I don’t know that Ukraine could have done this well in 2014, even with help. They had 8 years to prepare for the next round that they knew was coming.

Well, yes. But I meant for medical purposes, not judicial.

It’s actually really valuable. It can be a great alternative to a tracheotomy.

I don’t know if this is in practice yet, but I’ve heard of it in recent years.

Delicious. (I’m in Ohio.)

All the governments?

The point is that if you’re going to keep blackmail, you have to share with the government.

The easy answer is to stop keeping blackmail.

Economics 101 has taught the supply/demand curve forever. Really it’s the barriers to entry lesson that’s much more important.

It’s rare that prices are based on costs. We’re not Amish. Prices are based on what companies can get you to pay and how easy it is for them to prevent too much competition. (If it’s just a little competition, all sides will implicitly agree that higher prices are better for all of them).

They think people are too dumb to understand that zero is not the target for inflation. They want to make the good news they’re reporting sound like good news.

You can disagree with their approach, but where they’re coming from makes sense. After all, the OP in the screenshot exists.

Just to give a concrete example, there are a couple blatantly political posts on !fediverse. Do they belong there? Absolutely not. But by the time I saw them days later, the damage was done and they were already taken care of by downvotes. Should I really mod remove a week old post with 50 downvotes? The discussion there about why it didn’t belong was fine, and didn’t need to be hidden further.

If votes are anonymous and federated, it’s very easy for me to add or subtract 900 votes from whatever I want.

You should consider anything you do on social media to be public. Even if Facebook tries to claim that it’s not.

At least this advice should always be paired with classes at a shooting range.

Be clear that it’s not the pictures that are the problem. It’s the threat.

You mean like if they went all tankie? Or like AOL email? This has already happened several times before and it’s fine. Google could kill gmail in six months and we’d all move on.

There’s absolutely nothing wrong with a little centralization in your federation. It works well enough for email. The point is that you have the option, not that you have to use it.

You don’t have to trade one extreme for the other. In fact, I think this is the perfect example of that. Lemmy.ml is the developers’ instance, and by default would likely be the largest. Except… you know. Many, many people started there before going to other instances, especially the largest competitor.

I’ve heard Kursk has the gas pipeline to Europe.

Yeah, no. Life doesn’t work like that. You can have empathy for Russian soldiers while still hoping they lose the war.

It’s very much a “sucks to be you, but you shouldn’t be there” situation.

Guys, guys, guys. I know a surefire way to get Ukrainian troops out of Russia immediately. Putin, call me.

It’s the Olympics and they’re near the end. Almost nobody else is taking serious precautions at this point.

How do you think he caught it? He’s not the only source of Covid at the Olympics.

Same

I regret it but what can you do. We were young and dumb.

I don’t think there’s much that can be done for Russia using nuclear missiles on their own territory

It’s a great way for Russia to instantly lose the war. How fast do you think the EU gets involved when they have radiation on their borders?