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by vegai_ 5y ago
> the current climate in Western countries is hysterical, emotional and it clouds a lot of things. Sure, but in contrast, the earlier climate was complacent and submissive to all the evil things Putin did during his reign. We might be in
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by vegai_ 5y ago
There's a good point hidden in there, in the Yoda sense. Do or do not; there is no try. I.e. if you wanna join NATO, a lot more energy should be put into joining NATO and far less into talking about joining NATO. But perhaps in real, n
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by vegai_ 5y ago
This is true, yes.
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by vegai_ 5y ago
>He flirted irresponsibly with NATO Ukraine has been wanting to get into NATO since 2008, and really wanted to get into NATO since Russia illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. All this happened before Zelensky's presidency, which starte
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by vegai_ 5y ago
The pattern you're looking for is "when I have an asset in the White House, I don't need to waste huge amounts of resources and global credibility on a stupid and brute military campaign, I can just use the asset." Also
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by vegai_ 5y ago
On laptop, sometimes attached to a larger screen. I estimate that I've spent 10 hours last year on finding and tinkering the best fit software for my use case. But perhaps we have to consider that I've been using Linux in some for
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by vegai_ 5y ago
Sway works pretty much perfectly for everything I throw at it (which is mostly alacritty, emacs, firefox and chromium). If you can stomach minimalism, give it a try. In my opinion, it represents a significantly better UI than Gnome/KDE
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by vegai_ 5y ago
> It won't last, because it depends on maintenance of a paper thin veil on reality which again the body bags tears a hole in. According to some sources (possibly biased), Putin seems to have fixed this potential problem by leaving a
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by vegai_ 5y ago
These days, this is probably the only thing I miss from python when I write Rust.
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by vegai_ 5y ago
> But I'm not glad you characterise me as a troll - its just not true. My comment and especially that part was over the line -- I apologize.
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by vegai_ 5y ago
I bothered taking a look at verisimi's earlier comments. It's absolutely clear that he has a strong pro-Russia position, and given how his account is 6 months old, it's possible that he's here only to spread pro-Russian
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by vegai_ 5y ago
>anti-Russia bias? What does this even mean these days?
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by vegai_ 5y ago
Don't eat.
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by vegai_ 5y ago
That's one option. Another option is that Russia would have swallowed the Baltics like they did to Belarussia and are currently trying to do to Ukraine. In which case the world would not be more peaceful. We would have the exact same p
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by vegai_ 5y ago
NATO was originally created to curb Soviet Union. Then Soviet Union went away, and there was a period of time where it seemed that NATO is no longer needed, because Russia no longer seemed like an offensive and expansionist nation. That the
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by vegai_ 5y ago
Russia: You hate me! World: No we don't. Russia: Don't lie, you hate me! World: Again, no. Russia: punches world in the face World: We hate you. Russia: See, I told you!
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by vegai_ 5y ago
In this scenario, I imagined that they would have totally lost the country and just wanted to do as much damage as possible. But yeah, it was a stupid theory, too bad I cannot delete it anymore. At least it triggered better theories in this
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by vegai_ 5y ago
I know I'm steelmanning like a crazy person right now, but a valid reason for Russia to seize those power plants might be to prevent Ukrainians from using them as huge dirty bombs in a desperate last strike.
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by vegai_ 5y ago
If it becomes bad enough, there'll be a draft. But probably not since the US has plenty of soldiers without one.
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by vegai_ 5y ago
Did they have truthful media in 1917?
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by vegai_ 5y ago
Does NATO membership imply that America owns the country? I haven't witnessed anything like that in any of the European NATO countries.
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by vegai_ 5y ago
That's bleak.
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by vegai_ 5y ago
>gorilla warfare Sorry for being that guy but even though gorilla warfare would be genuinely horrifying, the term is actually guerrilla warfare. Which funnily enough can be translated as "warfare warfare".
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by vegai_ 5y ago
>It's we Russians who are fucked for the rest of our lives. I sincerely hope all this goes away as fast as possible and we all can resume our lives in peace. Including you Russians. I don't see how that can happen with Putin, b
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by vegai_ 5y ago
Key differences: - Ukraine is a democracy (not without its problems but getting better) and part of the west - Casus belli were 95% lies (ok, this one is similar to some US wars) - The attacker uses "culture wars" as casus belli (
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by vegai_ 5y ago
No, that's article 5. This is just(?) a consultation request.
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by vegai_ 5y ago
I love chat software like Slack and Discord. But I gotta say, those products really nailed their product names. Slack. Almost nothing to do with work. Discord. Almost nothing to do with communication.
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by vegai_ 5y ago
I already pay premium for some things for the sake of not being a part of the ad economy. Sam Harris's podcast being one example. How about selling a premium version of Firefox, with polished versions of uMatrix and uBlock included? I
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by vegai_ 5y ago
>Personally, I think Mozilla is getting what they asked for. A continuously increasing revenue seems to be what they're getting currently.
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by vegai_ 5y ago
They are not merely being called nazis, they (=some of them) are nazis. https://www.economist.com/united-states/2022/02/05/the-charm...

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