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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Once I saw a categorisation I liked. There are three kinds of people: those who know what they want or like, those who know what they don't like and the confused ones.

In other words, it's totally fine even for neurotypicals not too know if something is better than the other, especially when it comes to subjective reactions based on subconscious or feelings.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Yes, the word is used for both meanings. I doubt ruskies are using it to describe their tactics, though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

If only there were a European country that is investing in the drone technology like their existence depended on it...

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm not the OG commenter, but for me this is important because I see how gpt is replacing search, I can imagine they will play an increasing role in news. Which has two sides. One is the fact that people will read news summaries dinner by a system with a bias. Second is writing of the news with the same bias.

We've seen this before. Machine learning systems that were trained on past human decisions also learned biases from those decisions. Court ruling suggestions stronger for black than white. Job applicant analysis favouring men over women. Etc.

There's a good book about that, if you're interested: "Weapons of Math Destruction" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Math_Destruction

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you. I'm glad you see it the way I did.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Haven't you heard about the human autism detectors? Those people who say: "Oh, but you don't look autistic!"

/s

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago

If they're looking for a good location, Hague is just perfect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah, me too. Looks like this year will be make it or break it.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 months ago (4 children)

US' help was critical so far and when it was paused for six months Ukraine noticed.

On the other hand, when it was paused, Ukraine noticed, but didn't immediately fail. On top of that there were recent reports that Ukraine has enough supplies until summer. On top of that there Zelensky's statement that Ukraine is now producing up to 30% of what it needs in the battlefield. And on top of that, while US help was significant, the contributions from other countries were also nontrivial and many of them invested into increasing production.

So all in all, US' help was and stays important (even if it was quite often a little too late), but if it stops, I believe Ukraine can still win, but that will be quite bad for the States as Trump will not be able to claim this victory and also the military industry will lose quite a lot of advertisement when Ukraine wins with Owen, German, French, Korean or any other weapons.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 months ago (4 children)

And do it begins. Musk wants to become the new Hitler.

How soon till we start making time travel films about going back to stop him?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Not just opened by their military, but also apparently explicitly under sanctions.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Strict separation of work and personal devices, plus focus mode on my private phone for the work hours.

I often end up hyper focusing on the wrong work tasks, but at least they're work related.

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sanctions work (open.substack.com)
 

2.5 years to halve the reserves, the spend cannot be linear and I also don't think they need to get to zero to have a collapse.

... The economy is being funded by the cash reserves, which increases inflation, which leads to another round of interest rate hikes to combat inflation, which makes it harder to borrow money, which is necessary for economic growth. Eventually, the cash reserves will run out. It took 2.5 years to deplete half the Russian reserves. Russia withdrew $37 billion to cover deficits in December 2022. It withdrew $20 billion to cover deficits in December 2023. It only has $54 billion left.

 

If anything, russia is showing clear signs of sunk-cost fallacy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escalation_of_commitment

 

In today's #vatniksoup I'll talk about Russian Nazis and introduce Russian neo-Nazi movements and paramilitary groups like Rusich and PMC Wagner. They're best-known for being funded by the Kremlin and being responsible for the "denazification" in Ukraine.

 

So basically, we're waiting for a (hopefully very soon) systemic collapse of moscovite army since they bet both their attack and defence on artillery

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