Low ball, rookie numbers! I say we go for 90%, including the added costs of re-hiring previous staff or training new ones.

Nato for sure can stand its ground even without the US. But Russia doesn’t need to blitzkrieg and win huge swathes of territory in order to accomplish their goals of destabilizing the EU. Everyone saying “they’re already losing in Ukraine, they wouldn’t dream of opening another front” obviously hasn’t studied Russian history.

I think the biggest deciding factor in whether this happens or not is actually China. Ostensibly, they wouldn’t risk losing a huge market like the EU but afaik things aren’t going well over there either, so if Xi wants to be the strongman Putin is desperately trying to be just in order to hold on to power, I can absolutely see them choosing Russia’s side in a global conflict.

He’s preparing to attack the Baltics.

So less cheaters and griefers in online lobbies? Rare Putin W.

Getting those orders is one thing.

Acting on them is another.

Can’t we like, globally cut off any and all ties with the US and leave them to fester in their own hellhole? Hell, we’ll build the walls AND pay for them!

“What are they going to do? Sue us from beyond the grave?”

More enshittification, more rent-seeking by locking pedestrian features behind monthly subscriptions, …

Innovation is stone cold dead, no one is trying to create anything new anymore, they’re all just trying to MaXiMizE ShAreHolDeR VaLuE while cutting costs.

Draft incoming in 2-5 years, MMW.

Yes, which is why it’s important for them to realize what they’re getting themselves into. Did Warmbier deserve what happened to him? Absolutely not, but knowing what happened and still going over there to play tourist means you’ve understood, accepted and internalized the possible risk. I will reserve my tears for the many thousands of people who get into trouble through no fault of their own.

In Dutch, there’s the saying “de een zijn dood is de ander zijn brood” which roughly translates to “one man’s death is another man’s bread”

Not necessarily the users, per sé, but the corporations who refuse to learn from mistakes.

Anyone who goes there of their own free will should know that they could end up like Otto Warmbier at any time. No tears will be shed for them.

And the enshittification continues unabated.

That means 75% are still in the delusion that anyone cares. That’s a lot higher than I would have thought.

Absolutely not. Their owners will not allow it.

I low key assume this means the next strike will be using tactical nukes. This is bad news folks.

When your “pet” turns out to be your handler all along.

All of them, it seems like. Not all at the same speed, but still.