Russia can't really force it if they could then the war would be over and Europe wants to keep it all going so they can wear Russia down some more.

So nothing is really going to change in the war will just continue unless and until we get a democrat in the white house again with a clear majority in Congress.

It is incredibly fucked up that the world is just kind of standing by letting Russia do this so that they can wear Russia down and reduce their ability to function as a global superpower. Then again this shit we are letting happen in Yemen and Sudan is even worse. And Jesus fucking Christ if you read the history of what America did in South America during Ronald Reagan...

Yeah you're not really supposed to think about how expensive the drug war is versus just giving people support and addiction treatment.

America especially is really into punitive and revenge-based Justice. I wonder if it will start to fade if religious extremism continues to fade. It's not hard to draw a line between puritanical bullshit and wanting to do as much harm as possible to people who commit crimes or do drugs.

You just do not know yet that you _will_ give up vegetarianism! They already know.

Even regular, European-style anti-trust action done half would have nicely worked. The problem is not the methods. The problem is nothing was done when the need for action was absolutely obvious.

Oh, I am sure _you_ do not do these. Competent people do backups or redundant copies for anything that is critical, regardless of time-frame.

I know a few mathematicians. None of them are stupid. All of them can do risk management to a reasonable degree. These people from the stroy must be the dross.

Yes. And that case is covered in all _basic_ BCM materials. You do not only need backup for data. You also need backups for roles.

Well, either you can trust people to not lose their keys, or you cannot. In the second case, you need some redundancy. But sure, the screw-up also included them apparently trusting incompetents too much.

Indeed. Probably some more big-ego-small-skill people managed to make it in there.

Sad but true.

Yeah you could for example point at the trans panic as the reason why Trump is President not once but twice because without that moral panic he couldn't have won but you'd also have to ignore all the voter suppression cheating and the sabotage the Republicans have done to the economy and the Republicans packing the courts allowing Trump to commit multiple crimes and get away with it and and and...

The Democrats insisting on running a woman when the country has made it crystal clear that they do not want a woman at top of ticket didn't help either.

Basically every single system had to collapse in order to make a has been game show host with 28 credible rape accusations president. Again..

So yeah you have multiple causes for a disaster a lot of times.

But take any one of those causes out and the disaster goes away. So I don't think it's unfair to say those things caused the disaster.

And in this case Iran is a relatively poor country that was trying to do a theocratic dictatorship by America in order to secure influence in the Middle East so it's not like they have a lot of say in reducing climate change. It's mostly a matter of the United states, the wealthier states of Europe and China. And you can hardly blame them for their corruption if you are an American since, well you caused it.

Of course pointing all this out is not going to endear you to Americans. We don't like to think about the consequences of our actions.

Indeed.

If you have a working market, product quality matters. The while disaster that is Microsoft is also a good example for a market failure. At fault is the US that never managed to do any meaningful anti-trust action against MS when it would still have accomplished something.

How repulsive.

"No backup" is amateur-level. Also that they did not use n-out-of-k with n k is a pretty basic mistake.