfortunately.

I get your point, but the other extreme (be silent if your not willing or able to pick up a gun) is also not great. Don’t want to argue with you, but point out this should be about finding the right middle ground.

Thanks for sharing, I totally believe a 4-day workweek would be beneficial for individuals and totally believe that translates to better results in certain workplaces. I am not in any way against it. The link however doesnt seem to say anything about how that trsnslates to lower healthcare cost for the state, which is what this post is about - spending less tax money. Not saying i’m in favour of Frances solution though.

I don’t like this either, but I refuse to believe their real goal is ‘stealing’ peoples privacy’ (though you can’t really steal it because you can’t own someone else their privacy, but that’s another story). I think it is much more because of ignorance and naivety, unaware of the negative consequences. I can imagine there is a more benevolent lobby behind the scenes that would benefit from this, but EU isn’t oppresive enough to benefit from accessing private data from ‘regular’ people.

Op was on lemm.ee before moving, his contributions aren’t a recent thing. If he would be what you call a repost-bot the links would likely be from more random low-quality sources and also wouldn’t be neatly posted to the most relevant community.

I doubt that, If having a day off would decrease healthcare expenses that much we would have a 4-day workweek by now.

Too bad Ootje Oxenaar isn’t among us anymore. We (the Dutch) had really nice notes before the Euro.

Looked up a link for anyone interested: https://www.pcgs.com/news/ootje-oxenaar-the-art-and-application-of-banknote-design

Good point, but I don’t think they put it there because of its function.

Thanks for sharing, i read someone earlier Russia did exactly this to a train station. Days before they accused Ukraine of having plans to bomb it (not sure why, but surely they made up something), then bombed it themselves. Though I forgot if they accused Ukraine of doing it or they switched their narrative. Point being, nice to have a word for things like that.

Edit: I wrote the comment above before opening the pdf and learning that the event is also covered in the report. What I wrote above isn’t the best summary (check the pdf if you want to know the details), but what is more relevant is this (also quoted from the pdf linked above):

Both Bellingcat and HRW have characterised the attack as a violation of the laws of war and an apparent war crime. Similarly, the Ukrainian NGO Media Initiative for Human Rights has classified the Kramatorsk attack as a war crime, emphasising that the targeting of a railway station with indiscriminate weapons during a civilian evacuation did not result in any discernible military advantage, but instead inflicted severe harm on the civilian population.

An article was posted in this community 3 days ago titled The Wild Russian Plot to Burn a London Restaurant and Kidnap Its Owner by the New York Times about how “a criminal gang in Britain was directed to target Yevgeny Chichvarkin, a dissident Russian who owns Hide, a Michelin-starred restaurant in Mayfair”. This is what I commented on that post:

Just 2 days ago there were two articles posted in this community. One called Russian propaganda group Storm-1516 is using identities of real journalists to target Moldova, Armenia, and France and the other by AP news titled Intelligence officials worry a sabotage campaign blamed on Russia is growing more dangerous which was about a fire at a warehouse in east London storing equipment for Ukraine, plotted by Russian linked to the secret service. They wrote the following: “The fire is one of more than 70 incidents linked to Russia that The Associated Press has documented since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022”. I earlier wrote comments on posts some of those ‘incidents’, this is what I commented below the two posted articles i linked above:

3 days ago someone posted a link to an article by The Insider titled Polish researchers trace Baltic GPS disruptions to Russian military sites in Kaliningrad about finding the source of navigational system failures (by either spoofing or jamming coordinates) on thousands of aircraft and ships in the baltic sea and the airspace of the surrounding countries. This is what I commented on that post:

Yesterday someone posted a link to an article by france24 titled The church by the airport: Inside Russia’s suspected spy activities in Sweden on how Russia is suspected to use the Moscow Patriarchate church as a platform for espionage. Recently I commented on a few posts about Kremlin-related activities in Europe. Below is a copy of what I commented the last time:

Yesterday someone posted a link to an article on news.err.ee titled Arson attack on Ukrainian restaurant in Estonia ordered by Russian intelligence, I decided it would make sense to copy my comment on that article here.

5 days ago someone posted link to an article by united24media titled Russian Saboteurs Reportedly Torch German Military Trucks in Erfurt in Brazen Attack on NATO Soil. I thought it’d be nice to copy my comment on that post.

Yesterday someone posted a link to an article in The Sun, it’s headline was Britain’s migrant crisis being fuelled by Putin’s Russia and other hostile states in secret plot to destabilise UK; I feel I might just as well copy and paste my comment to that post:

The amount of shit Russia pulls without getting any kind repercussion truly astonishes me.

Acount is 2 hours old, all of his comments on multiple instances were removed by mods. Guess it shows moderation is working well on Lemmy.

If you accuse other of doing something that you’re doing yourself you can make what you’re doing sound less bad because ‘everybody else’ does it too. You can also confuse people because if only one of them is true, who should you trust? Maybe none of it is true.

Not yet, i think they first have to do an investigation and then they need to agree on wether they want to vote on agreeing before considering it would be wise to call China out because of international relations being a national topic; then in about ten years it might be official. /s

Could also be they expect a part to not survive. And if the price to buy/source them is very low compared to the price they can be sold for, that might also make it attractive to smuggle more. But still, can imagine it takes a while to sell 1,500 spiders.

I hope the French word has different connotations, feared feels like the wrong word.

I’d argue it be clearer between round brackets instead of behind a comma like states in the U.S.:

Paris (France) over Paris, France.

Without having a tough response ready to roll out, i think reaching a “fair deal” will be a lot harder anyway.

Nice, i subscribed. Have to see in a few editions if i’ll remain but might have something interesting i’d have missed otherwise in it.

My personal opinion is similar, not because i feel resent or think Brits dont deserve a good deal, but because i think EU should always work in the interest of the EU as a whole and that is having the UK having less exceptions they had before. But i also hope the EU won’t play too hard to get, and work to prevent they delay the breunion decades beyond what it would take if they agree with a part of UKs conditions.