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sdfhdhjdw3on Looming natural gas shortages has the EU scrambling for solutions

I'm still reeling with what I just watched....

sdfhdhjdw3on Looming natural gas shortages has the EU scrambling for solutions

What's the explanation for this?

I mean, surely the explanation isn't that Trump is secretly a well informed and thoughtful person?

sdfhdhjdw3on People with low BMI aren't more active, they are just less hungry, 'run hotter'

> all day sitting working in the Math Lab

What I tell people is that my powerful brain needs a lot of calories.

sdfhdhjdw3on Ukraine’s new rockets are wreaking havoc on Russia’s army

He's just repeating Russian propaganda.

Russia has been saying "if Finland joins NATO, there will be consequences" since forever. When Finland actually joins Russia says "yeah no problem it's not really a threat". This is to not lose face, _obviously_, but all these parrots all of a sudden go "oh yeah no problem, you don't have to be a military analyst to see it's not a threat". They're just parrots.

sdfhdhjdw3on Ukraine’s new rockets are wreaking havoc on Russia’s army

This is the definition I'm using

> 1 : a loser or predicted loser in a struggle or contest

I think it fits. Russia loses a lot.

sdfhdhjdw3on Ukraine’s new rockets are wreaking havoc on Russia’s army

> Russia was on reasonably good terms with Europe for at least 2 decades.

Russia has been at war with Europe in Ukraine for 8 years you moron.

sdfhdhjdw3on Ukraine’s new rockets are wreaking havoc on Russia’s army

> Georgia got hit for the same reason Ukraine did - because it tried to join our gang.

Man, Russia is really losing this game then. Because countries keep joining Nato. Findland and Sweden now. Sweden has had a policy of neutrality for 200 years LOL.

Fucking losers. If there's one immutable truth in Russian history, is that its wherewithal has never ever been able to match its ambition.

sdfhdhjdw3on Ukraine’s new rockets are wreaking havoc on Russia’s army

> Logically if you want an existential threat to Russia to expand up against Russian borders you must want war, no?

No you see, this isn't "NATO expanding up to"...

Countries are sovereign to choose their allies. And countries in eastern europe are asking to join a defense alliance against Russia.

Serious question, have you considered that number 1 no one is forcing eastern europe countries to join this alliance, and number 2 WHY do they want to join it? If you haven't, I'll tell you the answer: What is happening in Ukraine and what happened in Georgia and Chechnia is EXACTLY the reason why these countries want join NATO.

NATO isn't expanding up to Russia's borders. Russia is scaring every country it borders, so they're doing something about it.

Oh look, Finland and Sweden are joining NATO https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/news_197737.htm

Because OF COURSE they do, because otherwise they might be next to be invaded.

sdfhdhjdw3on Ukraine’s new rockets are wreaking havoc on Russia’s army

They have to, because in reality they have less to appeal people with. The ONLY thing that Russia has going to its propaganda is that they're the underdog. Everything else is a lie.

sdfhdhjdw3on Ukraine’s new rockets are wreaking havoc on Russia’s army

> With the horrendous things we did to Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya... it's no wonder Russians want pushback on NATO encroachment on bordering states.

With the horrendous things that Russia has done throughout it's history in eastern europe, it's no wonder that it's neighbors are worried.

That's another funny thing. The only people saying "with the horrendous things the US does..." are either Americans or Russians. People who live in eastern europe are ABSOLUTELY worried about Russia invading them. Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia, Poland, Ukrania of course, Georgia, Chechnia, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia. People there don't play this "both sides" bullshit game.

I'm very happy if Russia believes that NATO is an existential threat. We're not pushing them hard enough, that's the problem.

sdfhdhjdw3on Ukraine’s new rockets are wreaking havoc on Russia’s army

Why is it that in this story, Russia is always depicted as having no agency?

"Ukraine CHOSE to join nato, so Russia HAD to invade."

No, the cause of the destruction here is Russia's invasion. Ukraine can choose whatever allies it damn pleases.

You people are either stupid or dishonest.

sdfhdhjdw3on Ukraine’s new rockets are wreaking havoc on Russia’s army

> Because the Global American Empire is always on the side of what is bad, wrong, or immoral. Here's a simple rule to guide you. If GAE says it's good, it's bad. If GAE says it's bad then it's good. Remember that the empire exists to serve its own interests which are always against the interests of regular people.

No idea why this is being downvoted. I actually think this is an excellent characterization of Russian propaganda.

But why is it that you enjoy that?

sdfhdhjdw3on Ukraine’s new rockets are wreaking havoc on Russia’s army

Why is that?

sdfhdhjdw3on Crypto Winter, or Crypto Ice Age?

Sending money in the UK is faster than it takes me to open the app on the phone to confirm it went thru.

sdfhdhjdw3on Crypto Winter, or Crypto Ice Age?

> The current crash (...)

What I keep coming back to is that something worth zero is still trading at $20k.

sdfhdhjdw3on Helion Needs You

> You are free to choose whatever standard of evidence you see fit, but personally, I will always choose to reserve strong judgement (like calling someone a scumbag) until I am confident that I fully understand the details.

You'll get played in life a lot.

Example: you were repeating zero-knowledge nonsense, whereas I saw right thru it. You get played a lot.

sdfhdhjdw3on Helion Needs You

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/richardnieva/worldcoin-...

You asked me exactly what "instrinsics" are people being stripped from. So according to that article, people are being robbed of the ability of proving their own identity. If that startup succeeds, people will no longer be able to prove their identity other than thru them. This is really dangerous stuff.

You see, the mistake you made here is assuming that without understanding the details you can't come to any conclusions. But that is wrong. There's some things that I don't need to know the details of to accurately determine they're nefarious.

So again, they're all scumbags.

sdfhdhjdw3on Helion Needs You

There's no value prop in getting your eyeball scanned in exchange for magic beans.

sdfhdhjdw3on Helion Needs You

I don't agree to anything, because I don't know enough about it. They SAY they don't collect data, they SAY it's a zero knowledge proof. Who knows about that.

What I know is that they're extracting some value from people who (like me) likely don't understand the implications. This isn't complicated.

sdfhdhjdw3on Helion Needs You

Not everything is a question of "does it collect data", actually.

They're collecting _some_ value from individuals, whether you understand it or not.

Your comment reminds me of Facebook's disingenuous "we we're not _selling_ the data", which just a way of distracting from the real issue. This isn't about data, it's about yet another incremental stripping down of individual's control over their intrinsics.

sdfhdhjdw3on Helion Needs You

They were offering shitcoins in exchange to people scanning their eyeballs. That's a double-whammy of dodgy behavior.

No, I don't need to provide details. If you don't see it, you're a lost cause.

sdfhdhjdw3on Helion Needs You

Bingo, I made the exact same comment.

That was quite an effective way to take your credibility and shove it down the drain.

They're all scumbags.

sdfhdhjdw3on Helion Needs You

The theory has been in place for about 70 years.

sdfhdhjdw3on Helion Needs You

> the ability to manufacture enough power plants to satisfy the current electrical demand of earth in a ten year period.

LOL.

Is Helion backed by the same VCs that back all those shitcoins?

sdfhdhjdw3on Filecoin Virtual Machine – Polyglot, WASM-based execution environment

Almost all coins are money-grabs. At this stage I default to assuming a coin is a money grab, and expect them to convince me it's not. Maybe the person you were talking to is the same.

sdfhdhjdw3on Filecoin Virtual Machine – Polyglot, WASM-based execution environment

Why exactly do you call S3 "centralized"? You can distribute it around the world if you choose to.

sdfhdhjdw3on How I clean my glasses

How else do you get rid of grease? The scattering of light on grease on the lenses is unbearable for me whenever I don't use dish soap.

sdfhdhjdw3on How I clean my glasses

Haha laminar flow. So I'm not the only one. I always wondered.

sdfhdhjdw3on Six programming languages I’d like to see

Yes. And Julia also does the "optimized version of...". It dispatches on types.

sdfhdhjdw3on I watched a friend of mine pump a shitcoin on Binance by buying billboards

My explanation, on the other hand, also explains why it's not a billion.

So my explanation has more explanatory power than yours.