I believe I saw a story about a Russia state media person proposing using tactical nukes on their own territory. I don’t think they actually would, but Russia may… Let the enemy group up in your own territory, and nuke it… other than humanitarian concerns for their own citizens, other countries ability to complain would be dulled if they were nuking their own internationally recognized territory.

Honestly, probably a great tactic to act as a deterrent in future wars (such as with the US).

I’ve caved by the end of this message… no sane person would, but I wouldn’t call Russia’s current government sane.

he was able to buy an AR-15 at 22 I think.

Pretty sure the reports point to him having it for over a decade. Without taking any effort to look it up, I think his dad bought him that gun in like 2013, so he was much younger at the time.

As for ‘good life going’, doesn’t sound that way in general, but apparently he just got his associates degree from community college, and had been accepted into a university, but he decided not to go.

I do use passphrases, but I combine with randomness.

I memorize one random 8 character string to use with something more memorable.

Then when I need more security, or I feel that random 8 character string is no longer safe (password leak/hacked), I memorize a new 8 character string.

Then I combine them.

Then I memorize a new 8 character string and mix it in.

It’s a process built up over years that ingrains into memory. Sometimes I forget the order, or if i added spaces, or did no spaces. Luckily, as long as I am sure of the discrete segments, I can remix them to recreate until it works (in a reasonable time).

My last addition was when I made the move from Lastpass to another password manager, after their endless bad news.

Wasn’t there a video a while back of a presentation that OOP was created as a joke or something, and the person was surprised people were taking it seriously. Might have been advertised as the creator or OOP.

I took the video as a joke anyways, not a serious thing, but who knows. I don’t even remember if it was OOP, or some other paradigm, or language, or who knows what else.

If anyone could find/link to it, I’d love to watch it again, but I’m having no luck; so my memory may be faulty.

And there’s also KivyMD after you learn base Kivy, that adds more widgets with the intent of following Google’s Material Design spec.

I’m not going to vouch for the project, or link, just mentioning it exists.

Created exclusively for and at the direction of someone who has cancer maybe?

“We’re close, we promise, we don’t want to fall out a window.”

They did not leave the country to start a good life somewhere else. They stayed to persecuted their own good people until the last one either left or is locked up.

Not to defend them, because I don’t know their situation, but in general:

For those stuck in Russian and don’t have the option to leave, this is probably a good option to avoid having to go to the front lines yourself. Dedicate yourself to keeping other people in line, and recruitment efforts.

Have them skip the leeches, go straight to being a blood donor.

Similar health benefit, but also help others. Last I checked, the Red Cross has declared an emergency from blood shortages, caused by fewer donors than ever.

Just tell people it will reduce the microplastics in their bloodstream.

I feel like Little Bobby Tables has grown up, and should now be Robert’); DROP TABLE loans;–

Actually… I see your point.

Are they made of leather, or just… super fake looking low quality fabric?

They wouldn’t claim the Philippines without a war.

But the Chinese government is trying to claim territorial waters, and their aggression toward all their neighbors is exactly why the Philippines have decided to work with the US and open new bases.

They may not claim it, but they are definitely the aggressor in the territory, and most of their neighbors do not view the Chinese government as ‘the good guys’; that’s not to say they view the US as ‘the good guys’ either, simply as the one that isn’t actively aggressive and could assist in their defense.

Unless all countries come together, the idea of a ‘world police’ by any number of select countries is silly.

One nation being the ‘world police’ is even crazier.

We rely on coalitions nowadays to do much (Iraq, Haiti, Yemen, …maybe Yemen again soon…, etc).

Coalitions are better than a single nation, but should really be an organization independent of any nations, that people trust; in the modern world, ideally would be the UN, which has peacekeeping forces, but I don’t know if the trust is currently there with the UN, and a number of ‘bad actors’, namely because the UN doesn’t serve that purpose, it is supposed to be a dialog between nations, not a unifying power, or protector/military force.

The good news on the US front, is for many coalitions to step in, the US is trying to take a back-seat, and have other nations lead them. Not that those other nations don’t have concerns. I’m not up to date on it, but I believe Kenya was being sought to lead the coalition to Haiti to restore peace and order, but I believe there were concerns about the history of Kenyan police treatment in past coalitions. Still, the US should not be the one in-charge of world policing, though that is not to say they shouldn’t be involved in any such action, just they are a piece of the puzzle, not the solution in and of itself.

I’m rambling too much. I think it’s time for me to get off Lemmy for the day. Peace out.

“They’ll be surrounded by very angry nations who will want them to disappear”

That is a pre-existing condition to Oct 7th. It is why they will continue to be supplied with weapons for defensive purposes, even if reduced on the offensive front.

No government wants Israel to not have traditional defenses. They are a potential nuclear threat.

Israel is estimated as of a few years ago to have about 1/3rd the amount of nuclear weapons of China. Now it is only about 1/5th, but that is only because China is rapidly building a nuclear arsenal; pre-covid they had about 300-350 nukes, 2 years ago they had 400, now China is up to 500. Estimated to have 1500 nukes in ~10 years.

I’m not trying to talk about China, more put on the scale that their tiny country has a massive nuclear capability in comparison to such a large country as China in modern times. In an existential threat, I wouldn’t be surprised about them using them, as they are the only country in that area of the world potentially with a nuclear arsenal.

This is more informational for those that do not know that Israel is considered a nuclear power:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons

It’s obvious, and either many congressmen are an agent of a foreign power, or are truly dumb enough to not realize the unspoken obviousness of this simple fact.

Prefix: I ended up ranting/venting a bit… our government is so frustrating at times:

From a US perspective, it is more a time for other countries to step up in this regard (as they have been), as while continued funding and support from the US will happen, it may be a long time from the US (maybe even 2 to 4 years if this election cycle doesn’t oust/block some of these nutjobs that are either beholden to outside powers, or don’t understand anything outside our own borders).

I’ll take this time to say what many keep unspoken, because Ukrainians have the balls to actually voice it to the world:

No offense to Ukrainians, I want them to win, but even a loss in Ukraine after a sustained long drawn out battle, is of benefit to any country Russia considers an adversary, a place to oppress, or a country were attractive resources. Ukraine should be supported in their opposition to this invasion for as many years as it takes, no matter what. Twenty years, fifty years, however long; there should be no metric of ‘it’s been 2 years, and Ukraine hasn’t won; are they just wasting our money?’. That is just a dumb concept.

I’m not even going to read the article; Ukraine is no where near being able to join NATO anyways.

Hungary and Turkey have shown that just signing off on NATO membership for the sake of your own people and country’s safety is a dumb idea; why do that when you can block it and get concessions of some kind out of it. Reward bad behavior and all that.

If Ukraine ‘wins’ the war, has peace, and meets requirements for joining NATO, we can look at the idea then, but until then, there is just no way Ukraine is going to join NATO anyways. Even if we expedited all the pre-work for that time, and the time came, several countries are going to block it.

Hundreds to thousands of nukes, mostly yes. one to tens of, not so much. People don’t want nukes to be used, but having a supply of 20 nukes or so would not get the world to let you do whatever you wanted.

And at a certain point, even the hundreds to thousands may still lead to war, if pressing too hard.

Russian military personnel stationed in Crimea have been asked not to take any food or any drinks from strangers and to detain any suspicious young women who approach them

Permission to just detain young women they call ‘suspicious’… great idea. Oh yes, that is a request that will end well, and in no way increase incidence of abuse of civilians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ7fTSirNDs if you want to watch a video all about the situation, and history, instead of having to read up on it.

TLDR though: To keep the borders they’ve had for like 100ish years, it’s a low population poorer country that is now rising in wealth due to a lot of oil in their exclusive economic zone thanks to the current borders. Their neighbor wants 2/3 of their territory, and control to the large supply of quality oil.

I would still watch the video though, was very informative.

Well that is the best of all worlds, I would settle for returning all Ukrainian citizens, leaving any Ukrainian land other than Crimea, and letting Ukraine join the EU & NATO.

There is real potential for Russia to lose Crimea at this point, and Ukraine hasn’t had control of it in almost a decade, so their citizen’s shouldn’t be there at this point. I know it sucks to say give up Crimea, but for the sake of ending this war, and preventing any future war (EU/NATO membership), I don’t think that is unreasonable at this point (of course, all matters are entirely up to Ukrainians, and anyone else has no right to make decisions regarding a concession - just my 2 cents, and I am plenty willing for my tax dollars to keep going to supporting Ukraine for as long as it takes).

While there are many other pressing issues about our democracy (from an American perspective), this is the strongest issue I take.

I can’t see things turning out well with Trump as a wartime president, particularly if he just keeps America out of important matters on the world stage (or worse yet, panders and sides with those who seek harm to America and the ‘West’. Let your allies weaken enough/succumb to your ‘enemies’, and it ultimately weakens oneself.