Wow, that was some supreme both-sides shit.

Hm. I guess that makws sense. So the Russians are in a better position technologically while probably weaker in manpower than in the beginning of the war. But the tech could probably offset that. Economically they’re probably overall benefitting from shifting directly to Chinese products that have much lower profit margins than what they used to pay for European and US goods that flooded in after 1991. So their PPP ratio is probably rising. Would be interesting to see if that’s borne out in data. If they’re able to make more missiles, drones and such for less, in a sustainable fashion, then I guess there is a reason for building up deterrent manufacturing in the EU to counter it.

On a Jan. 8, 2025 episode of Two Nice Jewish Boys, he said “the Gazans” should rule Gaza, and continued: “What they want is to survive like cockroaches. In other words, ‘you can’t destroy us,’ which is true, and they say cockroaches will even survive a nuclear war. But they have not done anything for themselves.”

“They’re not a productive people […] Whatever they have, they will weaponize.”

It’s like copy-pasta from the writings of European colonizers of North America on indigenous people, but worse.

Once you start making legitimately good espresso, drinking coffee out becomes problematic. 😂

Like a … taxi company or something.

This is fucking amazing.

E: The ratio… - https://xcancel.com/ZohranKMamdani/status/1944832025652871492

I don’t know. Honestly probably nothing. I think the commies rightfully see EU and US capitalist democracies as being one bad election away from fascism and for a good reason. Examining the trajectories of our politoeconomic systems, we have been on that trend for a long time now. We’re not doing anything meaningful to stop it. So from their perspective, they understand that our capitalist systems are unsustainable and they understand the right ideologues are diametrically opposed to socialism around the world and have used military and economic force against it in the 20th century. I’m pretty sure they see this happening again, aimed at them and they would need to be able to protect themselves. Having a gas station or two that are isolated from the rest of the world is a great asset in this scenario. So I think the best we could do is getting Russia to agree to some compromise which would most likely include significant land loss for Ukraine. Unless there’s a military solution that someone is willing and able to fight. Maybe if the US goes full in weapons supply to Ukraine. Don’t know.

So at least they’re half-honest about this not being a productivity thing. On one hand thay say - help with the turnaround (productivity), but on the other they contradict it with letting people quit voluntarily (cost saving). So then it’s pretty obvious it’s about the latter.

Too many things masquerading as centrist these days.

Final versions are an illusion. 😄

If the cost of panels drops significantly, there would be more capital available to spend on inverters, even if they stay at the current prices, still decreasing the cost of deployment. But yes. 😄

Why would they stop supporting Russia? China has been under economic attack by the US for three administrations now and the US has been encircling them with military bases. The EU hasn’t helped. From Chinese perspective, their sovereignty is not assured and it’s doubtful that the EU or the US would demonstrate new friendship if they stopped supporting Russia. In that case, throwing one of their main sources of fossil fuels and a giant buffer under the bus doesn’t seem like a good proposition. In a war scenario with the US, the oil shipments from the Gulf are likely to stop one way or another which makes Russian fossil fuels that much more important.

Doubtful as losing Russia means they lose one of their sources of cheap fossil fuels, decreasing their redundancy and increasing input costs across China. The material gain they have in Taiwan is TSMC. However they can replicate that given time, and they can function without sub-7nm silicon till then. Meanwhile they would have major trouble if their fossil inputs increase in price significantly. I think Taiwan is more of a political goal and a long term at that.

Leftist parties who won the most seats during the last election, saving the country from a Le Pen government. An election he triggered. And then he did what @povoq@slrpnk.net described.

Correct me if I’m wrong but couldn’t the EU part of NATO have halted Russia’s “special military operation” in the very beginning, if they had actually decided to go in Ukraine? I seem to recall they didn’t want to go in because of various reasons, but I don’t think lack of military capability was one of them. Instead they decided to trickle in weapons as to “not be involved.” Did anything of significance change so that Europe is suddenly super weak militarily against Russia? I guess Europe is weak against the US, but that’s not quite the framing used.

Or perhaps replace the leadership that fucked up. Defunding the public broadcaster would likely result in more power to pro-Israeli capital over media, not less.

BTW, the nightly has been great for a while.

The only gripe I have with the 15 branch is there’s no way to put shortcuts from Private Space onto the home screen. I think that behaviour comes from Launcher3 and Lawnchair haven’t implemented / changed it to make it possible.

Keep telling people about Mastodon. Don’t push them. Just explain that this is a result of BlueSky being VC funded and more will follow just like it did with Twitter, Facebook and so on. Add that Mastodon is open source run by multiple non-profits around the world so if one fails, the rest would pickup the slack. Conclude with - if they want to stop having to uproot their network every so often, Mastodon is their best bet for microblogging.

How many times have we watched this movie? At this point these ceasefire negotiations feel more like hasbara than actual attempts to stop the killing.

Whatever the repo is setup with.