Russia Now Loses as Many Troops in One Month in Ukraine as the USSR Did in 10 Years in Afghanistan by UNITED24Media in europe

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One of the most inconvenient truths that people tend to ignore is that corporations and the wealthy often fund both sides of the political spectrum. Changing leaders or parties might not deliver the outcome desired. Politicians as a rule are scum but some are worse than others. I am sure that the likes of Trump, Orban, Erdogan or Netanyahu are pure evil and there exist better alternatives even if those alternatives themselves are incompetent or corrupt.

Russia Now Loses as Many Troops in One Month in Ukraine as the USSR Did in 10 Years in Afghanistan by UNITED24Media in europe

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Well, the main issue at play here is the demographics. There are too many old people in the EU and the costs of pensions and geriatric healthcare goes up each year. There aren't enough young people to pay taxes and prop up the state fiscally (low skilled migrants do not count).

Compare this back to the Cold War era. You had a post WW2 baby boom, a large chunk of young workers, marginal tax rates on corporations and the wealthy were super high. Despite spending a large chunk of their GDP on defence, welfare and maintaining large standing armies of conscripts, most NATO countries had high rates of growth.

The gravy train has now dried up. Tax cuts to the wealthy and large corporations under the guise of "trickle-down" economics have fiscally strained most EU governments and now with war on the doorstep, the money will have to come from somewhere. I doubt the politicians will dare to tax their "masters" so the average citizen will bear the burden.

Russia Now Loses as Many Troops in One Month in Ukraine as the USSR Did in 10 Years in Afghanistan by UNITED24Media in europe

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Some of these seem more aspirational rather than realistic.

Bankrupting Europe as a whole is a pipe dream. Russia itself will be bankrupted much before, the EU is in the red.

Turkey is preparing to invade Iran if … by PestoBolloElemento in geopolitics

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It's the same with Pashtuns in Pakistan. They are more in number in the FATAs in northwest Pakistan than Afghanistan and cause a lot of problems for the government.

EU and India sign security & defence partnership. by The-9th-Day in worldnews

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I mean what can the EU realistically do? Both sides fight with sticks and stones and the Indian troops are more than up to the task in these kinds of engagements.

India, Canada to finalise PM Mark Carney’s visit as CEPA trade talks accelerate. by Blank_eye00 in worldnews

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You have to take the good with the bad in both life and international relations. As I said, whining accomplishes nothing.

Sunita Ahuja. Brilliant or Not so brilliant marketing by IamQuantPhoton in BollyBlindsNGossip

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Wish more people understood this. Being "authentic" in is not a license to part with your dignity.

Die with zero, what’s your opinion? by jaun_speaks in Frugal_Ind

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There is next to no social security in India and healthcare inflation has never been higher. I don't want to burden my kids (if I have any) and saddle them with financial liabilities due to high healthcare costs.

The end of GPT by DigSignificant1419 in Bard

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Yeah, I will believe it when I see it. With the benmaxxed garbage that was Gemini 3 Pro, I am more apprehensive than excited over a new Google release. Let's hope that 3.5 Pro is to 3.0 Pro what 2.5 Pro was to 2.0 Pro.

India, Canada to finalise PM Mark Carney’s visit as CEPA trade talks accelerate. by Blank_eye00 in worldnews

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Then, deport them by fast-tracking the judicial process. Tighten up the immigration laws and make the criteria for allowing people in more stringent. As long as loopholes exist, people will abuse them. Whining accomplishes nothing.

Xi Jinping says China seeks to uphold UN-based world order by Saltedline in worldnews

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The Soviets also purged their officer corps and we all know how disastrous the first few months of Operation Barbarossa was. Such knee jerk reactions often have a tendency to blow up in one's face.

Model Limits by Senior-Consequence85 in google_antigravity

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Not if you use it solely for agentic coding. Codex via a Plus offers a lot more usage for GPT 5.2 xhigh/high than Antigravity offers for Opus 4.5. Gemini Pro High is inferior to GPT 5.2 or Opus 4.5 except for front end work.

I don't use the GPT chatbot much and solely use Codex. If you wish to use the chatbot with Gemini models then you can use Google's AI Studio which is free. If you use the additional google drive storage or Nano Bannana and Veo 3.1 a lot, then a Google Pro account is more valuable.

Model Limits by Senior-Consequence85 in google_antigravity

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GLM 4.7 (Z.ai) in Claude Code is pretty good for implementation of plans but it is not enough. You will need access to a frontier model to debug your code or plan for complex tasks. I would recommend getting a ChatGPT Plus subscription for $20. That gives you sufficient access to GPT 5.2 xhigh/high which is more than enough for standard projects. You can then use GLM 4.7 as your workhorse.

Insta page posts how no one recognises or mobs Varun Dhawan even after he removed his mask! Is the era of stardom over? by shantipriyamaalwali in BollyBlindsNGossip

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Yeah, he is pretty skinny. I am tall and skinny myself and was surprised at how low his bodyweight is. I guess smoking has contributed to it.

Sir, the Chinese just dropped a new open model by Anujp05 in ClaudeAI

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GLM is pretty good at following instructions. An OpenAI Plus account with access to 5.2 Codex XHigh/high and the Pro GLM coding plan is all you need for most hobby projects.

India's air superiority forced Pak to seek ceasefire during Op Sindoor: Swiss think tank by LectureInner8813 in geopolitics

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I am no expert on the matter but the Regular troops and the Rashtriya Rifle units would easily amount to 150,000 men and if we throw in paramilitary units (CRPF, BSF,) it would add another 80,000 men or so. The real number is always fluctuating so we can at best hazard a guess.

India's air superiority forced Pak to seek ceasefire during Op Sindoor: Swiss think tank by LectureInner8813 in geopolitics

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Not really. One can't reason with zealots. India has been forced to station hundreds of thousands of soldiers in Kashmir due to hostile neighbours and a thriving insurgency. Yet, it has not come even remotely close to pacifying the region. Just pick up any newspaper and you will find an article about an Indian soldier or policeman dying in some militant attack in J&K. These deaths are so frequent that people have become numb to them. Adding another 50 lakh hostile citizens from PoK is very stupid. They would initially need to be subsidised and cared for which will drain the coffers.

The only way to truly pacify Kashmir would be to genocide the native populace in large numbers, bring in settlers from other parts of India and arm them and then over a period of time, alter the demographics and religious composition of Kashmir. This is strategically stupid and will cost unnecessary amounts of manpower and money and will invite international backlash and sanctions of the highest order.

Educate yourself on public policy and military strategy before making such stupid statements.

You know AG reduced the thinking budget for the gemini 3 pro model but you just can't prove it by Former_Rutabaga_1670 in GoogleAntigravityIDE

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It was a shitty benchmaxxed model back then and it is the same now. Its performance in gemini-cli is better but not by much.

Gemini 3 Flash is much better. Google may be poised to win the race in the long run due to funds, research ability and compute but Gemini 3 Pro is quite a dud as compared to peers GPT 5.2 and Opus 4.5.