lmao, still seething? Let that virgin rage out

Oh dear, I thought you were at least smart enough to gather the economy isn't personal finances.

Have you tried mailing your thought provoking posts to Putin? Maybe it will change the reality I described. Maybe he never considered it's not very nice and he should simply leave, and actually you can win anytime.

Have a nice Sunday night seething at the internet in your mansion, be sure to get your butler to telegram Putin before bed

Yeah and public spending is just like personal finances, don't you agree?

Wow, not even a crumb of cope? What about the jets? Potential gamechanger I think.

Eager to see what coping everyone switches to when it becomes obvious to Ukraine that the deal Russia offered in 2022 before the Kiev withdrawal was the best possible reality they would ever see again. Little Weimar on the Dnieper. No NATO, no EU, no Donbass, no Crimea.

Then again the epic bacon sirs will probably be given a new shiny thing in Asia or Africa to focus on.

All things considered it seems they got a pretty good deal out of it

Although there is quite a gap between saying metals are dual use, and playing coy about specific chemicals that are most useful as precursors for advanced chemical weapons being dual use

But, this is about as international as sanctions get.

Not true, North Korea is sanctioned by everyone via the UNSC with more specific sanctions from other countries and bodies like the EU.

And the word “international” doesn’t imply global, planetary or a majority.

Right, when they say the international sanctions by the international community they're definitely not trying to imply anything. I wonder in that case what they mean when they mention the rules based international order.

A large majority of the world engaging in sanctions and not the usual suspects regularly framed in the press as the "international community." It's framed that way to imply that the entire world is doing it besides a few "rogue states" like China, North Korea or Venezuela, as if they were handed down by the UN or the world is united in agreement with the western sanctions regime. What would be far more accurate than "international sanctions" would be "western sanctions."

For a more immediate example of how framing effects perception, look at all the people in this thread upset about China giving Russia weapons. No weapons are listed, just drones, helicopters, and metals. Upon opening the article you'll see the drones arrived before the war and are presumably consumer electronics, and there are six undefined types of helicopters. Some posters even mentioned attack helicopters, as if the Telegraph would not be screaming about attack helicopters and not helicopters if that was the case.

It's a complete nothingburger and like all nothingburgers it plays with language to let you fill in the gaps using the context they have provided. Russia is being "armed" with some consumer drones, six personal helicopters, and metal, and the whole world is in uproar about it.

It's the informal group known as the International Community.

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Dual-use goods

Such goods are classified as dual-use, meaning they also have civilian purposes, allowing China to skirt international sanctions and claim that it conducts only legal trade with Russia

The "international sanctions" btw:

You can't just unilaterally decree someone can't be traded dual use goods

Nice of DeSantis to build Mexico an Anti-Fascist Protection Barrier to protect them from America

They are not forcing anything. Nobody has to opt in.

This is exactly what they did with .webp

We were just talking about who is or isn't fascist, not the justifications for the war, but I'll answer both. A significant portion of the west no longer really has elections, it has a two sided vote between "democracy" and fascism. Even by the standards of liberal democracy, can you even call it a democracy at that point? It sounds more like a regularly held fascism referendum. So when people call Russia fascist from these countries it just doesn't really strike a chord with me. Their favorite Russian leader, Boris Yeltsin, set up the structure of the RF while bombing parliament and they don't call him a fascist. It's just opportunistic propagandizing.

As for the Russian reasons of the war, I would imagine Russia is concerned about the mostly defensive military alliance built to dismantle them getting ever closer to them, and what happens when said alliance decide to not be so defensive for the fifth time in the last 20 years.

So basically they're using their monopoly to force through changes in internet standards? Sounds like the EU will be paying a visit soon.

It's all about ads/ad money/data, it's heavily bleeding into a single issue. It's not like some giant manufacturing company doing shady things with their cars and air conditioners, all the subsidiaries are interlinked. You could say WEI is just a Chrome thing, Google is just their search engine, AdWords is just an ad service etc, but they're all part of the data to ads to sales pipeline.

There's no overarching anti-trust conversation to be had because there's currently no anti-trust cases, if there ever will be. The comments under each individual instance of it being required is the "big conversation". As a content aggregation site (mainly news) the only place it could realistically occur is under some wishful thinking self-post nobody would care about.

I also saw people pine for trust busting just the other day under some Amazon article, there's simply nowhere else to post about it at the moment.

No silly, everyone but the guys with Nazi battalions and the two party democracies with proto-fascist conservatives are fascists.

It also loads like absolute shit

False dichotomy☝️🤓

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Are you even trying lmao

Wonder how many international and domestic workers they've contract rugpulled, since this will probably be the one that flies under the radar due to all the other issues.

away to sewer

Fediverse about to be eating good

Open the instance

Scroll to the bottom

Click "Instances" in the footer

CTFL + "Blocked" to take you to the defed list

It was incredibly annoying on reddit opening a post expecting a few comments and they were all bots

The Darkwood devs did this even though they only have one game out, they even uploaded the torrent

Pre-emptively hitting my last resort button

Yeah I think the floor weight is the actual concern and reason it doesn't happen rather than zoning, but if it's possible to renovate it within something close to the same cost as starting again, they should renovate it. We need to start taking into account things like the pollution for stuff like this but it not being considered doesn't mean someone isn't getting the bill. I don't think people who would prefer to demolish and start again consider amount of shit that will be put into the air if you knock down a good portion of the office buildings, even if it doesn't effect much on a grander scale it will effect the actual cities.

Would be interesting if a structural engineer did a video on all the problems and solutions etc of converting office buildings. Maybe even getting away with the bottom few floors on all office big buildings would be a good start.

UK & EU loves this stuff though, so they won't mandate you have to use a single phone app for everything, but they will slowly remove your ability to do anything without your phone. You'll just end up with a shittier version of China's system with a billion shitty apps.

Another reason you've not yet been given is that some of these companies have decades long contracts for renting. The government should intervene and cancel the contracts and pay for them to be converted to flats tbqh. Someone will say "But that will cost more than building a new one![citation needed]" but knocking down half the office buildings at once will probably give everyone in the cities supercancer*[citation needed]*

This one has got the lemmy.world turbo redditors upset

Should be fine tbh, China actually had a bit of shrinking of consumer spending recently so this is well timed.

You know exactly what someone means when they say the US did a coup, stop playing dumb.

The last coup was Bolivia in 2019, unless we're doing the old it's not true because it hasn't been declassified yet shtick

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inxi

In the terminal should do it

Probably search files/run in the start menu, then type dxdiag

That's what it normally is on Windows, I can't remember the Linux command

They're Chinese. They're from the Republic of China.