You don’t necessarily get common sense with money, especially if you are very wealthy.

So the North Koreans didn’t even send weapons with those troops? Sounds a bit weird, why train the troops with new gear? NK gear should be compatible enough that they can keep them supplied with older Russian ammo, right?

I also don’t think it will be that drastic, but I can totally see the Russians pushing inexperienced North Korean troops in the thick of the fighting.

If there are any significant changes in direction from the election, that should take effect in February next year, right? The current admin could still sign over the whole army to Ukraine next month, even if the Russians got literally all the votes in the current US election.

What makes a democracy a democracy?

Trump is not original, most right-wingers in Europe copy Putin and Hitler, so does Trump in a lot of ways.

Thanks to Wall Street, all markets are betting markets.

I think it’s more correlation than causation, Russian interference being the common cause.

Yeah, the real difference is that Iron Man did more work in a 3-hour movie than Musk in his whole life.

Not if you’re running afoul of the DMCA.

It’s a thing for any measure said to enforce copyright under the DMCA.

So it’s a thing for most proprietary software.

Making it super simple, it runs with full access on your machine, always. It can fuck anything up, and see everything. It can get your browser history, banking details or private messages you enter, activate your webcam or mic without you knowing, or brick your computer even.

And you can’t even check what it’s really doing on your computer because it’s a crime under US law.

Finally, it can get hacked and other people than the creator can do all these to your computer as well,as it already happened once.

The Swedish furniture company

You mean the Dutch charity that pays almost no taxes?

We do understand it pretty well. Sincerely, an ex-Hungarian.

Thank you very much!

It’s basically a mishmash of Ancient Ugric, Turkish, German, Slavic and Romani words with grammar that is an eldritch monstrosity, nobody really knows where it came from, and it is seriously weird.

There are only two real tenses, but nineteen cases and two different ways of doing imperative, which are kind of equivalent but carry cultural and tonal differences in certain contexts.

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.

And made machine looms.