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realitista,

But think how many fewer cocks it is to deal with.

realitista,

This is just the feel good story I was looking for today.

realitista,

Get used to this being used as a weapon of hybrid warfare by enemies of the west

realitista,

This is one area where I am vehemently in support of IP protection for all the writers and artists’ works being used. Unfortunately, unlike when it comes to suing individuals who copy something, the wholesale theft of generations of art and writing by AI companies is just being let slide.

realitista, (edited )

Yeah but it sounds a lot better than “We’ve pursued a policy of understaffing to save costs”.

realitista,

The company’s valuation in a public company reflects the price that people pay for shares, so it shows the value of the company on the open market. The employees created this value, so it does indicate how much they each created quite accurately. And you would think that they’d at least get a representative percentage of that at least. I mean if you paint a painting and someone pays $1m for it, you get $1m gross. You make the software and IP that’s sold for $100m and you only get $100k a year, that’s kinda wack.

realitista,

The share price literally wouldn’t be what it was if people weren’t literally buying pieces of the company at that price. So it’s very literally saying what the company is worth on the open market. Even with all your obfuscation, that’s still the case.

realitista,

The value of anything is what people are willing to pay for it, full stop.

realitista,

Honestly I can’t argue with that. That’s the reality of the situation. But emotionally they still deserve a bigger piece of what they created.

realitista,

As one of the geeks who built these phone systems back in the '90s, it’s one of my biggest regrets that I didn’t do this.

US to send new $225 million military aid package to Ukraine, officials say (apnews.com)

The U.S. will send about $225 million in military aid to Ukraine, U.S. officials said Thursday, in a new package that includes ammunition Kyiv’s forces could use to strike threats inside Russia to defend the city of Kharkiv from a heavy Russian assault....

realitista,

I think it’s also about depleting Russia to the maximum extent possible.

realitista, (edited )

I thought PS5 and switch were some of the best selling consoles of all time? Just because they are in the later part of their generation now doesn’t change that.

realitista,

Indeed as capitalism and democracy have risen, war deaths have dropped precipitously.

realitista,

fossil fuel

noun

  1. A hydrocarbon-based fuel, such as petroleum, coal, or natural gas, derived from living matter of a previous geologic time.
  2. Any fuel derived from hydrocarbon depositssuch as coal, petroleum, natural gas and, to some extent, peat; these fuels are irreplaceable, and their burning generates the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide.
  3. Fuel consisting of the remains of organisms preserved in rocks in the earth’s crust with high carbon and hydrogen content.

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realitista,

Still better than pulling bullshit out of your ass.

realitista,

This just in, Trump announces he supports a full Israeli annexation of the West Bank.

realitista, (edited )

That’s far from a foregone conclusion. NATO without the US is roughly the same size military as Russia, but Russia is currently massively outproducing NATO without the US and has more soldiers.

And then you have the possibility that when article 5 happens that the NATO allies pussyfoot around again and worry more about their own defense than the NATO alliance defense. In such a case, Putin can go pick off country by country and use them for cannon fodder against the next.

realitista, (edited )

Russia couldn’t go against fucking Ukraine with the help of the entire NATO (including US) stockpile backing it up.

Imagine what those early days would have looked like without MANPADs and man portable anti tank weaponry. Imagine the rest of the war without tanks and artillery systems and air defense. It wouldn’t have lasted long.

The narrative that Russia just sucks is prevalent and fun, but the reality is that it only sucks when the entire West works together to counter it. Fracture that support and it’s a lot more formidable. And it’s learning and becoming much more battle hardened.

realitista, (edited )

Edit: Here is a 2019 article outlining the billions in lethal aid provided to Ukraine before the 2022 invasion. My guess is that more or less all the anti tank and anti aircraft systems you saw being used in 2022 were provided by the west.

I think you are uninformed, friend. This is the equipment that was supplied to Ukraine in the first 4 months of the war. It’s nice to think that they are doing this all on their own, but it’s no truer now than it is when Russia talks about winning WWII. In both cases, it’s only true in the context of massive donations of arms from the west.

Ukraine had tiny amount of MANPADS and man portable anti tank weapons of it’s own. They used orders of magnitude more from the west than they had on their own. Yes, the West’s donations could have been more, but compared to what Ukraine had on their own, it dwarfed it in most areas where it mattered like air defense and anti tank weaponry, which is what turned the tides. Don’t confuse the standard media talking points about the west not doing enough with the reality that it’s still orders of magnitude more than Ukraine could do on their own, even if it is just the West’s old leftovers.

Granted, Russia would have had to fight against a long guerrilla war, but without support from the west, Ukraine would have been ground down over time. I mean even without the US support for just 6 months you started to see the tides turn. Momentum has a way of increasing over time given the same situation. Even for 6 months, all of NATO without the US wasn’t really able to achieve parity with Russia.

I hope this changes. In 3-4 years of grinding down Russia and building up production in Europe, it could. But it’s is dangerously delusional to think that NATO without the US is at all ready for this fight on their own at the present time. No serious expert in the subject that I’ve heard from believes this is the case. NATO’s abilities rest heavily on the US who accounts for 70% of the NATO defense spending. Without it, you are dealing with a bunch of small militaries, all subject to their individual political situations, many who are being taken over by far right parties sympathetic to Russia rather than Ukraine.

realitista,

If you can actually get them. According to the article, it appears that an end user with his own battery system cannot actually get paid to store energy.

realitista,

This just in from the EU’s Department of Stating the Obvious

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange facing pivotal moment in long fight to stay out of US court [ BRIAN MELLEY | May 18, 2024 | Associated Press] (apnews.com)

“Julian has been indicted for receiving, possessing and communicating information to the public of evidence of war crimes committed by the U.S. government,” his wife, Stella Assange, said. “Reporting a crime is never a crime.”

realitista,

Well, to be fair, his biggest leak was probably about the Iraq war, which was an RNC adventure. Though as time went on, it did seem that he started to align with Kremlin social media campaigns.

It’s impossible to tell if this was because he always was working with them as sources or if he was driven to Russia as an out due to being hunted by the west.

realitista,

Wrong community. Try a world news one.

realitista,

Everyone’s fighting over our poo

realitista,

Space burger simulator

realitista,

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realitista,

I prefer a nice chowdered donut myself. https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/8ae872c8-68d9-4d14-8c51-034b1c6b43a7.webp

realitista,

I think that people will start learning this the hard way about the cloud. Some things are too important to trust to store on someone else’s computer.

realitista,

I didn’t try it, but I can confidently answer your question anyway:

Ass.

realitista,

Brain cable management be like https://content.spiceworksstatic.com/service.community/p/topic_images/0000009139/586fc772/attached_image/zoEObSb_(1).png

realitista,

People would just start blaming the politicians for the rampant inflation and reduction in services that a scarcity of workers creates, and then vote in some fascist to “fix” it, first and foremost without allowing immigration. He will overthrow the media and judiciary and “fix” it by starting wars with the neighbors or doing ethnic cleansing at home.

realitista,

Don’t confuse the poor girls, they get enough of this shit from Cosmopolitan and its ilk already.

realitista,

That rock would skip so fucking good, ooooh doggy!

Microsoft says it needs games like Hi-Fi Rush the day after killing its studio (www.theverge.com)

Today, one day after Microsoft announced that it would shut down four of its games studios, Matt Booty, head of Xbox Game Studios, held a town hall to discuss the division’s future goals. “We need smaller games that give us prestige and awards,” Booty told employees, according to internal remarks shared with The Verge....

realitista,

But we need to sell the small innovative companies to someone so that the CEOs can get their payouts, don’t we?

realitista,

Sunflowers and rapeseed can be planted and harvested every year or even multiple times a year, palms cannot.

realitista,

Tap for spoilerShitpost

realitista,

Yet even accounting for all of that, including Chernobyl and Fukushima, nuclear is still 1000x safer than coal and as safe as wind and solar.

realitista,

Germany is actively closing nuclear plants, one of the safest and cleanest energy sources, and replacing them with coal, the most dangerous and dirty one.

realitista,

Coal plants kill more when they work properly than nuclear plants do when they break. Every coal plant is worse than Chernobyl or Fukushima.

realitista,

Nuclear is the solution until all coal plants are shut down. Coal kills millions each year (1000x more than coal) in addition to being a massive contributor to global warming. Nuclear is one of the safest power sources in the world and emits no greenhouse gas.

Shutting down nuclear plants while coal plants still exist is a crime against humanity.

realitista,

Then we can totally agree. It’s not what Germany did though.

realitista, (edited )

If you close a nuclear power plant before closing a coal one, you are effectively replacing the nuclear with coal. It makes no sense to shut down nuclear plants before all the coal ones are shut down first.

And coal use has been going up in Germany. So I don’t know where you are getting these ideas from.

realitista,

Shutting down a nuclear plant while keeping coal ones open is replacing nuclear with coal. And coal use has been going up in Germany. So I don’t know where you are getting these ideas from.

realitista,

Closing a nuclear plant means you keep a coal plant open. So you are in effect replacing nuclear with coal. If you kept the nuclear plant open you could close the coal plants instead. Idiotic move.

realitista,

Honestly even gas should be phased out before nuclear.

realitista,

Every nuclear plant that is closed is a coal or gas plant that could be closed, so yes, coal is replacing it.

realitista,

I’d like to believe that this is true, but after the revelations of how much Merkel and Schroeder were in bed with the oil industry as well as the green party’s role in this, I’m skeptical to say the least.

realitista,

I’d like to believe that this is true, but after the revelations of how much Merkel and Schroeder were in bed with the oil industry as well as the green party’s role in this, I’m skeptical to say the least.

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