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[–] doo 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

A hundred dictators is still better than a hundred and one dictator. When one approached a difficult task, it's better to divide it into smaller tasks.

[–] doo 2 points 1 week ago

This difficulty to believe it's actually quite fundamental to what's happening.

If you like, I invite you to imagine what would be the explanation if these numbers were true. (Even adjusted for being dead and wounded)

[–] doo 5 points 1 week ago

101 artillery pieces is also quite something!

[–] doo 2 points 1 week ago

Nope. He just doesn't care. That's much worse.

[–] doo 15 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Once I saw a categorisation I liked. There are three kinds of people: those who know what they want or like, those who know what they don't like and the confused ones.

In other words, it's totally fine even for neurotypicals not too know if something is better than the other, especially when it comes to subjective reactions based on subconscious or feelings.

[–] doo 6 points 3 weeks ago

Yes, the word is used for both meanings. I doubt ruskies are using it to describe their tactics, though.

[–] doo 5 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

If only there were a European country that is investing in the drone technology like their existence depended on it...

[–] doo 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not the OG commenter, but for me this is important because I see how gpt is replacing search, I can imagine they will play an increasing role in news. Which has two sides. One is the fact that people will read news summaries dinner by a system with a bias. Second is writing of the news with the same bias.

We've seen this before. Machine learning systems that were trained on past human decisions also learned biases from those decisions. Court ruling suggestions stronger for black than white. Job applicant analysis favouring men over women. Etc.

There's a good book about that, if you're interested: "Weapons of Math Destruction" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Math_Destruction

[–] doo 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you. I'm glad you see it the way I did.

[–] doo 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Haven't you heard about the human autism detectors? Those people who say: "Oh, but you don't look autistic!"

/s

[–] doo 27 points 2 months ago (4 children)

We’re all sick of the dozens of apps on our phones

That day when I realised I'm not part of "we all".

Do I really need my calculator to have maps function?

[–] doo 19 points 2 months ago

If they're looking for a good location, Hague is just perfect.

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sanctions work (open.substack.com)
submitted 6 months ago by doo to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
 

2.5 years to halve the reserves, the spend cannot be linear and I also don't think they need to get to zero to have a collapse.

... The economy is being funded by the cash reserves, which increases inflation, which leads to another round of interest rate hikes to combat inflation, which makes it harder to borrow money, which is necessary for economic growth. Eventually, the cash reserves will run out. It took 2.5 years to deplete half the Russian reserves. Russia withdrew $37 billion to cover deficits in December 2022. It withdrew $20 billion to cover deficits in December 2023. It only has $54 billion left.

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submitted 8 months ago by doo to c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz
 

If anything, russia is showing clear signs of sunk-cost fallacy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment

 

In today's #vatniksoup I'll talk about Russian Nazis and introduce Russian neo-Nazi movements and paramilitary groups like Rusich and PMC Wagner. They're best-known for being funded by the Kremlin and being responsible for the "denazification" in Ukraine.

 

So basically, we're waiting for a (hopefully very soon) systemic collapse of moscovite army since they bet both their attack and defence on artillery

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Russia's losses 30.06.2023 (s3.amazonaws.com)
submitted 2 years ago by doo to c/ukraine
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