Ukraine Plans Privatization to Help Fund War Effort… (archive link)

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Keep the NATO funding just high enough to keep the war going but not so high that Ukraine stops trying to sell state assets to private enterprises but managing the spread and escalation of the conflict in such a way that private interests don’t instantly value the auctioned items as “worthless” so nobody bids.

That’s a lot of plates to spin.

Very right wing opinion piece.

Appreciate it.

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Never heard of it but I also don’t spend a ton of time specifically looking for sources of streaming anime.

Is it just a pirate/pirate adjacent streaming site or something else?

I’ve got this… been meaning to watch it but the audio/subtitles are not synced properly and I haven’t taken the time to figure out if I can fix it.

It took me three episodes to figure out there some was something like a 10 second or more offset between the scene I was watching and subtitles I was reading.

The Proclaimers, Five Hundred Miles.

“I would walk five hun-dred miles,”

“On and I would walk five hun-dred more.”

I remember the good ol’ days when the Ukraine/Russia war was absolutely not a proxy war between the USA and Russia.

Apocalyptic Christianity?

Mr. Xi,

Our astronauts yearn for freedom!

Outside of any context? Probably not.

If the context is something like, “The business owner deserves to capture more pay and the power to depress wages and abuse other people because they work so hard”, then we’re looking at somebody making a reactionary argument.

Acceptable roasts, requiring consent:

• Friends roasting Friends.

• Colleagues roasting another colleague who is doing very well for themselves.

Acceptable roasts, not requiring consent:

• S’mores

• Weiners

• Pot

Its an terribly dirty and overly simplistic and isn’t the “end all be all” but you might be able to make headway by demonstrating it either through a “troubleshooting of a situation where there’s a problem” or “kludging a solution” to a problem.

First iteration troubleshooting:

• I have an unsliced loaf of bread.

• I need it to be sliced.

• I get a butter knife to cut the bread.

What happened? The butter knife didn’t do a good job of cutting the bread into slices.

Second iteration troubleshooting:

• I have an unsliced loaf of bread. I now know that using a butter knife kinda works to make slices but its not very good.

• I need to slice the loaf of bread. But I don’t want the results of using a butter knife.

• I get a steak knife to cut the bread.

What happened? The steak knife did a somewhat better job than the butter knife at slicing the loaf of bread.

Third iteration troubleshooting:

• I have an unsliced loaf of bread. I now know that the butter knife does a terrible job at slicing bread. I now know that a steak knife does a better job at slicing bread than the butter knife but the results still seem to be lacking.

• I need to cut a loaf of bread into slices with better results than I get from a butter knife and steak knife.

• I get a bread knife to cut the loaf of bread.

What happened? So far, I get the best results from the bread knife. Now I know that of the three options I’ve tried so far, the bread knife is the best solution going forward.

So every attempt to solve this problem has increased my knowledge and experience. I didn’t forget what I learned in the early iterations so I get to build upon previous experiences and now have that moving forward.

Accidental Lovecraftian nightmare fuel right there.

Unfortunately I’m not in any specific position to have access to things that could be of help.

But good to know.

Israel’s need for some type of displacement/genocide to exist predates the current prime minister. Remove him, and nothing changes.

Mostly because I’m not the most competent techie, I’ve been using VLC between my PC and iPhone, for moving “books” around on devices that are very out of date.

Whats the timer at for, “temporarily postponing the Israeli Prime Minister vote in the Knesset”?

Doesn’t have everything, but does have quite a bit. Still 10/10, would use again.

If the conversations are something that you want to continue having drill down on any one claim or criticism until you get an idea of what specifics she’s using to feed her opinion.

“Stalin repressed people!” isn’t the same thing as “Stalin repressed the Kulaks!” as far you being able to figure out what her critique is. You can do some historical research on who the Kulaks were, what was happening in the USSR at that time, what other means were attempted before Stalin rolled in the military, what the consequences would have possibly been if the USSR didn’t do anything at all, etc.

If you have these conversations fairly frequently, you can hear her out one day, do some reading on other days, and when this type of conversation starts up again bring the topic back around to something she previously said but being more informed.

Unless its just a thing you two do (being antagonistic towards each other), you don’t even have to set up the conversation as You vs Her. Move into the conversation by reminding her of the thing the talked about previously, it got you thinking about it, and you did some reading and you’d like to share what you’ve learned. Not going to change anybody’s mind immediately but if they’re listening to you and accepting the information, you might stop hearing that particular criticism being used in future conversations.