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by cmurf 5y ago
Nukes are more effective at preventing wars of aggression than the U.N. To get rid of nukes, that needs to change. The problem is nukes are a consolidation of power, whereas making the U.N. more effective involves a delegation of power. The
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by cmurf 5y ago
I think a prerequisite for having a discussion is recognizing exactly what this is: it's an illegal war of aggression, per the determinations of Nuremberg trials, it is a war of conquest to expand borders. That's what Putin has do
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by cmurf 5y ago
Even if all of that is true, it is still also true that turning Russia into a massively nuclear armed version of North Korea is bad for the world. Eventually the Russians who remain are going to get slowly butchered in their homes. There is
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by cmurf 5y ago
>someone says that BTRFS is more likely to become corrupt with power failures No. If the drive honors flush/FUA, Btrfs is less likely to corrupt data or metadata than overwriting file systems because the interruption won't resu
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by cmurf 5y ago
I agree with all of this, however... Parties to the U.N. Charter need to do better. There is no way back to the stable world, such as it was. And not least of which is, we were wrong about it having been stable. This is too big a violation
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by cmurf 5y ago
There was no active discussion of bringing Ukraine into NATO. Also, wanting to be in NATO (a) is the right of a sovereign nation to decide and (b) does not make that nation Nazis. Putin asserts Ukraine is not sovereign and is full of Nazis
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by cmurf 5y ago
There are still edge cases but I can count on one hand the number of users who have run into it since Fedora switched to Btrfs by default (on desktops) two years ago (and Cloud edition in the most recent Fedora release late last year). The
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by cmurf 5y ago
VDO isn't in the mainline kernel still.
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by cmurf 5y ago
I'm not sure how you prove that ext4 is less likely to become corrupt. But it is easily shown that it's less likely to inform you that there's corruption. Quite a lot of the assumptions of earlier file systems is the hardware
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by cmurf 5y ago
When I was a teen in midwest USA I took a German foreign exchange student to an NFL game. They were mortified at the whole stadium standing to sing the national anthem, thought it was bizarre and scary.
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by cmurf 5y ago
When the war gets more brutal, I expect increasing pressure to shut off the Russian oil and gas spigot. Or instead increase import tariffs so at least the Putin regime isn't able to profit. Either way, it will increase the cost at the
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by cmurf 5y ago
If other billionaires are propping up this corrupt regime, then no. But by the looks of it, most of the Russian billionaires are in a unique position compared to others. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/20
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by cmurf 5y ago
You can sidestep the democracy question by just saying you prefer a polyarchy over monoarchy (or autocracy).
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by cmurf 5y ago
I pretty much think these people are useless wastes of space. If they are still eating, they should consider themselves very lucky. I'd love it if we were creative enough to prove me wrong - leave them with the wealth of the average Ru
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by cmurf 5y ago
There's always this catch-22 with participation. People in America don't think it affects them, so they don't participate. Same thing happened in Russia though. And then suddenly it did. Americans statistically don't vot
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by cmurf 5y ago
I think Russians are responsible, but I do not think they are 100% responsible. But whatever the responsibility is, the punishment will be collective and disproportionate. Some of that will be fair, a lot of it will not be. The young kids t
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by cmurf 5y ago
Dare we forget anytime soon the ~75 million fools who voted for a fool with autocratic tendencies, who's still giving Putin's ego lap dances this week. There's a pile of fools at Fox News being Putin apologists. Out of all th
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by cmurf 5y ago
OK, but Russia withdrew from the ICC. And Ukraine has signed but not ratified. And as Russia can veto a U.N. Security Council resolution referring a crime to the ICC, I'm not sure how this happens? And it seems Russia is not a party to
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by cmurf 5y ago
USSR was a Protocol 1 signatory, but Putin withdrew from Protocol 1 in 2019. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-warcrimes-conventi... This is either a plan for malice or it's incompetency, either way it&#x
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by cmurf 5y ago
Putin told Macron he will continue and go all the way. https://www.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-putin-ne...
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by cmurf 5y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/RadioFreeTom/status/1499241067153... (Navy War College prof, opinions his own.)
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by cmurf 5y ago
Quite a lot of people now have no understanding of the cold war either, considering it old history at best. It is more relevant right now than what's happened between 1991 up until last week. Even if you were paying attention in 2009 a
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by cmurf 5y ago
The sad likely outcome is Russia will kill enough people in Ukraine until they submit. Russia has a long history of indiscriminate massive violence, even against its own. What do we do about it? In my view Russia is outside the U.N. charter
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by cmurf 5y ago
This is completely inconsistent with the U.N. Charter and Geneva Conventions, is a return to the Cold War at best and at worst demands we forget everything we learned from WW1 and 2, sweeping all of that history aside in an apparent attempt
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by cmurf 5y ago
It is untenable for Russia to keep any portion of Ukraine. It's a violation of the Geneva Convention and the U.N. Charter. At worst it could be made neutral territory and put in U.N. peacekeeping troops. Two world wars were fought over
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by cmurf 5y ago
Possible, but risky for China to do that. A dollar buying Chinese made goods, is a dollar China has to buy Russian oil products, is a dollar Russia has to pay soldiers and build more weapons to bomb whoever they're bombing. I'm in
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by cmurf 5y ago
>And that is why [Ukraine's] ‘independence’ could not be respected by Russia. And Russia is not wrong. Fuck this guy. This is a clear violation of the U.N. Charter to which Russia is a signatory. If they don't like it, get out
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by cmurf 5y ago
This is why China and India need to get on board with sanctions. We know what's coming should Russia continue with this attack, let alone escalation... the Russian oil and gas spigot gets turned off. At a certain point, anyone still bu
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by cmurf 5y ago
The west has area areas when it comes to the U.N. Charter, but Putin has gone way over the line to exactly why the U.N. founded to prevent. The west will stick to the multilateral system until nukes drop, and will sooner close the Russian
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by cmurf 5y ago
Anyone buying most anything from Belarus or Russia is funding Russia's war effort. Saudi Arabia refusing to release more oil into global supply keeps prices high and indirectly results in Russia profiting more from each petrol sale. Eu

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