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  • That’s fine, people with dignity don’t have “leaders”. That’s about JD too.

    And there are feedbacks in human societies, meaning that AfD and such would have much less popularity if, first, they had a less stinky alternative as “counter-system” parties, second, were not given publicity as a scarecrow, third, were not given media pressure.

    It’s natural that in some conditions people run from the political mainstream and want something not associated with that swamp. It’s also natural that “black PR” is still PR, it puts AfD (or someone else) on a list of associations in one’s mind as being against that mainstream (no matter how fascist or populist). And it’s also natural that when you see media pressure, you want to push back.

    People making decisions love to think in directions, but in fact thinking in categories and weights between them is better. Like with diversifying investments. If you invest a lot in the left-vs-right dynamic, no matter which side, the results are unpredictable, but you affect their possible magnitude, the more you invest, the more it is. So if someone puts a lot of pressure “to fight fascism”, they might cause a rebirth of fascism that wouldn’t have happened otherwise.

    For the same reason I’m still not sure Trump is worse for Ukraine than someone else. You have to end the war at some point. If there’s no military way to restore Ukraine’s sovereignty over all of its territory, that may realistically be attempted, then that won’t happen anyway. They are not suggesting Ukraine to recognize annexation, but even if they were, the old world order is dying, and formal sovereignty in the UN might do little good in future. Some things they say suggest they may do for Ukraine a lot of what Ukrainians love to dream about in terms of restoration and armaments. Just - also controlling Russia by allowing it to sell its resources again. Probably with a deal worse for Russia than before, and the resulting prices might be less competitive than before.






  • emulating some fucking redstone calculator they wrote in Minecraft

    Let’s stop right here for a bit. With redstone in Minecraft you can make the same logical constructs that in real world lead from a bipolar transistor to a machine capable of decoding your porn in real time. And people, including kids, do design those.

    Please show some respect.

    Those who make calculators in Minecraft are not the dumb kind.

    Literally no other dimenstions of values to add, shit I would be fucking surprised if a single one of the people writing the goddamn have ever heard of OLAP.

    But yes, weird to expect almost college kids to have the experience needed. I can imagine some of them having the necessary education, but for a data analyst the mathematical basis is simple and the rest is experience.


  • Looking tanned can be a stereotype about being rich and successful (“from the elite”), can be about being hardworking (“from the people”), can be about being energetic and decisive (strength, efficiency).

    Anyway, their cosmetics don’t yet look uglier than those from Russian “council of the federation” photos.

    Seems not the most important thing. Having bad taste is not a crime.




  • That, and either getting Linux versions of industry standard software (Microsoft 365, Adobe CS, 3DS Max, etc) or decent support through Wine/Proton.

    You won’t. Industry doesn’t want to waste money to port such enormous legacy codebases to Linux, when most people still run Windows.

    Windows has to become a minority OS first.

    And anti-cheat - I don’t like it, but it seems there will be working kernel-level anticheats for Linux.

    You forgot hardware support, nice that it seems not an issue for some people today, but Linux hardware support is still not there. Drivers for Windows are made by manufacturers, drivers for Linux are often made by Linux developers.











  • Anyone insane enough to start a nuclear war may decide that absorbing a hundred or so nukes isn’t so bad when they have hundreds of Cold War era bunkers and thousands of their own nukes.

    Russian bureaucrats may think that about the rest of the population, but fortunately even they are not dumb enough to believe in having safety in those bunkers (time passes, things rot, materials decay).

    So Russia really using nukes is for a situation where somebody making decisions believes there will be no retaliation.

    Considering that throwing your friends and allies to the wolves has become a really common thing in modern world, just like plainly disregarding any kind of agreements or international laws or moral principles, I think such a situation is possible.

    And with the cucked way France’s foreign policy seems to work recently, and with the too realpolitik-style UK foreign policy, one might imagine a situation where both are not very active.

    Also bureaucrats of various countries are class brothers. A bureaucrat, even a German or a French one, understands Putin and Xi better than somebody democratically elected. And Germany is traditionally (last 30 years I mean) friendly with Russia.

    No conclusion.