Maybe it’s powered by Strong AI? That would make it extremely powerful… or strong… or something?

The agreement was made under Biden, but Trump could have blocked them being send. It’s a good sign that he didn’t.

Well if Putin says so it must be true. /s

Or rather Putin is a notorious liar, and a narcissist, meaning his lies have a specific purpose, and that is to put himself in better light.

Are you sure? Russia draft from when they are 18, and it’s claimed many at the front have less than 6 months training.
Teenager = 13-19 years.

Even if Russia send most young soldiers to non combat areas, I seriously doubt that the priority is the safety of the soldiers, considering the meat wave tactics they use, and the fact that they keep pushing despite horrendous losses.

If you buy heat pumps for the house, and make the electricity with gas, about half the energy making the electricity is lost, but when the heat pump heats the house, it’s 5 times more efficient.
So the net result is that it requires less than half the gas to heat the house with heat pumps, even if the electricity is made with gas.

Heat pumps are brilliant. 🥰

So why would Zelensky announce that?
It could of course be to calm Ukrainians. Or maybe a kind of praise to Trump to make him feel more friendly towards Ukraine.

But my guess is the real reason is to sour Putin on Trump, so when Trump finally meets Putin it won’t be a friendly meeting.

Here’s a Reuters story on it.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/slovak-protests-build-rebuke-pm-ficos-russian-tilt-2025-01-24/

Headline:

Slovak protests grow in rebuke of PM Fico’s Russian tilt

News stories are of course everywhere, but I like how this one tells the key fact that it’s because of Fico’s pro Russia policy in the headline. 👍

Go Slovakia, may you be successful restoring democratic values to your country.

PS:
For those who might not know, Fico is deeply corrupt, and disappeared for days, only to have pictures identified to be from a Vietnamese extremely expensive Luxury Hotel Suite. There is no doubt he enjoys personal benefits from Putin.

Flagship phones are crap IMO, my personal hatred for glass as a material used unnecessarily for the back is immense.
Glass sucks in every aspect, it’s slippery, it’s heavier, it’s a finger print magnet, and it’s fragile in a place where you can choose synthetics that are better in every way.
Losing the jack and SD cards suck too, and preventing replaceable batteries is so bad, it’s actually illegal in EU from 2027. I have no idea why that couldn’t have been sooner.

https://www.euronews.com/green/2023/06/22/new-eu-law-to-force-smartphone-makers-to-build-easily-replaceable-batteries

The rules will come into force in 2027.

I’m so sick of this, that I’ve decided NO WAY I’m buying a flagship next time, despite I absolutely love features like an amazing camera and screen.

But they can piss right off with their bullshit, pardon my French.
I bet a manufacturer could get sales advertising that it’s NOT a glass back, and that it HAS mini-jack.
But I also miss the notification LED, how did they figure it was a good idea to remove that too???

The weird thing is they ALL do this shit? Where’s the competition on maintaining well established functions? A mini jack doesn’t prevent use of wireless earphones, but lack of it absolutely prevents the use of wired ones.

This thing they call “off budget funding scheme” is actually a mechanism Russia has used for many years way before the invasion of Ukraine.

Basically Russia allow the military industrial complex to export weapons for profit. This helps finance development and allow the Russian government to purchase equipment at prices they basically dictate themselves, generally at a loss to manufacturers. So exports are required to keep the system going.

After the Invasion exports have plummeted, in part because Russia use everything themselves, and in part because Russian equipment was exposed as not being as good as advertised. This has caused huge deficits in Russian weapons industry, so they have had to borrow to cover their expenses.

This fact has been covered many places already, where weapons industry normally benefit from increased budgets of war, that is not the case in Russia.
I suppose it can be seen as an “off budget funding scheme”, where Russia is actually undermining their own defense industry.

This is opposite Ukraine that has a more traditional approach, and probably the reason we see more innovation from Ukraine than from the 3-4 times richer and more populous Russia.

It’s not that the article is wrong per se, the observation is correct, but it is taken from a different indirect angle/perspective than the usual. But absolutely, the debt build-up and lack of profits in the Russian military industrial complex will be a huge problem, that the government will need to solve somehow and soon. Either cover the debts, or accept to lose most of their military industry in a future not too far away.

It can absolutely also be said that this scheme hides the real cost to the Russian economy. I think that’s probably the best and most important point of the article. The war is actually way more expensive than it seems from the official budgets.
And I’m pretty sure Russian military industry will never quite recover to its former “glory” before the war with Ukraine.

Nope there was a survey recently, that showed a clear majority among Republican voters support Ukraine.
Unfortunately that is not the case for Trump and the crazy MAGA crowd. And they are the ones running the show.
Some of them are probably also delusional enough to believe Trump will help Ukraine with the peace plan Trump claims to have. Despite every sane person knows Trump will just demand Ukraine to yield, because they are not getting any more help.

Of course the support for Ukraine is bigger among Democrat voters, but that doesn’t change that there also is a clear majority among Republican voters.

Just because you are still voting Biden, doesn’t mean you don’t care.
It just means you still don’t want the raving malignant narcissist Trump.
Any somewhat normal person would be the obvious choice over Trump. Any person who is not clearly a traitor to USA and Democracy would be preferable to Trump.

If copying is not theft, then we have the rights to copy their software

No we don’t, copying copyrighted material is copyright infringement. Which is illegal. that does not make it theft though.
Oversimplifying the issue makes for an uninformed debate.

copying is not theft

OK, and how does that relate to the option between Trump and Biden? When Trump would obviously be much much worse.
I’m talking actual alternatives, you are talking bullshit fantasies, daydreaming that hopefully the world was a better place.
Your argument may have a place, but not where it comes to the choice between Biden and Trump.

I’m not sure what kind of mindset is required to make such a comment, when Biden has actually tried to moderate Israel, and Trump and his MAGA crowd absolutely don’t give a shit and actively support the genocide, and would support Israel even more.

So please try to explain in some fashion that has a shred of reason, what your thoughts are behind that comment.

Still if the options are between somewhat senile Biden, or raving malignant narcissist Trump, there is no doubt for me who is the better choice.

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This is why I as a multi billionaire believe we need to work on plan B on Mars.
I know that won’t help the billions of people left on Earth, but at least they can die peacefully, knowing that the richest people will have a chance.
/s

“There is little evidence to justify the widespread assumption that willing participation in pedophilia hurts children.”

But per the quote in the meme above, you can’t have willing participation, it is always coerced.

And you still don’t provide sources.

I agree, the phrasing is bad, but that doesn’t change that if you read it carefully, the meaning is clear.
There is absolutely no reasonable basis for claiming he is defending pedophiles, when what he does is the direct opposite, by logically proving that a common defense they use is invalid, because you can never claim to know participation is voluntary. It is per definition coerced.