Well, yeah? When Russia rolled in Ukraine had already been at war for 6 years. Ukraine was as prepared as you can be against a surprise invasion. Most of the EU probably doesn’t even entertain the possibility of an invasion. If Russia were to invade the EU not only would the EU not be prepared for it but Russia would also have the advantage in experience.

I’m not saying Russia would conquer the whole of EU but, if they also take Ukraine, I could see them taking the whole eastern Europe.

I think to answer his question precisely (if I’m understanding your correctly) is that yes, it would wipe out the COVID immunity for the COVID variant that you used to be immune to. But it doesn’t matter because COVID keeps mutating into new variants and the immunity to the older variant won’t help you.

Also bold of him to assume the democratic party is capable of change.

There are upsides and downsides to everything. Open votes means it’s harder to manufacture consent. That’s something someone on Reddit could do, where they bot vote their own content to the top of the feed and nobody would be none the wiser because you don’t know how and when someone voted. And it’s not really a “could do”, it’s something that (at least a few years ago) happened regularly.

But on Lemmy voting is open so if someone starts up a bot farm to push their content to the top it is (relatively) easy to discover.

Brain worms: not even once.

It takes time to alter the course of the market. Intel has been shitting the bed with their CPU-s for over a decade and in that time frame the market has gone from something like 95% Intel, 5% AMD to ~60% Intel, 40% AMD. The average consumer doesn’t really care about Intel vs AMD either, but somehow the market has shifted. We just have to hope Nvidia shits the bed for the next decade.

Entitlement and cognitive dissonance and strong forces these days. I’m sorry you can’t see past them.

The irony…

Duh, kinda hard to argue anything when all you get is word vomit. but hey, I’ll give my best effort then.

Man, if only you put this much effort into advocating for a modest lifestyle.

Erm, what? Have you read nothing I’ve said? I said getting rid of consumerism would be a net benefit to society, but I’m not going to advocate the stupidity that you’re peddling.

It just goes to show: you don’t want to solve these problems because you benefit from them.

Clearly you didn’t bother to actually explain how I benefit so I actually have no fucking clue what you’re trying to say here. Considering I was pretty explicit in wanting others to be paid a fair wage so they’d have a better life I will happily be selfish in wanting a better life for others. I’ll that selfishness over whatever you are.

And that was were your post ended but because you’re foaming from the mouth you can’t gather your before you post so you added an edit. And just for the sake of clarity, I posted my previous comment before the edit you added. Not that it matters because it’s not like your edits are making any more sense.

You’re also just straight up lying at this point. It’s crazy how much effort you are putting into this, but it’s to be expected because of your cognitive dissonance.

So your counter-argument here is that I’m just straight up lying and then you proceed to insult. However once again you don’t bother explaining anything so there’s nothing to argue.

And then of course you couldn’t stop there, you had to edit once again because thinking before speaking is not a skill you have.

I’m not going to sift through or quote your bullshit, but we both know that it’s there. Keep trying to justify your entitlement, bud. I will always see it for what it is.

Oh please do (I know you won’t because that would take actual effort), because I think you haven’t bothered to check who you’re arguing with and you think I’m someone else. That’s how little attention you paying to this discussion.

Now kindly accept my concession with something I said previously:

But hey, don’t let me stop you from letting everyone know what you are.

I guess it’s time for your meds because you’re starting to speak complete nonsense.

It’s amazing how confidently wrong you can be.

You’re not a minimum wage worker, bub. This is what I mean by why should you get more before others who have less?

I am not a minimum wage worker and I never said I was. I’m relatively well off and I think everyone should be able to have a life similar to mine, in terms of fulfillment. I don’t demand more for myself, I demand more for everyone else because I don’t think anyone deserves to be poor and needing to deal with the stress of having no money.

Why should we improve your lifestyle in the big city

I don’t live in a big city. I live in a small town because I have the luxury of working remotely.

you’re “too good” to accept a more modest

I live a pretty modest life, some might even call it frugal. I don’t own a car because it’s a huge money sink. I cook my own meals because eating out is expensive. I don’t buy cheap clothes but I do buy clothes that last a long time because if they last longer I end up spending less money on clothes. I don’t really spend much money outside of necessities and the occasional entertainment.

affordable lifestyle outside of one

I have a budget and I stick to it. I have no problem having an affordable lifestyle.

You’re not willing to invest in making more places livable and improving the lives of others

I contribute to my local community. I would be more specific but I honestly have no fucking idea what you’re even trying to imply here.

you’re just looking for ways to justify your entitlement to have as much as you can get.

Wrong once again.

It’s not a big surprise. I don’t expect more from people like you at this point. I would be foolish if I did.

I absolutely agree because I’m not at all surprised how you can be so confidently wrong.

And you’re proving my point about this being a waste of time. But that’s fine. It’s fine if you get so riled up that you need to call me a liar and insecure and claiming I want to derail whatever soapbox you’re on. I don’t care because at the end of the day I’m not the one telling minimum wage workers, who can’t afford to save money, that all they need to do is just save more money. Unlike you I know what being poor means, which is why I know what you’re saying is compete garbage. But hey, don’t let me stop you from letting everyone know what you are.

It’s not an all or nothing thing, getting rid of consumerism would definitely be a net positive for society. But your suggestion goes squarely in the same hole as “to solve climate change people need to watch their carbon footprint” while completely ignoring the fact that the biggest polluters are corporations. Or the “to solve microplastics people need to sort their trash” which again completely ignores the fact that a very small part of plastics are recyclable because most corporations won’t spend extra money to make more recyclable plastics (or ideally not use plastics at all).

What you’re suggesting is a net positive in the context of the problem but its not going to solve the problem. Just like with climate change and microplastics your “solution” is just kicking the can down the road instead of actually solving the problem.

I ended up reading your other comments. You’re out of touch with reality and there’s nothing I could say that others haven’t already brought up, and since you’re not listening to them I doubt you’ll listen to me. So the only thing I can add is that you should start practicing what you’re preaching and get off the internet because the internet is a luxury. Then again I imagine you won’t have a problem justifying your own “wasting money on bullshit” because you can afford it.

Wealthiest nation in the world (by a large margin if I may add), regular people are struggling to get by and your solution is “just be more frugal”? I’d imagine if you’re the wealthiest nation in the world you can afford some luxuries but I guess not according to you. Also, if you’re so wealthy where does all that wealth go?

You never know when old games just don’t work. For example I recently tried to play deus ex mankind divided. I have new hardware but I had to play on medium settings because anything higher would start killing performance despite the game being 5 years older than my hardware.

I wouldn’t be surprised if some older games ran like shit on the 50 series cards whenever physx is concerned.

Alternatively, sow chaos and step down. Everything Trump tears down is something he could use to keep people complacent. Since he’s tearing down faster than he can rebuild we might even see an insurrection to topple the government and build something better. Holding out is just prolonging the decay and letting people accept the new norm of a dysfunctional government.

I understand the same way and I think there’s a lot of gray area which makes it hard to just say “the data also needs to be open source for the code to be open source”. What would that mean for postgreSQL? Does it magically turn closed source if I don’t share what’s in my db? What would it mean to every open source software that stores and uses that stored data?

I’m not saying the AI models shouldn’t be open source, I’m saying reigning in the models needs to be done very carefully because it’s very easy to overreach and open up a whole other can of worms.

Why even enable snaps? It’s like asking to have headaches.

Yeah. IMO democrats refusing to acknowledge the state of the economy is what tipped the scale. You’d have to be a complete moron to believe Trump had any solutions for the economy, but he at least acknowledged that economically there’s something wrong. Harris on the other hand doubled down on Biden’s economic message of sticking your head in the sand and going “the economy is good”.

What are you not getting? Everything you’ve just brought up are things I’ve already covered. I’m done talking to a wall. Either read what I’ve said or stfu.