Pretty sure in Germany this had to do with the anti-war movement. Nuclear power is dual-use technology and so a precursor to a nuclear-armed Germany. Apparently Germany could make a nuke within weeks, if they wanted to. So it’s about nuclear non-proliferation and arms control and such.

People are also afraid of accidents and having the nuclear waste spill, of course. Lots of Chernobyl fallout here too.

All oligarchs have connections to the spooks. Tesla is a financial scam basically, so that already explains why it’s stupid and failing.

SpaceX is a military contractor, and they’re trying to sell Starlink as a weapon because it’s way too expensive to launch a satellite into orbit just so it can provide internet to a hundred or whatever people (when it’s not in the middle of nowhere). It makes no sense as civilian infrastructure, who’s going to pay for that? The military loves paying through the nose for that kind of shit.

I’m not sure about instrumental though, it’s not like NATO doesn’t already have radios.

Oh shit good luck, I think this might be fun (for me reading about it that is, not for you probably).

Someone should invent a robot that automates the task of reading so nobody needs to toil in the Dugin mines. I also see great applications for anarchists.

(Just kidding I can’t read and so shouldn’t be throwing stones.)

According to my podcast listening and such (find your own sources tbh) the US funded nationalist (Nazi collaborator) groups fighting the Sovjets after the war, and when these were crushed they funded exiled ultra-nationalist Banderites throughout the cold war.

These far-right exile groups promoted and funded a revionist view of history, which draws a false equivalence between the Nazis and the USSR and tries to rehabilitate Nazi collaborators, Holocaust perpetrators and mass murderers like Stepan Bandera as heroes and freedom fighters against sovjet oppression. In the 90s, this view was adopted in Eastern European countries in order to promote Nationalism and Anti-Communism and reduce Russian influence. The balkanization of the USSR basically.

In the Maidan coup of 2014 these sort of US promoted Nazis were instrumental, and subsequently gained government positions. They then got sent to Eastern Ukraine as paramilitary forces in order to intimidate and fight the protestors and rebels there, since the regular forces weren’t very enthusiastic about that. The funding came from pro-Western oligarchs at first, but they have since been given official status as part of the national guard.

tl;dr They got money from the US, oligarchs and now also the Ukranian state. Communists get a beating.

Press is pushing the talking point that Scholz is weak and indecisive. This is the result of elite infighting. The Industrialists are probably screaming in his ear to stop this escalating madness, while US aligned press try to pummel the govt into submission. He went into silent mode to not give them any more ammo.

I just invented a whole new way of dealing with NP-hard problems you guys! Just reduce them to a free market equilibrium problem, run a couple of rounds of iterative price finding between rational agents and voila, optimal solution!

My pet theory is that he’s afraid of needles and just very good at rationalizing.

They collaborated with the Nazis, massacred Poles and carried out pogroms against Jews. It’s in that very article you linked.

If the US makes wild claims, and I for the life of me cannot figure out why they would do that, that’s not a good enough reason to believe they’re lying. Thinking the the US govt is making quite specific predictions (which will make them look stupid if untrue) because they lost their mind is just plain bad analysis.

When the Americans are lying it’s usually for an easy to see reason and/or it’s way less easily disprovable.

Other than that it’s that Russia’s economic position must be better than I thought. They clearly think they can’t be sanctioned to shit.

He’s got a point on the whole stable base but wanting some up-to-date apps. The experience with Debian’s backports repo is pretty good, I always check that first in this situation. But there’s only some stuff in there, so you have to do a bunch manual compiling or whatever otherwise.

I guess flatpaks are supposed to also fix this, but there’s a ton of bullshit with this. First of all, flatpak downloads one or more mega base packages, basically a full on distro, when I’ve already got a perfectly good stable distro here.

Then I’ve had a bunch integration bugs, and you always have to make an alias or script so you can actually run the thing.

Supposed sandboxing benefits are complete vaporware and by my reckoning Linux desktop app sandboxing will kinda work by 2035. Maybe.

But the biggest problem: I don’t trust upstream developers not to be dipshits. Will they actually update their deps when there’s a security issue with one of them? Are they going to push unstable bleeding edge crap on me with no testing? Try to spring user-hostile anti-features on me?

The Debian package maintainers (and that whole process, really) are like a shield that protects me from this sort of shit. Sidelining them is going to have lots of annoying consequences.