<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://udongein.xyz/users/lispi314" class="u-url mention">@<span>lispi314</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://borg.social/@eoaiuastwg" class="u-url mention">@<span>eoaiuastwg</span></a></span> how do you merge issues?</p>

<p>&gt; You don&#39;t need isolation, just under-development.</p><p>Right.<br />It&#39;s just that in Albania&#39;s case under-development was arguably a consequence of isolation, or perhaps more generally of the regime&#39;s full set of policies, and those stood out from the rest of the communist regimes in Europe.</p><p>The latter could be divided into three parts:</p><p>the Soviet bloc (each country with its own idiosyncrasies, of course);</p><p>Yugoslavia;</p><p>Albania (among these, the least known, both East and West).</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://ieji.de/@vnikolov" class="u-url mention">@<span>vnikolov</span></a></span> You don&#39;t need isolation, just under-development. Every place without sufficient development ended up with a good natural environment, which development eyes.</p>

<p>I wish this were ironic, but it&#39;s not. The article itself has intelligent-sounding sentences, which a Web search shows up on other sites. The publisher claims to have a &quot;strict plagiarism policy&quot;…which I&#39;m realizing can be read two different ways.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pony.social/@thephd" class="u-url mention">@<span>thephd</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@erisceleste" class="u-url mention">@<span>erisceleste</span></a></span> fantastic work as always!! I can&#39;t believe I&#39;m actually excited for new C features</p>

<p>&gt; Jared Kushner is transforming an island, supposedly meant to be protected</p><p>That would be a shame.<br />A paradoxical effect of Albania&#39;s isolation during its totalitarian regime was a preservation of natural environment and cultural heritage.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span></p>

<p>&gt; the North Korea of Europe due to Enver Hoxha&#39;s closed state</p><p>Indeed.<br />Roughly speaking it was halfway between the Soviet Union and North Korea.</p><p>And like North Korea (and unlike the Soviet bloc after about 1960), a friend of China.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@shriramk" class="u-url mention">@<span>shriramk</span></a></span></p>

@eoaiuastwg@borg.social I very commonly acknowledge it. Usually while disparaging git for its failure to do the same.

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://duckpon.de/@0x47df" class="u-url mention">@<span>0x47df</span></a></span> im interested</p>