Goddam when Czechia and Slovakia split, I thought Slovakia would introduce a softer form of capitalism a bit like Scandinavia. With their slogans of more social policies.
But instead they fuck it up, and kiss up to the totalitarian regime of Russia instead. Like WTF?
Russia is not social society, it's an authoritarian society and always was. Social Democracy like Scandinavia are social societies.

I personally consider this probably my worst and most obvious misunderstanding of political rhetoric ever. 😜

Yes they do, it all depends on what level of losses and economic pain they are willing to endure.
I'm estimating Russians have lost at least 10% of their purchasing power in 2024, but this year will be worse. Construction and investments in production will come to an almost complete halt, so lost productivity cannot be renewed, and prices on energy, food and housing will all increase dramatically.
Most Russians are not very rich, so they will feel it pretty bad.

Yes but the post I responded to completely turned around. So that's fine for me. Probably someone thought my comment wasn't necessary, but obviously it was for some, since it changed the voting both instantly and completely.

Americans are indoctrinated with values of individual freedom to a degree where Malignant narcissism has become a virtue, and it shows throughout all aspects of society.
Everything that benefit common good is demonized. Like food stamps, social welfare, healthcare for all, protection of minorities, lack of union rights, insane gun rights, and abolishing free abortion, and even sex education.
It's in everything American in society, and USA is so far removed from other developed countries it's more like a very poor developing country in many aspects.
It's all about oppressing the non privileged, to give more privileges to the already privileged.

Now people are even getting away with claiming slavery wasn't so bad!!

IDK why you are downvoted, maybe it's the double negative?

But just to make it clear, keep from losing = winning.
So corrected for double negative:

The level of idiotic selfish spitefulness required for him to win..

And yes I agree completely, it's insane he even had a chance, and it says a LOT about the American society as a whole is mentally ill.

Not everybody, but enough to make it a systemic problem throughout everything in society. It must be hell to live in USA as a normal person!

Desværre tror jeg hun har ret.
Selvom vi ikke er i direkte krig, er det værre end den kolde krig. Rusland fører hybrid krig, og vi kan ikke blive ved med nærmest at ignorere det faktum.

»Jeg er enig i den grundlæggende analyse. Jeg tror ikke på, at to procent er nok,« siger Mette Frederiksen.

Så tilsyneladende kan vi forvente en fordobling af forsvarsbudgettet pga. Ruslands opførsel!
Tillykke Rusland, i har nu opnået alt det i påstod i ville forhindre, NATO er udvidet og stærkere end nogensinde, og jeres økonomi og militær er i ruiner, og i har skubbet Ukraine 100% mod vest.

Putin vil blive husket som den værste zar nogensinde i Russisk historie.

Blame Garland

And Biden, and democrats in congress for not pushing to fucking get it done for 2 years.
And Pelosi for preventing any action and protecting Trump while he was president, and she was majority leader.
And Mueller for making a mockery of the special investigation, dragging it out for years, and then having done just about the narrowest investigation possible, and letting traitors walk despite clear evidence.

It's fucking incompetence all the way through, to a degree it must be perceived as maliciousness, and that both parties are in on it.

Goddam I'm happy to live in a country that doesn't effectively have a 2 party system. I cannot fathom how Americans tolerate their idiotic flawed democracy for almost 250 years now! Isn't it about time to modernize? And yet American politicians boast of their democracy and claim to protect democracy around the world, when they fucking can't even figure it out for their own country!

Congratulations to the American people, for having the guts to elect a crazy criminal malignant narcissist idiot for president.
I doubt many places would have the guts to do that.
To be entirely honest, this makes me doubt we will make it as a species.

Well I don't really disagree with anything you write here, but you must be aware that much of what you claim now, is contradictory to the article I criticized in many ways.

It’s very arrogant IMO to claim Ukrainian leadership is incompetent and flawed

I didn’t, though

But this was the very first comment from the article I quoted:

Ukraine’s professional military core eroded, replaced by mobilized teachers, drivers, farmers, and IT workers.

That's very demeaning of the Ukrtainian army and leadership.
But now you apparently agree the criticism in the article is exaggerated?

So what are we actually disagreeing on?
The article is trash, and you show nothing to contradict that, seems like you just had a knee jerk reaction.

Ah yes of course, I just haven't used manual mount for almost a decade. So I completely forgot we used to do that. I have to unmount it first though, because USB sticks are automatically mounted.

Maybe you are right, there was a lot of debate about it already at the time. They knew they would lose it, so I considered it an exploit of a good defensive position for as long as possible.
Maybe they stayed a bit too long, but to be fair, we don't see all the things they have to take into consideration. Maybe you are right that they could have done better. But they definitely also could have done a lot worse.

We just had a case here (Denmark) where 2 companies were putting a "No PFOA" labels on their frying pans. But they've been told by authorities that that's illegal, because it's misleading advertising since PFOA is illegal in EU.
Thy got off with a warning, but in case of repeat offenses they will be fined.

But USA is much different, and many "confuse the consumer" strategies do not seem to be generally illegal "over there".

Strategic how?

It was crucial to show the Russian people that they are not invulnerable, and expose the Russian war propaganda. It was a strategically clever move, which I myself thought looked like an opportunity before they did it, as Russia apparently were leaving areas seemingly relatively poorly defended, probably because they thought a Ukrainian attack into Russia was unthinkable under the conditions of western support.
Another way it's a good move IMO, is that for a period of time, a significant part of the war has been on Russian ground, which eases the pressure on Ukrainian land.

Admittedly I thought the effect in Russia would have been bigger, but apparently Russian propaganda is quite effective despite being downright moronic at times.

It's very arrogant IMO to claim Ukrainian leadership is incompetent and flawed, considering they have managed to hold back a many times bigger force that had prepared for this war for years. And despite that they still hold after almost 3 years now, and it looks like Russia is the more likely to lose.

it has cost highly skilled and well equipped troops

Obviously, but how do you propose to defend against Russia without losses?
Ukraine has done extremely well, way better than anyone could reasonably have expected.
How do you imagine they could have done better? Surrender?

Seems you somehow skipped the 2nd part:

and tactical retreat was done to avoid unnecessary losses.

Yes that's annoying too, I have no clue why it does that, but when the sync says "clear", I always wait a couple seconds, and run sync again a couple of times, to see if it's actually finished. And only THEN unmount the stick.
Copy to USB does not seem very solid on Linux IMO. So I also ALWAYS buy sticks with activity LED.
But even that can fool you, sometimes when I think a smaller copy is finished, because the LED stops blinking, it suddenly starts up again, after having paused for about 1½ second?!?!

noatime

Oh boy, yes I remember I used to disable that shit ages ago in fstab, that's quite annoying that's still necessary!!!
How do you do that for USB sticks?

except linux waits on updating the UI until all write buffers are flushed, whereas Windows does not.

I wish that were true here. But when I copy to USB the file manager ( XFCE/Thunar ) shows the copy is finished and closes the copy notifications way way before it's even half done, when I copy movies to a stick.
I use fast USB 3 stick on USB 3 port, and I don't get anywhere near the write speed the stick manufacturer claims. So I always open a terminal and run sync, to see when it's actually finished.

I hate to the extreme when systems don't account for write cache before claiming a copy is finished, it's such an ancient problem we've had since the 90's, and I find it embarrassing that such problems still exist on modern systems.

Blind faith is what led to the 2023 counteroffensive being such a failure

That is more than a year ago, and the lesson was absolutely learned.

Bahkmut, Kursk, and the dogged bridgehead across the Dnipro by ZPP in 2023-2024 are just a few examples of moves that cost an outsized quantity of SF/men and materiel

Not true, Bakhmut cost Russians way more, and tactical retreat was done to avoid unnecessary losses. Kursk was a strategic crucial victory for many reasons.

The situations are not comparable.

It’s a meat grinder for everyone,

False equivalence

no end in sight.

Russia is definitely collapsing as we "speak", the war chest is empty, so although we can't say exactly when, Russia will not be able to continue for much longer.

Although 3D is nice, it simply doesn’t seem to be sufficient incentive to put up with the isolation from other people and the surrounding environment that the viewing equipment invariably requires.

This is spot on IMO, the technologies are now good enough at producing realistic 3D experiences even interactive, that if there were no inconveniences I'd bet it would be about as popular as color was when that became reality.