Childishly inadequate comparison.

There’s a world of difference between domestic abuse, and allowing an hostile alliance to encircle your country.

Furthermore, I recommend listening to the interview I linked above: Ukraine and Russia had a bilateral agreement together, that Ukraine broke. This is according to a french former monitor of the OSCE.

Russia announced that they would invade if Ukraine moved to join NATO. Who should we blame, the state that set clear boundaries, or the state that was recklessly told to break the boundaries?

Furthermore, according to a former international monitor from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), Ukraine is the party to blame for the breakdown of the previous agreement, not Russia.

The “Russia bad” narrative only makes sense if you start the story on february 2022 and refuse to learn anything about the context leading up to the SMO.

In Montreal, it’s pretty typical to see groundhogs and raccoons. It was a fairly regular phenomena for me to walk through St-Helen Island and see tourists that stopped to take pictures of groundhogs.

You’re being purposefully disingenuous at this point.

You asked me “[…] to prove they want to be Russian not the other way round” and I gave you sources that showed that there is a culturally russian population in these regions. I’m done with this straw-manning.

What are you even talking about? The 2010 election is different from the referendums I mentioned previously? I never called this election a sham.

Are you even familiar with the cultural layout of Ukraine? I wasn’t aware that we were starting the conversation so far back that I have to explain that “marginalized russian speakers might prefer Russian rules over Ukrainian rules”.

There’s a significant percentage of native Russian speaker that lives in the annexed part of the country. An overwhelming amount of these russophones voted for a pro-Russia government in 2010.

This population also was under duress of ukrainian nationalist in 2014 (“Ukrainian Nationalist Volunteers Committing ‘ISIS-Style’ War Crimes”). Are these people supposed to be begging for Ukrainian liberation or someshit?

So Russia is untrustworthy, ergo we should not engage with them or take their words?

Then why is the west engaging with a country too corrupt to join NATO (Ukraine)? Where are our standards for this specific country?

I’m asking questions, why are you getting so emotional and upset?

If you are correct, then just share sources showing that there’s a massive resistance movement in the area that voted for a referendum and that Russia barely gains anything from being there. Ukrainians are praised for their guerilla warfare, how come Russia can hold on to so many regions?

I get why you would bring this up, but this is not an helpful intervention in the conversation. “Incredible” doesn’t mean anything objective, and Ukraine factually killed multiple separatists before 2021, there’s no way for me to know whether you’re blaming Russia or Ukraine. So please be more specific, ideally with a source because otherwise this isn’t adding anything to the conversation.

Like I already said: Russia will act as though they aren’t a sham.

Unless you tell me you can stop Russia from doing what it pleases, it doesn’t matter that the west cry foul.

Why are YOU not asking what is going on in these regions? What if the referendums weren’t scam and most of the ex-Ukrainians are actually happy? This isn’t my assertion, I genuinely don’t know what is going on there, hence me asking what the morale is over there.

I skimmed the article, I might have missed it but here’s another strike against AI, that is tremendously important: It’s the ultimate accountability killer.

Did your insurance company make an obvious mistake? Oops teeehee, silly them, the AI was a bit off

Is everything going mildly OK? Of course! The AI is deciding who gets insurance and who doesn’t, it knows better, so why are you questioning it?

Expect (and rage against) a lot of pernicious usage of AI for decision making, especially in areas where they shouldn’t be making decisions (take Israel for instance, that uses an AI to select ““military”” targets in Gaza).

I’ve done some superficial researches but I couldn’t find anything: does anyone know what the morale is like in the regions that voted to join the Russian federation ? I only found out recently that there was a referendum held in the regions almost immediately by Russia. Stop. I know you want to call these referendum a sham, but this isn’t the question here. Russia is going to operate as though they aren’t a sham and no one has the power to stop them at the moment, so what I’m asking is “what is going on in these regions”.

I can’t find the article I initially found on the matter, but apparently civilian areas were being shelled by Ukraine during the vote period.

I’m not sure why Kyiv is so obsessed with fighting to reclaim regions that were ethnic russians and that seems like they don’t even want to be part of Ukraine.

No one disputes the need to get people in the street. I agree with you there.

My cautionary tale is that turning to democrats or other mainstream ““resistance”” is a trap meant to deflate popular morale.

It’s good to see people politically animated, but these protests are largely ‘controlled opposition’. It’s an emergency venting valve where the people’s frustration is channeled into a meaningless whistle.

The whole system is rotted. The democrats are not fighting for the small folk at all. If anything, a branch of the party is probably relieved that the republicans moved the overton window so far right.

Real change will require actual upheaval. You can’t vote or protest your way out of this shit. Major civilian disobedience and unionizing is required across the board. There are some of us (working class) that are doing some unassuming maintenance in the orphan crushing machine. We won’t get anywhere as long as people are operating their evil cog as normal. These protests won’t do anything as long as it’s being directed through the democrat pressure valve, as it is built in as a safety device in the orphan crushing machine.

They absolutely did let it happen on purpose. We had information that pointed to this conclusion within weeks of the attack.

Egypt told Israel that Hamas was planning something.

You can walk to the closest military base faster than the IDF reacted to Hamas’ operation.

Nova survivors are sueing the security forces in presence: a single phone call could’ve saved hundred of lives.

The list goes on and on, this is absolutely a case of “let it happen on purpose”.

I’m going to start pointing to this when I explain to people why I want “dumb” machines.

I don’t want AI to “summarize” my google search, I don’t want ads distracting drivers, I don’t want a washing machine that needs updates, I don’t want my TV to look at me, I want a submissive little machine that does task X.

So according to you, there’s a crypto that 1. doesn’t need any capital (computers), 2. doesn’t need wastable energy (power that wouldn’t otherwise be used) and 3. is actually impossible to track across the board?

As far as I know it’s just french spelling, not limited to French-Canadian.

Have you heard of the lottery?

Whole-ass time travel to “buy more bitcoin”, what a clown.

Adding a few more points to fully kill crypto as a “freedom currency”

• Generating crypto requires capital; people with computers and access to energy will instantly get the ability to outgenerate any other crypto participant
• Energy-centric currency just empowers the same rich lobbies; oil and gaz lobbies are delighted to see that there’s an uptick in energy demand
• People with right material (read, capital) can track you, but low chance to track anyone doing crime at a national level (due to odds of them having a competent IT (baring the Hegseth drunkards out there))