Fucking goons. Enjoy the sanctions. More is on the way.

Well, each year 5% of the dentists rank in 95th percentile. That's what the 95th percentile means. I hope that's not the entirely of the case against him. I hope they actually show the he did deliberately break his patients' teeth. He is 61. What if his eye-hand coordination simply started to slip a little. If I was on the jury and these were the only facts presented to me, I'd laugh at the prosecution. I wouldn't even wait for the deliberations. I'd laugh right in court. Maybe they have evidence for more. But it's not evidence even suggested in this article summary. This article summary makes the prosecutors sound nuts.

Hey, deliberate targeted bombing of maternity wards is caused by a legitimate security concern about the threat of Ukraine developing nuclear capability...

ohh. ffs.

Ukraine gets a quarter of its electricity from its nuclear power plants. It's literally been nuclear-capable since the first day it became a country.

But, but, but... NATO !!! Aha! You know what I mean, you know what I mean?!

It should be

It's not innovative. We are just more used to it in the commerce. We are not used to dealing with FUD as a *normal* part of political discourse. People are rushing to create new names for it. But it's just FUD.

It takes a long time. But Germany started building coal plants 2014 to hedge the threat of Russia cutting it off when it became clear that Russia was beginning to re-arm. Coal generation is more expensive and more polluting, but it will work until the new nuclear plants are built.

The cheapest gasoline was in the 90s. That was also the decade when Russia's extraction was at its lowest. Germany has been building coal plants exactly for the purposes of hedging its bet on the Russian gas. Coal is slightly more expensive and it's more polluting than gas, but as a temporary measure it will do. There is a renaissance in nuclear energy generation happening right now. The coal plants will tie Germany over until the nuclear plants are built. If Russia is still a country by the time they are built, maybe they'll be allowed to sell their uranium to those nuclear plants. But Europe is not about to trade its actual military security for cheap energy.

Every hospital has a biolab. That doesn't make them bioWEAPONS lab. The labs are where the tests and the research is done in hospitals. This new Russia propaganda trying to conflate bioweapons with just biolabs used by doctors is a cover for Russia trying to cause maximum misery by bombing hospitals. Your terrorist state will not escape sanctions. It's not going to matter which party is in power anymore. Russia is done.

Why? we already did that after the collapse of the USSR. They turned a democracy into fascism. It doesn't really matter who is in charge. Dedication to institutions requires faith in those institutions. If Russians never fought for their state and the state institutions have no legacy, why even consider the possibility that they won't be corrupted again?

Ukrainians have now fought for their country. They can be trusted to be its stewards. The same cannot be said about Russia. Putin or no Putin, the next regime in Russia will be a puppet regime because no one is personally invested in making that country their own. Ukrainians, who will join the EU, because they can be trusted to take actual ownership of their country, will be the only Russian-speaking westerners. In 10 years, it will be Ukraine that's installing puppet regimes in Russia.

The whole point of the cloud is to turn all software, even free software, into web services.

Never mind that they could have generated faces using AI. They could have used intermediate results of morphing one face into another. The only reason they got caught was that they used real human faces.

I think you are missing the point. It's not that big a deal that the government can direct a bank to freeze your account. Governments could always do that. What is different now is that a bank can freeze your account without cause. They don't need to justify their suspicion to a 3rd party (like a court). They don't have enough money to pay the depositors? Ok. Just freeze 5% of the deposits because they are "suspicious." The teller found out his girlfriend cheated on him with you? Ok, let's freeze your deposit as "suspicious." There is no oversight to make sure this "suspicion" is warranted.

Canada changed the banking rules yesterday. I thought it would cause runs on banks right away. Banks could always deny deposits when they suspected their potential clients of being miscreants. The new rules allowed banks to deny withdraws if they suspected their clients of being miscreants. You don't need to be a miscreant to think this makes it a bad idea to keep your money in the bank. If you have even a slight suspicion of your bank, you'd be plain dumb not to empty your account under such standards. I am surprised it took a whole day.

by pulling out the wire. It's why stand-alone apps are more secure than web apps.

Not your configuration, not your setting, definitely not your date, and obviously not your important data. End-to-end encryption is a myth, **if** it promised by the app provider. There are always possible side channels that can send dups of your data. If an app suit doesn't let your keep your data **locally, first**, and only sync what you when WHEN YOU CHOOSE to sync, it will (sooner or later) fail or fall prey to a scam.