I think it varies case by case. Sorry, I don’t believe in a equal and just relationship between the biggest economy in the world and economies that are few order of magnitude smaller. As well as I don’t believe in a relationship between 40 years old man and 17 years old girl.
But let’s imagine that this is a win-win relationship, say between Estonia and NATO. I understand that Estonia is getting from them, but what USA is getting?
I didn’t say that Russia has any just reasons to break any international agreements, because it doesn’t.
However, we’re talking about Minsk II, that looked to me like a good deal for all parties involved, and I think it had the potential to bring peace to these lands first time in 20 years.
To become richer (better maybe not the right word to apply to USA, there are many places that are much better) than USA, you have to have the same military might and ability to influence the whole world. This kind of might is directly connected to capital a state controls, and I don’t see anyone outpacing USA any time soon - the cake has been cut long time ago.
First Minsk agreements were broken, then there was Minsk II that required Ukraine to do specific changes, like federalisation, to which Ukraine leaders agreed, but never proceeded with.
Budapest Memorandum was broken in 2022, Minsk II was in 2015. And Russia is not a side of Minsk agreements, at least not directly.
I don’t think “independent states” applies here, especially right after USSR dissolution. There was a lot of corruption, a lot of capital “redistribution” and outside meddling. They got some feeling of security, but also became a tool of US imperialism and a frontline that supposed to take the first hit/make a first strike.
I would prefer to be in a neutral position.
It’s not a just war, it’s a Russian imperialistic aggression, but let’s not pretend that there weren’t so many enablers and provocateurs on the NATO/US side. Minsk agreements were basically abandoned from the start and no one enforced them, EU ignored Crimea annexation and continued pumping billions of dollars into Russia (you can see these billions now in form of rockets and bombs in Ukraine), NATO has been expanding to the East and antagonising paranoid Russia.
I think we should be critical of any information that is coming from states engaged in the war and their supporters. I imagine Ukraine is generating as much false information as Russia, prime example is information about losses in personnel and equipment, both sides report small numbers of their own losses and astronomical losses suffered by the enemy.
I think we will learn actual truths about this horrific war only after decades has passed and historians will be able to dig out all the Russian crimes, all civilian and militant’s death tolls.
I hope this war will stop as soon as possible, it creates nothing but piles of corpses and destroyed cities. I can’t imagine how Ukraine will build itself up after all this is over.
Because a lot of legacy stuff is written in Matlab. And Octave is not so much slower than Matlab. matlab’s killing features are all those libraries for everything.
And I for example don’t like using matlab - it’s not free (as in freedom), it’s very bulky, GUI is slow and heavy, there’s no way to use it as a console app in linux afaik.
I wouldn’t be so sure about unregulated market “solving” anything, but I definitely agree that current zoning allowing eg only for single-family houses is absolutely unsustainable. It’s impossible for everyone or even majority to live in a separate house.
I think that kind of understanding of “sex is a human right” is one step away from “woman is an object/a service”. And also this “human right” is usually applied to men, but not women. What about woman’s right to have a very attractive sexual partner? Now if have two rights simultaneously, you have a contradiction.
While you’re right, and the guy is an incel, I want to mention that for longer periods of time women were forced into living with men just because it usually was the only way of survival. After emancipation, many men basically lost the single attractive trait they have - having a salary.
So many men who are now experiencing problems with finding a partner now, say due to being a nasty/abusive/uninteresting/unintelligent/ugly, 80-100 years ago would be able to land a wife just by being the only person in the family who could provide. So in 2023, when they have to date equals, who are financially independent, they are experiencing “celibacy”.
Probably because of the economy that isolates people and prevents them from actively engaging with each other. Especially if we’re talking USA where quite a big population is stuck in houses/condos separated from everywhere by a car ride.
I think isolation became even worse after pandemic and WFH.
No reason to turn everything into market, and use blockchain for voting automation or partial governance, especially seeing what clownshow DAOs have been.
I don’t have much experience with CL, but I was always a bit put off by a mixture of different paradigms it has, ie it’s not being a pure or kinda pure functional language.
I’m gonna be doing whatever I’m gonna be doing. Job market changes all the time, and people adapt. I feel pretty secured (at least for some time) for my field, which is a lot of R&N in wireless networks/radio and embedded systems.
My point is that current “AI” is just very well learned models, but it can’t really do intelligent work on its knowledge, can’t innovate, can’t infer, doesn’t have an actual thought process.
I think that “AI” (there is not even a drop of an actual AI in the current technology) is overhyped and barely can handle any of jobs people wanted it to do. It’s maybe good for sketching, be that code, text or images, but not for final product, and won’t be any time soon. As it was with all “AI” products in the past, it’s over advertised by ML bros and grifters.
Who are enablers, people who live their daily lives, go to work, have hobbies? What should they do not to be enablers, take a rifle and go die for a fine cause?
Your links contain no proof of BDS being anti-semitic, just some officials of the US and Germany saying that it’s antisemitic. I can’t say much about Germany, but I feel pretty confident not using USA government as a source of unbiased Israel related opinions.
Putin doesn’t exist on his own and doesn’t act on his own. He has support from FSB, from capital, from right people there and there, he has influence. He can be removed and influenced by many many people.
But you’re right with your assessments that nor parliament nor public protests can do shit with Putin and his goons.