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  • I looked up the Minsk agreement on Wikipedia.

    The agreement failed to stop fighting.[5] At the start of January 2015, Russia sent another large batch of its regular military.[2] Following the Russian victory at Donetsk International Airport in defiance of the Protocol, Russia repeated its pattern of August 2014, invaded with fresh forces and attacked Ukrainian forces at Debaltseve, where Ukraine suffered a major defeat, and was forced to sign a Package of Measures for the Implementation of the Minsk Agreements, or Minsk II,[2]

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    Amid rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine in early 2022, Russia officially recognised the DPR and LPR on 21 February 2022.[9] Following that decision, on 22 February 2022, Russian President Vladimir Putin declared that the Minsk agreements “no longer existed”, and that Ukraine, not Russia, was to blame for their collapse.[10] Russia then launched a full invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022.

    Maybe I’m misunderstanding this, or skim reading it wrong. Seems like Russia forced an agreement, then called it invalid when Ukraine stuck to the terms.

    https://ecfr.eu/article/ukraine-russia-and-the-minsk-agreements-a-post-mortem/

    This convenient myth was finally dispelled in the period between 21 February 2022, when Putin recognised the independence of the so-called people’s republics of Donetsk and Luhansk, and 24 February 2022, when the full-scale invasion began. This was a radical clarification by Russia: in taking responsibility for its military action, violating Ukraine’s territorial integrity, and denying its neighbour’s sovereignty, Russia ceased acting according to the paradigm of frozen conflicts and shifted its goals – from the control of Ukraine’s political trajectory through local proxies to territorial appropriation and imperial restoration.

    Yeh, so Russia wasn’t happy. And instead of going “this isnt in the spirit of the agreement” decided to botch an invasion, and is now targeting civilian targets.

    Jog on pal.
    Shits way past “local elections”.

    Ukraine isn’t targeting civilians.
    Russia is.
    Amongst other “fun” things.
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine

    For balance, here are some Ukraine war crimes:
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture_of_Russian_soldiers_in_Mala_Rohan
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_detention_centers_of_SBU
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Company_(Ukraine)

    Seems sparce. I’m sure its western media bias. No doubt President Comrade Musk will buy Wikipedia and fix the inaccuracies in reporting.
    Then, once we are all done denying facts, we can safely move on with our lives.


  • Oh, sorry. Of course. It’s not a false flag.
    But it’s zelenskys fault that Russia invaded, and that russia fired missiles on a civilian targe t.
    Or, it’s a military target? Without children and civilians? And no volunteer aid organisations staying there? Just purely military.
    No, I presume there were military personnel sheltering there as well, amongst the children and foreign citizens.
    There weren’t military personnel there? No, there were. It was a command post!

    Fuck off.

    Russia attacked US citizens










  • A page could load thousands of images and thousands of tiny CSS files.
    None of that is JS, all of that is loads of extra requests.

    Never mind WASM. It’s a portable compiled binary that runs on the browser. Code that in c#, rust, python, whatever.
    So no, JS is not the only way to poorly implement API requests.

    Besides, http/2 has connection reuse. If the IP and the TLS cert authority is the same, additional API/file etc requests will happen over the established TLS connection, reducing the overhead of establishing a secure connection.

    Your dislike is of badly made websites and the prevalence of the browser being a common execution framework, and is wrongly directed at JS.





  • I was working for an international company that was very modular.
    At a large event, they sent out an update to all attendees. Due to the way the internal mailing list worked, replies were sent to everyone on the list.
    All the non-english language mailboxes were set up with an automatic reply that detects the language and replies along the lines of “we speak French, if you need to contact us in English, please contact…”.

    The event update was in English.

    The mail system was down for about an hour.

    After the initial rush, I’m pretty sure there were also “we speak French, if you need to contact us in Spanish, please contact…”