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pointed to “targeted attacks”

not

pointed to the targeted attacks

Would you mind correcting the header to not cause misunderstandings, please?

So NetBSD it is.

That was kinda cool! Thanks :)

That’s a good reply!

Yeah,

An Internet meme or meme, is a cultural item that is spread via the Internet,

So: True, a meme does not need to be a recaptioned image that alters it meaning.
In any case that up there a nice text snippet, yeah :)

Is any microblog post automatically a meme?

They might, if everything left is really really really dumb.

If Putin gains his own detached head, whoever comes after him will be politically much weaker. No matter who the leader will be, even if Putin, the Russia will very soon have to stop using mercenaries and must switch to conscripts. For a weak leader, it might be very difficult to squeeze people into the meat grinder. I’m not sure if such a follower-up would really have any way of continuing the war. No economy means no soldiers – except through conscription. And I don’t think Russians would accept a conscription. If the fledgeling autocrat cannot continue the war, what options does he really have other than the smart one? Let go of what must go so that at least a part of the Russia will stay together.

Soviet and Russian history has a lot of points where change of leadership was a linchpin that very suddenly turned the previous heroes into detested monsters. How Russians started talking about Jeltsin very soon after Putin rose to power is actually yet another example of that. There is precedence for putting all the blame to the predecessor and then going for big reforms.

Putin will eventually lose his place. The less Kremlin has that event under control, the better for everyone outside Kremlin. Therefore, better get rolling with it, asap!
It’s entirely possible that the replacement will really be as bad, but if Kremlin gets to decide on the follower, then the follower will definitely be as bad as Putin. Or worse. Because when it comes to war strategy, Putin is clueless, but micromanages all the time. If someone is otherwise the same but has some understanding of military strategy, things will only go south.

I agree.

What I meant (but said very very unclearly) was that there’s a high chance Russians will.simply fail to recognize this. I speak quite a lot with Russians living here in Finland and they are some seriously brainwashed bunch!
Their lack of situational awareness regarding this war is somehow… Even fascinating?

I think the next guy has a high likelihood to recognize that the war cannot be won. Putin probably knows the same by now, but he has no other options than to continue (unless he’s okay with dying, but he isn’t).

A successor has the option to declare something akin to a coup (even if it really isn’t one) and claim that “it was Putin, not the new Russia I am leading!”, getting the soldiers out of Ukraine and starting the negotiations. (Or rather: starting negotiations for withdrawing Russian troops from Ukraine and drafting a real peace deal.)

That being the smart thing from our perspective means preciously little for the Russia, though.

The will to live in a powerful country goes over everything else in the Russia. But, I do agree that a form of that could work indeed.

The Internet Archive rewrites people’s home instances?! Wut?

Germans

Mehr als ein Fünftel der Einwohnern in der EU sprechen Deutsch als Muttersprache. Durchwegs zu erwarten also!

Jedoch sind gar nicht alle deutschsprachige Deutscher! Calling all German-speakers German is like calling all English-speakers American.

Liberal and Liberalist are two different terms, though. Very few liberalists are liberal.

If you support basic human rights, liberalism is diametrically opposed to your thinking. You can’t have human rights if Nestlé is allowed to own all the ground water underneath your village.

Here’s an article on where the Proton checkbox is in the Steam settings. Just now I’m playing CIV4 and I had completely forgotten to think that it probably doesn’t work on Linux. Because it does now, absolutely fine :)

(The original FFVII doesn’t, though. But that’s the only Windows game I’ve encountered to not work!)

If you use Steam, there’s an option in the settings to always enable using Proton to handle Windows games. Works very well! Many games work faster than on Windows, but sometimes there are minor bugs.

I find that vertical panels are inconvenient because text is horizontal so less text gets shown and font sizes get smaller.

Another solution is to simply switch to using the Mongolian script.

So… If the Rubble loses much of its value, then the Russia won’t be able to pay these back at all?