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[–] doo 14 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Ukraine doesn't need that land. russia cannot afford not defending that land. The moment it gets too "expensive" for Ukraine, they withdraw. But that will only happen after russia invests heavily into actually recovering their territory.

It's like in chess when a knight is attacking two pieces at the same time. The one on defense can only choose a smaller loss.

Which is a win for Ukraine.

[–] doo 4 points 7 months ago

Don't tell anyone, but I suspect it's a pc with a GPU. Maybe even a hard drive. Wild!

[–] doo 9 points 7 months ago

These are fantastic artillery numbers. Iirc, russia is an artillery-first military - e.g. shoot a lot or artillery, pause and check with soldiers, repeat as needed.

So the fewer of those they have, the more they rely on guided bombs (which require planes, which are few, wear off and they are steadily losing too) and meat assaults.

[–] doo 2 points 7 months ago

thank you. came to the comments to say exactly this.

cloud could be cheap, but it's a lot of work, or at least attention. people get disappointed with the costs, paradoxically, because cloud is easy and, as you put, versatile. and often between any two options allowing to do the same thing, the easier one will be more expensive.

the biggest irony of the cloud is that many companies it seems, just like different species evolved into crabs, discover that all they need is a couple of own servers in a managed hosting environment, a CDN and outlook.

[–] doo 17 points 8 months ago (3 children)

They actually do. 70% of russians support the war.

[–] doo 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Likely both as they are long past exhausting their active stock

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GT9cdslXIAAagH5?format=jpg&name=900x900

[–] doo 19 points 10 months ago (17 children)

I have both and I think it's better to know, independent of the outcome.

[–] doo 1 points 10 months ago

It's the leaders but with support (both active and passive) from the crowd.

[–] doo 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

That's pretty much the point of banality of evil - you don't need an extraordinary assembly of psychopaths to run a fascist regime. All it takes is a group of loud populists, generally discontent crowd and, boom, you have "make Germany great again".

After ww2 finished, both Germanies discovered that they don't really have enough people without Nazi past that could run the country. So most folks just went back to work to slightly renamed workplaces.

Does that mean they were not complicit? They were and the winners made sure Germans would learn about what they caused.

I guess the only excuse back the was that they didn't know better. But we do.

[–] doo 11 points 10 months ago (10 children)

Here's some read for you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem#Banality_of_evil

Yes, an average russian or Israeli person is not likely to have directly participated in the recent events.

The catch, though, it's that by not opposing the actions of their governments, they DO contribute to the events indirectly. They pay taxes. They work at factories producing weapons. They make the food that the soldiers eat.

On top of that it's not russian government who's currently pulling the triggers and dropping bombs. Just regular folks who just follow orders.

Yes, protesting in russia is not easy, but the war keeps going on because the government sees that people aren't worried too much about it.

And yes, in both countries there are people who actively oppose, but the majority doesn't.

And that majority is complicit.

[–] doo 22 points 11 months ago

Lol. That was my reaction too. "Oh, shit, it's a video - close".

My issue with videos is that they are too slow for relaying information. I'll be ok with it if there would be a two-sentence summary, after reading which I could decide if I want to watch it.

I suspect so that video says it's that phone calls don't relay the body language and that makes it more difficult to understand.

[–] doo 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yup. Music is my main regulation mechanism. For emotions, for concentration, you name it.

And sometimes it's sludge metal, sometimes it's electro swing, sometimes it's jazz Bach.

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