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Wow! For my money, this might be the most beautiful footage ever recorded.

Which makes me wonder, what do others think is the most beautiful video of all?

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So then just say “poor people”. I’m always surprised at how many well meaning people actually project racist views unintentionally.

And by the way, many “people of color” groups outperform white people both academically and economically. Asians Americans, for instance.

> Know any people of color? They're screwed

Uh what? Do you really not see how racist this is???

He broke the law. He fled the country to avoid the rule of law. He sought refuge in a country run by a criminal syndicate that is presided over by a madman ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

The key distinction is that they own a lot of Apple stock, but not enough to call people who work at Apple their own employees.

I don't think that is sound logic.

As disgusting and insane as this invasion of Ukraine is, the current state of European treaties would not necessitate a world war as an outcome.

Putin, the evil war making scum that he is, has been explicit for DECADES that the armament and NATO flirtation with Ukraine is completely unacceptable to Russia, Russia sees Ukraine as a buffer zone against the West, and that Ukraine belongs in the Russian sphere of influence. History does not disagree with him. Ukraine was for centuries part of the Russian empire and then the Soviet Union. Ukraine has a large population of ethnically and/or culturally Russian peoples. All of these facts have been known and communicated for many years. In fact, these are some of the reasons Ukraine has never been on the path to NATO membership.

In other words, while we can and should condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it does not, per se, set us on a deterministic path to a world war.

Quoting Obama circa 2016:

"The fact is that Ukraine, which is a non-NATO country, is going to be vulnerable to military domination by Russia no matter what we do."

From the article:

> * Ukraine is not a NATO ally, and the alliance is not treaty-bound to protect it.*

I suspect risking a military engagement between NATO and Russia would be to risk a world war.

This is a case of people putting their conscience before their wallets when it really matters–a true act of bravery.

People of JetBrains, I salute you.

I think you're not understanding. While a bunch of people losing money is bad, it wouldn't create another Great Depression, per se. A huge investment bank with millions of counterparties going under absolutely could cause massive, long term damage to both the financial markets and the real economy. For example, people losing their hats in crypto wouldn't cause commercial paper markets to dry up. A big IB going down almost did in 2008. That would have resulted in huge businesses that employed, collectively, millions of people becoming effectively insolvent. Now you're talking about a Great Depression. Big difference. This is where the keyword "systemic" comes into play–as in, this entity is a critical node in the system. Its collapse could jeopardize the system.