Francis M. Wilhoit

Don’t get me wrong, I was not advocating for nazism. I know you by reputation to be knowledgeable about history, so if you could recommend some literature into it, I’d love that.

What I’m saying is more a kind of fear I have instead of a statement, I just saw that nazi regimes seemed like able to channel economic productivity into some societal goal - even though that goal was utterly despicable and evil, like a war - instead of just having the economy grow as a cancer.

I guess that’s my point, the economy should be a means to societal progress, and I feel a lot of people pretend it works the other way around.

Corporations should be slaves to bettering our lives, instead of our lives being slaved to bettering corporations.

I would really love to have a conversation about how the Nazis had a great economy, capable of going from rebuilding from WWI to starting WWII in 20 years.

I feel like worshipping the economy, and having it be the sole measure of society, inevitably leads us to the far-right. China is not going to magically crumble, and economic prosperity is achievable without societal progress.

We need to have societal progress as the goal, not some magic by-product of line go up.

So another terrorist attack then. Glad to know the US is still going strong in democracy.

Details: […] Geolocated footage suggests that Russian forces may have previously regained positions east of Novy Put, while Ukrainian forces appear to hold positions southeast of the settlement. The front line in Kursk Oblast remains unchanged.

This is another “Russians captured another hedgerow, lost another platoon” article.

I wonder if they like Sabaton.

Still a deadlock at the frontline
Where the soldiers die in mud
roads and houses since long gone
still no glory has been won
know that many men have suffered
know that many men have died

Six miles of ground has been won
Half a million men are gone
And as the men crawled, the general called
And the killing carried on and on
And on
What’s the purpose of it all?
What’s the price of a mile?

Do they also have this thing where boomers vote for this one party out of force of habit, and the main effort of the one party is to make other parties seem worse instead of actually governing? Or is that only Eastern Europe?

The image really illustrates the gains well, when one of those “offensive arrows” that usually span regions or even continents spans the area of like 15 parking spaces in a mid-sized car park.

I would just like to point out this paragraph from Wikipedia about Levadne:

According to the 1989 Ukrainian SSR census, the settlement had a population of 19, consisting of fourteen women and five men.[3] In the 2001 census, the settlement’s population would drop to only one person,[4] who spoke Ukrainian.[5]

And from the article about Shakhtarske:

At that time, Russian forces attacked the settlement near Shakhtarske using armoured vehicles and infantry. “In the afternoon, a convoy of eight armoured vehicles reached the village [of Shakhtarske] and attempted to break through towards Velyka Novosilka. One armoured combat vehicle was hit, forcing the rest to pull back. By evening, a larger convoy of over 15 armoured vehicles arrived and split at Zolota Nyva. Part of the convoy again tried to advance towards Velyka Novosilka, but after the lead vehicle was hit, they decided to retreat. The fate of the remaining vehicles in the convoy is unknown.”

So the news is: Russians captured another Ukrainian farmshed at Levadne, and were turned back twice at Shakhtarske after losing another two combat vehicles.

It’s a loan that the Russians are forced to repay with the profits of their assets.

In a way it’s better than just giving them money, because instead of letting Ukraine get Russia’s bank account, they let them get some credit cards out in Russia’s name and go wild.

For the people equating Hungary to this, there was another rally 80 metres away filling streets and squares, chanting “Russkies go home”.

It was way bigger than this one that Orbán filled up artificially by mandating waterworks workers attend by force.

Orbán’s days are numbered. It will not leave the EU, and it will get back on its feet. All it needed was for the EU to stop financing Orbán.

Yet you are two weeks away from electing a Russian intelligence asset.

No, Richard, it’s ‘Linux’, not ‘GNU/Linux’. The most important contributions that the FSF made to Linux were the creation of the GPL and the GCC compiler. Those are fine and inspired products. GCC is a monumental achievement and has earned you, RMS, and the Free Software Foundation countless kudos and much appreciation. Following are some reasons for you to mull over, including some already answered in your FAQ. One guy, Linus Torvalds, used GCC to make his operating system (yes, Linux is an OS – more on this later). He named it ‘Linux’ with a little help from his friends. Why doesn’t he call it GNU/Linux? Because he wrote it, with more help from his friends, not you. You named your stuff, I named my stuff – including the software I wrote using GCC – and Linus named his stuff. The proper name is Linux because Linus Torvalds says so. Linus has spoken. Accept his authority. To do otherwise is to become a nag. You don’t want to be known as a nag, do you? (An operating system) != (a distribution). Linux is an operating system. By my definition, an operating system is that software which provides and limits access to hardware resources on a computer. That definition applies where-ever you see Linux in use. However, Linux is usually distributed with a collection of utilities and applications to make it easily configurable as a desktop system, a server, a development box, or a graphics workstation, or whatever the user needs. In such a configuration, we have a Linux (based) distribution. Therein lies your strongest argument for the unwieldy title ‘GNU/Linux’ (when said bundled software is largely from the FSF). Go bug the distribution makers on that one. Take your beef to Red Hat, Mandrake, and Slackware. At least there you have an argument. Linux alone is an operating system that can be used in various applications without any GNU software whatsoever. Embedded applications come to mind as an obvious example. Next, even if we limit the GNU/Linux title to the GNU-based Linux distributions, we run into another obvious problem. XFree86 may well be more important to a particular Linux installation than the sum of all the GNU contributions. More properly, shouldn’t the distribution be called XFree86/Linux? Or, at a minimum, XFree86/GNU/Linux? Of course, it would be rather arbitrary to draw the line there when many other fine contributions go unlisted. Yes, I know you’ve heard this one before. Get used to it. You’ll keep hearing it until you can cleanly counter it. You seem to like the lines-of-code metric. There are many lines of GNU code in a typical Linux distribution. You seem to suggest that (more LOC) == (more important). However, I submit to you that raw LOC numbers do not directly correlate with importance. I would suggest that clock cycles spent on code is a better metric. For example, if my system spends 90% of its time executing XFree86 code, XFree86 is probably the single most important collection of code on my system. Even if I loaded ten times as many lines of useless bloatware on my system and I never executed that bloatware, it certainly isn’t more important code than XFree86. Obviously, this metric isn’t perfect either, but LOC really, really sucks. Please refrain from using it ever again in supporting any argument. Last, I’d like to point out that we Linux and GNU users shouldn’t be fighting among ourselves over naming other people’s software. But what the heck, I’m in a bad mood now. I think I’m feeling sufficiently obnoxious to make the point that GCC is so very famous and, yes, so very useful only because Linux was developed. In a show of proper respect and gratitude, shouldn’t you and everyone refer to GCC as ‘the Linux compiler’? Or at least, ‘Linux GCC’? Seriously, where would your masterpiece be without Linux? Languishing with the HURD? If there is a moral buried in this rant, maybe it is this: Be grateful for your abilities and your incredible success and your considerable fame. Continue to use that success and fame for good, not evil. Also, be especially grateful for Linux’ huge contribution to that success. You, RMS, the Free Software Foundation, and GNU software have reached their current high profiles largely on the back of Linux. You have changed the world. Now, go forth and don’t be a nag.

There are tons of frozen Russian assets in the EU, which they can recoup their losses from legally.

“Steve”

Thanks, TIL, edited my comment.

4G is on a different frequency, it’s out of the audible range.

The reason you used to hear it is that a speaker turns electromagnetic vibration, so the back and forth movement of electrons into mechanical vibration, so the back and forth movement of sound.

2G was on a frequency that you could hear, so when the wires in your speakers picked it up like an antenna, your speakers played it back. 4G is much higher pitched, so it’s still there, it’s just so high you can’t hear it anymore.

Edit: Read Milkyway’s comment, they sound like they know more about this than I do. It’s not the frequency but the amplitude.

I was joking around.

That said, I think there are an infinite amount of films about the Yamato in Japan.

Also, there are no Swedish power metal songs about the Titanic, but there is at least one about the Bismarck and the Dreadnought.

Also, the Dreadnought named a whole ship class internationally.

Then the Bismarck, the Marat or the Yamato? Or Space Battleship Yamato?

The EU might stop supporting them, or even sanction them from their own trade, but I’m afraid the US will just make up for it by sending even more money. I still think that we in Europe should stop funding them, if only so that we can say that we were less complicit in these crimes against humanity.