Azure runs almost entirely on Linux. MS has no need to be afraid of it.

They are all fascist policies that the US “left” (a.k.a. liberals/Democrats) support

I hope this isn’t a prelude to a new White Terror. (Look it up, Libs)

And accomplished very little honestly. How do they expect to win a near-peer conflict, let alone a peer conflict

Come on! Consulates are cheap compared to military bases. Close some overseas bases!

There is hope. There is no hope for the empire, which is doomed, and therefore there is no hope for non-profits as such because they only exist as part of the tax structure of the empire. As the empire collapses, so will non-profits. But also so will for-profits. It’s all collapsing as it fails to sustain itself.

In fact, the empire dying is the exact shape of what hope looks like.

Easy. There’s no such thing as lazy

It’s a planette

These “land grabs” were literally Russia delivering consequences to the US for their constant escalation. The annexation of Crimea followed the Euromaidan coup that saw John McCain and Victoria Nuland on the ground and in the planning of how the far right on Ukraine would take over and set the stage for NATO nuclear capabilities coming to the Ukraine-Russia border. Joint operations between NATO and Ukraine started at the end of 2013. Over the next several years these exercises saw B-52 strategic nuclear bombers flying in Ukraine, a simulated invasion of Kaliningrad, and open ethnic cleansing of ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine.

Your framing of the US/West needing to “respond” to “Russian aggression” is so far removed from reality it’s literally an inversion. Until you are capable of seeing the aggression of the USA, you will not be capable of analyzing what’s actually happening.

I think this is a particularly nuanced position on the part of China. They are attempting to deflate Trump’s political posturing. He could keep raising tariffs to make himself seem like a winner, so they chose to mock him and they backed that mockery up by saying we won’t respond to this line of harassment anymore because we have maximally defenses against it. If Trump was only doing tariffs, this would be the end of it, but China is anticipating that without the ability to continue narrative manipulation via tariffs, the US could begin expanding its attack on China via non-tariff means (and likely is already preparing to do so). So, instead of saying that they are no longer playing the game, they are saying that they are no longer effected by this particular line of attack and that they will continue defending against any new lines of attack.

I don’t know if they will take such actions to respond to further tariff hikes, but it seems like they might not.

“Figuring something out”

“Finding something out”

“Discovering something”

“Break that down for me”

“Empty nesters”

“Building a case”

“Play your part”

“Influenza”

“Lunatic”

“Hysterical”

“Barbaric”

“Romantic”

Words that literally refer to mythological characters of literature but metaphorically have a meaning relating to aspects of those characters:

“Venereal”

“Hermaphrodite”

“Aphrodisiac”

“Quixotic”

“Tantalizing”

“Chaos”

“Herculean task”

“Narcissist”

“Oedipus complex”

“Atlas”

“Cloth”

“Echo”

“Erotic”

“Fortune”

“Jovial”

“Martial”

“Mercurial”

“Panic”

“Mentor”

“Office siren”

“Titanic”

I think it’s more about them getting more confident in the US’s inability to harm it or more confident that they cannot prevent the US from harming it by being passive.

LOL, VAT is cheating?

Cool. Now it’s just getting her to come up with different options that are based on her unique characteristics. Not everyone is made for planning. Not everyone is made for coordination. Not everyone is made for todo lists. She needs to bring her wholeself - he needs to contribute his special powers to supporting her developing her special powers and vice versa.

Step 1: get both parties to agree there’s an imbalance.

If you can’t get to this point, no other advice matters

The beginning of a century of repairing the relationship. Beautiful to see it starting

Very light on details that I am very curious about: what does it mean that the aircraft lost its defensive protection? What was it targeted with? It almost sounds like it was a signals attack and not a kinetic one.

US, UK, France. Italy, Germany, Finland… Who else is emerging fascist over there right now? I have to assume Belgium is not far behind. Spain? Portugal? Switzerland? Netherlands? Can we get a map going?

One country, two systems

I wonder if this could be a path to Korean unification. If Russia and China both have trade relations with both Korea and occupied Korea, maybe there’s a path to peaceful reunification