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another_whyon Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

> Nasty surprises seem to happen to people who credibly oppose Putin

I believe, they just don't have/don't want to spend money on showing a real election circus, like in US. Russia is a poor country and making people believe that a cross in a white form means something if you are not a billionaire and can't get billionaires to support you with money, costs a lot.

You have "free press" and "free speech" in the internet, doesn't seem to help much, does it?

another_whyon Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

> I meant all European democracies

Russia is also a European democracy. Surprise

> I think, temporarily[1] until we get this mess sorted. > [1]: In the long run oil and gas prices should probably increase until solar and nuclear power become very profitable.

Won't happen during your lifetime.

another_whyon Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

> Stopping Russia from copying 1930ies Germany and/or recreating USSR.

Russia is a poor country without science, technologies and a fossil fuel economy. Everything left from USSR is already fucked up or a one step from being fucked up. There are no means of production to even think about repeating smth like that. The market fall and the money which will be spent on that new "republic" is already enough to send everything to hell, not even talking about the global market fall. The only place you can get an image of it as an almighty Empire is in tv.

> The last 20 years Russia has been salami slicing Eastern Europe, taking one slice at the time.

The fact that Russia is less poor than other exUSSR republics and could easily conquer them doesn't mean that it has resources for a direct conflict with NATO, but Putin can frown intimidatingly in TV, that's for sure. 150k of military troops my ass.

> BTW: I think it would be a lot more consistent and believable if you didn't - in a short timespan - both try to criticise me for 1.) not wanting to give enough subsidized fuels to Europe 2.) wanting to subsidize fuels for Europe.

what

another_whyon Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

No one is searching for the "ways", it's agreed on. "You can't do this anymore, because we need to win on the next elections, but we won't look here and here, see you in 2 years"

another_whyon Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

Did you ever notice that it's not chess?

another_whyon Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

If you believe in a fairy tale that no one knows whose money going where, in 2022, then yes, sounds very reasonable. Scary Russian billionaires fool poor Europeans by acting through banks, aha. Are you trying to find an excuse for EU and US to NOT take any means to do what they threaten to do? This is bullshit.

another_whyon Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

Stopping from what? And what bigger problems?

another_whyon Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

They show in the news only what they want you to hear. Everything was agreed upon and scheduled long before February, including US,EU,Russia and even Ukraine. Macron was flying all over the world for a reason

another_whyon Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

If there were real plans to sanction people responsible for invasion, they should've sanctioned russian billionaires - cancel their residence, close their companies, liquidate their property, freeze their money in banks, forbid travel. But this looks like they are taking EU money to pay to US gas fracking companies

another_whyon Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

and the surge of gas prices will cause surge on literally everything.

another_whyon Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

Which countries? Higher prices for gas will rise prices for everything, food including.

another_whyon Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

If I remember right, they refused to sign a new contract with Russia and tried to buy it spot as a matter of "economy"

another_whyon Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

Russia can't "shut down the gas supply", that's their only source of income

another_whyon Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

Yeah, lets destroy the planet together. Frecking is green now

another_whyon Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

How noble. What about poor European countries, will you pay for their gas too? Or they will pay for your opportunity of being "noble"?

another_whyon Germany shelves Nord Stream 2 pipeline

They've been shooting there for 8 years and no one cared and you think that now it has to be payed for somehow? thats absurd

another_whyon Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022

No one ever thought about it. Russian billionaires and their children live in EU and get residence in EU countries, what economic blockade?

another_whyon Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022

> Or - hypothetically - if the US intelligence is only 80% reliable - isn't it still worth signalling to their Russian counterparts that "we see you, don't try it" ? That might be the real intended audience.

They've got phones and meetings for that. it's 2023, everyone is fully aware what, where and how things are happening. What they do is bargain on who gets what, all things considered.

another_whyon Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/2/2/moscow-ups-ukraine-r...

"US State Department spokesperson Ned Price has rejected Moscow’s assertion that Washington is escalating tensions by sending additional troops to Europe, accusing Russia of attempting to turn “reality upside down”.

“These are not permanent moves; they are precisely in response to the current security environment in light of this increasingly threatening behaviour by the Russian Federation,” Price told reporters."

Oh, so there are troops on both sides. Who could've thought

another_whyon Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022

No such thing for small countries if you dont plan to turn into North Korea

another_whyon Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022

Being in someones sphere of influence is not independence. And no one is going to give away something they need for free.

another_whyon Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022

> You can not draw parallels with Iraq. US is not willing to go to war over Ukraine, and Europe does not even want to sell weapons to Ukraine.

"We didn't plan to do this, we stated this so many times in all media, but what we said they are going to do is so bad, that we had to take actions... Totally not our fault, everyone can see that..."

another_whyon Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022

> But does that mean I automatically believe the opposite of anything the US government says from that point onwards?

It means that you can't trust governments when it comes to major political conflicts. Lies for the "greater good" have always been a standard thing in such situations

another_whyon Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022

> I literally cannot find any reason that NATO or the USA would have any reason to to start a conflict with Russia inside Ukraine without provocation.

First you say "this is going to happen" and then courageously prevent it by something you needed to do but had no excuse before.

another_whyon Department Press Briefing – February 3, 2022

Your message is based on a guess "USA government willing to uncover some actions". You can't make anything "clear" to the public without evidence. The only thing it makes clear is that you have interests there.

another_whyon Ask HN: I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing

> No individual human being has the psychological makeup to completely feel the full accomplishments of Armstrong, so that is something to consider.

I don't understand how it contradicts "Armstrong had an impostor syndrome therefore comparing with his individual quirks is stupid". We all sometimes doubt ourselves but OP's story is a bit different. What, if I worked in McDonalds and met all those people OP met, you would've told me about Armstrong too? The one and only advice you get in such situations is "do something which will distract you from how much you suck in the society, where the alpha and omega of your value is going to fucking space or earning billions of dollars".

https://www.gwern.net/The-Melancholy-of-Subculture-Society

Ah, the ultimate solution: forget about achievements considered important for the society and join small groups of other losers where you wont suck as much and be valued as you are, wasting your life as a D&D narrator or whatever. You are worthless for the humanity so step aside, play games, watch youtube and meditate - life is so wonderful.

> OTOH far more common is the exaggerated ego where people feel accomplished for things that did not actually happen.

Sounds like a compensation for those who can't deal with reality. We are not talking about people imagining things.

another_whyon Ask HN: I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing

> And lastly, I found that there is one thing that one can do that is absolutely unique that nobody can match anywhere in the world, and that is - as corny as this sounds - kids.

Great recommendation to a man who is bipolar and have a schizoactive disorder.

another_whyon Ask HN: I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing

> And I felt a bit better. Because if Neil Armstrong felt like an imposter, maybe everyone did.

Nope, everyone did not. That's a good story to make yourself feel better, but Neil's personal psychological problems don't spread to everyone. People who feel accomplished due to their accomplishments exist.

another_whyon Ask HN: I feel so shallow and dumb when I see what other smart people are doing

Man, I see in Hacker Rank the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential. And I see it squandered. Goddamn it, an entire generation writing docs, fixing bugs, typing code. Slaves in digital collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no great war, no great depression. Our great war's a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on internet to believe that one day we'd all be crypto millionaires and famous scientists and popular video bloggers. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.

Welcome to the club, pal.

P.S. > I sometimes wonder if my mental condition or my medication has had an effect on this: I'm bipolar schizoaffective and borderline.

I wonder why you wonder. Read the side effects of your medications: depression, sleep problems, aggression, agitation, fatigue. If you had this since childhood, that was one of the reasons you dropped out of university. The people you talk about don't have to deal with this shit, most people don't.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_with_schizophre...

Look at this. How many people there are really famous and what's the proportion to the famous people without it? 0.000001%? And I bet most of them were just born in the right family and in the right country.

another_whyon Why NFTs are bad: the short version

> The idea that cost determines value is literally Marxism

Nope, in Marxism value determines cost and is equal to the social labor needed for the production of a good.