This is one of those situations where adhering to the treaty doesn’t actually do anything positive, it just handicaps Ukraine’s options.

A primary reason for the treaty is that landmines are indiscriminant and they last well beyond the length of the war they’re placed for. So civilians are at risk decades after a war ends. The intent is to prevent ANY mines from being placed, by having everyone agree not to place them ahead of time.

However, Russia is going to place mines anyway no matter what. So there are going to be landmines in the area because of them regardless even if Ukraine doesn’t place their own, so the danger will already be there, except Ukraine will have one less tool to fight with.

I switched to Bitwarden after the LastPass stuff a couple years ago, and I just got around to installing Vaultwarden on my TrueNAS system at home. Using a single Cloudflare Tunnel to handle secure external connections for that and other services like Emby easily. Took a little bit to setup following some guides, but has been working flawlessly for me and some friends. You can use the regular Bitwarden apps and extensions since they natively support self hosting.

Well it didn’t do its job very well then did it. It’s designed to shoot flying things, and drones fly.

Any backers if there are any, searching their name online to see about controversial decisions.

And then I default to replacing them. Most people vote to keep the status quo… I’d rather keep them on their toes.

Lots of downtime at work at 3am. Might as well poke the Europeans since they’re awake.

This is a reminder that military service does provide for naturalized citizenship, but it is not automatic. This is not well explained, if at, all by leadership.

That is not why fahrenheit works the way it does

You’re entirely right, but it’s fun to trigger people like you with a couple words that ultimately mean nothing.

You are projecting your own ignorance over billions of people, because you yourself have no idea how it works.

You mistake ignorance for simply not giving a fuck. I know what Celsius is, I know how it converts, I just don’t care.

It’s very entertaining to be able to trigger people at will to crawl out of the like bugs and talk shit online, wasting their time on a topic that doesn’t matter in the slightest. It’s usually the Europeans, they seem to have a superiority complex about this specifically for some reason and love typing at length about it. Most other countries outside the EU region don’t bother, probably because it doesn’t matter.

Also, here’s the obligatory reminder to the Europeans that the US began using metric in 1866 and officially switched to the metric system in 1975, it just wasn’t made mandatory to switch, so most didn’t. Because it doesn’t really matter for daily life which system is used.

You do realize the reason fahrenheit is set up that way, is based on the human perception of temperature. 0-100 is the general range or cold to hot. Of course some inhabited areas end up outside that range a bit, because humans are adaptable but generally speaking it allows for far more graduation in every day real world scenarios. Metric is good for science, but not ideal for casual everyday usage of hot and cold.

Your body doesn’t really care what the boiling point or freezing point of water is. But you should and generally do need to preemptively plan for environments outside the fahrenheit scale.

It’s a screen made by Microsoft to match their aesthetic and settings pages, of course. But it’s the exact same Google account sync system that every Chromium has, unless you’re specifically using an unGoogled version.

This is literally the standard Google sync account stuff in every Chromium browser. Don’t want it? Pick a browser that isn’t Chrome based. That basically leaves Firefox or a handful of brand new alpha buggy browsers no one has heard of with dubious update potential.

Edge is a Chromium browser. This is the standard Chrome sync stuff from nearly every one of those.

I did say it wouldn’t even be considered.

The simple solution, and thus the one that won’t even be considered, is to tax the rich and fund the IRS to actually enforce those cases instead of low hanging fruit. Reinstituting the 90% top tax bracket with no exceptions and it fills a lot of that gap immediately.

And there’s the grift. Because that cannot happen. It’s a blank check for the corrupt.

Big experimental thing that’s still being developed. Explosions are expected, just not usually at this point, usually during the hard parts after liftoff. That’s where they expect to still have issues, explosions there aren’t failures as in something fucked up, they’re expected and provide data to learn where the current design limits are to make the next version better.

This is the part that was generally figured out. Going to be interesting to see what the root cause is since this should have been routine.

They’re referring to the shifting variance between political sides and the range expressed between them. The Overton Window usually.

The Overton window is the range of subjects and arguments politically acceptable to the mainstream population at a given time. It is also known as the window of discourse. The key to the concept is that the window changes over time; it can shift, or shrink or expand. It exemplifies “the slow evolution of societal values and norms”.

Outside of this window you still have Left and Right, but they’re the more extreme beliefs that the general populace doesn’t currently accept. The window shifting over time means something that would have been considered absolutely insane 20 years ago, could be entirely mainstream now.

A current example would be federal deployment of the military to handle local protests when there is no declared State of Emergency and local government doesn’t need or want assistance.

It doesn’t even require belief.

2+2=5 for sufficiently large values of 2.

While a facetious statement in general, it is factual if those values derive from rounding. Significant Digits must be maintained.

Buying in preparation for your normal defense forces is different than buying for a currently active armed conflict.

Switzerland insists on trying to remain neutral in conflicts, this is part of that.

The exceptions are actually logical not broad. The only questionable exception that seems open to abuse is “health reasons”.

But the ones we need to be worried about can’t read anyway.

Not even internet, all news media back to local TV and and newspapers. Not all journalism is created equal, it’s just easier to spot blatantly incorrect info when you also have videos posted to confirm yourself.