Hamas is a death cult openly using human shields, so no surprise really.

Wtf I can't even…

Do I read it right that Hamas isn't responsible for the atrocities they committed?

Ukraine’s attacking with fewer resources and fewer men in a war of attrition. Ukraine simply cannot win in that context.

This offensive != war.

Ukrainian strategy is fucking insane to watch and Russia simply isn’t incurring the losses necessary to pull out of the conflict.

It will likely take a couple more years to see who will outlast who.

Of course Ukraine can win. But I understand why a Russian imperialist would like everybody to believe that Russia is undefeatable (even though Russia was defeated many times).

you've bled half of your able-bodied men to either the frontline or the border.

It's Russia who spills Ukrainian blood, let's be clear about that.

But seeing your post history, you're a Russian imperialist / apologist, so I guess you know that and just twist facts intentionally…

Protest voters willing to vote far right is not really making things better. I don't understand how people wanting to ban it are relevant…

Right. On the other hand its Austrian cousin FPÖ is currently polling first 🤮

It's a problem for people who indebted themselves to buy those homes with a valuation based on scarcity. Also a problem for the real estate Chinese companies, sector which represents a quarter of Chinese economy.

Outside of UK, Coventry is mainly known for the bombing, is there some connection to its current bad state?

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Really sorry to spoil the Putinist schadenfreude here, but Morawiecki simply said that they already stopped a while ago because they ran out of weapons to donate. It has no connection to the grain row.

Because it was taken out of context and used by Russian propaganda, Morawiecky later announced that Poland of course remains committed to Ukrainian defense effort.

He would love to, but he just can't, at the moment.

Yeah, I’ve watched The Expanse, and it’s kinda weird for me to read what I’ve already watched. I prefer to read first, watch later, otherwise the TV imagery influences the reading too much and there isn’t so much space for imagination.

It’s a decent book, but there were some things which bothered me.

The hero is similar to the Martian, all-knowing MacGyver type, always optimistic, likely author’s alter ego. The character seems hollow. This unending optimism and humour spoils the atmosphere for me. Universe is a dark, dangerous place, I want some of that in sci-fi books …

I also disliked the easiness with which the hero was able to learn to communicate with Rocky. I guess it was necessary to progress with the story, but figuring out a communication with aliens might be way more challenging because their whole way of thinking would be likely different (e.g. Arrival).

Out of the rest of the books, my favorites (roughly in this order) are Hyperion, Wool, Neuromancer, Children of Time.

Red Rising is IMHO rather a YA fantasy than sci-fi.

RabbitMQ is more expensive on AWS than e.g. SNS/SQS. It’s not a coincidence, you’re trading lock-in for a cheaper price.

The increased complexity comes from the fact you will need some components which exist in either managed, but vendor lock-in form, or you need to spin them up / managed yourself.

they would be well in the way to peacefully integrating by now.

I disagree. With the Hong Kong fiasco, any hope for re-integration disappeared.

Being cloud-agnostic also means additional cost/complexity.

Sometimes the only way to win the game is by not playing it.

It seems so strategically dumb for China to keep provoking India on these meaningless pieces of territory. This pushes India towards US.

It would be in China’s strategic interest to keep completely shut and make no indication that it wants to change the status quo with India. I wonder if these fails are not deliberate on China’s part, but a result of rogue (dumb) functionaries not being able to recognize a difference between internal Kool-Aid and the real China’s position.

I would think a better way to have gone about it would be to investigate my suspicions outside of the public eye first

Which is far from easy in such cases.

I wouldn’t be surprised if his reaction was made in the affect of the moment. We’re all humans.

Well, Niemann has a history of cheating in online games (some with prizes). He admitted cheating in some games, and according to statistics cheated in some additional ones.

It’s possible that Carlsen had this in the head when playing and that, in conjunction with a “ridiculous miracle” caused his reaction:

The report mentioned as peculiar but drew no conclusions from the statement made by Niemann in his post-game interview that it was inexplicable and a “ridiculous miracle” that he had the very day of the game, before the game, used a computer engine to analyze an unusual position that arose in his game against Carlsen.

I realize being a prodigy and a champion in a field this competitive can go to your head, but damn.

I think it would be fair to mention that Carlsen has never done anything like this before in his already long career.