Seems like a win? Otherwise the GOP can hold all the things the Dems care about hostage as leverage.

And let’s face it, they have been given carte blanche to kill

Not really sure. Not an expert but it seems like Russia already trashed them.

I mean at this point I’m all in on Ukraine and I’m sorry to see my comment interpreted as anything but the hope that Ukraine could get the support they are asking for.

I know peace deals are precarious and complicated, but I dream of nothing less than pre 2014 borders, the end of all Russian hostilities, and a defense pact, if not full inclusion, between Ukraine and the EU.

Ah - respect, cheers friend.

I wasn’t refusing to correct the mistake, thanks. I just hadn’t checked my replies until now. I have made the edits now to clarify.

It was in today’s dollars. See my edit. And I don’t think it is suspect to ask Ukraine’s allies to do more to help them actually win when Zelensky is saying it himself ad nauseam.

Though your snippy reply maybe doesn’t deserve it, respectfully- the figures I quoted were in today’s dollars. I guess I shouldn’t have assumed people would know that though.

They aren’t wrong though - the USSR got somewhere around $100-150B from Lend Lease. Ukraine has gotten something like $300B already.

But it’s certainly not money laundering. Wars cost a lot in the modern age. The real question is why are countries giving so much but only to keep Ukraine from losing.

It’s embarrassing for Russia that this war is now longer than their war against Germany in WWII but it’s also sort of embarrassing for Ukraine’s allies.

EDIT: I was estimating in today’s dollars, from Wikipedia - A total of $50.1 billion (equivalent to $690 billion in 2024 when accounting for inflation) worth of supplies was shipped, or 17% of the total war expenditures of the U.S.[3] In all, $31.4 billion went to the United Kingdom, $11.3 billion to the Soviet Union, $3.2 billion to France, $1.6 billion to China, and the remaining $2.6 billion to other Allies.

Is that true? I haven’t heard MS say anything about enabling local LLMs. Genuinely curious and would like to know more.

And he got a majority in the popular vote too. Enough people went to vote or didn’t care enough to vote to make that happen.

Yeah you’re probably right - I guess my impulse is more that even in this the Dems need to be talking about how Trump is equally lawless and incompetent and in need of removal. But they don’t understand or want to understand that in the misinfomation age, if you don’t fill a space with the truth it will be filled with lies.

He’ll just replace her with someone worse. This won’t end until they remove the tumor at the center of this all.

Oh fuck off with that. Y’all are promoting the technology with the promise of replacing human jobs. What did you think the response would be?

That is not to mention building it by literally stealing the wealth of human thought and then being surprised that we’re mad you want to sell it back to us with brand new monthly fees. Fuck off with all of that.

All AI models should be required to be open sourced to compensate humanity for this theft of our labor and ideas.

This is legitimately Trump’s chance to be eligible for a peace prize but I guess it’s easier to extort someone else’s

I don’t know how useful NATO is without the USA. The EU, for instance, also has a mutual defense clause.

Agreed - people need to feel the results of their choices and the filibuster keeps that from happening

Yeah it is really dumb and needs serious reform. I’m 100% for that or outright removal if they aren’t going to reform it. Anything would be better than this. As it is now we just have a bunch of cowards hiding behind it like their hands are tied from actually doing anything for their constituents.

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