Honestly, if he can get them to switch from those gas guzzlers to Teslas, that would still be better. But for that to work, the brand has to be utterly reviled by any “libtards”. So keep sinking Tesla and let the Nazis rescue it.

And they’re actively looking to expand their borders too. Putin has referred to a Eurasian empire from Vladivostok to Lisbon.

His ideas are absolutely more brutal than those of the US, it’s just that his reach is less, and he hates that.

I will say this for Russia: they restrict their indiscriminate bombing and terrorism mostly to countries they actually border. I don’t know if that makes it any better, because it does mean they’re occupying a big part of another country and abducting or massacring parts of their population with the explicit intent of genocide, but at least it’s only regional instead of global.

Rich, coming from him.

He blindly jumped into a sudden exchange of bombs because he didn’t want to be left out. I’m pretty sure Israel and Iran know very well that Trump is out of his depth, and that that’s why they ignore him.

Of course he’s right that they should stop, but everybody sees he’s a broken clock that just happens to be right this time. He lacks understanding and authority to handle these sort of conflicts.

I’ve always taken it to mean: put your effort into making it work first, before worrying about optimization. Once it works, you can decide whether it’s worth putting effort into optimization. But if you do that first, you might optimize for the wrong thing. Or get distracted by optimization so you never get it to work.

Medvedev’s credibility is low indeed. He’s always the one to do the nuclear sabre rattling.

Even so, I wonder if this might not work as a devious plan for them. Give Iran a nuke, and if they use it offensively, they’ll be the ones testing the rest of the world about what they’re going to do about it without any risk of Russia getting turned into a steppe of glass.

Israel might get destroyed, Iran might get destroyed, but Russia will survive. And if Iran survives, that gives Russia more confidence that they will too if they use a nuclear bomb.

If he really believes the two countries should be united, he could always decide to surrender to Ukraine and give Ukraine control over Russia. I’m sure Ukraine would do a better job of governing Russia than Putin has done.

Good! The unreliability of German trains has been utterly surreal lately. We went on vacation by train from NL to Switzerland last year, and of course that connection goes through Germany. Confusion, delays, cancelled trains, 5 layovers with a ton of luggage (instead of the 1 we booked), standing in trains instead of sitting in our reserved first class seats. Even if you don’t arrive all that late, it’s still a terrible trip.

Before that, I’ve had a major event at Essen where the last connecting train to the ICE from Düsseldorf was cancelled. Tons of people stranded. I made it by paying through the nose for a taxi because I saw that their replacement bus wasn’t going to make it.

Some fixes to their crumbling system are clearly long overdue.

Can we get Ludic to do this? Not a Brit, but he does have a way with words.

If one atrocity justifies another, the atrocities won’t stop until everybody is dead.

What!? But that haka was awesome! How can you not enjoy that?

Ooh! I need to look that up.

I recently wanted to send a file from Linux to an old tablet over Bluetooth. Can’t be done apparently. I can send it to my phone, a windows laptop can send it to the tablet, but my Linux PC apparently can’t. Still baffled about it.

My son taught himself English by setting Minecraft to English. Once he mastered that, he set it to Pirate.

The first is fine. The ending is great, some other parts are bad. Some are very questionable. On the whole, I enjoyed it.

Those were Russia and the Russia-backed “separatists” doing that in the areas the controlled. There’s not a shred of evidence of Ukraine doing anything like that, and plenty of evidence of Russia doing this.

If you were told otherwise, you were lied to. Putin loves telling these sort of lies in order to mislead people lile you.

SO used to be really good in the past, but these days when I’m looking for an answer to a problem, I only unanswered closed questions.

Ah, is that the way to address that? I don’t run into incorrect error highlighting often, and it’s mostly great, but when it gets it wrong, it can be very stubborn about it.

I think it’s generally true for any situation. It holds for Israel, for Hamas, for Russia, and for any country or organization that seems to enjoy bombing their neighbours.

Does it still run 30 year old apps? I was under the impression that a lot of DOS and Windows software from the 1990s ran better under Wine than on Windows.