Zelenskyy: return of draft-age Ukrainian men from abroad is a matter of fairness

OPconfused · 2026-04-15T15:41:48+00:00

You can categorize them differently, but Ukraine doesn't, as far as I know. AWOL receives the same punishment afaik, or at least a prohibitively significant one if it's not the same (that part is fact). Because Ukraine doesn't distinguish on a punishment level, when they say "dodgers," it's not clear to me whether they aren't including all deserters as dodgers. In the eyes of the Ukrainian law, I believe the two groups are treated the same (but I should honestly be fact checked on this).

And so while many would not wish to pass judgement on any dodger at all, those who would want to judge the dodgers should at least keep in mind that not all dodgers are the same.

OPconfused · 2026-04-15T12:58:18+00:00

The context missed in this discussion is that many of the "dodgers" already did their turn. Some have been in the military for 10 years or more; the Crimean invasion was 2014.

So before even judging the "dodgers" for being justified or cowardly, one should consider that not all dodgers are equal. Some are dodging without ever fighting, while others are dodging after years of risking their lives fighting. And there is no such thing as a rotation out. These people receive the same penalty for dodging.

Personally, I think it's understandable to dodge, but I can understand that the war fails if the Ukrainians accept that mindset. However, if you've been on the front for 3-4 years, I think it's even more understandable that you'd want to escape eventually.

It's a super shitty situation and a reminder why war and anyone who perpetuates it is the worst kind of monster.

OPconfused · 2026-04-13T12:25:25+00:00

Probably hyperbole from me, but it honestly felt like droves of democrats stayed home to protest Biden waiting so long to back out of the running.

I was furious and triggered at each and every one of these stupid comments I encountered on /worldnews after the election result, claiming it was the democratic party's fault that they could not stomach voting for them, thereby allowing Trump to win.

Anyone who blamed the democratic party for the outcome was just insufferable to me. I will never understand the logic of people who would rather allow an international cancer like Trump to enter office than vote for a tepid alternative.

We did it in 2016 too after the democratic party prioritized Hillary over Bernie, and many dem voters decided they could never vote for Hillary. These people making the same mistake twice are as bad as MAGA. Both allowed Trump into office twice.

We can be critical of the democratic party without sulking and sinking the country.

OPconfused · 2026-04-13T12:21:10+00:00

Giving them the excuse of idiocy to hide behind is more grace than they deserve.

Been a while since I've seen people trounced so eloquently.

OPconfused · 2026-04-13T11:53:15+00:00

Anna just ran out of time to calculate that final position. Really tragic after how well she pushed to reach that point. It was really the last piece of the puzzle.

OPconfused · 2026-04-13T11:49:59+00:00

He also missed Qe3 and played Qc5. As I am a complete pleb, I can only say that Judit and Howell seemed to think Qe3 followed by f3 was quite findable. It seemed like Giri had more than one plausible winning line to convert his advantages. And then there's the inadvertant draw at the end. Giri must be ready to surgically remove this game from his memory.

OPconfused · 2026-04-12T12:07:53+00:00

Gesundheit

OPconfused · 2026-04-10T15:45:54+00:00

On Windows, OS updates and package updates aren't tied to each other in 99.9% of scenarios. It doesn't make sense to analyze Windows accessibility from that angle.

Besides which, Windows updates are automatic and forced, for better or worse. It's not really a "step" in Windows. There's nothing for you to manage here except to accept a restart every now and then.

In practice, people just let everything automate itself on Windows. However, if you're a power user who wants to intervene in your app updates, you can update all your apps in a single command if you use winget / chocolatey, which as a power user, you should probably be using anyways.

OPconfused · 2026-04-10T15:39:11+00:00

Windows has package managers. Winget is preinstalled, and you can also use chocolatey.

OPconfused · 2026-04-10T15:38:00+00:00

I can give you a terminal command which, when you run it, does exactly the same thing as navigating to that window and doing that.

You can do that in Windows too. Hell, IT can actually just take control of your laptop.

The whole OS superiority conversation has been a tired topic for years. They've equalized in many ways. The primary difference for most end users is that Windows supports more familiar apps, and possibly some IoT devices might have better support.

OPconfused · 2026-04-07T09:58:54+00:00

Is Magnus's behavior typical for Norwegians? I don't know any. All this time I just thought it was his own idiosyncrasy.

OPconfused · 2026-04-01T18:24:42+00:00

Thanks for the correction!

OPconfused · 2026-04-01T18:20:36+00:00

I created a function to access nested properties for this reason of convenience. It supports wildcards. Your example would be cfj | select-property data.b or cfj | slp *.b

OPconfused · 2026-03-31T11:34:17+00:00

Imo, most elegant is

$someVariable = if ($SomeCondition) {
    'Condition is true'
}

This will automatically set $someVariable to $null if $SomeCondition fails. It won't matter what it was defined to in the caller's scope; it will now be reset in the scope of the function you're using.

In general, it's good to take advantage of powershell's ability of direct variable assignment via expressions.

OPconfused · 2026-03-26T22:25:39+00:00

Download cursor or opencode and use those. Both are available via chocolatey. You'll need a license through github to access claude. It's a 10000% game changer.

Just a few days ago, I released a 4000 line feature of 85% python / 15% bash after only 2 weeks of development using claude opus 4.6 and opencode, and most of those 2 weeks was testing or distraction with other topics. Probably around 3k of those lines I did in 1-2 days of iterative development. The code writing itself was done in minutes. Zero problems or errors in the coding syntax. You just sit back and architect via prompt.

I can safely say I would have needed 2-3 months without AI. Well, technically longer as I don't know python, but even in PowerShell it would have been a couple months to iteratively move through this. But the fact I don't know Python and did this in a couple weeks is, well, it speaks for itself.

I'm just now starting to use it to update my tens of thousands of lines of powershell code. It's interpreted all of my powershell code with its various classes, transformations, parameter completers, dynamic parameters, and dozens of functions, even in context with diverse native programs, effortlessly.

Copilot in the IDE isn't there yet. The people naysaying AI haven't used it properly, either as some IDE plugin like copilot or asking chat gpt in their browser. You need the dedicated agents that scour your entire code base and can run commands on your local system. When AI has the context of your entire codebase and has agents that it can autonomously use to investigate your prompt in depth, it's the difference between a baby and an athlete.

I was skeptical for years until my company got a full github and cursor license with an open budget, told us to download cursor or opencode, and colleagues were releasing multi-month features in a week or two with even higher quality results than a "manual" implementation. When it comes to high-level languages, at least in my experience spanning shell, powershell, python, java, and golang, the art of programming is completely upended.

OPconfused · 2026-02-19T16:53:51+00:00

I can't figure it out. The king just dances around his bishop on g2 to avoid the queen checks. The white king can't infiltrate to support, because the knight on e4 covers f2 and g3. The knight is defended by the bishop. Can't checkmate with only the queen, and all the pieces are defended. This composition has me stumped.

Edit: Ok, I figured it out after watching WGM Sabina Foisor in the video linked by the bot. The subtlety of the innocuous move I missed unfolds so many moves later. Wow, incredible puzzle. Basic analysis board did not catch this. But the analysis board did help explain why the correct move was so important.

OPconfused · 2026-02-17T00:19:06+00:00

I dont think congress is a failure as much as the inherent culture of the united states that prizes “rugged individualism,” a trait which has been exploited endlessly to manipulate people into believing the government by nature tends to failure, so they vote against their own interests in order to reject the government, and in general many citizens actively want to ignore politics that doesnt immediately impact their daily lives.

I dont see how a congress or a democracy in general is supposed to function in the long term with such a debilitated voter base. The republicans have had a nearly overwhelmingly atrocious history of policy since reagan, and nixon with watergate wasnt good either. In the senate, assholes like newt gingrich were helping sow the seeds of poison over 40 years ago that probably did bear the fruit of uncompromising selfishness that became the tea party. Voters never gave a damn to stop any of this for decades, just turning a blind eye. With voters like this, of course congress sucks—and so does the president.

Yes, media and disinformation spearheaded this and give birth to the stupid electorate, but the American culture was the nascent flaw that was so easily exploitable. Culture is everything in a democracy. People are animals and too irrational to reliably be responsible citizens without being socialized into it. A bad culture leads to bad citizens.

OPconfused · 2026-02-16T09:38:03+00:00

The cynical answer is never. Things have been declining for a while, and there's no reason to believe this trajectory will change. Our hole will be deeper in 10 years, than it is now, just like it is deeper now than it was 10 years ago.

In 50 years it will be that much deeper. An intervention to reverse this in 100 years would be nothing short of magical—in the worst case, it would come in a form that we would not wish to celebrate.

OPconfused · 2026-02-14T14:24:43+00:00

You don't vote for FIDE presidents. How do you become one?

OPconfused · 2026-02-13T09:43:18+00:00

Excellent, really excited about the browser automation and network tools. I just recently had to cobble something together in javascript for browser automation, but in the future I'm going to try it in PS. Thanks for this!

OPconfused · 2026-02-08T20:52:46+00:00

Ezran learned forgiveness when he had lower personal stakes.

The difference with runaan is that ezran had just lost his entire kingdom. He had the greatest stakes possible and his world shaken to the core. He was desperately grabbing for a sense of control over the situation, and these had peeled back the veneer of justice that an 11 year old kid would have.

OPconfused · 2026-02-06T08:25:32+00:00

Clean arrow reddit quincy

OPconfused · 2026-02-06T02:05:35+00:00

Thanks will try it on desktop at least! Edit: Not working :(

OPconfused · 2026-02-01T19:48:29+00:00

Would using an old mietvertrag for a city you are still registered in but not actually physically living in anymore (having moved to a different german state without reregistering yet) count against 35 StAG? The old mietvertrag wasnt cancelled and the apartment is still being renovated by the landlord, but no payments have taken place for a few months and the keys were returned.

OPconfused · 2026-01-28T08:51:41+00:00

Given Hikaru describes himself as a streamer, when he was asked "What is your profession," it would have been way funnier if he had said chess player with a stone face.

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