protomolecule

I'm Russian.

>arming Mexican cartels

It would hurt Mexicans and just plain evil.

>Only way to peacefully coexist with Russia is by either becoming their puppet

Finland has been peacefully coexisting with USSR and Russia for almost 80 years after the WW2.

>would be supplying all its neighbours with big pile of nuclear weapons

Russia could do that too. Starting with Cuba, for example. Think of every country the US ever invaded or bombed having nukes and the means to deliver them to the US.

"...measuring CPU usage at the subroutine level rather than at the overall service level. However, if this 0.005% regression originates from a single subroutine that consumes 0.1% of the total CPU, the relative change at the subroutine level is 0.005% / 0.1% = 5%, which is much more substantial. Consequently, small regressions are easier to detect at the subroutine level."

Good point, be safe.

Because it shows the weakness of the argument.

Yes, Russian economy will crash after the war, just like American after the end of WW2.

The lowest unemployment ever, some redistribution of wealth in favor of workers in the military industry and soldiers.

Sudden drops of the blood glucose level aren't good for health.

In Russia programmers working at accredited IT-companies are safe from mobilization [0]

> I think that's a pretty strong indication of the sentiment.

Some left following their western employers, some fled from the mobilization in 2022.

>And wrt the economy, didn't the Central Bank just increase the benchmark rate to 21%

It did, that's why I said 'mostly'. Kremlin is pumping money into defense industry and into payments to contract soldiers, the Central Bank is doing what it can to curb the inflation. Overall it hasn't affected the life much.

[0] https://www.gosuslugi.ru/armydelay

>If you shoot up in your veins

Which is a sure way to find yourself in a hypoglycemic coma.

Most likely Stiver emigrated in the 90s for economic reasons -- Russia was in shambles. There are about 11 millions of emigrants of Russian origin [0], but I highly doubt that many will come back even if tomorrow we get a new liberal president.

[0] https://publications.iom.int/system/files/pdf/WMR-2022.pdf

>So it's tragically possible that Ukraine could end up worse than Tokyo by the time hostilities finally cease.

I seriously doubt that.

>Although Russian strategy already seems to target any part of Kiev that can be hit, civilian or not.

Not really, but one can get that impression from reading the NY Times and the likes.

Here is a good example of the Western atrocity propaganda: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/06/world/europe/russia-ukrai...

See the big picture at the top? Clearly it's some kind of mall damaged by senseless and cruel Russian strike that cannot have any other purpose but to terrorize population of Kharkiv into submission.

Next look at the first video here: https://t.me/ASupersharij/28133

The place should look familiar, only now you can see destroyed MLRS vehicle (there were two, but the second one got evaporated: https://t.me/aleksandr_skif/3150)

>Isn't there some possibility that this tendency has been retained evolutionarily or culturally to some extent today

Sure, but there is an opposite tendency too and it's not going anywhere barring catastrophic changes like famine due to global warming.

>> If you say that all hells are made equal, I won't agree

>Not how a discussion works.

So you do say that? Can I ask you something? Where would you rather be: in the fire-bombed Tokio or anywhere in the Ukraine now?

>you already have a belief that your work is morally correct

Or you don't care about morals. Or you are evil.

They just don't know how exponents work

Kurzweil would disagree)

Good luck 'pouncing at China' then. We'll stay aside and grab some popcorn. Or maybe we'll give a helping hand. To China.

Legacy code in a dynamically typed language is never good.

Do the Chinese call it English Whispers?

Well, the polls show that Western countries are viewed overwhelmingly negatively. That's quite a way from 1991, when the US had an 80-90% approval rating in the eyes of Russians.

On the other hand, some Russians distinguish between Western governments and people, and understand that most people are fooled by propaganda and are not genuine Russophobes.

>I'm gonna ignore your whataboutism.

It's just that your analogy goes further than you thought.

>WW1 liberated them

And what happened to other ethnicities living on the lands of Greater Romania? As I already said, Romanian fascists genocided Jews on the lands that you say belong to Romania.

No, they were anything but peaceful. [0][1]

>And there was no war for 50+ years.

There is still no war between Russia and the US.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis#Averted_n...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War#Kennedy's_escalati...

>bunch of regions inhabited by Romanians

And by others too.

>so they were free to unite

Were they free not to unite?

>Sort of like the original United States of America if you wish.

Well, USoA genocided Native Americans, even now their life expectancy is 15 years less than in the whole US.

>GREATEST EMPIRE OF ALL TIME

That will be Mongolian empire.

>As for Ukraine and NATO, who's Russia to decide what other countries do?

Who was the US in 1962 to decide what Cuba and the USSR do?

>Ukrainians should probably organize a referendum and decide for themselves what they want now, not in 2008

Sadly, the time for that has passed, now it is war that decides what will happen.

I believe we are still quite similar -- the same individualistic society with mostly short-term thinking. Demographically we are down just like West too.

It seems Putin sees religion and traditional values as a way to prop birth rate, so in this regard we are likely to diverge more.

In terms of control of speech on the internet it seems that West is catching up to Russia.

That's just what came to mind first.

A bureaucrat in the government saw an opportunity to get extra budget money to manage. Most likely will end with nothing, perhaps some money will be allocated and embezzled.

So you think 36% is not a lot and I agree.

What do you think about whopping 34% that in 2008 supported the bid to join NATO submitted by the Ukrainian president, who came to power after the so called Orange Revolution? Or 'it is different'?

"The Institute for Strategic Research poll asked the following question: “The Russian leadership has put forward the condition that in order for Russia to have good neighborly relations with Ukraine, Ukraine must renounce its intent to join NATO. What do you think, should Ukraine agree to this?” While 45.4 percent supported renouncing the goal of NATO membership, 33.6 percent replied negatively and 21 percent were unable to answer." [0]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20080912143617/http://www.jamest...

Compared to dying in millions for American interests. Thanks, still no.

Yep, BigMac is real, 'real dollar GDP' is not.