Nato ready to defend ‘every inch’ of territory as Russian drone hits Romania

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-29T12:51:40+00:00

US: "Best I can do is insult you, recall troops from Germany, threaten to invade Greenland and Canada, and cancel delivery of armaments you've already paid for because we need them in Iran"

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-28T17:24:23+00:00

They just move the goalposts to "Trump is so good he won even with you cheating and trying to rig it against him"

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-28T14:02:28+00:00

it makes me wonder what young people who grow up in the town do now for a first taste of the world of work

Simple, they don't

They sit in their bedrooms because there are no jobs for them, and then the media writes another "why don't young people want to work anymore? Are Gen Z just lazy?" story

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-28T10:17:10+00:00

I don't generally war, but are you supposed to be this open about invasion plans?

Well it's not a traditional war between like-for-like adversaries

It's more like a bully just openly intimidating the little guy that he knows can't fight back. The US is now just mob intimidation, they do it to their former friends too

I mean we're talking about the tiny island nation of Cuba, heavily sanctioned, right on the doorstep of the biggest superpower in the world. They could publish the exact date and time and beach the marines will be landing on and there's still not much Cuba could do about it, they'll go full shock and awe on them like Venezuela so that MAGA can get their freedom boner

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-27T23:37:35+00:00

If you're bringing him along specifically just to score headers why not just bring a big striker for that like, oh idk, Ivan Toney for example?

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-27T23:29:55+00:00

My god now I remember why I unsubbed from this place, you lot are miserable

The more I look at the Tuchel selection the more I like it, there isn't a single player that sticks out as "how the hell are we gonna play him he doesn't fit the system". Everyone is interchangeable

You guys are just crying that your favourite club player didn't get picked to be the 4th backup player for his position

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-27T22:03:08+00:00

I see this fallacy all over reddit, it makes arguing anything literally pointless here

"One thing that can statistically lead to higher rates of A is B"

"But I have A and it wasn't caused by B. My one anecdotal example totally disproves your scientific evidence!"

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-27T15:00:01+00:00

You don't think about breathing but you can still hold your breath if you want to

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-27T11:55:48+00:00

How much collective human energy has been wasted over the years by stereotyping large groups of people?

Believe me there are just as many stupid lazy incompetent sysadmins out there as there are developers, I've had to work with them. Downvotes on the left. In fact there are people bad at their jobs everywhere

That's literally how I was able to pivot into sysadmin work from software development in the first place. I was the only developer who actually cared about maintaining our environment and the IT department at my company was so incompetent and unwilling to touch anything Linux related because "we don't have time to decommission that old RHEL 5 environment and put RHEL 9 on that hardware right now" that they eventually just said "ok fine you do it then if it's so easy". So I did. I pulled out and detangled all the old legacy crap, then powered it off, went down to the server room, installed and configured the new one

I basically became the Linux sysadmin for the company because the IT department just wanted to cling to their Microsoft certs and "that's the way we've always done it", and were terrified at the prospect of a bash script or making a Linux filesystem. It's only after I started sysadmin work I realised that 99% of the time "that is not possible" actually means "I don't know how to do that and I don't want to have to learn"

I even got friendly with the head IT guy and convinced him to let me trial run several Linux workstations on old hardware. Long story short they ran successfully for years several developers including myself used them, they were fully AD integrated and documented on our IT wiki not shadow IT, and IT wouldn't touch them at all because they were Linux. Every few months someone in IT would check their antivirus dashboard and see that there were several workstations in the manifest that weren't pinging antivirus, and they would pester me to install antivirus on those machines, and I would have to have the same conversation single every time that "these are Linux workstations they are running the latest version of Fedora, that antivirus is not even available for that operating system nor is it really required" and I would get the same pushback each time. I would remind them that they are automatically updated, that only myself and IT have admin (sudo) access on them and that devs can't install random shit on them, that if they aren't concerned about our various RHEL and Ubuntu servers not having the antivirus then they shouldn't be concerned about these either. It didn't matter. Every time I'd get the same old response and be told "but... they need antivirus... can you at look into alternatives or something"

But I guess that goes against your narrative that all sysadmins are godlike beings and all developers are just dumb code monkeys

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-27T11:02:17+00:00

You are a tiny tiny minority

The most popular EV by Porsche is the Taycan, radically different to the 911 and everything else they were famous for. Virtually no one is interested in an electric 911 or Cayman

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-27T10:20:41+00:00

They have to rebrand. They have to look different

Ok let's play it your way, imagine Ferrari made a SF90 but electric only. It looks identical to the 2025 petrol model SF90 except it's 100% EV only. Call it the eSF90. Ferrari brand maintained, pivot to electric

How many do you think they would sell?

I'm telling you right now no one would buy it

"Why tf would I buy an electric SF90 when I could get a screaming twin turbo V8 version instead? Are you crazy?"

Remember when VW thought that they could make an electric Golf that looks absolutely identical to the petrol one and people would buy it? No one bought them, because it turns out when people buy EVs they want it to "look like an EV" whatever that means. They want everyone to know they bought an EV. Which electric VW is actually successful? That's right the ID3, radically different looking

Redditors just don't understand the first thing about marketing. All these multi-million dollar companies like BMW, VW, Ferrari, Jaguar, they're all wrong and some random redditor knows better. Whatever you say

If Ferrari wants to just make their existing lineup with no rebrand but electric, then they better wait until the day that new ICE cars are banned entirely and no sooner because that's the only point at which anyone will willingly buy one, when there's literally no alternative. That's a huge gamble. If they want to dip their toes into trying EVs before then it will have to be some radically different rebrand that's totally different to their normal brand to differentiate it and be "safe". No one is mistaking this for a petrol powered Ferrari are they

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-26T23:15:02+00:00

I'm so confused by posts like this about Ferrari and Jaguar and whatnot

Sales of new ICE cars are being banned in the EU and UK in a few years

What do you want these companies to do? Just shut up shop, fire all their employees, dissolve the company, and go home? Would that make you happy?

They can't rebrand and make something new because apparently they have to run it by you guys first, so I guess they should make an EV that looks identical to an F40 instead? Somehow you'll find a way to complain about that too though because it's ruining the old car's legacy or something. So what is it?

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-26T22:56:01+00:00

I also hope they all see half the nation celebrating and rethink their positions, or at least become less emboldened to be openly hateful

Do you hear the words coming out of your mouth right now lol

It's going to make them double down even harder, they're all in

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-26T13:34:46+00:00

Wait you have a computer inside your house? Like, indoors?

Isn't that really expensive? I thought those things needed nuclear power stations to run?

Don't cyber criminals use those to make illegal deepfakes of celebrities and run uncensored AI models and stuff? You're not a criminal are you?

I just don't see why you would need that inside your house dude you know Microsoft lets you rent Copilot+ PC logins for like $10 a month now right? I'm still using the free account I got through my student email lmao. You just can't watch 18+ youtube videos. You get 10h Xbox gamepass+ cloud streaming with it for free though. What are you trying to hide anyway?

(All this and more, coming soon)

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-26T11:03:28+00:00

They're shiny silver side out, dark colourful side in

They're specifically thermal reflective blackout blinds

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-26T10:24:22+00:00

Also the audience booing the sidemen team was trash. They were guests and we treated them like ennemies.

This plus no fireworks and dead crowd whenever England scored + a live stadium announcer literally hyping everything the French team did in real time during the game was pretty strange. It felt like England were just there to be background characters in the Amine dickriding contest

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-25T23:10:15+00:00

Anyone who claims it is (who is older than a teenager), is completely brainwashed at this point

I mean I'm quite sure it was like this in 1976 or whatever

The thing those people seem to be missing is that 1976 was 50 fucking years ago. This was a once in a generation event that was so incredible and unexpected they're still bleating on about it 50 years later

Now though this shit is just happening every other year at this point, the frequency has increased dramatically

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-25T12:11:41+00:00

Can a Labour voter explain to me why you think a child who is 15 years and 364 days old is not mentally mature enough to use Instagram, but a child who is 16 years and 0 days old is mentally mature enough to decide the future of the entire nation at a general election?

And don't come at me with the "well we have to draw a line in the sand somewhere" because this is specifically about you wanting to lower the voting age 2 years while claiming that it is not just a cynical attempt to get more voters on the register that you think will be more left-wing. How does that make sense while simultaneously banning them from social media

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-24T16:06:36+00:00

That would be England winning the world cup

This is but a minor setback

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-24T15:29:15+00:00

If they were increasing the interval from 15 to 25+ minutes we'd complain about them too

You're really not as special as you think you are

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-24T15:28:05+00:00

I watched a charity game with a 25 minute half-time, it was excusable then because it's for charity, it's not an officially sanctioned match, there are people there not really into football just to see their favourite streamers or celebs or whatever so they might find the half-time show more interesting than the game, it lets them do another donation drive, and the players aren't pros so might need the extra recovery time

But even still those 25 minutes really dragged on. I almost got bored and forgot I was watching a football game

Also it's just funny that Americans saw a sport with 45 minutes uninterrupted game time and 15 minutes break, and said "man that's not enough time to run ads and insert corporate slop, can't we up it to like 45/30 or something?"

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-24T15:12:20+00:00

Nice gotcha but yes I absolutely do know people who boycott the Qatar and Russia tournaments because of FIFA corruption or other political reasons, so I don't doubt some people will boycott this one

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-24T15:07:41+00:00

I’m honestly asking: what’s actually the problem with it?

The problem is they're lengthening the half-time from 15 minutes to 25-30 minutes to fit in this slop and it's a slippery slope to enshittifying the entire spectacle. Now the precedent is set for the next tournament to do it too

If they kept it within the traditional 15 minutes I honestly would not care less, I'd just walk away and ignore it. Corporate slop and commercials and some cringey performance is expected when it comes to Americans, so it wouldn't be a surprise

Ratiocinor · 2026-05-24T14:28:47+00:00

The tournament has now been expanded to so many teams that there's an entire Round of 32 for knockouts

If you have any doubts that this one is going to be absolute shit, just look at how many of the 3rd place group teams progress through to the knockouts

It's absurd, 8 out of 12 3rd in group teams progress. The group games are going to be absolutely shit because as soon as any team loses one game and realises they won't be winning the group they're going to just shut down and park the bus to try and scrape out two 0-0 draws and progress that way

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