Re:Apple changes Crimea map when viewed from Russia
by mzs on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @01:31PM
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Want to know the worst part? Chase* edited his comment to add those parts you quoted. It's not surprising I guess he has "CCCP" on his IG avatar: https://imgur.com/Oh1OlfD
* https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cpursley
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Re:Apple changes Crimea map when viewed from Russia
by cpursley on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @01:44PM
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Oh, you got me - I'm a communist!!! Or a Putin sympathizer (I always mix up which one is the more pointed insult).
Anyways, that was taken outside of an interesting museum in Sevastopol. The entire bay there is pretty cool. You can take a boat tour around it. There's a bunch of old USSR ships in various levels of decay as well as some of the newer stuff (the main reason for the annexation was for control of this warm water port btw):
Museum of the Black Sea Fleet Lenina St, 11, Sevastopol
https://maps.app.goo.gl/NmSHU6Tpnc4ZiUbw9
My favorite is the "secret" underground submarine base in Balaklava. Fascinating place that until recently was off limits to Westerners:
Voyenno-Istoricheskiy Muzey Fortifikatsionnykh Sooruzheniy 1 99000, Marmurova St, Sevastopol
It really sounds like you are, though. I mean the principle most of us care about here isn't about matching iOS app text to "the linguistic realities on the ground", it's about not condoning the literal invasion of neighboring countries (by a nuclear power, no less).
> Also, the infrastructure has improved significantly since the Russian takeover
Also sounds very much like a justification for an invasion.