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Cake day: August 6th, 2023

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  • Mb means megabits, kind of like 1 million bits. MB means megabytes, so 1 million bytes, whis is not quite the same, as one byte is 8 bits.

    The numbers seem quite okay actually, which is surprising, since most of the time torrent download speed is also limited by peer upload, or maybe I just remember the old times when that was an issue, it’s been a moment for me.











  • You said I have a flat in Moscow because I don’t agree with your opinion. You throw terms like “false equivalency” hoping it sticks. I was talking about peace and you talk about counter invasion, not sure what the point in that is. Russia started the war so let’s invade them and show them is not very productive or reasonable. We seem to have diametrically opposed opinions on war in general.



  • I do not have a concrete proposition, and I don’t think it’s reasonable to ask it of me or anyone here. I’m just a random person. But neither does the EU, USA or anyone for that matter. That’s exactly my point, there are no measures taken for a solution by anyone. It’s a race to power, which, just as appeasements, never work.

    People nowadays hear the word diplomacy and immediately think it’s treason. Has there ever been a war where the enemy is not being portrayed as the greatest evil, whether it is or isn’t true. Both sides will claim that for their enemies. With that logic there would never be any diplomacy anywhere. Of course, I have to make the disclaimer, Putin is the aggressor. Putin is the worse of the two sides. There is no question about it. That doesn’t mean we are good, or will be, if we have the military power. We’ll still be relying on the whim of a few people, just friendlier as they will be from “our” side.

    This is the time to stand up against every empire, not just Russia or US but the irony is that Europe might become an empire again in the process.>

    That’s the point, isn’t it? We’re just happy that it might be EU who “wins” because we live here and will feel safer.




  • It’s not that I don’t understand the logic. It’s that I don’t believe scare tactics lead to peace. I agree that short term I it might scare of Putin, and that’s obviously good, but it’s a bandaid, not a solution, and one that, IMHO, is not easy to get away from.

    Also, I find it sad that whenever someone mentions peace he gets ratioed and called a Putin apologist (not here but I see it a lot).

    It is possible to want peace and still be against Putin. I get that it’s a sensitive topic and intense times, but we just keep alienating and polarizing more and more people. We need a better approach.





  • If you’re saying all sides lie, of course the do, but that’s not what the previous comments were about.

    For my part, it was about a seemingly pathological need to contrast every real life actual harm coming from the right, with an imaginary potential thing from the left.

    Both sides have been and can potentially be very bad. But one side is clearly worse than the other, and pretending otherwise with every opportunity is imo really harmful.

    The logic of “yes but the other side did X” is flawed, and we actually try stop this behavior in little children, but we can’t seem to accept it even as adults


  • The contemporary mainstream right would be considered far right a few years ago. This kind of “all extremes are bad” and “the truth is in the middle” view has been taken advantage of by the right, as they have kept pushing the “middle” so far right that social democrats and all kinds of leftism is considered extreme, even beyond the USA where it probably used to be the case even longer.

    Edit typo