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And in the latest news: Residents of occupied Oleshky who wish to escape to free Ukraine will not be allowed to cross the Dnipro River – which is less than 4 km away. They will be taken to occupied Crimea or to the Russian Federation, where they will be subjected to coercive measures.

NO, the sides are not even close to the same. Stop stanning for Russia

Awesome Screed. Seriously. Particularly on-target in:

>>And then came the greedy grifters. They invested money not just to get returns (they could've gotten returns on any other established field of business), but to gamble for a chance of crazy high returns. They thought software has near-zero marginal cost. They started building walled gardens, to extract rent from users. ... So the advertisement business grew, and with it came the largest assault on the privacy of the general public ever. ... Then they realized they could use this game politics itself. ... then they realized they don't want to pay the workers anymore who support the software. So they turned against the workers.

And organizing a strike may help. But even assuming the best case, your idea spreads like wildfire and 80% of all tech workers touch no keyboards starting mid-November, the likely result is management makes a few changes and lies they are far larger and more permanent than they are in reality, and back to extraction-mining the rest of humanity for private profit.

Perhaps the very best thing would be for tech workers to self-organize to create an EFFECTIVE alternative to the extractive social media currently plaguing society. A new way for people to stay in touch that is easier to use and migrate to than Xitter/BlueSky/Farcebook/etc. (and no, Mastadon ain't it; wish it were, but...). When I try to get people off those sites, they object to not having an as-easy way to stay in touch with people they connect with. Hitting them at the root of their interests —profits— is what will hurt them, and free us.

The residents of the city of Oleshky in the Donbas, who have been literally starving to death under the Russian siege for months would like a word. The Pope managed to arrange a cease-fire long enough to provide food and evacuation, see how long it goes.

You ignore how much prevents Ukrainians from migrating or evacuating temporarily Russian-occupied territories. There is a river with many bridges out, the roads are mined, and the Russians run human safaris hunting civilians. But sure, everyone could have gotten out.

You are also just spewing the standard Russian concern-trolling line about "Russian speakers in Ukraine".

You may be fooling yourself about being some kind of "unbiased" observer, but you aren't fooling anyone else.

Even if your assertion is true (it isn't as accurately described by the sibling poster), this would neither be a weird way of "flexing" it, and does not at all come across as 'showing off' wealth and idleness as you assert.

The post says far more about your envy than anything about the video. Nothing there is out of reach of some years of hard and smart work, and if you adjust your attitude you'll likely find yourself enjoying a similar position in some years. (NB: most tools are available in very good condition at machinery auctions and re-sellers for far less than original price, and his machines are clearly well-cared-for older examples; and he mentioned some donated/loaned from a sponsor.)

Edit: augment the NB

Yup. Forcing technology exchange is exactly what China demanded of the US to get access to its markets, specifically to gain the advantage it now has.

Access to US markets conditioned on full tech exchange with US battery and automakers would be a fair exchange (and would likely require some temporary support of US automakers so they survive the transition).

I think he is talking about talking to users BEFORE coding

At least that is true for my software coding processes; I always found getting the actual coders talking directly to the actual users — not the managers talking to the managers — vastly improved the software delivered along all three axes of schedule, budget, and quality, and dramatically reduced test/redo cycles. Just having the coders in direct contact, they hear about the real used cases, edge cases, and frustrations, and so can make good judgements about many decisions, rather than blind judgements.

All true.

But having full control over your weapons system stack makes every one of those less of a problem.

And watch what happens when China decides it is time to use its backdoors.

What stuns me most is the utter lack of imagination, or even the ability to run through what scenarios are possible — the fact it required some idiot like Musk to actually do it for the politicians to want to act on it just stuns me.

The same is true of Chinese technology, and if anyone thinks China isn't already embedding those kinds of capabilities in consumer goods & infrastructure hardware as well as mil hardware, I'd like to talk to you about some oceanfront property in Kansas I might have for sale.

And to all those who would immediately comment "that's a nonsense accusation, they would never do that" or "that's a biased/racist/nationalist accusation": NO, just look at the reality of what has already been found, I'm not accusing only China - everyone does it, and mostly, you are EXACTLY the same people who didn't understand the threat from US tech companies until Elon actually pulled the switch.

As in the cryptocoin "Not your keys, not your coins", this is:

"Not your tech stack, not your sovereignty"

The EU REALLY needs to step up and build their own tech stack.

Looks like it is starting to happen, and Elon just gave them the most solid reason. This will cost US tech and mil giants $$trillions. Or, they will have to go back to building systems that verifiably have no external control.

Yes, my first thought on reading the headline was: "the result will be they'll just ensure everyone uses some worse AI models".

So only mildly surprised on reading the article to read they are intentionally forcing them onto a specific worse model.

The question you asked (Positing UKR taking parts of RU, etc.) *inherently presumes* the counterfactual of Ukraine being an aggressive, expansionist dictatorship. Ukraine is zero of those things, and the question is irrelevant. But IF the actual UKR had taken significant RU territory, and was offered a peace deal allowing them their full sovereignty and territorial integrity, they would immediately take the deal.

Your mobilization numbers are fantasy, and Putin has held off declaring mobilization not because he thinks he does not need to but because it would require drafting people from the middle classes near Moscow instead of the rural impoverished territories that can be ignored politically. A full mobilization could end him. If he had enough people, he would not be getting soldiers from North Korea and deceiving Africans to put into their meat grinder

Yes, Ukraine has a manpower problems also. They are solving it through innovation. And it is working. Just look at the verified death counts from both sides

You really are a persistent apologist for Putin, not some kind of middle ground arbitor you hold yourself out as.

Thank you for basically acknowledging Putin has zero interest in any peace other than Ukraine's full surrender.

Putin in the immediate term is trying to achieve by talking what he cannot achieve on the battlefield. And NO, Putin does NOT have millions more soldiers available. Russian daily KIAs are accelerating and he's already making deals for more NK troops.

The aggressive moves in Europe, ramping up every kind of hybrid warfare, active measures, and dezinformatsiya pressure they can muster shows the Ukrainians are winning with the deep strikes. Russia can not defend its many soft targets, is already in massive deficit and depleting it's sovereign funds, and will lose much more as Ukraine's new Flamingo missiles come online.

Requires concessions. Right. UKR already TODAY offered to give up 20% of their territory and condemn those Ukrainian residents to the torture and death offered by the Russians. You do not think that is a concession?

What concessions are the Russians making at the 'peace' tables? NONE. The Russians stick to their maximalist demands of taking ALL of the "annexed" oblasts they can not even take with the full might of their (declining) military, AND demand Ukraine basically disarm and become a vassal state.

Where are the Russian concessions? They do not exist.

This alone shows who is the aggressor and who is the defending victim.

Get real.

While it is generally not the brightest move, they might have been thinking it was a tear gas grenade, which are not uncommonly picked up and thrown back at the cops (using thick gloves or a rag). This is because tear gas canisters get hot instead of exploding. I'm not sure I'd be able to tell the difference in under a second and maybe the tear gas reaction was just slow-starting on that one.