Christ you’re dumb

Okay, now say it in the original Japanese

I doubt Ukrainian drones can even fly that high.

Drones aren’t the only tool in the kit. There’s no shortage of anti-air defenses that can hit commercial airliners, especially as they’re taking off or landing.

This is a kind warning to let people know that russian air defense is going to be so keyed up that they’ll likely shoot down civilian airliners.

If a civilian aircraft is shot down, the Ukrainians will almost certainly insist the Russians did it themselves. Idk how many people will believe them, after Zelensky basically painted a target on every Russian airport.

Millions of dead Ukrainians.

Millions of dead Russians.

Memers Euphoric.

A smart person would recognize that there are degrees of smartness and degrees of immunity.

And I’m the smartest person, therefore I enjoy the maximum amount of immunity.

there is no threshold of smartness that grants immunity to propaganda.

Just be smarter, idiot.

The most important service one can provide to a kind-of-smart person is to tell them when they’ve said something stupid.

Impossible for me to say something stupid. It is actually stupid to suggest what I said wasn’t the Immaculate Truth as Delivered By God.

The only people who would suggest what I said wasn’t stupid are

a) Idiots

b) A vast and sinister conspiracy of malicious actors attempting to destroy me, everyone I hold dear, and my country.

Which is in fact true

It does get very tiresome to see people reject decades of Cold War and post-Soviet collapse history, because the (US-backed) fascist dictator of Russia turned on his western handlers.

Anyway, the general idea for Europe is to take care of Russia, so the US is able to focus on the indo-pacific, meaning China. It‘s the geo-strategic reality of the western block to remain (or regain) world dominance. It‘s capitalism in it‘s highest stage, imperialism.

Okay, but have you considered that China Bad and we need to save all those good-hearted, liberty-loving, free-market Australians and Philippians and Taiwanese from the oppressive yoke of The Red Dragon?

It‘s just that most folks on lemmy are basing their political understanding on vibes and what western corporate media tells them.

Nonsense. I’m immune to propaganda because I’m smart.

Only you idiot tankies have been fooled.

The entire world is taking a hard fascist turn. Trying to single out any one country misses the forest for the trees.

But if you’re wondering why people were extremely leery at Ukraine early on, well… there are reasons. Still, much more of a problem with Canadian fascists than Ukrainian ones.

It’ll be interesting to see what China does.

If the Ukrainians shoot down a Chinese civilian airliner, they would be fucking themselves at a level that has not been seen since Pearl Harbor.

Putin won’t negotiate.

Every war is a prelude to diplomacy.

Putin is a dead man if the Ukraine war ends

This is a mythology the media has invented to keep people titillated with the news.

You’re looking for a storybook ending with a mortality tale. The bitter truth is that Putin’s as cemented in place as any Russian politician has ever been.

This perpetual conflict is entirely ego-driven, with Ukraine caught in the middle of a tug of war. Putin won’t quit because he’s old and stubborn. The EU leadership won’t quit because they need this war as an excuse to rearm, after decades of US occupation.

If the economy contracts hard enough, we’ll see a negotiation. Until then, it seems that everyone in power is playing with house money. So the conflict can drag on indefinitely, because it’s more fun to play at war than manage a peaceful continent in decline.

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

Fascists love doing this shit.

Communism suffered its first Big Mac attack today as McDonald’s opened a restaurant in Yugoslavia, and police were called in to keep customers who lined up for hours from getting too unruly under the golden arches.

Calling this a Bread Line and suggesting it was proof of capitalism’s failure.

China had too many people for it to have the highest per capita amount

It has too many people to avoid the economics of scale that blunt per-capita emissions rates.

the amount of people you have has no bearing on the per capita amount of anything

As the number of people using a public service increase, the per-capita waste declines. A bus takes roughly the same amount of gasoline to move 5 people as 50. Cooling an apartment block during a heat wave is more efficient than cooling an equivalent number of stand-alone houses. And as the apartment approaches 100% occupancy, the net benefit is spread over more people. Industrial scale refrigerators consume less energy overall than individual freezers.

The more people using a piece of capital, the less energy is wasted through its continuous operation.

Large populations tend to have a lot of shared utility and a lower per capita emissions standard as a result. Countries with lots of mass transit and dense housing enjoy significant efficiences of scale. One reason why India looks so good on paper, despite having some abhorrent ecological policies in practice.

Smaller countries - especially small tourist countries - tend to have emissions far higher than their native population size would suggest. Places like Qatar, the UAE, and Kuwait regionally top the emissions per capita chart as a result. Canada and Russia also score badly in no small part because of how spread out the population ends up in countries with enormous amounts of wilderness.

probably somewhere in Eastern or Central Europe

The worst per capita emissions tend to be in the Middle East. Qatar is regularly at the top of the charts

US allies would be absolutely fool to attempt any “back to normal” process after Trump.

They wouldn’t be US allies to begin with if they weren’t fools

We’ve been doing Trumpism since Nixon. Even under Trump, quite a few US allies are openly in favor of this kind of leadership

Idk, man. What did you plan to do about it?

I wonder how long until we start seeing hysterics about Linux being taken over by the Chinese.

I would expect something time-senstive to be solved quickly be the State Department’s IT department.

I can’t imagine why. It’s a slow-moving ship with numerous levels of authorization between The Guy Hitting The Buttons and The Guy Making The Decisions.

They should have been able to do something like this in less time than “days”.

Again, I can’t imagine why. This information isn’t so time-sensitive that they need to respond to it in hours, much less minutes. And the cost of reacting swiftly but clumsily far exceeds the reward for opening a document in a weird format on a State Department computer.

I am quite certain that they are extremely lacking in skilled IT workers lol

I haven’t seen any evidence of this. Unskilled IT workers will just blindly click and install shit without any gatekeeping or cybersecurity. It’s the skilled ones that go slow and steady, verify within sandbox environments before taking any big risks, and deliver a product that isn’t going to blow up in your face after it’s been configured.

Calling it shit is reductive and inaccurate

Anything North Korea does is default assumed incompetently executed, maliciously intentioned, and/or the result of stolen work from a more skilled (western) developer/designer. The American Brain cannot comprehend the existence of a Soviet computer science expert. Certainly not one from a country where the prevailing wisdom is “These stupid foreigners all believe the President has a perfect golf score and never poops. Everyone eats grass because they’re always starving. And their army feeds their Olympic Soccer Team to wild dogs every time a player misses a goal in a qualifying match”.

For what should be fairly obvious reasons, officials at the US State Department aren’t able to easily download and install software from foreign governments. This is doubly true in file-formats that the security system isn’t equipped to screen and vet.

If you were working at a corporate office, you’d have likely run into the same set of hurdles.