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[–] doo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

From Wikipedia

with a secret protocol establishing Soviet and German spheres of influence across Eastern Europe.

Yes, it was in the title, but what really mattered was the "you take this part, I take the other".

While both were planning to attack the other when the moment is right. Nazis were better at planning. What a surprise.

[–] doo@sh.itjust.works 38 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Ah, sweet. I believe Finland joined Nazis after the winter war. Fascinatingly enough, during the winter war, the country that was on the side of Nazis was ... Soviet Union!

I'm still fascinated that soviets managed to play a victim card in a war that they started themselves.

[–] doo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 5 days ago

Talk to a professional. Burnout at work is often a result of caring about something that is out of one's control. Which means that just getting some rest and coming back into the same environment will bring the burnout back.

In other words, you need to rest, but also change the pattern that led you there. Unfortunately changing jobs will likely mean it all will come back. It's not your fault, but only you can learn to do things differently.

[–] doo@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Looks like it's still android, which is still Linux.

[–] doo@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Well, windows UI is historically terrible, while apple at least used to pay attention to the UI/UX. I wouldn't blame people preferring a window manager which doesn't randomly steal focus.

[–] doo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Please don't mistake empathy and compassion with inaction. Each ruzzian soldier has a family and a life. Each of them deserves our compassion and sympathy after they stop fighting. Ether via surrender, injury or death. In that order of preference.

The "it's not that simple" argument has been puzzling me since the moment of the full invasion. I must confess having family and friends in Ukraine, really helped with the perspective.

See, just when it started, I saw pictures of people walking for hours and days with tiny suitcases, trying to escape death. Walking into a complete unknown, which is still mostly the case for them even today.

In the other hand I was talking to ruzzians who were against the war, but the extent of their action was from confirming "well, this is awkward" to saying "I would have left, but". Basically also saying it's uncomfortable, but doing something is even more uncomfortable.

And now suddenly they are fighting for their life, but not with a suitcase, but with a machine gun.

So three years later, when I see ruzzians stop fighting because of surrender, injury or death, I feel sorry for the situation they're in, but I also see that they are in this situation because if the choices they were making for the last three years.

And majority of those fighting against Ukraine in Ukraine today are still making a choice to continue. Because the alternative is uncomfortable or even because they want to.

What I concluded regarding empathy is that our approach needs to be that of a surgeon - they know that they will cause damage, but their goal is to minimise the overall damage.

I hope they would choose surrender, but when not, incapacitation and death are our next best options.

[–] doo@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

Dead fuckers in this context

[–] doo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Even if they were somehow forced into this recently (which is not impossible given that there are up to two million slaves in ruzzia), it's already three years since the full scale invasion. They weren't caught by surprise.

Definitely a terrible situation, but far from "poor afraid ruzzians"

[–] doo@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago

Life in prison, I believe

[–] doo@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 week ago

They will happily tell you that they are all about peaceful resolution. Meaning unconditional surrender of Ukraine, which is the ridiculous point.

 

By degrading a near-peer adversary’s military capability, gaining unprecedented battlefield intelligence, and accelerating the testing and development of advanced weapons systems, the U.S. is realizing a Return on Strategic Investment (ROSI) of 321% to 797%

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sanctions work (open.substack.com)
 

2.5 years to halve the reserves, the spend cannot be linear and I also don't think they need to get to zero to have a collapse.

... The economy is being funded by the cash reserves, which increases inflation, which leads to another round of interest rate hikes to combat inflation, which makes it harder to borrow money, which is necessary for economic growth. Eventually, the cash reserves will run out. It took 2.5 years to deplete half the Russian reserves. Russia withdrew $37 billion to cover deficits in December 2022. It withdrew $20 billion to cover deficits in December 2023. It only has $54 billion left.

 

If anything, russia is showing clear signs of sunk-cost fallacy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment

 

In today's #vatniksoup I'll talk about Russian Nazis and introduce Russian neo-Nazi movements and paramilitary groups like Rusich and PMC Wagner. They're best-known for being funded by the Kremlin and being responsible for the "denazification" in Ukraine.

 

So basically, we're waiting for a (hopefully very soon) systemic collapse of moscovite army since they bet both their attack and defence on artillery

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