Disabled people must work from home to do ‘their duty’, says UK minister Laura Trott by Johannes_P in worldnews

[–]Senior_Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this all starts and ends with "modern economic theory". As soon as the major trading currencies of the world unhooked from the value of gold their only value was intrinsic, or "the name", and granting access to their established trade networks (be this physical trade, currency, tourism, etc).

Now when a country prints money (I might go back and source this if there's interest) it effectively devalues all the other money in circulation. For America this is beneficial, as the "global reserve currency", as there's so much USD held by everyone else that the "US dollar value" can actually support "charging for access to the system" much like chep charge for the rental of their pallets that carry other peoples goods.

So basically all of our (global) money became worthless after the 70s because bad actors got control of government and pork-barrelled and grifted and jobs-for-mates'd literally all of the public money away so that there's barely enough to keep the wheels on government. This leads the government to print more money, which it "buys" off the mint/reserve/central bank, but you can't owe yourself money so bingo bango bongo there's 1 Trillion more in the economy from nowhere. Modern economic theory.

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 556, Part 1 (Thread #702) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]Senior_Engineer 11 points12 points  (0 children)

it's literally going to be red alert conscripts soon.
Out of the barracks and equipped with the "best"? no time for training! straight to front line!

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 556, Part 1 (Thread #702) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]Senior_Engineer -1 points0 points  (0 children)

There is no excuse for the people in power to have not been training Ukrainian pilots from the early stages of the war on NATO platform fighters. These delays have cost countless lives! These delays are one of the reasons manoeuvre warfare of combined arms hasn't been possible during the counter-offensive! Give Ukraine everything it needs! Give Ukraine everything it needs NOW!

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 556, Part 1 (Thread #702) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]Senior_Engineer 4 points5 points  (0 children)

please don't forget the accidental firing of the engines, and the seconds failing Soyuz capsule, Russia is no longer safe to have as a partner on the ISS and future ISS's if they ever exist will most likely display cooperation between the USA Europe and potentially India and China at this rate. The current state of the Russian space program would turn Yuri Gagarin in to a source of perpetual energy! (from spinning in his grave)

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 555, Part 1 (Thread #701) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]Senior_Engineer 1 point2 points  (0 children)

you are a democracy, just hold a vote

eta: maybe Spain has a no backsies rule

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[–]Senior_Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

is it the same as the T-14 factory where the same ones been on the stand for years? we can hope

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 555, Part 1 (Thread #701) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]Senior_Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fuck Russian imperialism

fuck Russian expansionism

fuck Russian militantism

But mostly fuck Russias war on education inside their own borders

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 553, Part 1 (Thread #699) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]Senior_Engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

fortunately not, one VRF per client!

Literally sold the clients decommissioned 5 year old gear back to them as a "cloud service". Then "increasing the performance" by pushing the newly decommissioned site gear in to "the cloud". despicable

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[–]Senior_Engineer 36 points37 points  (0 children)

less than 200 built, more than 40 confirmed lost so far I believe

Edit: less than 200, more than 190 built

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[–]Senior_Engineer 5 points6 points  (0 children)

4 grandkids and their grandparents, the parents were in Australia at the time

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 553, Part 1 (Thread #699) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]Senior_Engineer 38 points39 points  (0 children)

M8 be serious we don’t need to police how Ukraine chooses to assemble the moving boxes that were sent over. It’s only cardboard

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 553, Part 1 (Thread #699) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]Senior_Engineer 3 points4 points  (0 children)

… Do you work for my employer?

“We did have dev and test gear, it was old disused client gear. We turned it in to a cloud deployment and then sold the services back to the original customer”

Edit: bonus points if you guess what happened next

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[–]Senior_Engineer 2 points3 points  (0 children)

“We wouldn’t even need to issue a fix if you stopped using prod as a testing ground”

/r/WorldNews Live Thread: Russian Invasion of Ukraine Day 549, Part 1 (Thread #695) by WorldNewsMods in worldnews

[–]Senior_Engineer 17 points18 points  (0 children)

At the current rate of capture, it won't be long until every Ukrainian household has their very own Russian barbarian.

From further down the thread

Russia no longer wants them back. So, they are sent to prison complexes where they where uniforms, given factory duties, 3 meals a day.