If you ever want to tell them a “Pollack” joke, just change it to a Russian joke, they will think it is hilarious.
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ICYMI:
The man can write.
ETA: And has a helluva sense of humor.
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Did you mean to link to his homepage or a specific post?
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Lots of replies to those tweets (and other sources too) saying that’s not actually true.
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Yeah, Google is denying they did anything.
But the article also claims that it’s not unheard of for them to blur sensitive places. I know that for awhile, the Pentagon, the Capitol, and the White House were all blurred. I just checked now, though, and they’re not. 
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Like… everyone knows where those things are. And even Area 51… the Russians have their own Satellites.
MAYBE they run by the images by the DOD on the off chance they did capture something sensitive.
But I see no value in blurring the White House or the Pentagon.
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The Pentagon had them blur military bases back in 2008.
The images that worry the Pentagon include views of bases, including security at the entrances to those installations.
“It actually shows where all the guards are. It shows how the barriers go up and down. It shows how to get in and out of buildings,” said Renuart, commander of U.S. Northern Command.
“I think that poses a real security risk for our military installations,” he told reporters at the Pentagon.
In the intervening years, I guess they changed their mind.
I tried looking for sites that are still intentionally blurred. The Marcoule Nuclear Site in Nimes, France is one, but Area 51 isn’t.
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A decade or so ago they did blur a lot of ‘sensitive’ areas, but there are now at least half a dozen companies based all over the world that will sell satellite images at a resolution would have made a state level intelligence agency from the 80s drool.
We are so far past the point that Google could be the gate keeper of this information.
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It’s more of a pixelation, which more accurately informs a user that “this bit has been censored.”
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Slava’s entire site, the whole thing.
Painfully dry humor.
He’s got a perspective (several really) I appreciate.
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specifically
Based on the Russian military’s past actions and their current actions in Ukraine, Russia has a long-standing policy of “urbicide,” the destruction of cities and their populations. “Urbicide” is the intentional destruction, in part, of a national group. It is genocide. Unless Russian forces are stopped, they will leave every Ukrainian city they can reach in rubble and murder scores of thousands of Ukrainian civilians. Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine.
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The way he explains it happening, it sounds like a long way off before things come to that.
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extinguish wrong cultural memes
I guess they haven’t heard of the internet.
(Or perhaps it explains why they are so concerned, lately, about controlling what their people see on it. Good luck with that!)
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It’s not about that kind of meme.
It’s about imposing on Ukrainians the “correct” beliefs: that they are really Russians, that their land belongs to Russia, that Russian language and culture are superior.
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