Crazy how 10 years ago AMD was a penny stock, around $4 vs Intel's $27, and now they're $135 and $20 respectively. I think abt this more than I should because I've always been team red and almost bought it. But now it's too gambly to buy any

It's a bit murkier than this. The EU will first and foremost give this money to itself:

Under the proposal, 90% of the funds would be initially allocated to the European Peace Facility (EPF), the bloc’s mechanism to reimburse weapons delivered to Kyiv, and then to the newly created Ukraine Assistance Fund (UAF). [ x ]

From this language, it's not even clear whether this money will go to procure new weapons or to reimburse themselves for the already delivered ones. It can go either way or be some mixture of both.

what if i have more than two applications on my computer

Can't believe it's only been four years! They've really felt like forever.

Thank you for a refuge. Thank you everyone. Long live the mods

Rabid Baltic states + Poland keep closing borders with Belarus and introduce various restrictions. As a response, Belarus introduces a visa-free regime to 35 more (mostly European) countries (Lituanians, Latvians, and Poles could already come visa-free for over two years). It's funny how the Iron Wall turntables have trurnabled.

car go far, but at what cost!

I doubt this was re the Baltic states specifically. Their politicians say many unhinged things, but if the push came to shove, these countries would fold very quickly under conventional weaponry, and they're too close to Russia to use nukes anyway. UK, Denmark, the Netherlands, on the other hand, that's where the politicians have been particularly dense.. But it's also just rhetoric, imo, even if F-16s come to Ukraine, they'd be too few and low impact to start a WW3.

President Joe Biden has given Ukraine permission to use American-supplied weapons to strike targets in Russia, but only near the Kharkiv region, US officials say.

US concedes Kharkiv region now belongs to Russia

He said:

Representatives of NATO countries, especially in Europe, especially in small countries - they should be aware of what they are playing with. They have to remember that these are usually states with a small territory and very dense population. And this is a factor that they should keep in mind before they talk about striking deep into Russian territory. [ x ]

I'm here to make friends and shitposts, and I'm all out of shitposts

Firofox pls

Have I ever mentioned that I'd met Evan Neumann, one of the Jan 6 rioters, here in Belarus where he got an asylum? It happened about a year go, but I haven't posted in a while so.

There was an interview with him on the local news, that's how I recognized him. I was just drinking with a friend at a place that only sells shots, and he was there with some dude. So I went to say hi bc I was sufficiently drunk :) He said he sold (or was selling?) his house in San Francisco, so on that money alone he can just happily grow old in Belarus.

Real cold war shit really. Our govt topplers flee west, western flee east. Get weaponized in the war of narratives, ofc.