• tired_n_bored@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Russia just hacked Japan Airlines in response. I swear I’ll open a champagne when that evil empire will cease to exist

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      15 days ago

      They’ll cease to exist the same way the Soviet Union did - silent for a while, then the same shit over again.

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        14 days ago

        Yeah, it’s true. Maybe this time, the root cause, the KGB, will finally be eradicated.

        Also, though, the empire did shrink quite a lot last time, so hey, it’s a step in the right direction lol

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    15 days ago

    Why are there so many articles that drop the second Y from his name? It’s Zelenskyy. I haven’t seen an article on Lemmy in the past couple weeks that spelled his name right.

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      15 days ago

      His name is spelled Зеленський. Any conversion to English letters requires following a method of romanising Cyrillic letters. The most common method, which admittedly is used in Russia, is to represent the ий with just a single Y, but in Ukraine I believe it’s more common to use two.

      Nevertheless, people don’t always use the same system, just as Chinese 北京 “Beijing” used to be written as Peking, due to the Romanisation system of the time.

      With the current political climate, it’s probably best to use the double Y spelling.