I mean at this point I’m all in on Ukraine and I’m sorry to see my comment interpreted as anything but the hope that Ukraine could get the support they are asking for.
I know peace deals are precarious and complicated, but I dream of nothing less than pre 2014 borders, the end of all Russian hostilities, and a defense pact, if not full inclusion, between Ukraine and the EU.
Ah - respect, cheers friend.
I wasn’t refusing to correct the mistake, thanks. I just hadn’t checked my replies until now. I have made the edits now to clarify.
It was in today’s dollars. See my edit. And I don’t think it is suspect to ask Ukraine’s allies to do more to help them actually win when Zelensky is saying it himself ad nauseam.
Though your snippy reply maybe doesn’t deserve it, respectfully- the figures I quoted were in today’s dollars. I guess I shouldn’t have assumed people would know that though.
They aren’t wrong though - the USSR got somewhere around $100-150B from Lend Lease. Ukraine has gotten something like $300B already.
But it’s certainly not money laundering. Wars cost a lot in the modern age. The real question is why are countries giving so much but only to keep Ukraine from losing.
It’s embarrassing for Russia that this war is now longer than their war against Germany in WWII but it’s also sort of embarrassing for Ukraine’s allies.
EDIT: I was estimating in today’s dollars, from Wikipedia - A total of $50.1 billion (equivalent to $690 billion in 2024 when accounting for inflation) worth of supplies was shipped, or 17% of the total war expenditures of the U.S.[3] In all, $31.4 billion went to the United Kingdom, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to France, $1.6 billion to China, and the remaining $2.6 billion to other Allies.
Bonds are US debt, debt that the US uses to pay for stuff like military equipment.
Taking one from the Amelie playbook I see
Is that true? I haven’t heard MS say anything about enabling local LLMs. Genuinely curious and would like to know more.
I think they finally fulfilled all the initial promises and then some at this point. Still wish it were deeper but it is pretty well fleshed out now.
It’s a very good game, but also very different than what we were lead to believe it would be pre launch.
They hyped it themselves in endless promo dev videos leading up to launch. I watched all of them anticipating a very different game than what we ever got.
Blockbuster had gotten so monopolistic and predatory by the time Netflix was mailing DVDs that I was thrilled to end my membership with them.
And each extra person along increased the time it took by 20 minutes
Requiem for a Dream. Aronofsky is a legend and totally up my alley but this and a couple other films he has done I only have the energy to watch once.
Do any of the new Xcom games capture the same magic? I tried to get into on of them and I wasn’t sure if they had lost something or if I was remembering a childhood game too fondly.
Sucks when the shoe is on the other foot
Plenty of living fascists running today’s companies.
It is vitally important that everyone learn AI skills so they can generate open doors for AI women
Not really sure. Not an expert but it seems like Russia already trashed them.