qdJzXuisAndVQb2 @ qdJzXuisAndVQb2 @lemm.ee

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Ah. Good luck with that.

What's the alphanumeric sequence at the end of your comment?

Honestly, discussing Russia's economy as large in the same breath as the US and China is a bit disingenuous. US GDP is around 27 trillion USD, China around 18 trillion USD. Russia? 2 trillion USD.

Source for figures: https://www.forbesindia.com/article/explainers/top-10-largest-economies-in-the-world/86159/1. Even if we dispute the specific numbers, an order of magnitude is an order of magnitude.

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Russian forces tried to blitz across the country in 2022 - I remember that failure, but all recent developments in this invasion are minimal. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60506682 - this is a pretty decent overview I think we could both agree on.

I'm pro-Ukrainian, but "huge swathes" of regained territory is absurdly inflating UA's achievements. They're fighting off the imperialist invaders, but only just and only for now.

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A spectacularly unhelpful comment. Literally worse than shutting the fuck up. At least you removed all doubt, buddy.

The pop-iver video player is an infuriating choice. I watched the video, scroll down and the fucking thing follows me?! Wtf?! Why?? Am I going to forget that I just watched that video two seconds ago?! Argh!

What's a chiron?

Yea, you can see why, but it is such a hassle for people like OP. I used to have cassette tapes of a really good audiobook of the Lord of the Rings (something like 12 cassettes in a set!), but I just pirated a copy and dotched the cassettes because I had paid for that, and my copy would be awful quality. I have to say this kind of approach, as suggested elsewhere in these comments, seems the only logical outcome for this problem, it's pretty silly.

But people insist on creating incredibly specific niche communities, I'm certain because they want to establish their own fiefdoms when this "blows up".

I'm also interested in that, please

Oh for sure it's finite, but they only have to wait out Ukraine, that's the problem. And it looks to be very clear that Russia is not the paper tiger (economically and militarily) that western media and governments have been claiming. Without substantial and prolonged foreign aid, there is only a slim chance that Ukraine will be able to resist Russian imperialist aggression in any serious way, let alone regain conquered territory.

I don't think that's what a davit is, tbh. It refers to the shape of the pole itself, but not any type of locking mechanism on whatever type of security is in place on whatever type of access/inspection door has been fitted.

Edit to add: I found good results searching for a Knipex universal key and going from there.

I can't find helpful/relevant results when I search for davit doors, or even just Davit. Could you give me some other keywords to read up on?

Yep. There's a whole fucking lot of us.

You know that a "democracy" doesn't mean "a good country", right? Democracies can do war crimes just as well as dictatorships. It's irrelevant.

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Platitudes do nothing for actual discussion and debate. The sun is hot, the sky is blue and war is bad. I suspect that is the root of some of the downvotes, it's why I downvoted it.

The negative interest rate, for example, is very much not one of "three random things".

See this 2020 ECB working paper:

"Nevertheless, since a run into CBDC would be easier, it would be recomforting to have as extra tool the ability to impose negative rates on CBDC." [CBDC = central bank digital currency]

or this 2018 BoE working paper:

"Under this regime any nascent increase in the demand for CBDC can be eliminated by a drop in the interest rate on CBDC. But there are potential limits if this requires a highly negative interest rate, and if further reductions of the interest rate below this level become politically difficult."

Hopefully the hedging of that language is easy to remove. They talk about thresholds and limits and tiers, but the upshot is, maybe they're kind enough to grant you a pittance on the first couple thousand, after that it's zero or negative, because central banks tend to agree that what they DON'T want to create is a store of value, and so they will do anything they can to make you spend your CBDC as soon as you get it. In general, the "economy" does not benefit from you having a nice store of money saved up somewhere. Politicans and bankers want you money moving through their system, that's how workers are kept desperate/subservient and the élite can continue to skim some cream off the top of each transaction.

We live in a deeply unfair and very carefully rigged system with hostile operators. Do your best to survive them.

I can see no downside to the state being able to track every transaction you make and devalue it at will, charge negative interest rates to encourage spending to boost 'the economy'. Read the research papers banks issue on this topic, the bankers are salivating.

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Heaven forbid residents of the capital have to travel to see national treasures, rather than having fucking everything on their doorstep.

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