If Russia takes it all it will be a boon to everyone. Even Ukrainians themselves. Russians will just have to pay the price of dealing with all the radicals-shit and pay for reconstruction. I have no doubt that if rump-Ukraine still stands after war, EU will leave it and it's people to rot as thanks for dying to hurt Russia. Everyone is increasingly unwilling to pay for Ukraine's war anymore. It's more than likely that nobody will pay Ukraine anything after the war and since much of the loans were guaranteed on existing Ukrainian assets and land and resources in Donbass they will have nothing, less than nothing. but it's not just about the money. Ukraine has no people, economy, infrastructure or political stability left and it will likely be landlocked.

Ukraine left alone will be known as lawless hub of terrorism and weapons- and human trafficking for decades to come. Like Libya, but in Europe.

So if Russia doesn't and will not ever accept nato troops or Nato in Ukraine, that only leaves the option of ending Ukraine. Since the war can't go on forever nor does Russia think they can just give up, because that would leave Nato closer to it's borders than it was before.

I not for a second believe that western leaders are so stupid and actually blinded by """principles""" that they don't understand this. They still just seek unconditional Russian capitulation (and regime change) or just keeping the war going as long as possible.

For like a two past decades at least this shit has not been about whether it gets limited to 1,5 degree limit, but damage mitigation. Just the systemic inertia made it unrealistic, because beside launching the nukes no solution was going to be snap of the fingers fast. If anything all or nothing alarmist has done more harm than good for the cause. Why give a shit if it's framed in the terms "we do everything now or all is lost, because feedback loops, but all the really really bad stuff will be like 50-100 years off in the future". Doesn't much matter if it was ever true, because it made shit propaganda, and the issue was always political, and a fight against inertia, not scientific strictly. The message should be damage mitigation, like what can be avoided if we do X.

The slop beside... What's the point of throwing your students out a of class if they hadn't done the prepwork? In principle It's their personal learning that suffers there and at college/uni level you have to take responsibility for your own learning. if you don't you fail. It's not the professors job to enforce everybody's personal work morale outside of grading. If this something set out as mandatory for passing course, then fine, tough shit for students. I'm like almost imagining that the lecturer is punishing them or making an example of them as if they were a bunch of 12yo kids not doing their AI-slop homework and therefore disrespecting her authority. If they actually lacked the prerequisite knowledge to take part in discussion then they could have at least listened others speak and her maybe teach? No prepwork can be so important that the subject is totally incomprehensible if you don't do your AI-slop prep.

Tbh I don't know jack about American uni/college teaching culture or mybe enough of this case, but this sounds fucked.

All the big adult sites will probably just die or at least shrivel in popularity. Most Europeans simply will not use whatever "tell Brussels or London where or what what you are watching" option is. In the place of the big sites there will be a billion shady and likely virus-lottery proxy sites whose only selling point is that they do not do age checking or require registration. Those then get occasionally smacked down by Brussels, just to be replaced with 10 more clones the by the next week. On the side piracy and vpns will thrive. Kids will not be protected nor will people's privacy, quality will be worse.

I would also bet that when the landscape decentralizes there will be a lot more cp, revenge and peep-videos and other illegal shit in the mix that will get through through the cracks since massive established sites had to actually fear shutdown and losing all revenue unless they had robust gatekeeping mechanisms. If Brussels wants your 2 month life-expectancy site dead anyway, because of it's only selling point of having to show id, then why really bother with the quality control of the material. Especially if site holder has no personal qualms about that stuff.

It's kinda same when you hear people starting their sentences with "I'm not political, but..." and you can then be sure that for a next few seconds you will hear the most feverish liberal take possible.

"The tiny amount of aid that was on the yacht and not consumed by the 'celebrities' will be transferred to Gaza through real humanitarian channels," the ministry added.

They will toss the aid to the wood chipper and laugh about it, won't they...

I'm not a psycho, but....

A true nihilist would have just killed himself and been done with it. Instead overdose of liberalism and hyper individualism makes people just not want to live, but also make a show of murdering other people, because the "show" puts them and their ego on the center stage.

I mean at this point if you have seen what Israel has done, unfiltered by the media, then there is almost nothing that will shake people out of their views. If you support Israel after knowing that they purposefully shell hospitals and children, then you will most likely keep supporting Israel no matter what. Same goes for those who oppose Israel and it's genocide.

1. Stockmarket's are totally decoupled from the health of the real economy. The real economy is already toast.

2. Only small porkies and workers will potentially lose from this.

3. Hedgefunds win if line goes up and when it goes down.

Why do kill switches when you can just hog all the work of maintaining some critical part of the infrastructure and make it's functioning and maintenance so opaque and impenetrable that the employer can't replace or fire you without their shit catching fire soon after. It doesn't have to be malicious or illegal.

https://youtu.be/0jK0ytvjv-E

His efforts to sabotage their network began that year, and by the next year, he had planted different forms of malicious code, creating "infinite loops" that deleted coworker profile files, preventing legitimate logins and causing system crashes

I wish this guy was were actually politically motivated, but he seems to have been just really petty minded person.

Water is wet, researchers find

Like basic thermodynamics can tell you that carbon capture sucks efficiency wise. It's more work to pour water on the floor and then mopping it up and putting a back into the bottle, than just not not spilling the water in the first place.