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> Ukraine should be opposed to depopulating itself.

And they are. They want the people back that Russia abducted, and the people who still live in the occupied territories. They can't bring back the dead obviously, but they can fight for the living. And for the future.

To understand Ukraine's will to fight, you need to understand that they have lived under Moscow's yoke for generations. Their grandparents lived through the Holodomor, their parents lived under Soviet oppression. The current generation has known 30 years of freedom. And now they're faced with the possibility of their children living under Moscow rule again.

This is why they fight so hard.
The only "rare earths" of value there are the mounds of depleted uranium stuck in all of their previously valuable farm land lol.
Under what circumtances is the US allowed to pull out of a war they didn't start, which does not directly involve any US interests, in which we have already invested $110bn? Never? Not until we spend another $500bn we don't have?
Ukraine is not a formal ally of the United States.
"have you been to Ukraine?" No but... lol
Underestimating your enemies is a common mistake. Not only are Trump, Putin, and Dugin all intelligent people, they all have access to much more and much better intelligence than you or I.

Trump especially irks me, because he's calculated his entire persona to appear somewhat dumb, and it works. He's not an idiot at all, and people espousing that view are falling for propaganda.
He claimed, incorrectly, that people who live near abortion "buffer zones" in Scotland were sent letters by the government warning them about praying privately within their own homes. This was nonsense.
I find typing Kanji still a real challenge, I can read and handwrite Kanji to a decent enough level, like middle school, but I find it so slow to type and during that time frame I am second guessing myself if I am correct or not. Romaji or hiragana/katakana are equally as tricky in my view to type.
Except I want peace in Ukraine finally, and not billions of dollars wasted and more lives killed because Zelensky doesn’t love a potential peace deal. Don’t compare apples and oranges…loses credibility.
There was never a compromise in WW1, Germany collapsed.
It'd be hilarious if it were a passive listening device like The Thing, but Trump seems so attention-hungry and security-oblivious that you could probably just leave a big microphone on his desk like an old-timey chat show.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(listening_device)
Maybe. Trump's temper can still get him sidelined. He needs to remain front and center to be a viable candidate in 2028. And nothing about Thiel or Musk suggest they'd throw money at him out of loyalty, they'd throw money at him if they thought he could win. Otherwise, they'd find another candidate.
It won't satisfy Russia, though. It will just give a thumbs up to them and anyone else wanting to make a land grab that they can go ahead and the US will look for appeasement. This is exactly the kind of thinking that lead to Chamberlain letting Hitler take the Sudetenland and Czechoslovakia.
You do this same tactic in every political thread I've seen your name pop up in from as early as I can remember recognizing your name on this site.

Sometimes your questions seem legitimate. Often they don't (they might be! but they don't read so).

But, this is probably getting a bit too meta and off-topic. Sorry for the derailment.
I don't think we can look at it that simply.

Of the voters who didn't vote for Trump or Harris, certainly some of them would have voted for Trump (or not voted at all) if their third-party candidate didn't exist. Put another way, if we had universal approval or ranked-choice voting, it's plausible that Trump would have ended up with a popular vote majority (but it could have gone either way, certainly).

> there were approximately 90M people who were eligible to vote that did not vote.*

Whenever an election is decided, I generally move all of those uncast votes over to the tally of whoever won. Staying home and not voting is the same thing as a soft-vote for whoever wins.

> voter suppression

I wish we could really quantify this. Not that it would change MAGA minds about anything, but it could be useful to know.

> a massive amount of ad money

Harris had a similarly massive amount of ad money, too, and it didn't help.

Honestly, I think the failures of the Democratic party machine as a whole are just as responsible for Harris's loss as GOP underhandedness is.
>Russia will not tolerate NATO membership or nuclear weapons for Ukraine.

Neither of which was a real concern before Russia invaded Ukraine.

>Recall that this conflict's roots began when we reneged on our promise to freeze NATO's borders in the late 90s after the Soviet Union's collapse.

There was no such promise. There was a quick comment in a meeting, which was quickly retracted seconds later in that same meeting, not turned into any official agreement, and by the way that was before the USSR had collapsed and not after. So the non-promise was made to an entity which also no longer existed.

Also, like, what exactly do you think would have happened to Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, etc. if they were not in NATO.
The US walks alone now. Vulnerable and weak.
They still do it, obviously, but we have better artificial corneas now.
The U.S. failing Ukraine sends a signal you can get away with invasions. So it's not just about Ukraine.

The full global consequences can be devastating.
Absolutely heartbreaking. How many of the people arguing have seen any footage of the atrocities committed by Russia.

It is sobering to see women and children shelled in their homes and hospitals. 20 Days in Mariupol is free to watch on Youtube (Won the Academy Award for Best Documentary last year):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvAyykRvPBo
I see your point, but to the parent's point, they've never done so so comprehensively that they no longer need to do so secretly.
Yeah, I think they'll fold on that point, too, but the main stumbling block for Ukraine is that Russian guarantees mean little in a post-2021 invasion context given they made the same overtures after 2014.

The idea of the entire country becoming a DMZ just smacks of Putin lining up the next play and a Russian-leaning leader put in Zelenskis place.
That's literally what we're doing. Zelensky came to beg for more money, and we're shutting up. I don't really care if Europeans want to go die pointlessly on the frontlines for some reason.
> You hardly hear NSA doing such accomplishments anymore

To be fair, that could also mean that they've been successful at keeping their covert operations... covert.
You don't speak for all or even most Americans. A majority of US voters selected Donald Trump as their President. I'm pleased with the President's pushback on the disrespectful, high-pressure bargaining tactics Zelensky tried to use today in front of the press at the White House.
For all intents and purposes Bibi is the elected Prime Minister of Israel across several elections.

Trying to simply say their interest diverge sounds irresponsible.
There are almost no rare earth minerals in Ukraine. The "desperately going after rare earth minerals" line is something that has appeared in the media...but at no point did they actually check whether Ukraine has any (beyond comical maps that tell you nothing about the grade, recoverability, etc.).

The reason for the deal is: recover money for taxpayers, provide some security guarantee without an explicit commitment that will end up with US being deployed, and backstop significant private-sector investment into Ukraine to try to revive their economy (after the war destroyed and maimed a huge proportion of their working adult population).

There are (almost) no rare earth minerals though.
Strange to see people supporting Zelensky here.

He has lots of history proving he is no innocent man.

He comes from theatre background, so he loves doing theatrics.

He is cause of this public infighting.

Look at full interview please.

- He is president of one of most corrupt countries, don’t think him as a saint.

- Look at reactions of his own ambassador, you will understand why she is disgusted.

- Trump is a straightforward man. Zelensky very well knew terms of deal before he flew to Washington.

But he came because this drama is what he wanted, for his selfish and sponsored agenda.

This will not end well for him.

Ukrainians need a different leadership.
> The weirdest part is per-polygon mipmapping, which is not normal

I suspect that per-polygon mipmapping is actually calculated on the CPU. That would mean the actual hardware doesn't really implement mipmapping, it just implements switching between texture LODs on a per-triangle basis (probably that "M" coord in the 0x17 object).

Apparently later drivers from 1999 did actually implement per-pixel mipmapping, but I have a horrible feeling that's achieved by tessellating triangles along the change in LOD boundary, which must take quite a bit of CPU time.
So you think Kissinger and all the GOP neocons for decades were actually correct?

I thought we had discredited that whole ideology—from Kissinger to Bush—but apparently we haven’t.
I think 'nuance' has left the building.
Absolutely heartbreaking. How many of the people arguing have seen any footage of the atrocities committed by Russia.

It is sobering to see women and children shelled in their homes and hospitals. 20 Days in Mariupol is free to watch on Youtube (Won the Academy Award for Best Documentary last year):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvAyykRvPBo
I've moved to using systemwide Adguard on my home PCs and Macs. It's not a solution for work devices (my employer doesn't have ads on internal websites so this is not much of an issue), but it frees me from worrying about browser APIs and having to copy my custom filters to every single browser I want to use.
I really couldn't have been any clearer, so I don't know what to tell you.
Chris Hedges: Full Speech at Workers Strike Back Conference
I don't think it was purely a calculation error, it was probably also an intuitive evaluation. Bobby was trying to complicate the game and create an imbalance, where there were still winning chances if misplayed by spassky, but obviously it was a bad evaluation and it backfired. I think he was in a bit of a mood and got reckless. He had been making a lot of demands leading up to this and threats to not participate, probably got frustrated by the drawn endgame and took a big risk. I don't think he ever really opened up about his reasoning to be fair, but was asked along the lines of "were you trying to complicate the game" and he said "something like that". After losing those first two games he demanded the cameras to be removed from the playing hall and started to play really well against spassky, so possibly a psychological aspect from the cameras were also to blame. Maybe he knew he was throwing the game and it'd make for an entertaining match... the guy was sort of insane
You don’t vote for any policy or action.

You vote for Presidents and politicians who act on your behalf.
He did the same to Biden privately: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna54592
Ok but in Russia do they say similar things about the US? And if so then is there some backlash from Russians who believe Putin shouldn’t be dealing with the US as a potential ally?
I have a pretty good portfolio already. I'll build something if it seems fun, but I don't think having more side projects will get me a job.
What is the fascination with the left? Collectivism is fundamentally evil. Equating leftism with egalitarian outcomes is naive at best. Cuba, the Soviet Union and others exemplify what happens when leftism triumphs - only the elites are well off. The rest suffer equally. If the democrat party wants to recover, move to the center. Otherwise, they’re done.
Sure does suck that Russia invaded Ukraine and caused this loss of human life, right?
Also, other countries send lots of students to the US. Some become immigrants but lots go back home.
Nah, they'd say it was god's will or some nonsense and pretend it's all right. A minority might even be completely fine with losses as long as their god emperor wins in the end and owns the libs.
vance may be the most unlikeable person i have ever heard speak. he just has no charisma and is constantly crying crocodile tears about the dumbest thing you've ever heard of.
I think its easier for the US to threaten to withdraw and Europe calling the bluff. Either goes ahead or they force another distraction.

My Dutch news website right now: "EU foreign policy chief: Free world needs new leader"
I don’t understand why one should define a month by partitioning the orbit into twelve equiangular sectors (relative to the centre of the orbit). Shouldn’t the orbit be partitioned into twelve parts with (roughly) equal travel times?
Maybe. But Biden and Germany didn't push too hard on either because they feared Russian reaction. Now, with so many Ukrainian soldiers dead, it will be much harder.

Economic sanctions won't affect Russia as long as China is behind them. And if the West is against Russia, they will do anything to keep China as an ally.
Einstein was pro-nuke!

Certainly applying the Einstein solution of a spread of nukes would end the war, very quickly.
Gajim 2.0.0
Which he unquestionably has. Look at what is happening with FAA and Verizon.
When there is peace. Just as with Churchill. And most European leaders during WW2.

You can't hold free elections when you're not free.
Yes, but I also think that making sausage in public has advantages. You have to admit that this is a very transparent negotiation.
Ultimately what should be inferred is that Liberal idealism is receding or even gone.

It's all pure raw quid pro quo from now on.
I just downloaded and fired up Waterfox.

Import of settings was confusing, but these restarts are a great way to prune bookmarks and never-used extensions. Other than this, operation has been smooth sailing.

GhostText just connected to the editor that Firefox and Safari were using. And ublock-origin was my first extension loaded.

https://www.waterfox.net/
…for now. With the US acting in concert with Russia against Europe’s interest, it’s time for Europe to reconsider whether those bases should stay.
By definition it's not possible for fascists to be hypocrites, because fascists do not use language to describe the world or pursue the truth, they only use language to gain power. If you accuse them of hypocrisy you've already lost, because you've failed to realize that they're not even playing the same game as you are. It's like accusing a Markov chain of being a hypocrite; you have fundamentally misunderstood the nature your opponent.
"I have more soldiers than you" isn't the only thing that counts.
It's a cyclical process.
I can't see this as Vance acting without prior consultation and authorisation from Trump - its too serious a breach of protocol and tradition.

For that reason, this smells of a pre-planned ambush.
> The EU is going to be thinking long and hard about the future of NATO now.

European defense spending has, for decades now, suggested that they don't particularly care about NATO. Well, the Western European members at least. Those who used to live in the Warsaw Pact take it more seriously - see Poland, for example.

They also should have been thinking about the implications of buying so much gas from the Russians for the last 15 years. The invasion of Georgia should have been a trigger to move off of Russian exports permanently. Instead it just brought further dependence and a major pipeline project.

I despise Trump as much as anyone but strategic security shouldn't rest on one country never being in a position to elect an isolationist demagogue.
Eh, English does the job.

I don't think a common language is as necessary as you are making it out to be. India uses English as lingua franca because it has dozens on languages, and it is a more or less cohesive country.
> you might want to read about World War II.

you didn't read enough about wwii then. giving putin ukraine emboldens him further just like hitler
I don't normally comment on politics, but Trump and Vance's behavior was over the line. And your comment is salient. We can look forward to a period of nuclear proliferation among our allies since they cannot depend on the USA anymore. We are already seeing Germany seek out nukes; Canada will soon follow if it values its sovereignity. The fact that anyone with eyes could see this coming if Trump was elected again is of small comfort - they say that those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it, but those who know history are doomed to watch others repeat it. I have never been ashamed to be an American citizen until today. Zelenskyy is a courageous, heroic leader resisting a much more powerful, authoritarian agressor who hungers for the downfall of the West and all democratic societies. Z could have left Ukraine in the early days of the invasion but chose to stay and fight. Meanwhile Trump's "bone spurs" exempted him from service in Vietnam, and he disparages war heroes like McCain before and after his death. Lindsay Graham says "I've never been more proud of the President" and it's like walking out of Star Wars: A New Hope hearing half of the audience excited to see such a compelling new hero, Darth Vader. Insanity.
Maybe Darwinian evolution has the intrinsic tendency to evolve Lamarckian heredity mechanisms.
There are plenty of us who are awake. But lots of the voting public wanted this man in office. And they are getting what they wanted, apparently, b/c he was clear about who he is and what he was going to do.

We'll have at least two years of this. One can hope 2026 will see a massive tide turn in congress and the Senate and maybe Trump will be impeached. But, it doesn't seem likely, and even if it happened, they can't impeach his entire administration so not sure how much can really change until 2028.
exactly the wrong instinct
I think the tension about AI is that yea, it is a reflection of all of our contributions, but the benefits are privatized and potentially used to deprive people of sustenance via automating their jobs. The problem is capitalism, not the technology itself.

Science and technology can be used for social good. They are the product of all of our efforts and knowledge combined with labor, yet companies make big bucks selling them back to us while also depriving people of things that they need, unless they are fortunate enough to pay, and then they provide them in the most blood sucking way possible.
American liberals are so full of lifelong indoctrination into thinking that laws, courts, and constitutions are what hold up democracy ... they're just going in circles for the last 10 years expecting the next election or court decision to save them.

They have no real concept of the mobilization of people power, street protest, disobedience because it's been stripped from the ideological palette of American liberalism.

Those on the left who do hold these concepts of opposition are deliberately marginalized by their two party system.

Just like with Russians and the war, the world cannot expect domestic dissent within these countries to save them. It's up to the people of Europe & Canada to form alliances and do the best we can.
By giving Czechoslovakia to Nazi Germany
> > I generally like his shows of strength

The US has the nuclear trident, the Ohio ICBMs nuclear submarines, the Gerald Ford Class Carriers, the thousands of Minutemen delivering warheads in 20 minutes or less, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Air Force in the World...

All of that, not to mention the soft power precisely in order to avoid having to pull this sort of BS in the oval office

The US strenght is the system , not the dude in the expensive house on Penn Avenue with the nice plane. He very rarely adds something but can absolutely throw lots of the systemic effort down the sink
Perhaps Europe can defend it?
This concept is so disingenuous. The earth is is big enough for Russian, China, and the US to coexist in peace. My country's spending should be spent in my country. Not liberating a land that has nothing to do with us.
There was a Tass reporter in the Oval Office with Trump earlier today. How much more evidence does anyone need?
As a T1D: can confirm. Taking insulin is a hassle, but definitely not "I'd rather take immunosuppressants". I'm having a hard time even contextualizing how much worse that is.
How much do you take? Just standard stuff from amazon?
Same here. How TF people just come up with such ideas.
I started by donating $100 to Ukraine just now.
Society at large depends on the collective belief in society. It would stop existing tomorrow if everyone stopped pretending it existed. Laws, court rulings, road signs, it's all imaginary, but the collective illusion allows us to accomplish a lot more than than the alternative.
On the minerals front, the US doesn't need anything from Ukraine. Most of the minerals mentioned, except titanium, are un-mined deposits. Or things the US has plenty of already, such as oil, natural gas, coal, and iron.

Here's a rundown:

- Rare earths:

I've mentioned the MP Minerals, Mountain Pass, CA mine before.
The US doesn't have enough rare earth refining
capability, and China won't export the technology.
So US ore goes to China for processing.
Or did, until DoD paid for a separation plant
at Mountain Pass. That problem is close to being
solved. That new separation plant is running.
A plant for the final step, making magnet-ready metal,
has been built in Texas, again by MP Minerals,
and it's about ready to open.

What's happened with rare earths is not that
they're rare. It's that China undercut US
prices so much that the Mountain Pass mine
went bankrupt. Twice. In 2015, there was a
rare earths glut. Look at WSJ
rare earths articles back to 2011.

There are large un-mined rare earth deposits in
Colorado and Wyoming, with startups talking
about mining them. Whether this makes
economic sense is unclear. If all those
start up, the price will crash again and they
all go bust.

Three years ago, the US rare earths situation looked bad.
Not today.

- Uranium

The US has plenty of uranium resources. Canada
and the US are historically the biggest producers.

- Titanium

Titanium ore has supposedly been discovered in Tennessee.
See https://iperionx.com/
Are those guys for real? Not clear.

- Lithium

The US produces about 75% of the lithium it uses.
New deposits have been found in Arkansas:

https://www.usgs.gov/news/national-news-release/unlocking-ar...

And in Nevada:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCWeZiVsotc

- Graphite

China is the leading producer, but Canada and Norway are ramping up.
There hasn't been US production of natural graphite since the 1950s.
US production of synthetic graphite satisfies most US demand.
(https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/pp1802J) Several new synthetic graphite
plants are being built in the US.

As we've seen in rare earths, when the cheaper sources raise their prices, domestic production increases.
It seems to take about three to five years to get a big mining operation going.

Quietly, during the previous administration, there was funding for US mineral projects in
rare earths, graphite, and lithium. It's no secret, but most
coverage is from sites that cover mining and minerals.
It's a ceasefire, not a peace deal. With a party who has no history of honoring ceasefires.

Trump wants all of their mineral resources for a flimsy ceasefire. With no concessions from Russia.

It's a bad deal. Would you fold because people would die when your sovereignty is threatened?
go to wikipedia and read the history of Syrian conflict and how many years after it started, did Russia intervene
And yet, polling so far shows that 90+% of Trump voters are still fine with what he's been doing to the executive branch, and I expect most of those people don't particularly care about Ukraine or understand the nuances of diplomacy or soft power.