Ukraine did not fold to the threat of the USA stopping all support earlier this year, it will not stop to any of these threats now either, it is a non starter. Zelensky doesn't have the mandate from Ukrainians to this type of a "peace deal" just because USA may stop any support. Ukraine will endure wothout the USA support, just with more casualties.
there is no d8fference where it comes to ruzzians. Majority are pro putin there or they do not care, very few are truly against this or especially are vocal about it. I used to work with them back between 2009 and 2014 and supported the work I uaed to do for them umtil 2022. Then I saw what they really where, the young, the old, doesn't matter. A good test is to ask "whose is Crimea". At this point I decided that I am not a specialist in sorting through various types of shit, I wrote them all off.
ruzzia is "winning the war" in the same way that a cancer is "winning" by destroying the body where it resides. Nobody is winning anything yet. Ukraine is slowly losing territory, while trying to keep more soldiers alive, ruzzia is slowly losing its manpower by throwing more and more bodies, now without even basic body armor and helmets into the meatgrinder to be burned alive by the drones to gain a few hundred meters a of burned up, empty territory per day.
Without either side having air superiority both sides are doomed to continue the drudgery of slow attrition, Ukrainian territory vs orcs' lives. Neither is winning, both are losing something. In the long run, prolonged wars favour the defending side for various reasons, the occupiers are seeing worsening of their economic situation for no gain whatsoever. It is all a temporary high, that the ruzzian population was experiencing, following the occupation of Crimea and the start of this "special military operation" that was not supposed to last for more than a few weeks. Now putin cannot let go, this is not about the money or the economy for him, which is why all of this negotiation crap is nonsense doomed to failure. For putin a peace right now is just as dangerous as the defeat, in either case he will lose power. For him there are no options at all, only continuing a perpetual war, which is why the Americans and the West are so horribly wrong about him and his willingness to negotiate. He can only do one thing - keep the war going until the last orc and the last mercenary. If he takes Ukraine somehow, to use the newly occupied people to go to war against Poland, Lituania, Latvia, Estonia and later the rest. If he succeeds taking Ukraine, then he will not be stopped by any conventional Eiuropean force, nobody is willing to fight and die there.
of course it is a sane assumption. Their nuclear missile launch tests fail for a good reason as well, rocket engines, airplane engines and parts were made in Ukraine, the engineers who made them were Ukrainians. All of the ruzzkies capacity is used up to rebuild tanks and produce military equipment, missiles, gun rounds, shahed drones, whatever. Building a gigantic complex platform actually requires resources they do not have.
for the same reason I wouldn't hire an Islamist or a palestenian sympathiser.
Putin has gone way beyond any semblence of being an intelligent leader. He's become nothing more than a white equivalent of a psychopathic and corrupt african style banana republic leader who only cares about money and staying in power. He won't give a damn about russias space ability now.
The destroyed 8U216 service cabin used for Soyuz launches was manufactured at the Novokramatorsk Machine Building Plant in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region.
Of course this plant was bombed by ruzzia multiple times since the February 2022.https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=YQDNpqEf5us
ruzzia has a few options there.
1. leave everything as is and stop making launches, fire the unnecessary staff, forget about space.
2. get one of the platforms that were built and installed elsewhere (there are 3 of these used by their military in Plesetsk, 1 in Vostochny, this one is used once per year. Ask the one in French Guiana (South America) to be returned, it is no longer in use anyway. Ask the Kazakhs for the first one that was used to launch the first Vostok rocket with Gagarin to be moved from the museum site.
3. build a new factory somewhere, train new staff, construct a new platform.
4. fix the one that was blown to pieces.
AFAIC ruzzia can and needs to go to hell. I hire people, I won't hire a ruzzian, the world needs to get its act together and start using space wothput them.
The Times has uncovered nearly 50 cases of people having mental health crises during conversations with ChatGPT. Nine were hospitalised; three died...
Even before I read the rest of the quote, my immediate conclusion is that those people were crazy to begin with.
One conclusion that OpenAI came to, as Altman put it on X, was that "for a very small percentage of users in mentally fragile states there can be serious problems."
Ayup. There are people out there you would not trust to drive your kid to the library. Or to have sharp knives in their kitchen. I assert there is overlap between those people and the people who can't operate a chatbot without losing their marbles.
But mental health professionals interviewed by the Times say OpenAI may be understating the risk. Some of the people most vulnerable to the chatbot's unceasing validation, they say, were those prone to delusional thinking, which studies have suggested could include 5% to 15% of the population.
Sounds about right. Something like 2.5% of the population is flat-out retarded, and another 6% or so aren't retarded but fall below useful IQ of like 83.
Yeah, the energy drinks aren't going to make anyone wealthy, but it's still a payday. The retail value of a trailer full of Red Bull is about $130,000. Figure they'll get maybe 10% of that from some retailer and you clear $13,000, tax free. Low risk, because it's not drugs or guns or whatever. Not bad for maybe a couple hours work.
It'll tell you all about warp factors and quantum improbability drives, and cite all its sources, to boot.
Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Dylan Field, Evan Williams, Gabe Newell, Jay Koum, Larry Fucking Ellison, Zuck, Michael Dell, and Travis Kalanick are all dropouts to name just a few.
None of those people made advancements at the fundamental level. They all paid someone (or stole from someone) who had a college degree to do the advancements.
Whom the gods would destroy, they first teach BASIC.
