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Read the Independence Act of Ukraine from 1991, a referendum was held on that act by the entire population and approved with a clear majority.
The text clearly states that Ukraine should be independent and neutral status, it shall not join any military block.
By 2013-2014 calls for joining EU which has a defensive clause, effectively are calls to cancel the Independence Act of Ukraine.
Now then, what you said.
Do you also hold that against all the Germans when they started both World War 1, and World War 2? They did nothing. There was no resistance movement within Austria or Germany of any significance to stop their war machines. People where complacent. How did they get away with it? Would you let Russians also get away with it, if they say they are sorry and have changed?
Look at how the crypto-sphere reacted at FEDs returning "stolen" coins to Bitfinex like all praise and "justice served". Only HNers actually raised "hey guys why do you even crypto if FEDs will decide who owns what".
It all ends up being Government-coin and they like it.
I for one am very sad about this news but much more sad about the reaction of "crypto OGs"
Jump has stated they now still have 93 000ETH since they wish it it is so.
By casting a spell, today they also have 93 000 extra ETH. They are saving some of their potions for later time to cast wider spells.
Bitcoin was rolled back at the cost of sending out emails several times.
The masses however can not read out a word to its fullest letter like "cryptocurrency" they stop at "crypt" oh, and say "crypto". These are the people in the "crypto market" now to buy "coins" and "tokens" to get rich because "they believe in it" (but because theyve been told and seen someone made x1000 buying a token and selling it later to someone else) They are like flat earthers and evolution-deniers and "covid is ebola black bubonic plague vaxx everyone 110%" people.
These people can not pick between 1000 coins which one is real innovation in consensus algorithms or whatever, and which one is a scam, like BitConnect or IOTA.
These people know this, so they do the next best thing which is hunt for coins based on logos and overall marketing looks of the coin. This was not enough because the cryptoh projects used fancy words, its easier to just pick on logos, and even easier than logos with a project and website is to trade logos marked as NFTs.
Oh no, the end of the world is upon us, how could the people chose _that_ kind of guy as president. The people where meant to chouse _our_ woman it was _her_ turn.
Ironic really, you are scared of democracy ending yet as main reason why, because democracy worked.
I remember the late 90s doom and "oh no millenium 2000" gloom predictions, and 2012 nostradamus end of the world maya calendar the end is near. I read about the 80s cold war "will go hot nuclear any time" and can be seen in movies like Terminator.
US will not collapse, no nuclear war will happen, climate change is not even the biggest fuckup we are doing (cutting down the amazon is, biodiversity loss overall), but we post-pone the imminent danger from a scheduled Ice Age.
You always, always have a choice. Throw away the victim and obey mentality. Freedom is taken, not served to you.
When someone send you a trojan horse.virus.exe you do not have to open it. Neither do you have to open a convoluted proprietary binary format requiring you to buy a license to read said binary. Politely decline, reject. You have that power.
It really is the grandmother excuse "you the user dont know what the unsubscribe button is doing, so we ask you to wait 3h and confirm 4 times because maybe you are clicking by mistake since you dont know where and what you are clicking".
I never had to justify it, nobody forced me or expected me to be using Office, they expected me to deliver a thesis or other document. When there was the "5% expectation", kindly decline, uninstall.
The road I picked, was not always success or easy, I got failed in high school "informatics" class because I could not show that I could use Office. Twice. I refused to learn Office because I had already learned to produce documents and presentations (websites) with a computer using free open source software.
> Alternatives are not as intuitive, easy to use, or easy to find.
Whats ease is what you have learned. Had you began with Linux since 1999 you would not even know how to do anything on Windows or MacOSX. I literlaly cant even scroll or type on a collegues macbook or find my way around anything. Very hard to use, not intuitive.
The "easy to use intuitive" eventually becomes the dark UX hell it is today, a slow descent. If you accept the software will think for you, well it will. Now you dont have to think, youre not in control, just enjoy the UX dark patterns and ads.
This is why I rarely use the same email address longer than 1 year now or try to manage different accounts for different spam. I just change the password to random crap and forget about that email account, while setting up a new one.
Surprise, after 20 years the developers and managers assume they are building software for retarded un-learnable "grandparents and mothers", the end result is well stupid software.
The choice to not use shit software is easier than going on a strike and demanding 8h work day instead of 14h. Which our ancestors also did, some died for the cause.
I for one, do not use and have not used and especially not payed for user-hostile software, beginning since 2000.
It is possible, you dont really have to accept shit or keep on using shit. Everytime that click feels wrong, that idea seems off, dont click it, close that software suite and uninstall.
You do not have to accept that License.
Nobody is forced to continue using dark-pattern software, nobody was forced to use Apple and tie their credit-card to their "apple cloud account", yet normal users dont see a problem with it at all and just continue even paying for software which is hostile to them and their interests.
Your question is like, "Why does DRM exist it is actively hostile to buyers of content".
Previously the internet was better since the average internet user avoided scams, but now the users are seeking out scams to indulge in.
Say thanks because you are not in the EU and get the cookie and GDPR spam thrown at you as well. Worse than the 1999 popups.