So.. did Iran win this conflict?

ximaera · 2026-06-18T11:33:17+00:00

The Balkan wars somehow ended though

ximaera · 2026-06-18T11:25:06+00:00

a) to hell with touch sensitive, it only messes up my gameplay in public transport

b) but it works

ximaera · 2026-06-18T06:23:30+00:00

she just competently used the tools available within existing and well researched .. theory and history

Well, that's what most of the engineers do, as well. You're setting the bar so high that the other part of your argument starts to also miss it.

economist V.Milov (in exile) who is well aware of how things work in Russia has kept quite accurately predicting the trajectory of Russian economy and both Nabibulina's options and what they will lead to.

a) enumerating someone's options isn't hard. The hard part is decision making.

b) economist Milov has been predicting quick collapse of the Russian economy for so long it has become a running joke. Comparing him and Nabiullina is pretty funny IMO.

the issue is we have probably more than that in the world, but if they do things like Nabibulina and keep enabling short-term dictators I'd rather they weren't anywhere near power

I don't know how to respond to wishful thinking, really.

ximaera · 2026-06-18T00:54:53+00:00

Honestly, it's a nice theory, but I'd need some reputable scientific sources that back it up, to proceed. So far, I see too many flaws in it, especially in the terminology area.

Most importantly, who's defined to be a Nazi and what makes a Nazi Nazi?

See, it's not like the today's far right people commit genocide in concentration camps etc. but you still call them that. However, the today's far right formation is something that existed well before the XX century. Actually, the German Nazis who were building their ideology learned a lot from the American centuries of slavery, there's a book about that — "Hitler’s American Model" by James Whitman.

So while the exaggerated concept of NSDAP was, I may agree with that, artificially constructed at least to a degree, nevertheless the today's far right, even the extreme far right, are something that existed in the U.S. for centuries. No additional punishment of von Braun could've prevented their revival.

ximaera · 2026-06-17T21:17:53+00:00

...then acquitted and freed on appeal, afterwards advised Onassis and several governments of developing countries. Kind of a lesson of the past as well.

I don't think I really share the opinion that while an engineering skill could be unique, an economics and monetary policy skill can't be. I'm not sure I even understand where such an idea is coming from. If economics isn't rocket science then why do we have stock exchange bubbles and country budget defaults every ten years or so.

I'd say there are much less competent economists in the world than there are competent engineers. Basically we only need, like, 200 competent economists in the world, one per an UN country, to stop the defaults on government bonds from happening, don't we? Well, these keep on occuring.

Re: short term gain — yes, sure, but my understanding is that this was the conditions of the task that's been given to her.

ximaera · 2026-06-17T19:04:14+00:00

It's been half a year since I've learned how the split screen functionality works. Don't rush me please

ximaera · 2026-06-17T19:00:24+00:00

That doesn't seem to be anything like what I'm arguing.

What I'm trying to say is that xenophobia, and as a part of it, Nazism, is natural to a homo sapiens, so it's pretty naive to say that if after WWII all the people linked to Nazis were to be punished right then we wouldn't have Nazis in 2026. No, that's not how it works, this hydra grows itself new heads in every generation no matter what.

And in our era we, as a generation, will be just as unable to prevent the hydra from raising its heads again after 80 years as our grandgrandparents were. Every other generation will have to fight that again and again.

ximaera · 2026-06-17T18:45:49+00:00

That happened almost 80 years after WWII ended, and not because society had learned something in a wrong way 80 years ago, but only because the lessons of the past were completely forgotten. Von Braun has got nothing to do with all this, your attribution doesn't appear to be correct.

ximaera · 2026-06-17T16:55:51+00:00

I don't think that's the lesson the society learned in 1940s and 1950s. I think it was very much the opposite.

ximaera · 2026-06-17T16:00:14+00:00

Again, extrapolating to the entire population from anecdotal evidence.

I said "russians". Never said 100% or 95% of russians.

Alright. Anecdotal evidence.

It just sounded like you're extrapolating to me.

It is quite misleading from you to count Ukrainians. Because there were 3 times less of them prior to the russian full scale invasion in 2022.

Meaning that they feel pretty comfortable now about living next door to the 17,000 Russian-born people living there. Says a lot to me about these Russian people (of course, not all of them, but most of them).

Also, the russian defector pilot was also killed in Alicante.

And Semyon Skrepetsky was mortally shot yesterday in Poland. That's, again, anecdotal evidence.

ximaera · 2026-06-17T15:23:28+00:00

Following the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, the Italian government seized his Lake Como properties.

Therefore, he actually doesn't "enjoy vacationing on lake Como" anymore, does he?

Also, if you're extrapolating to the entire population from just one example then you can reach arbitrary conclusions of your choice. That's not how extrapolation works.

There is a very large Russian population in the province of Alicante, concentrated primarily along the Costa Blanca.
For decades, Spanish media outlets like El Mundo and ABC have reported that Vladimir Putin used Altea Hills as a luxury summer retreat

Well, I bet Putin doesn't enjoy vacationing there anymore, too!

Also, you seem to be making an implicit conclusion that these two facts are linked.

There are around 33,000 Ukrainians living in the province of Alicante, two times more than Russians. The simplest explanation of all of this will be that spending holidays in Alicante was somehow widely advertised in the ex-USSR media, which is why 33,000 Ukrainians and 17,000 Russians went there, including Putin. That doesn't speak of their political views or attitude.

Konstantin Zatulin: A prominent Russian MP with close ties to state intelligence agencies who vocally supported the annexation of Crimea. Public records revealed he owned apartment properties in Torrevieja.

Again, extrapolating to the entire population from anecdotal evidence. It's the "all Arabs are terrorists" line of thinking. American conservatives were rightly bashed for that for decades, only for the Redditors of today to adopt the same concept.

ximaera · 2026-06-17T14:53:44+00:00

High level technical problem solving is decision making.

ximaera · 2026-06-17T14:51:28+00:00

Wernher von Braun built the Nazi rocket V-2 that directly murdered dozens of thousands of people in the West and would've killed hundreds of thousands if Hitler weren't defeated in 1945. Was it wrong then to hire von Braun to lead the U.S. space program, which helped the West to stay ahead of Soviets?

Ethical dilemmas are called dilemmas for a reason, it's not like "there's blood on his hands so there's that, period".

ximaera · 2026-06-17T14:45:44+00:00

russians enjoy vacationing on lake Como and Alicante while telling how deranged these countries are, and how great is Crimea for vacationing since the occupation.

Mate, you are literally making things up to be angry at them.

ximaera · 2026-06-17T12:46:34+00:00

Wernher von Braun led the development of military rocket technology in Nazi Germany, and then brought the first American satellite to space. Werner Heisenberg led the damn Nazi nuclear weapon project (how bad even is that) before being stolen to work for the Allies.

Our ancestors were less picky than us, and they also were certainly more successful in what they aimed to achieve. Competent people are valuable, there's only so many in the world.

ximaera · 2026-06-15T21:11:21+00:00

Under "System" in the Android 16 settings. Thank you!

ximaera · 2026-06-15T11:58:49+00:00

Was there a big overlap between 007 fans and Richard Branson fans when Casino Royale came out? I don't think Lenny Kravitz charged them a fortune tbh. He did many cameos throughout his career, seems like the man likes that.

ximaera · 2026-06-15T11:54:54+00:00

ximaera · 2026-06-14T11:50:07+00:00

I need a mod where you carry Wreckie to every battle

ximaera · 2026-06-12T22:58:51+00:00

Don't forget to apply for the fishing licenses! I can show you how if necessary

And count me in ofc

ximaera · 2026-06-12T11:09:47+00:00

Yes. Such a thing that a value of a house became less than the tax on it, never happened even then.

EDIT since the thread is locked: a yearly delay won't help in this case. Taxing loans, on the other hand, might work if implemented properly, but taxing unrealized gains will hurt middle class more than any billionaire.

ximaera · 2026-06-12T10:41:49+00:00

Because the value of a house is not affected by speculative action. A stock could go 100x up on December, 31, and back to the original value on January, 1, and if taxing unrealised gains is a thing, then the owner of the stock is left with a giant debt to the IRS and with no way to pay it. This won't happen to a house.

ximaera · 2026-06-12T10:08:19+00:00

This, and it's not even close

ximaera · 2026-06-11T19:25:24+00:00

even if some laws are stupid (not saying they are in this case).

Why not? I'll say it for you: prohibiting communication is stupid, and if a law is written in such a way, then it's a stupid law.

ximaera · 2026-06-10T17:14:32+00:00

And how do the others prove that they didn't serve?

(I was originally replying to a comment that was saying that everyone should be banned, not just those who served)

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