I’m surprised it’s that many, but it’s people who are allowed to die with dignity, and released from a life of pain.
I hate we don’t have that right here in Denmark.

Absolutely, China will be in control of Russia, like Russia is in control of Belarus. Maybe the weakness of Russia, will enable Belarus to tear themselves lose, and restore democracy? We can hope.

It doesn’t really matter, because you know What? The rebels didn’t use starlink in Syria, and you ended up having to run anyway.
Face it Russia, you are losing the war, your army will ultimately have to withdraw, your economy is collapsing as we speak, Putin will be overthrown and the Russian federation will fall apart.
And no it’s not because Ukraine has missiles and drones that can reach into Russia. It’s because Putin started a moronic war, thinking it was easy money for him and his oligarchs.
Russia is already set back a decade economically, and the power balance where Russia is becoming more insignificant compared to China, is probably accelerated by several decades. Russia proving to be a poor supplier of weapons, and a poor ally militarily, and economically more insignificant than ever. Russia is only valuable to China now as a vassal state.

Compare that to the possibility Russia had when Russia worked on getting closer to the west after the fall of Gorbachev and becoming a democracy, If they had continued along that path, Russia would almost without a doubt be the biggest and most influential economy in Europe now.
Instead Putin chose to reverse course, and destroy Russian democracy and relations with Europe and the west.

Russia is only complaining about starlink, because they essentially have no idea what’s going on, how they ended up in this mess, and why it’s going so bad for them. And most of all they don’t know how to get out of this mess, without all the consequences tumbling down on their heads.

Weird comparison, since Lesotho is one of the worlds lowest on life expectancy. This also skew the comparison to other countries, and AFAIK Norwegians have way higher quality of life in the last years of living, despite living longer.
A better graph would be how many years are lived in good health.

Still impressive Americans manage to do so well, considering their shitty living conditions.

The existing trade embargo says otherwise.

I don’t think so, it’s just that EU tries to strategically hit Russia where it hurts the most. But IMO that’s not good enough. We need a total trade embargo against Russia.

I know Putin wants to look strong, but did he forget that increasing the military budgets was what broke the Soviet Union?
Putin wants to recreate the Soviet Union, but I wasn’t aware it was the collapse he wanted to recreate.
He is going to look pretty stupid when his wish is finally granted! Actually he already looks pretty stupid.

No, if Russia can’t buy what they need, they have to make it themselves, that requires investments, and with steep interest rates, and worker shortage, they are not in a position to increase their productivity.

There is zero doubt IMO that we should boycott Russia completely, anything less is helping Russia fight the war against Ukraine.

Critics note similar European imports face lower duties.

Why the fuck are we still exporting to Russia?

About time we got some new physics, after billions of years with the same old shit.

It’s OK it exist, it’s a thought that is curious enough. I’d even go so far and say it can have an educational function for children.
I just don’t get why some people seem to think it’s relevant in so many situations where clearly it’s not.

Requires someone wants to hire you or allow you to hack them, otherwise it’s still illegal, and you can go to jail, even if you don’t take anything, and reveal it to the company.
Some companies make rewards for hacking their systems if you come to them, but usually you are just paid a one time amount for finding a vulnerability, and that’s it.

Because Americans have so goddam many terms for similar things. Single payer, universal, public, public insurance, private insurance, community based, employer paid. The current system is called “Mixed non-universal”. So I used a description instead. And you knew what I meant.
BTW how many languages do you speak? It’s pretty low to criticize minor mistakes by someone writing in a 2nd language.
I write better American than many Americans!!!

Yes thanks, I somehow fucked up my search. Now it makes sense.

Apparently I fucked up my search. 😋 Thanks for giving the correct info.
Now it at least makes sense.

You wouldn’t need infinite time if you had infinite monkeys.

Obviously, but as I wrote BOTH are impossible, so it’s irrelevant. I just didn’t think I’d have to explain WHY infinite monkeys is impossible, while some might think the universe is infinite also in time, which it is not.

I also already wrote that if you have an infinite string everything is contained in it.
But even with infinite moneys it’s not instant, because technically each monkey needs to finish a page.

But I understand what you mean, and that’s exactly why the theorem is so stupid IMO. You could also have 1 monkey infinite time.
But both are still impossible.

When I say it’s stupid, I don’t mean as a thought experiment which is the purpose of it. The stupid part is when people think they can use it as an analogy or example to describe something

Everything was fine until the “Jury nullification” thing? Apparently that’s an American thing where a state can disregard a federal law if they find it to be unconstitutional.
What does that have to do with Lemmy moderation?
I’m sorry if this is very obvious, but I’m not American, and just learned the meaning of the term from Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullification_(U.S._Constitution)

Infinite monkeys and infinite time is equally stupid, because obviously you can’t have either, for the simple reason that the universe is finite.
And apart from that, it’s stupid because if you use an infinite random, EVERYTHING is contained in it!

I’m sorry it just annoys the hell out of me, because it’s a thought experiment, and it’s stupid to use this as an analogy or example to describe anything in the real world.

I would have agreed on the “probably” until Musk basically bought his way into max corruption with a seat right next to the president.
Those 40 billion he has practically lost on Xitter, will most likely be gained already within the first year.
There is no doubt IMO that USA is now de-facto an oligarchy.

Apart from also being an oligarchy, yes it is capitalist.
But here (Denmark) we would technically call it SUPER capitalist.
Because Denmark is also capitalist, but like the rest of EU, we balance capitalism with general interests of society. Where USA favor capitalism way more.