Given what Ukraine managed to do to the Russian navy, the ships are probably vulnerable.
Ironically, the cartels have gotten very good at building small submarines. Some of those might be effective against, say, an aircraft carrier?

Give st Petersburg to Ukraine

Do they pay taxes?

We keep attempting to set up competitive companies, while disregarding that the competition consists of conglomerates that are essentially subsidised by their own overvaluation.
In this context the question becomes: do we want to submit to American cheating or do we want to embrace technological sovereignty

Of course they do. At the very least they want Manchuria back. When Russia loses (probably by economic collapse), it will be carved up similarly to Germany after ww2

Oh no I’m in such a hurry to play the next installment in this series that is known for it’s regular and timely releases

There it is. Stock buy backs driving the company into insolvency. This should be illegal. They are killing the company to pay investors. It is a farce

EU here is your chance! Fully fund Mozilla on the condition that they move to an EU country

Isn’t the real problem here that many companies aim to be bought out as a strategy? They focus on growth to secure a sizeable market share. They often do this without regard for sustaining the business. Equity holders like this because market share inflates company value and selling the company will yield even more money. The downside is though, that at some point, the company can no longer sustain this and must be bought out.
I don’t think irobot really needed to go this route or that they weren’t competitive any longer. They chose to go for market share and big bucks rather than a long term strategy.
This is why we need more cooperatives. They are better at long term planning, make better products and don’t fall prey to predatory value extraction

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This is such an important message. We should not lull ourselves into complacency. Banning vpns will be yet another step towards a closed, non-anonymous internet where governments (and by extension companies) will force you to give up access and control over your digital life

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“It is so obvious in Germany that everyone wants to defend the past, they don’t want to change anything, just defend what they have. I can talk with authority because I am German. In China and the US is it like ‘what is the next idea? What is the next project? What is the next company we try out? That is a big difference. It is a completely different mindset.”

I use them as a sort of bookmark cache. Stuff I’m unlikely to want to keep for long but also not stuff I want to discard immediately. I use the tree style tabs plugin in ff, works beautifully

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I was under the impression that something along these lines was already accepted from the perspective of information theory. I.e. a machine that could simulate the universe must at least be composed of as much information as the universe itself. Given the vastness and complexity of the universe, this would make it rather unlikely that the universe is simulated. Unless you want to view the universe itself as a machine that calculates it’s own progression. But that is a bit of a semantic point.

Disclaimer: this is not my area of expertise and I probably got some terms or concepts wrong. I am basing this off of ‘The information’ by James Gleick

Is degoogle the second verb that google will have caused?

They shouldn’t be called toys if they’re not made of toy!

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