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by blub 4y ago
You’re wrong on… multiple levels. First of all, deescalation and dialogue is what already prevented nuclear war several times since nuclear weapons were invented. We could go as far as saying that it’s the one single thing we know that wo
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by blub 4y ago
The far right is defined by political scientists like Cas Mudde (who focuses on extremism) as being anti-system. The extreme-right rejects democracy, while the radical right accepts it, but rejects elements of liberal democracy such as mino
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by blub 4y ago
Didn’t own the E90, but I’ve had several Symbian smartphones and don’t think I’ve ever seen the “phone” app crash. In fact I remember that they were generally stable compared to computers. Only the browsers would run out of memory and crash
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by blub 4y ago
That’s not at all helpful and in fact it’s confusing. Going to a place of work is the status quo with one of the exceptions being bubbles in IT. Some offices are nice, some not. Some are within walking distance, others are not. You are not
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by blub 4y ago
PIPs are a tool for managing out employees that don’t perform well or don’t yield to often abusive company demands like e.g. overtime or pissed of somebody in management or connected to management.
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by blub 4y ago
Technically correct and yet the unprecedented extent of the sanctions, the lack of a defensive treaty with the attacked party and the vulnerability of the EU to these very sanctions make them debatable. It is precisely this debate which is
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by blub 4y ago
Exactly, the dependency on Russia was wanted by large parts of the EU political leadership in order to remain competitive economically. It’s interesting to see that most people consider Europe was tricked by Russia, when in fact this relati
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by blub 4y ago
The energy market shock wasn’t caused by the Russia-Ukraine war. That’s a local conflict which would typically not have a significant impact on energy deliveries. The market shock is caused by lack of supply caused by Russia cutting deliver
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by blub 4y ago
First of all, the sanction blowback hasn’t hit Europe with full force yet, of course one would otherwise support something that enjoys massive media and government support when the real costs aren’t obvious. Secondly, this needn’t have been
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by blub 4y ago
The total economic war declared on Russia together with the arms shipments are the consequences. Devastating response => Ukraine gets nuked again harder => more devastating response => NATO gets nuked => … => Armageddon.
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by blub 4y ago
Arming and training Ukraine and including them in NATO all but in name is being a doormat? What about santioning Europe for its own protection to deter NordStream 2? And what about the sanctions against Russia? This appeasement meme is tire
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by blub 4y ago
First of all, it’s not Russia vs. the World, it’s Russia vs. NATO. India has literally said that Europe’s problems are not the world’s problems, China has been officially declared as an enemy of NATO. Africa has not forgotten the suffering
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by blub 4y ago
Yours reads like a comment that even the NATO propaganda department would be too embarrassed to attach their name to. In a nuclear conflict between the US and Russia, Europe would be wiped out. UK, France, Germany, Italy and other countries
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by blub 4y ago
Georgia is doing better than Ukraine and so is Crimea. Surrender seems to be not as apocalyptic as claimed by those with an interest in getting NATO even more involved in this war.
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by blub 4y ago
This is a rather obscure US and possibly UK concept which I’ve barely heard of in Europe. I’d rather not assume law doesn’t mean law and order doesn’t mean order because the eternal D vs. R divide transforms normal words into a bat to smack
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by blub 4y ago
I don’t think there’s any automotive manufacturer crazy enough to use Rust in safety-critical components. They have to have air-tight documentation and Rust is neither certified nor a proven solution in this space.
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by blub 4y ago
Given that Rust prevents invalid memory accesses and enables fearless concurrency, this is probably caused by some kind of memory leak or deadlock. In this case, the older blinks are possibly not deallocated and slow down the processing of
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by blub 4y ago
Like I said, it depends on the available set of moves. If #1 is +1 and #2 is +0.7, but the cheater wanted to play #5 at -0.5 then that’s an outcome-changing difference. Chess engines like Hiarcs can show a series of good, ok, questionable a
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by blub 4y ago
If there are several good moves, it seems logical to cheat by not picking the computer’s top choice.
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by blub 4y ago
On the one hand law and order are the solution that democratic societies based on rule of law have found for fighting crime and solving conflicts. It’s quite literally the best system humanity has come up with. The alternatives are militias
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by blub 4y ago
People that don’t want to get hit by stray bullets in gang shootings probably love law and order more than close minded people. Very weird thing to say by the way, as if law and order are somehow bad and only bad people would love such thin
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by blub 4y ago
No, only getting nuked with them does with 100% certainty.
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by blub 4y ago
On the mid/long term they want Taiwan back into the fold. And the US and oddly the EU seem to be ready to start a war over that. Which, like I’ve said we can’t win. The US and Russia were inspecting each-other’s nuclear stockpiles and
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by blub 4y ago
Ukraine was strongly under Russia’s influence for most of its independent history. Given the behavior at the beginning of the invasion, it seems that the Russians were attempting a coup, likely followed by establishing some military presenc
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by blub 4y ago
We can look at other countries which are under Russia’s influence or were attacked by Russia such as Georgia, Belarus or Ukraine in its two phases before 2014 and also before 2022. No deathcamps. In general occupation is less violent than a
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by blub 4y ago
You’ve said that the only alternative to fighting is being in a deathcamp. Please post proof of “deathcamps” in Ukraine where families are being systematically murdered. I’m aware of filtration camps: https://www.hrw.org/rep
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by blub 4y ago
We cannot win against Russia and we cannot win against China. The performance of their regular army is not deciding, because they have an immense nuclear arsenal. It seems to me that we’re sticking our heads in the sand and either like to j
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by blub 4y ago
Considering the continuous escalation, Ukraine may end up in such a horrendous state, that it would make losing the war from the beginning look like an appealing alternative. Not to mention the risk of nuclear extinction which is very high.
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by blub 4y ago
Yes, he was wrong, can happen. It’s also unrelated to his claims about US agencies and US democracy. Why must he be a saint? He did more than most will do their entire lives already.
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by blub 4y ago
Why should he? He’s not Jesus or the world police.

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