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Comment Re: Why Are We (the UK) Helping Ukraine? (Score 1) 321

The Americans thought so as well.

And it was extremely stupid. This stupidity came to light when Russia staged a lot of troops just outside the Ukrainian border, basically "nyah nyah, you can't touch me" and then invaded Kharkov region the second time. After that even Biden saw how stupid that rule was and relaxed it. Of course now that Ukrainians are making their own weapons, they can do whatever they want with them.

Actually, the way the American aid worked looked like Biden was doing his best to extend the war as long as possible. Every time the Ukrainians started to push the Russians back, the supply of weapons stopped for various reasons. Then the Ukrainian offensive stalled and the front line was stable for a while. After some time, Russia started going forward and only then the various problems with weapon supply evaporated and Ukraine even got some new weapons.

Comment Re:Why Are We (the UK) Helping Ukraine? (Score 5, Insightful) 321

During WW2 why did the UK bomb Germany? I mean why didn't it just defend itself?

Russia invaded Ukraine, Ukraine can hit any military target inside Russia in order to make Russia stop fighting. This is part of defense. Bombing oil refineries, weapons factories and such is a perfectly valid thing to do.Even temporarily taking territory from Russia (that belonged to Russia in 2013) is acceptable. Russia can stop this war at any time - just withdraw its troops from Ukraine and that will be it.

Or do you think that Russia should be allowed to hit targets inside Ukraine, but Ukraine should not be allowed to hit targets inside Russia? Russia seems to think so.

Comment Re:Vancouver BC (Score 1) 68

Are you suggesting that people migrate to a place to destroy it instead of because they like to adopt the lifecycle of that place?

People have multiple reasons to move to a different place. One of them is money - if the person can earn more money in another country, he moves there.

People also do not change very quickly. If someone comes from a country where it is considered OK to dump trash in a river, he likely won't change his mind after moving. He will likely obey the law that says "do not dump trash in a river" to not get punished, but he may consider the law to be stupid and would still be more likely to dump trash in a river if he was sure he could get away with it, after all, is is used to it being OK to do that..

If it's just a single person (or a single family) moving to a different country, they will be basically forced to assimilate - learn the language, learn the customs and so on.

If a lot of people from some country move to another country and live in close proximity to each other, they start making a miniature version of their home country. After all, why learn another language if you can communicate with your neighbors, employer and the cashiers at the shop using your native language or some other language you know?

People from my country have moved to a bunch of places (mostly the UK) to look for more money. Some assimilated and want to live there. Some didn't and instead just hung out with their own bringing some problems from my country (mainly theft at the time) to those countries.

I have many Muslim friends of my own. They value education, co-operation, healthcare, and have no interest in guns.

There are many people, some of them assimilate, some of them don't. Those who assimilated would be willing to be friends with you, but those who are the more stereotypical Muslims (taking from your example) would likely not want to associate with you and you would likely not want to associate with them. You probably do not speak Arabic or some other language of a Muslim-majority country, so the people who do not care about learning the languages of Canada, won't be talking with you and won't be your friends.

By the way, I am not a racist - I think that different races are equal. I am, however, a xenophobe - I think that a culture that says it's OK to dump trash in a river, a culture that says it's OK to kill someone if he or she offended your honor or a culture that says the appropriate punishment for rape is letting the victim's brother rape your sister is absolutely inferior to the Western culture and I do not want people from one of those cultures near me.

Comment Re: Reverting to third-world status (Score 1) 146

Another way to do this would be deregulation of power generation. Building a new power plant is probably more expensive because of new regulations, where an existing power plant may not have to meet them.

Similar with houses where I live. If you have a house that was built a while ago, it does not need to meet new requirements, but if you want to build a new house, it has to have very good thermal insulation, solar panels on the roof and so on, this makes building a new house more expensive. It may be cheaper to live there in the long run (due to lower cost for heating), but the ROI is going to be very long, because you need a bigger loan to be able to build (or buy) it and then you will pay more interest on that bigger loan.

Comment Re:Let's see in six weeks... (Score 5, Insightful) 364

I seem to remember the Iraq-area wars that the US was involved in going on far longer and less of an oil crisis happening this fast.

That would be because even during those wars and conflicts, we didn't have an orange-painted pedophilic retard with delusions of grandeur causing a weekslong blockage of the major shipping lane through which ~35% of the world's crude oil trade flows.

The closest we've seen recently was when the Ever Given got stuck in the Suez during 2021, and even that only lasted for 6 days. Plus, it wasn't as big a deal because less oil was being used worldwide during pandemic countermeasures.

The closest in the past 100 years is when Treasonous Klanbitch Ronny Reagan betrayed the USA and convinced the Iranian Ayatollah to cut off shipping to hurt Carter in the 1980 election, in trade for guns and other military supplies that the Treasonshit Republicans paid out later during Reagan's terms.

Comment Re:What stops IPv6 from being universal (Score 2) 73

I am OK with IPv4. All my devices support it, the addresses are easy to remember. Everything works.

Though the local v6 addresses can be easy to remember as well, like fd00::0:1, it would be more annoying to remember a public IP as it would be longer.
The fact that my numpad does not have letters and : would make it more annoying to type, but whatever.

Still, IPv4 for me is good enough. There are not enough IPv6-only services that would make me consider adding it to my network and duplicating all the firewall rules. That's for my home network. It goes many times that for the work network, because that would be even more difficult and time-consuming for very little benefit right now.

I see NAT as a feature by the way, I would use it with v6 too.

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