Even for refugees who still consider themselves temporary refugees it will be difficult to return without a lasting peace. And none of the proposed peace deals so far have the making of a permanent deal.

The only possible way I see it for a lasting peace is the Russians giving up at one point. But that looks unlikely to happen within the next year and Ukraine is going to have troubles just staying in the war without massive foreign aid.

It really is becoming time for Europe to step up and turn the screws on Russia by declaring a no-fly zone and start bombing the everliving shit out of any Russian troops in Ukraine.

Speaking of which, why didn’t they just have the eagle fly them to Mount Doom and back? Surely the Über Bird would have been more efficient.

Edit: I really thought asking this question would have caused more of a shit storm because it’s such a known cliche question. But the question was actually answered for future generations and nobody insulted me. I call that a win on the interwebz any day. Written on the 5th of December 2025 (in case the metadata gets stripped).

Pichai will have to work through the disruption of having set billions of dollars on fire and seeing hardly any returns.

It’s not only Geely owned manufacturers saying this though. The ceo of Stellantis said the exact same thing a week ago. Companies that did their homework will make the deadline easily, whereas the laggards will suffer.

And then you have Volkswagen, who went full EV, screwed it up by half-assing it, backpedalled under shareholder pressure and is now at the forefront of this lobbying.

It doesn’t even help. Copilot in excel is awfully incompetent.

Someone watched Jimmy Carr recently…

We are not ready though. Mentally, sure, but in case of an all out war we would still run out of ammo, bombs and manpower in weeks. Only now do we see the first factories and production lines coming online based on the investments of the past years and even then not all the supply lines have been adjusted for it. Europe could probably be ready by the end of 2027 at the earliest, provided it removes its command and control dependency from the US.

Realistically, Europe won’t be ready until 2030. That’s not to say we wouldn’t be able to get ready sooner, we absolutely would, if we were to switch to a war economy. But nobody wants that, because it ruins your economy and is grossly expensive.

That doesn’t mean we would get crushed, that wouldn’t be the case, but we would be on the defensive for a while until the gears of war are properly greased.

Easing the rules now only rewards the laggards for sucking at something they all knew was coming.

Rip the OA

This is really more about financial stress rather than adulthood. I was constantly on the verge of being broke until I became an adult and started working and (eventually) got a well paid job. Somewhat pedantic, I know, but financial stress is not an integral part of adulthood.

I’ve had W11 at work for well over a year and had the explorer freeze happening for the first time yesterday. I don’t think it’s a big issue. What frustrated me the most is that credential guard broke mschapv2 authentication, forcing us to change the wireless authentication to certificate based but we’ve had non-stop issues with that.

During testing this didn’t even register because it doesn’t outright break the authentication flow, but (according to the official Microsoft documentation) it “might” break it. So after introducing W11 we started getting people where wireless worked fine one moment, and then it would disconnect and refuse to reconnect. Reinstalling the NIC drivers solved it for some time, but inevitably it would happen again, but sporadically and no obvious reason for it.

So we switched to EAP-TLS as per Microsofts recommendation and it has a whole range of new issues, mainly frequent re-authentications. We deployed a temp wifi now which is just password based to figure out wtf is going on, but this issue has been the bane of my existence for months now.

This bubble will pop because the profits won’t come close to what is needed. They’re betting the house on developing agi with models that are completely unsuitable for that purpose. Even their redefined agi they most likely won’t reach. Basing agi on llm is fundamentally unsound, therefore can’t live up to the hype and won’t get the record adaptation required for profitability.

The arabs can pump all their fossil fuel money into this and keep the development going for much longer than it should, but even they will want to see returns at one point.

I feel this is where the coalition of the willing as the dubbed it, need to step up and say “fuck this”, find a solution for the frozen assets, establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine and put the US under pressure to stop being a little bitch and continue the intel support.

That being said, without US sanctions and support this would become exponentially harder to do.

I’ll take the mail. We hardly ever get any, I always enjoy it when we have some items in the mail to sort.

Found the Volkswagen driver

Initially it made a lot of sense though. The differences between each fifa version between the first one and 2003 were massive with each iteration. But as the graphics got better and better and the gameplay was more or less settled, it became less sensible to have a new edition each year. After fifa 2003 there were noticeably less differences between the iterations.

I’m not super deep into it, but I honestly hardly noticed. Only when I ended up at reddit for some obscure tech issue did I notice it and 10 minutes later it worked again. The thread turned out to be useless anyway.

This guy made a sad face. You have to provide a picture now. We can’t sleep unless you do!

Rush is actually a pretty good band. I remember listening to them a lot when I was 17-18. Now I have to listen to them again…

Yea, ljdawson has been absent for long periods before, but 2 years is just too much. I think I downloaded Boost and I might try Voyager once my subscription is fully ended. I already stopped the automatic renewal, even though I have defended Sync and ljdawson over the years, but it has become time to move on I think.