It’s worth keeping in mind that this was a war of attrition. Everybody who was motivated to fight against Russia signed up to join the army early on. Most of those people are now dead. The AFU is now reduced to grabbing people off the street and forcing them to fight. Most people who are left in Ukraine just want the war to be over and they don’t actually care whether Ukraine is going to be under Russian or western influence going forward. The only option NATO has left at this point is to go directly to war with Russia.

meanwhile in the real world, nice of you to out yourself as a supporter of slavery so we can know that it’s safe to ignore your bleatings

https://www.historicly.net/p/tibet-china-and-the-violent-reaction

People who have been wrong about absolutely everything over the past two years are sure to be right this time.

Given that Russia is now reindustrializing as the result of the war, seems like the opposite would be happening.

While Russia is unlikely to occupy all of Ukraine, they’re certainly capable of demilitarizing Ukraine and putting in a Russia friendly government in charge of whatever remains of Ukraine in the end. Ultimately, the core motivation for the war was to keep NATO out of Ukraine. Stopping short of that would not solve the underlying problem.

Again, Germany is nowhere close to becoming car free in the foreseeable future. Nobody is arguing against expanding rail networks, what’s being said is that since cars are obviously not going anywhere it is better to use electric cars than gas powered ones.

Electric cars aren’t the solution, but they are a big practical improvement on gas cars, and thus a necessary step in the transition. Getting rid of cars will require major structural changes in society that aren’t even on the horizon.

Boilerplate is bad because it’s fundamentally just noise. When you read the code you want to be able to tell what the purpose of the code is and what the problem it solves. Ideally, code should be expressing that as clearly as possible. Having a lot of boilerplate is typically an indication that the language semantics don’t allow you to express the solution in a clear way and you have to write a lot of incidental code. The more code you have to read the more cognitive overhead there is in understanding it and keeping it all in your head.

don’t let the door hit you on the way out

Maybe the US should tell Israel to stop invading Lebanon instead.

It’s too bad that absolutely nothing will be learned from this experience in the west.

I find DRY often turns into an antipattern because decoupling is far more important than code reuse in practice. Having a function that supports many different code paths can make it very brittle because any changes to it need to consider all the possible use cases. However, if you have two separate functions that are similar, but can evolve independently then you don’t have that problem. As a rule, it’s better to duplicate code first, and then extract parts that turn out to be general purpose functionality once that’s identified through usage, and to put that code into libraries.

you already have

cry ab it

I mean to say that people who can’t see that the west lost the war against Russia and the obvious repercussions of that for the west will be shocked by what Todd is saying and see it as an aberration.

that’s not the colonial way

Turns out that the EU cares about a trade war with China a lot more than the environmental crisis. Why could’ve guessed.

fuck the USA

lmfao hard to think of a better example of a country tampering with its monetary system than the US printing trillions of dollars every few years 🤡

That’s true for small countries that US is able to dominate economically and militarily. That is not possible to do with countries like Russia, India, or China. This is what it means to live in a multipolar world. The US is no longer the top dog who can just go around doing whatever it wants.