Tuapse was I believe the first time Ukraine went for the total destruction of the facilities. All the other hits have been at strategic targets that disabled key processes.

It’s sign of a massive shift in air superiority in favor of Ukraine.

I’m not an expert but from my understanding the soviet’s tactics were quite a bit different from Ukraines.

The soviet’s continuously threw away lives to stop the German advance. Constant attacks tossing way soldiers lives but slowly degrading the German supplies and manpower. The Soviet’s also lost most of their industry early on in the war. Most of it was located in regions that Germany conquered quickly or their airpower wrecked in the early months of the war.

The only reason they were able to stop the German advance at all was because of the massive amount of goods and weapons supplied by England and the U.S.

Ukraine has set up heavily defended kill zones with multi-layered defenses. Russia’s continuous attacks are chewed up in theses zones. Eventually Russia degrades the defenses enough that Ukraine retreats to the next prepared zone and starts over fresh. Ukraine has slowly lost ground but Russias entire Soviet era stockpiles have been decimated with these tactics.

Sadly the only qualification for becoming a parent is functional gonads not a fully functional and developed brain.

Depends on where you are. In Europe they are free and checks have a surcharge.

In the U.S. they generally charge a small fee or do other shenanigans. Example: Intuit puts the money in a holding account for 5-7 business days before delivering (guess who keeps the interest).

If sending an international ACH there is always fees even if they are hidden in the exchange rate.

It depends on where you are. Some communities operate mostly in cash. Other communities use other methods.

For example, when I am on rural agricultural communities, the local taco wagon is often cash only. The one in larger towns or cities almost always accepts card readers and now phones.

Larger amounts (more than $5,000) are usually checks and occasionally ACH or bank wire. Checks are free however so it is by far the preferred method.

In my small business I accept cash, cards, phones, ACH, International Wires,and checks. It all gets a little confusing at times. I highly encourage checks or cash because they have no fees.

Raspberry Pi 5 set up as a mini computer with the old SSD from my laptop combined with a Rii rechargable keyboard/mouse remote.

It’s the best streaming box I have had.

This is has always been the glaring issue with pure democracies.

That’s why constitutional republics were created. It’s supposed to be a counter to the negative side of democracy. The constitution is supposed to be continuously updated and refined with the changing needs of the Republic.

FYI the last constitutional amendment to the U.S. was in 1992. That is 34 years ago. Unless something changes radically in the next few years, historians will refer to that date as when the U.S. Constitution died.

It’s made some pretty significant additions lately that makes it a viable replacement for Nova.

No severance doesn’t effect your eligibility for unemployment. It does often reduce the number of claims however. Many people live off the severance until in runs out, then claim employment. You can also claim unemployment while still actively receiving severance pay.

Severance is usually tied to a non-disclosure agreement. If they want to enforce them, compensation is usually required in most states.

Tunis, Tunisia. The old town was something else.

Two lawyers got in a pissing contest on developing the land they owned.

My great-grandfather apparently had a story about it. It involved lots of booze, a prostitute, and a horse. Then again most of his stories had the same theme so the truthfulness of the story is up for debate.

Missoula is a bit odd on a few things. I attended Hellgate elementary - yes that’s the name of the school.

The question is two-fold. How secure do you want the password to be determines what system to use.

For example:

Banking - I never store a password or username for these. It’s always one I can remember. The password is lengthy, multi-factor authentification is turned on etc… I don’t trust any system.

Finanial webpages other than banks, , taxes, healthcare, etc, stuff that would hurt me personally if stolen, I use a stand alone password manager.

Anything else goes into Firefox password manager. Stuff I don’t give a fuck about if somebody hacks my password.

Yep as soon as the game is launched, LAYOFFS!!!

Sharing profits with the people who actually did the work is anti-capitalist.

The OS desktop environment has stagnated over the past 15 years.

Many businesses have transitioned from a 3-4 year rotation on desktops/laptops to every 5-6 years today. Hell my work laptop is 6 years old and I don’t forsee replacing it for another 3-4 years. For work functions there is no significant improvement to upgrading more frequently today.

So if they launched W12 next year, widespread adoption will likely not occur until 2032-2033 or at the Win11 EOL whichever comes first.

The developers today are working on a system that will not become mainstream for 8+ years. They want to launch in the next 2 years knowing it will not be adopted for years.

They ignoring the reality of today’s market and building to meet the latest fads. It’s Windows 8 all over again.

All existing U.S. patents, trademarks, and copyrights are are permanently invalid. Gotta put some teeth into it.

Sadly the key to avoiding becoming a victim of these tactics is to spend a significant portion of your time shopping around for everything. No retailer can be trusted. I preferentially order stuff from manufacturers webpages or compare multiple distributors before I buy anything.

I also utilize VPN services and a secondary browser if I think they are playing games. You can avoid this shit but it’s not easy.

I also try to completely avoid known companies who’s business model relies on these tactics.

Windows 11 UI is a downgrade from XP.

Windows 11 is also deeply unstable. I haven’t had this many program crashes, errors, and other bullshit since Vista and ME. Windows 10 had it’s annoying quirks but it was at least relatively stable.

I have saved myself the headaches with UI changes since the Win8 clusterfuck when installed a 3rd party taskbar/menu.

Trade takes time and effort to develop. There is infrastructure to build, relationships to form, cultural conflicts to overcome, and systems to develop and optimize.

Trump has tossed his big old poopy diaper into the middle of a century of effort. Its not a system that will collapse overnight, the 5-10 year plan of all trading partners today is “How to fuck over the U.S. without fucking over ourselves”.

The U.S. is heading towards decades of economic depression and stagnation.

Honestly most of the issues with OneDrive are from one setting:

Files On-Demand - it’s turned on by default. It uploads all the files in the drive to the cloud and then deletes them from the local computer. Its absolutely, fucking stupid and should be banned.

AI hardware is a sales pitch without a clear product. Consumers have no clue why they would want to buy something with AI on it.

For most consumers AI is a webpage that kids cheat on homework or adults attempt to cheat at work with. It makes ugly fake pictures with all sorts of weird errors. Its also the annoying as fuck answering services that you have to yell at 4 or 5 times to get to a real person.

Why would an AI PC be desirable?