Have I said the latter? I don’t think I have. I just said they’re doing jack shit.

But sure, do continue wasting resources counseling with people like Guriev to figure out which Turkish front company to sanction next, it’s almost as entertaining to watch as the yes-men here talking about how financing another shitty film will surely make Russians care about the government’s agenda xd

I’ve been hearing this exact thing for the past 2 years and frankly I can’t say anything’s fundamentally changed here, with the exception of a food prices increase that’s more in line with the rest of the world than anything.

Y’all are on copium. Maybe of a lower grade than whatever Sergei “Another sanctions package will surely break Russia’s economy, fr this time” Guriev and his army of pocket statesmen use, but still some hard hitting stuff.

The issue in that whole proposition lies within this one single sentence

Business software is written for windows

Nowadays, practically all companies are moving towards either SaaS, or in house web services. The pandemic has killed native enterprise apps, for better or for worse.

Windows only has decent presence because it’s reasonably easy to integrated Windows machines into corporate structures. The moment Apple taps into that market, it’s all over. We’ve seen that with Google basically ruining the school market for Microsoft by doing that, and it will happen again.

british people act like having slightly worse prices is worde than being bombed lol

I don’t want to disappoint, but…

why link the far right shit boiler?

damn that’s a rare China W

Funnily enough, Flipper did exactly that and the Zero is still doing fine. It’s a loophole, but it does seem to be working fine-ish.

HDMI Forum have instead resorted to taking GPU manufacturers hostage because they don’t want any specs leaking, that’s why AMD were denied being allowed to support latest HDMI in their free Linux drivers.

An emphasis on implementing DRM technology that makes it hard to use a capture card.

Well, DP supports HDCP too.

that’s… not how gps works, y’know?

the satellites only send out signal, they don’t care about the ground

gun manufacturer warns that guns can kill people

because meat is mostly fat and protein and is thus calorically dense and filling, and has a bunch of nutrients that are really hard to come by in plants (eg cobalamin)

if you exclude meat (as well as eggs and dairy) from your diet, you’ll absolutely need to take supplements to cover those nutrients… and they’re usually made from animal byproducts anyway

like, humans are omnivores. you’re supposed to eat plants and meat alike. cutting meat out might be a good choice morally (after all, what’s the point of eating at all if it brings you mental anguish?) but it’s not like you’re physiologically a different kind after that

upd. not gonna spam replies but i wasn’t talking about whether or not calorie density is good nowadays, i was just talking about why humans eat meat at all

speaking even as an “ai” hater, even the worst LLM hallucination isn’t nearly as bad as purpose made clickbait

this is all well and good when we’re talking about a properly elastic market (eg food)

however, the supply of hosted enterprise video conference software is extremely limited (teams, zoom, google meet) and the demand is extremely high

moreover, switching providers and reeducating the staff will also be highly expensive

you can’t exactly go anywhere else, you just have to agree to whatever msft is doing

in theory it should be somewhat more responsive because there’s no sandboxing or containerization going on, nix operates with tools that are much more straightforward

as useful as ever big guy

russian secret services are only good at imprisoning students and listening in on the phone calls criticizing the war

god forbid they actually have to do anything useful

is widely understood to be the option that results in the fewest casualties

Western economists thought that sanctioning Russia was the best option to instantly win the war. If you still think that, you’re on some heavy copium. Or you directly benefit from the money spent on directing the whatever-the-fuck-th sanctions package.

Your scenarios of doom presume that one sub could destroy the west. You assume that we would not be able to defend against their attempted launch when we’ve spent decades investing in top secret defense systems for this exact scenario.

And what if you were wrong? You’re not playing around with fucking rocks, a few warheads of the thousands is enough to wipe the life from this rock.

You assume Putin’s delivery systems will function after decades of maintenance by notorious black market scalpers. You assume Russian soldiers would be willing to erase their families for Putin’s attack order.

Some won’t function, some will. It’s not like it’s 6000 something nukes that are gonna get stuck in silos lmao. Also, soldiers are nothing if not good at making idiotic decisions when asked to do so.

A conventional first strike means very few, if any, of Russia’s delivery systems would launch. It is extremely unlikely that any of them (if any were to actually launch, given all of the roadblocks I’ve mentioned) would make it to a target.

Instead of half the world being instantly turned to glass, it’s only gonna be some random unfortunate places. How sweet. Can’t wait till a nuke drops on Ohio and the serious generals residing in bunkers shrug and tell everyone that it could’ve been worse.

Additionally, every soldier and leader in a warhead firing position knows an attempted launch of any nukes would result in nuclear annihilation of Moscow, St. Petersburg and other cities. They also know that not launching means saving the lives of their families.

Back to the point above, soldiers are fucking dumb. You don’t join the military because you’re the brightest person around, you join the military because you’re not needed anywhere else.

If we strike first (conventionally), it is extremely likely that we will suffer no casualties at all and it will also limit the casualties suffered by Russia.

“Extremely likely” means “we don’t really care if someone in the middle of nowhere gets glassed, we just need to prove our mighty military might.”

stop sniffing glue

the last time they stopped saying sorry, we’ve had to write the geneva convention