@Helgi The best Western leaders could do is to state something like this: "We are not looking for peace with you, but we might agree to a ceasefire to regroup and be better prepared for your attacks",— that would annoy the fuck out of Kremlin officials and their supporters everywhere. Unfortunately, it looks like political willpower to do that is nowhere to be found.
Some might think that it's undiplomatic,but is listening to lies knowing that they are lies and pretending they aren't diplomatic?
@thor
But it does work! It's just hard for people to accept that they've been wrong, eventually, when dust settles down and it won't look like you have MADE them change their opinion, they might assess you arguments and come around. Appealing to emotions on the other hand never works with people who don't agree with you in the first place — it becomes a heated debate that ends in each party considering the other one a total douchebag 🤷
@rvps2001
Another round of nuclear blackmail? Wow, how original!
@kravietz
Yeah, it was always like that and to me it came as no surprise, but hope that it becomes a wake up call for some Russians in the perception of their own history. If WW2 is mostly perceived as something not pretty, for example 1812 war to most is about officers in pretty uniforms reading poetry to the crust of french bread, while in fact it most probably was way worse than now — crowds of uneducated men, often barefoot and lousy, thrown into battle by hundreds with no regard for losses
@VikingChieftain
He was clearly ahead of his time! To the point of falling out of line, and eventually even out of the sky 😅
@noelreports
@kravietz
> Russians are clearly trying to preserve their vehicles, which are likely in shortage — the same cannot be said about their human resources who are thrown into the battle field without mercy
Sadly, nothing new here indeed 😩
If human life had any value, this war wouldn't have even started.
What's was surprising to me is that qualified personnel like pilots, are treated the exact same way and some prefer to perish attempting to save the aircraft, it's beyond cynical — just irrational.
@lukito
I'd probably not only take a photo, but actually buy that thing and put it some where high on the wall, it's so cool! 😀
@mjdxp True! I even call it WebPee 😅
@mjdxp But they told me more that one hundred per cent is impossible! 😏
@gabriel
You can thank Google for that, they go great lengths pushing WebP and hindering JPEG XL's adoption: https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/31/jpeg_xl_axed_chrome/
As most modern browsers are based on Chromium and Blink, the outcome of it is obvious.
They also seem to have great influence over Mozilla, as they have made support for WebP not optional like it was before: https://breloma.m0xee.net/notice/AclXgvk5sDRNX7rr5E
I quite literally had to patch the option to turn it off back in.
@belzebu
Nanami Madobe is the best mascot ever. I've never even been a Windows 7 user and I still like her 😍
@mcSlibinas@river.group.lt
Your comment is of course funny, but Trump aside, I think that it might actually be true. Immigrants themselves know exactly what they ran away from, unlike their kids, who might not appreciate the peaceful and quiet life their parents seem to enjoy so much, they are more likely to hold radical political views, which makes them great recruitment material for all sorts of troublemakers.
@randahl
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