I think most normal people liked the M1 because of the battery life. A lot of people are lazy with charging in general, so its a huge benefit to just open the lid and it's working.
Sometimes this is possible, but generally VPNs are illegal (at least that's what I was told) in Russia. The government has become increasingly active in identifying and locking users out of them, and of course users risk being dragged into the Russian criminal system.
Doing some sort of SSH tunnel to a VPS hosted elsewhere might work, might not. Plain old wireguard might work, might not. Consumer tools for technically novice users seem to be the government's priority.
Also sometimes when adults try to pull kids towards something, they may be trying to validate their own life choices and pathway. Just like a parent getting his kid into football, always remembering that he lost the playoff game.
The solutions are usually only found through struggle and problems. Look at all the inventions and how fast things evolve when a society is under the ultimate external pressure -- direct warfare. Look at WW2. We got to fairly accurate missiles and fighter jets in a couple of years of WW2.
Knowledge and societal changes are just an extension of evolution. Obviously the results of a large expansion are somewhere in the range of population 0 to a bit less than now.
Yeah that's right, knowledge and societal changes are just an extension of evolution going from 0 to 1. I understand that in the grand scheme of things, we are nothing but for the period that a civilization lives, it's knowledge evolves and for the future generation it's a gift or curse, both balanced by perfect scales unless intervened.
Which makes me wonder if civilization lives long enough by any chance till the end of universe, The Big Crunch and all that, would the prevailing knowledge be of interest to another universe of it's just an abstract visualization that exists along with universe and it's history and is bound to die along with it?
Remember that a site like this only exists in the sphere of US hegemony. If we lived in NK, Russia, or China and debating decisions by the government... whelp that wouldn't exist there.
Maybe because in 2014 Ukraine decided that Russia was their biggest enemy and they would fight against them to the death. They were not expecting to die, tho. Reality hits hard.
Nobody decided that Russia is an enemy. Ukraine decided it wants to be in a different club - and Russia has no right to stop them from going. Nobody in Ukraine wanted to attack Russia in any way, but Russia needs Ukraine for its twisted goals.
The other club is not an inherent enemy of Russia - it was an ally all up until the 2022 invasion. The friendship even remained through the 2014 invasion, though strained, but did remain in place. Russia could've kept selling natural gas, EU could've been a happy buyer, and Ukraine could've been an EU member - nothing bad for Russia or Russians about that. It's bad for Putin's imperialism though.
BTW it's funny to talk about neonazis without mentioning the actual neonazis, Russian nationalists and white supremacists who came to fight in Ukraine in 2014 to support the imperial dreams of Putin.
Yes, the US decided and it was easy to lure thousands of Ukrainians to the Maidan uprising. 10 years ago no Ukranian would think that ditching Russian influence in favor of the West would end so bad, right? Now it is time for them to come to their senses and stop throwing themselves to a meat grind. The dream of beating a nuclear power is too far from reality for them and the earlier the civilians understand that, the better. That's a war they should never ever being convinced they could win. Even if they could win now they already lost so much.
It is still time to think if this is enough or if Ukraine wants to gamble their whole existence and continue waging a war they can't win.
Btw there was no mention of neonazis yet but it seems like supporting nazis is something that bothers you? It is still time to stop.
So the premise of your argument is that millions of Ukrainians across all swathes of their society have somehow been duped into a political stance, and then a huge war.
> The dream of beating a nuclear power is too far from reality for them
A friendly reminder that the unstoppable nuclear power of the USSR was in-fact toppled by self-imposed economic reform and a lack of control over it's constituent states.
So in reality, beating a nuclear power via secession and self-determination isn't just feasible, it's the standard.
Ukraine doesn't, but NATO does. Even China has been pushing back against Russia's territorial aggression, they have no one to stand up for them on the world stage. How does Russia defeat NATO? Grandstanding and brinkmanship punctuated by long periods of low-tension hostility?
The whole world knows the score. Putin had to stage terrorist attacks on his own country to secure a single presidency. Without popular appeal he can only threaten people smaller than him, and even those countries are willing to call Putin's bluff: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_lines_in_the_Russo-Ukraini...
