The version of Plasma in Debian 13 seemed excellent during the brief time I used it. The version in Ubuntu 24.04 wasn't quite as good, and it's still on X Windows. But still much better than Gnome.

What you said was idiotic and no one owes you anything for being an idiot.

My conclusion that there's no reason NATO needs Ukraine is backed up by the fact that NATO hasn't let Ukraine in. If it were a meaningful strategic military advantage, it would have happened long ago. NATO doesn't want Russia to be its enemy, and is wary of taking on countries that are actively at war with Russia. Committing arms in a proxy war is one thing. Outwardly engaging Russia except in defense is quite another.

At the same time, a lot of countries near Russia often want to be in NATO because they regard Russia as their frenemy at best, and a loose cannon just waiting to go off in their direction, and being part of NATO strongly discourages Russia from doing so. Georgia, Ukraine, now Finland. It would not surprise me if Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan or Mongolia pushes in that direction within the next few years. All because they have seen what Russia has done and are afraid that they will be next.

The only way Ukraine would be a strategic advantage would be if it just happened to provide some path with low population where missiles could strike before anyone sees them. But either way, Russia has dead man's switches and stuff, so if the missile silos aren't 100% taken out before anybody notices, it's over. It's a suicide mission even without committing actual troops. NATO wouldn't be crazy enough to do that. And Russia fearing that sort of outcome is just plain bats**t crazy, because there's no rational reason for them to do so.

The U.S. hasn't cowered in fear of Russia nuking us since the Cuban Missile Crisis. We don't even think about the possibility of that outcome, because we know that they know that nobody in Russia would survive if they tried. Russia badly needs to reach the same level of trust. They may not agree with NATO or trust it, but they should at least be able to trust that NATO won't behave in an irrational, ridiculously self-destructive fashion. And if they can't get to that level of trust, the problem isn't NATO or the things that NATO does. The problem is that their government is paranoid delusional, and their people have been led to be similarly paranoid delusional through limited access to non-state-run media and widespread brainwashing by government propagandists. And the only way to fix that is by getting Russia to open back up.

wait a week or two and the details will change completely.

Trump is nothing if not mercurial. His fans will tell you he's playing 11 dimensional chess... I have my doubts, but let's say that's true. The problem is that when it comes to the economy it's not chess. It's more like basketball, and the President is the point guard calling plays, except the play being called keeps changing before the players can execute the last call. It's a tough time to be running a business, you can't plan out more than a couple of weeks.

No. Robots will eventually be excellent for those who remain. Most of us won't be here by then, and this is by design.

It's worse than that, they're intolerant even of mixed Japanese. They had a couple of big repatriation pushes a while back but a lot of those people left again when they found out they were discriminated against.

How about as a non-compromise they go ahead and bring on the EVs but also ban all EU nations from buying Russian gas? Mercedes can then comply with the mandate or fuck off. They don't deserve any special treatment for being diesel cheaters and lazy pricks.

You are waaay down the hole, yet you keep digging. I hope you find your way out someday. Until then, recognize that someone cannot converse with you if you insist on changing the meaning of words.

When I want to point out to the kind of morons who post on the Internet, I'll tuck this post away.

Yeah, and North Korea is a Democracy. Fuck off, Nazi.

"So because someone happens to be winning life's lottery for the moment, they deserve to be killed..."

They volunteered to die in an experiment in stupidity, no one killed them. Suck billionaire cock if you like but don't expect to be rewarded.

The subject of your post is Kessler Syndrome, but Kessler Syndrome is definitely not a concern with these LEO constellations. Anything not regularly reboosted at these altitudes quickly deorbits because they're flying within the outer edges of the atmosphere. Kessler Syndrome is a potential problem at higher orbits where stuff in orbit tends to stay in orbit for a very long time, making accumulation problematic.

As for being hit by falling space junk, It's super rare for stuff that has reached orbit to hit the ground. That tends to be a concern with stuff that doesn't quite make it to orbit, which is one of many reasons why launch reliability is important.

Besides Kessler? These satellites cannot cause Kessler Syndrome precisely because they deorbit. There may be ill effects of burning a few hundred tons of material in the upper atmosphere every year, we'll have to see, but Kessler Syndrome is definitely not an issue.

TACO backtracks again.

Do you need your comfort blanket, bootlicker?

Gun violence is an overwhelmingly reich wing phenomenon.