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The list of sacrifices that Alesya Marokhovskaya has made to keep reporting on Russia from exile runs long: her home, her country, family, friends, culture, safety.

This month alone, Russian authorities searched the home of the journalist’s parents in the eastern port town of Magadan and opened a criminal case against Marokhovskaya for violating Russia’s foreign agent law.

Coming Soon to the USA!

There’s no punchline, this isn’t a joke. Get ready.

I’m literally just a cancer patient in the states, but go off bud. I’m not being defensive, I’m telling you my experience. I’m not disputing the possibility that a disinformation campaign went on that long. But cool cool, your original message was kind, but this is being a jerk. Not everyone can know everything and you can take what people tell you about their experiences or you can say they’re “being defensive” for admitting they hadn’t actually thought about it in years.

Thanks for the heads up, but yeah, my opinions of this were developed during the Bush era and it was from US media sources discussing the issues with the F-35’s development. I honestly hadn’t thought about the F-35 in years and had to go to Wikipedia to make sure I was thinking of the right plane. I’m generally anti-war so I thought it was pretty wasteful in general at the time.

I mean, Musk isn’t totally wrong, the F-35 isn’t all we’d hoped for. It had a well documented history of cost over-runs, problems in development, and failing the way all multi-tools do, they generally don’t do as good of a job as specific tool. Further, the drone war in Ukraine/Russia is showing how effective drones really can be. However, drones are also a specific tool for a specific type of job.

I think it’s reasonable to think that both types of flight-based warfare will continue to be relevant, and neither will necessarily dominate the other, because… once again… the right tool, for the right job.

It’s sad that Nintendo has so much money that these devs keep caving, when they legally have a right to develop an emulator as long as they’re not distributing them with title keys and such.

I think a major reason they went so hard on this issue is the rumors that Switch 2 will have largely similar hardware and backward compatibility, including use of the same type of cartridges. As such emulating Switch 2 could easily just be a simple continuation of the work on the original Switch and it’s going to be a bad deal when their brand new system can be emulated on day one of release.

Personal opinion, it’s the natural result of them keeping their systems so low-end for so long, emulation of them is just easier than emulation of a PS5 or an Xbox. (do you even have to emulate xbox? aren’t they technically UWP windows apps?)

I guess my point was that the only way first-world countries can live in such excess is by massive exploitation of the world’s poor. Resources are massively unevenly distributed worldwide, and first-world countries are using like three times more resources than they actually need to, if not more. There are so many people in such abject poverty that real redistribution will mean people like you and me living with less, too.

Redistribution will have to happen, but I think for it to work we’ll all have to accept some limitations and a lot less “fun” extra stuff in our lives.

This is capitalism everywhere. It doesn’t work without massive amounts of exploitation. We have to accept degrowth if we want our species to survive.

Huh, interesting how all these… *checks notes… Sovereign States have taken this long to figure out what regular ass people have been screaming has been a problem for at least five fucking years now. That an untrustworthy individual in charge of millions of people’s data via Xitter and in control of a large ISP as well as having major defense contracts with the US is probably a bad thing for everyone, everywhere.

How are these leaders always so fucking myopic? They never care about an issue until it’s too fucking late to be fighting it.

This is it folks, this is his “making us respected on the world’s stage again.” He’s going to piss off absolutely everyone and balkanize the US.

I’d say it’s been a good run, but it hasn’t been.