I know it as a book. I think I saw the movie once, but wasn’t impressed. The book is a very good introduction to philosophy.

Edit: I just realized that I was talking about “Sophie’s world”, not “Sophie’s choice” so ignore my comment.

Russia is a North Korean client state now.

I think he has incredible interviewing skill. The guests are often not very interesting though, although they sometimes have absolute gems. The one that surprised me the most was Naomi Campbell. That woman is way smarter than I ever would’ve guessed.

I think the crisis moment for Ukraine has passed mostly. The threat of a breakthrough from a couple of months ago is not gone, but stalled long enough to shore up the defensive lines and have ammunition and supplies delivered from the west (and let’s be honest here, that is still for 90% coming from the US). The strategy for Ukraine should now be to hold line and hit the supply lines.

The sanctions that were implemented take time to really bite and you start seeing the results of these more and more.

One thing I think Ukraine should do is start recruiting mercenaries from Nepal and other places where Russia is recruiting. Since they’re not (or rather “probably would not”) be thrown in the meat grinder, I think that after some time they can dry up those sources too, while at the same time addresing some of their own manpower issues.

For me, Lemmy is a bit of a mixed bag, but I’m still not returning to being active on reddit. Lemmy is very tech centric and sometimes it’s a bit much. While I am interested in tech, I am also interested in art, literature, history and sports. For those subjects there aren’t many posts and no, I don’t want to create and mod a community. I’m just not that type of person.

I do go on reddit sometimes, when I’m bored with Lemmy or when I want to know more about a specific subject that is non-existent or very niche here. But without user account. All in all it’s ok here, and it’s growing. It will probably slowly continue to grow, but it’s probably too complicated to go mainstream, which is a good thing imo to maintain the quality of the platform, but a bad thing for content diversity.

No it isn’t

I disagree with that sentiment. The West was willing to put up with a lot of crap from CCP, but the refusal to allow a somewhat level playing ground, the tying of the fixed exchange rate of the remnibi to the dollar and the growing hostility and aggression towards Taiwan caused a lot of mistrust to grow and fester. When you look at the early 2000’s, the West was willing to play ball, just as it was playing ball with Russia at that time. Authoritarian strongmen are the issue here, not the West’s attitudes towards those respective nations.

Leaf him alone!

I fully support a ban on bottom trawling. It’s a super destructive form of fishing and should never have been allowed in the first place.

So we should not pay more attention to parties with a ton of authoritarian tendencies compared to a party that has one or two viewpoints that may be construed as authoritarian?

I will posit my question in the nicest way I can think off. Are you fucking retarded?!?

The best thing to do when you fall off a horse, is climb straight back up on it. Rejecting almost limitless power because of an accident almost 40 years ago is foolish to me. Luckily research didn’t completely stop and modern plants are a lot safer with a lot of medical applications for the waste.

You need to upgrade your browser skills.

I almost want to see him try, because invading Taiwan is more likely to ruin the communist party than the Taiwanese government.

I did some (limited) research into this some years ago and found blendle.com, although I never made the jump to try it. Iirc I thought at the time the price per article was too high. They are dutch so primarily focused on the dutch market and the proposition seems ok for dutch users (10€/month unlimited articles). For US users it’s still pay as you go, but no idea on the cost.

But it’s literally that idea: you buy credits and through their app/site you access the articles you want, paying for a specific article if it’s a paid one.

I’m quite a voracious reader, so the pay as you go is not that interesting for me I think. I just use a variety of paid and unpaid sources to get my news.

That’s because both Ukraine and Russia are about to have a generation that is much smaller in numbers due to the lingering effects of WW2. Especially Ukraine is hesitant of throwing that generation into the meat grinder of war and it is speculated that this was one of the factors regarding the timing of this war, because in a way it was now or never for Russia.

Ork ork ork, you eat soup with a … ?

No, that is unacceptable discourse! You may disagree strongly with them, but by dehumanizing them with such statements you prove yourself no better than them. They are not animals or things, they are people with very different views, with emphasis on people.

Yep, exactly the same. Has saved my ass on an occasion or two when changing the uplink config.

But attack helis just seem so fragile. They’re relatively easy targets and don’t add all that much extra. Transport heli’s are way more useful. Hell, even in civilization games heli’s are weak.

I told this to my wife, who is now reconsidering our marriage.