bkovacev

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Comment · 5 days ago
You’re assuming a lot about someone you know nothing about, which proves how young you truly are.

I also lost an uncle and an aunt in the war. My wife lost countless family members during the 90s. My family was halved and we buried grandparents, uncles and aunts in both world wars. None of that is second-hand to me.

You don’t know where my parents are from or what they lost, or what I have lost. You decided all of it from one word in a comment. That's a bold assumption. As you grow older, you'll learn not to assume. Not everyone tells their grief in the first person. Some of us chose to put it behind us and not lead with it, which doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

Your loss is real and I’m sorry for it. But you told a stranger he “saw no death” and “experienced no grief” without knowing a thing about him. That’s deciding whose pain counts based on where someone lives now, the same thinking that made the 90s possible.

Nobody in this region has a monopoly on grief. I hope you have people around you to help carry yours, as it seems you should relief some of your pain. I hope in ten years time, you will look back at this thread differently.

Comment · 5 days ago
“Serbia (proper)” is doing a lot of work in your argument. I was talking about Serbs, not a line on a map.

Around 200,000 Serbs were driven out of Krajina in a few days during Operation Storm in 1995. Roughly a quarter of the ~100,000 dead in Bosnia were Serbs (Bosnian Book of the Dead). By 1996 Serbia was hosting over 600,000 refugees, one of the largest refugee populations in Europe at the time. Those people didn’t “deal with a refugee crisis”. They were the refugee crisis, and today they’re our neighbours, in-laws and classmates. Plenty of families in Serbia also buried conscripts who were sent to Croatia in 1991.

1999 also wasn’t just “a two-month air campaign” to the people who lived through it. It lasted 78 days, killed around 500 civilians by Human Rights Watch’s count, and was followed by another ~200,000 Serbs and Roma leaving Kosovo.

None of this cancels what was done to Bosniaks and Croats, much of it in Serbia’s name, by a regime many of us protested against. Bosniaks suffered and I’m not disputing that. But “you saw no death, you experienced no grief” is simply untrue, and saying it doesn’t make anyone else’s grief count for more.

Also saying Serbia has not experienced anything war-like but the NATO bombing, is delusional. You do seem to forget how many Serbian people died in WWI and WWI.

Whoever taught you this at such a young age, is helping spread and water the seed that is not letting anyone heal from the shit that was organized in the 1990s. I wish you well.

Comment · 5 days ago
We (Serbia) were ethnically cleansed as well, that does not count, right?
Comment · 5 days ago
Do you really think we had a choice? Do you also think the whole thing wasn’t planned between all of the countries involved?
Comment · 29 days ago
Unfortunately, there are reports that they have “dumbed” down Opus 5.5 already.
Comment · 2 months ago
This is awesome! Thank you so much for great work! I love it, I wasn't even aware of the actions ring! Off-topic - does anyone know if something like this exists for Keychron keyboards?
Comment · 2 months ago
Would you be willing to share more? I don't mind if I have to pay for it!
Comment · 3 months ago
What is exactly slow when building APIs in Python and compared to what? :)
Comment · 4 months ago
I lost a family member recently as well. Sorry for your loss. I would love to use this, yet my POST request (when answering) is blocked. Is it geo-location based or something? I'm not using an ad-blocker or anything.
Comment · 4 months ago
Comment · 5 months ago
I loved command and conquer series... Red Alert, Generals, all bring back a lot of memories!
Comment · 5 months ago
So, what should we buy next? There can be bread for all of us :D
Comment · 6 months ago
I have used it for personal coding projects - expo react native projects and a Django backend. my account got banned, as the company owner non the less. My teammates were using it for the company projects (all coding through the codex app / vs code) and they were not banned.
Comment · 6 months ago
Same thing happened to us with OpenAI. Appeal did nothing.

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