This!
Oh good I hate that tiny little enter key.
This!
Oh good I hate that tiny little enter key.
It’s not just about if Russia can manage without Europe/USA, it’s about Europe managing without Russia.
So ok, China and India actively supports and essentially bankrolls Russias colonization strategy and this might show as growth. So in short, it’s possible for Putin to rearrange his business, sell oil below market price, and show growth, but in the long run its not a viable solution to run a country on.
Add to this the cost of war and loss of manpower. 3-400 000 might seem like a small amount of people when Russia has a population of 147 000 000. But it’s not. It’s Russia slowly slowly depleating their civilian workforce in a situation where Russia has a declining birth rate with 2023 being the lowest since 2014.
So if shit was going so great, Russian salaries would have skyrocketed and Russia would have their top model tanks on the battlefield but none of that is happening. Instead we see a lot of weird shit from the former Soviet Union on the battlefield. Add to this that back in October there were a lot of press about Russians having less money for necessities than anytime in the last 5 years.
So while Putin has seen no change in quality of life, rest assured that the average Russian has less money to spend on necessities.
Remember: Putin and his friends has been peddling the “everything is A-okay”-bullshit for over a year now but it’s just propaganda. Even though there might be periods where Russian economy looks like it’s going great it’s just not true for the long perspective.
When you get chemo it kills both ordinary cells and cancer cells. However, the body is normally capable of producing more cells than a tumor which means that with enough time more tumor than body will disappear.
While we hurt, Russia hurts more and that’s a good thing.
The system in question is called Primula and it is know to be a Swiss cheese.
No one that knows anything about IT and security is surprised.
Single Sign On doesn’t mean that “American BigTech Servers” have to be used.
Essentially, for the users, it means that an account for site A can be used to login on site B because site A and site B trust each other.
A concept to Google if one wants to know more is “federated login”.
Russia doesn’t want peace. Russia wants Ukraine.
What are you going to use then?
As a Swede I just wish Ulf sent a sms to Jens:
Ok guys, we tried our best but we didn’t succeed. We refuse to let our security be a pawn in some silly game.
Ps. Joe, your kids are misbehaving. Our offer to help you guys still stands. Call us when they start to behave.
…and then just stopped answering calls from Jens, Erdogan and Orban for a week or two…
That’s not how you gain more power…
Do you agree with the following statement? Hamas targeted and attaacked “non combatants” on the 7th of October?
This is a simple yes / no question about whether you agree with the above statement.
Edit: One day later and still no reply. Normal thinking people are able to conclude that one bad thing doesn’t automatically cancel out another bad thing. Whether Israel/IDF do bad things or not has nothing to do with the fact that Hamas attacked and executed civilians and non combatants on the 7th October.
Not being able to admit that “your team” isn’t perfect just makes you look like a fanatic.
So the whole thing about colonization is actually not a biggie for India after all?
I’ve written this in other threads so it will just be a repetition for a lot of you who are following how the story unfolds.
Here in Sweden we don’t have any laws defining “minimum wage” and some laws regulating things like minimum amount of vacation days can be “replaced” in an agreement.
Now, the idea is that the parties of the labour market, employers and employees should deal with these issues because politicians should stay the f*** away from things they know nothing about. The agreement is normally renegotiated by the employer organisations (yes, the employers are also organized here) and employee organisations (unions) every 2-3 years. While signing an collective agreement is not mandatory it is still expected. It’s the norm.
In my experience employers refuse to agree on collective minimums is because they want to be able to do whatever they want with their employees.
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I run my game on one desktop… Swap quickly to the second desktop with Ctrl+win+right/left, open Firefox and Google whatever I need and then back into the game…
Aaaaah … Doing it the American way… Fantastic! I need to pop some more popcorn.
I’m confident that Tesla will get their license plates eventually. Eventually.
Unpopular opinion: For more than 90% of the population a car with an Otto engine volume of less than 1.5l is enough. Anuthing above should be taxed heavily.
I think it’s funny that you failed to understand what I wrote and couldn’t let go of the 5 percent…
Russia has a population is around 140 million… As for now around 300000 Russian soldiers have been wounded or killed. That’s like… 0.2% of the Russian population. With a father, mother, sibling, wife and friends affected with a wounded or killed Russian soldier the percentage of involuntarily negatively affected people would reach beyond 1%.
How big were the wild protests did you say? Did 20% of the population take part in protesting, maybe not because of the innocent people if Ukraina but for the extreme amount of casualties affecting Russian families in this unprovoked aggression? No? Not 20%?
10%?
5%?
Maybe we should just conclude that the majority of the Russian people are not willing to sacrifice anything of their own for the sake of justice…
Because that’s where democracy and justice most often starts:
You sacrificing something that benefits you for the rights and/or justice of another person.
TheGrayZone.com according to Wikipedia:
The website, initially founded as The Grayzone Project, was affiliated with AlterNet before becoming independent in early 2018. It is known for its critical coverage of the US and its foreign policy, misleading reporting, and sympathetic coverage of authoritarian regimes The Grayzone has downplayed or denied the Chinese government’s human rights abuses against Uyghurs, published conspiracy theories about Venezuela, Xinjiang, Syria, and other regions, and published pro-Russian propaganda during the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
To date, the Hamas government is only economically bonded with the Ramallah-based Palestinian National Authority, performing the governing over the Gaza Strip independently.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governance_of_the_Gaza_Strip
This is just one of many signs of the Russian economy booming!