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The West was making real inroads with Russia before Putin came along.

It’s the same with every dictator there has ever been, they have to manufacture a war in order to justify their iron fist.

Capitalism isn’t the best by any stretch but one of the things it’s good at is making people realise that they will be much better off financially cooperating than having a pointless little war. War generates profits for the military industrial complex, but for everyone else they cost money.

Trickle down is based on the mistaken assumption that rich people will spend all their money in the local community. When often they don’t spend their money at all and just save it, and when they do spend it it’s on expensive yachts in Monaco. They’re not contributing to the economy in which they live.

The millionaire class were delighted when they saw this idiotic take and pushed its narrative knowing full well that it would be to their advantage.

I don’t think I’ve ever heard it called a trickle up economics but yeah, it would work because most people have no choice but to spend locally. If I got some money from the government I would buy food in the local supermarket or get my house redecorated by a local tradesman.

Various tests of UBI have shown that it doesn’t really increase laziness beyond the base level it was already at, after all it’s mostly the rich who are lazy anyway, as they’re the only ones who have the resources. All it really happens is people want more time off work because they can subsidise their income with UBI, but that is an expected and desired outcome as it means more people will be employed to cover the difference which gets more people in work and therefore paying taxes.

Do they mean latex gloves like you might use in a hospital or do they mean actual rubber gloves you would use for washing up. Need to makes any sense.

I had to send an email telling people that part of the installation process of a new application is that they need to restart the computer. Restarting the computer involves clicking the power button and clicking shutdown, closing the lid and then immediately opening it again is not restarting it.

I’ve worked there for years now and I’m still unclear on the hierarchy. I think they’re both the same level of authority but I honestly could be wrong, the organisation is an absolute mess.

You can tell when you work for a big multinational because it’s never clear who’s in charge. If you know what’s going on you’re not working for an important enough organisation.

So to be clear I “report” to the manager that I actually like. What I’m supposed to be doing I have no idea about. Given that I’ve never actually got in trouble for withholding information I assume that the other guy isn’t my direct line manager. But it really is all up in the air.

One of my managers is like that, I’ve known him for about 5 years and he’s been the biggest idiot I’ve ever met the entire time. But ever since AI came out he’s turned it up to 11.

Fortunately my other manager can’t stand him, and they have blazing arguments, so generally speaking if he tells me to do something I don’t like / want to do, I go and tattle tell.

Animals would be preferable. I reckon a chipmunk would be able to understand the instructions, it’s only humans that fuck it up that bad.

Because who else would raise a support ticket because the first name field doesn’t allow emoji? Or ask for a Braille language option, it’s still English Karen, it’s basically just a font, and there’s no point anyway without a braille output, just putting the dots on the screen isn’t helpful. That one got closed as it “won’t fix” since there’s no one in the organisation who’s blind and it’s mostly a hardware problem anyway.

What’s your point? =/= Isn’t the “not equals to” term, it’s !=

Just as ≥ isn’t available, so you have >= and ≈ is not on the keyboard, so we have ==

Formal logical operators require the you to press the alt key and enter a numerical sequence on the keypad. If I had to type the logical operators with alt codes it would slow me down.

No it’s because you can’t type the not equal symbol very easily. If you type it it won’t work because most compilers aren’t expecting it.

But you know your fact is nicer than the boring reality

To be honest you don’t need to either of them. You can just upload images to your own instance unless some instances have disabled image uploading?

That second paragraph might as well be written in Cyrillic for all the sense it made. Do I want to know what gone mild goblin girls look like, I feel like I don’t, but I’m also morbidly curious.

That’s a really high quality photo for 2003. Most photographs from that time were early digital cameras and tended to max out about 720p resolution. It also doesn’t look like a scanned photograph because there’s no grain.

Everyone in any position of authority in Russia is on the take. This means that the capabilities of the Russian military is purely theoretical, on paper Russia is a formidable force, on paper.

They sent troops in without equipment, without ammunition, and without supplies. Not because they didn’t think they would need ammunition and food but because someone nicked them all back in 08 and everyone in the military is too scared of Putin to tell him this. Probably because they were the ones that took some of it.

Meanwhile, I’m eagerly waiting for the local Tankie to, once again, explain how so much death is justified by the dire threat Ukraine

Great, now they’ve turned up.

If anyone in the Trump administration had any brains at all, this would have been obvious from the outset.

The only people who can see advantage to Ukraine seeding territory to Russia, is Russia. Everyone else involved can see what a monumental tactical error that would be. Especially since everybody knows the only reason Russia is even at the negotiating table is because they are desperate, given that is the case, there is zero reason to capitulate.

I wonder what Israel’s long-term plan is. Because if they achieve their objective and wipe out Gaza then they’re going to be international pariahs for pretty much the rest of history.

Regardless of what governments made decide there is going to be extreme social pressure for businesses to not work with them, and the thing is they represent such a small market it isn’t worth the inevitable boycott doing business with them would result in. The Israeli government have to know this, civilians living in Israel must know this, yet here we are.

They learn the important lesson. Be the ones doing it, don’t be the ones it’s happening too.

Deesi

Why would consumer electronics be radiation hardened? But I didn’t to say that we can’t do radiation hardened robots it’s just that these ones won’t be it.

Cats also get huge pupils if they get excited. Which if you have the right kind of cat it can get excited by a paint chip on the door. Also those cats are in a box, which is just super exciting.