“Let us have some of what we stole” isn’t a solution for a peace that lasts. You should be allowed to know better than this.
Wait until you find out what the alternative is.
That’s completely and utterly false. The west is a belligerent party in the conflict, and the only reason the war can continue is because the west continues to fuel the conflict. The west is not changing the outcome of the war, simply ensuring that more people die and more of Ukraine is destroyed.
Except that you don’t need uranium for nuclear reactors. The reason it’s used traditionally because it’s also used for nuclear weapons. Thorium is a much better fuel that’s more abundant. China has already started operating these types of reactors. The other advantage of this design is that they use molten salt instead of water for cooling. Molten salt reactors don’t need to be built next to large bodies of water, and they are safer because salt becomes solid when it cools limiting the size of contamination in case of an accident.
https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/Articles/Operating-permit-issued-for-Chinese-molten-salt-re
We obviously will have to address the problem of capitalism sooner than later.
The economic war with Russia very obviously contributed to the economic problems in Europe. This is a well documented fact. The war had a significant impact on energy prices, led to industry shut downs that created mass unemployment, and raised the cost of living for the people. This is all on top of the problems that stemmed from the pandemic.
I also have no idea what you mean by the current government being opposed to ending the war. They don’t want to invade Russia to defeat Putin, no one here wants to try that.
Russia literally made a realistic proposal for a ceasefire just a few days ago. Germany along with the rest of the west immediately rejected it.
But unlike the far right, they are in favor of supporting Ukraine to hold Putin off.
The only thing they’ve accomplished was to ensure that hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians died, and millions more had their lives ruined. Russia will very obviously win this war, and it’s absolutely incredible that after two years there are still people who can’t understand this. The west was responsible for sabotaging Istanbul peace deal two months into the war, and now it’s rejected a second peace deal. People who support continuation of the war are utterly deplorable.
If your idea of ending the war is giving Putin half of Ukraine and hoping he’s then satiated, I do not see how that should work.
Ukraine will be in a worse position with each and every day going forward. Western support peaked during the disastrous offensive Ukraine tried to do last year. Ukrainian army is now continuously becoming weaker while Russian army strengthens. The end result might very well be that there is no Ukraine left. People who do not see how making a realistic peace makes sense are the ones who will be responsible for that.
Putin started this war, because he’s mentally ill. He will start another war in a few years, if this one is “ended” by sacrificing Ukraine, because he will still be mentally ill.
Putin did not start the war because he is mentally ill. The reasons for the war are well understood, and many experts have warned about it for decades. Here is a lecture from John Mearsheimer back from 2015 where he accurately predicts that Russia would be forced to intervene in Ukraine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrMiSQAGOS4
Here’s a study from RAND from 2019 that explains why US may want to goad Russia into a war in Ukraine https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR3063.html
Here’s the chief of NATO openly admitting why the war started
The background was that President Putin declared in the autumn of 2021, and actually sent a draft treaty that they wanted NATO to sign, to promise no more NATO enlargement. That was what he sent us. And was a pre-condition for not invade Ukraine. Of course we didn’t sign that.
The opposite happened. He wanted us to sign that promise, never to enlarge NATO. He wanted us to remove our military infrastructure in all Allies that have joined NATO since 1997, meaning half of NATO, all the Central and Eastern Europe, we should remove NATO from that part of our Alliance, introducing some kind of B, or second class membership. We rejected that.
So he went to war to prevent NATO, more NATO, close to his borders. He has got the exact opposite.
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/opinions_218172.htm
The fact that people keep pretending the war started because Putin is a mad czar, shows utter lack of intellectual integrity on their part.
Literally one of the safest sources of energy production in existence.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/charted-safest-and-deadliest-energy-sources/
A government that doesn’t care about the plight of its own people obviously cares about people in Ukraine even less. The solution would indeed be to start addressing the cost of living crisis that was caused by the war, and the first step towards that is to end the war which the current government is vehemently opposed to doing. Of course, when right wingers ultimately get in power, nothing is going to get better, so dark times ahead for Germany.
the fact that he changed his position in light of the upcoming election is a strong indication of where public opinion is headed.
Another aspect of the problem is that people making the decision of what programs to use don’t actually have to use them.
Software just has to be good enough that people put up with it. Once you get users on the system, you make it difficult to move your data out which acts as a lock in mechanism. The company that can make a minimally usable product that people are willing to put up with will typically beat one making a really good product that takes longer to get to market.
What metadata is collected by third parties is completely tangential to the topic of the submission. However, as I’ve repeatedly tried to explain to you, there is no practical difference between running on bare metal which nobody does nowadays, or running a VPS. At this point it’s quite clear that you’re just trolling, so I’m going to stop here. Bye.
They’re not almost the same thing at all, and your whole position is weird given that the context is social media which is fundamentally content people want to publish publicly.
This has nothing to do with the original topic of discussion or Hollo in particular. You’re now arguing about pros and cons of using a VPS service. I also have no idea why you keep making statements like “not having everything encrypted on a server you don’t own is a massive flaw”. You absolutely can have everything encrypted running a VPS. You don’t understand the subject you’re discussing.
I don’t know what to tell you, but this is how modern internet works. Also, nobody is forcing you to get a server in a jurisdiction where US has access to. Meanwhile, any traffic is encrypted via HTTPS, so the provider can’t actually log it. It sounds like you have a very superficial understanding of the subject you’re debating here.
It’s really up to you how you set up your server and the datastore. This has nothing to do with Hollo. Again, there’s no difference between this and running a Mastodon server that will also need infrastructure like a db to back it.
pretty much nobody runs servers on bare metal nowadays
The United States has done far more harm than good for humanity at large. The individualistic values it champions have led to a society that is fragmented and leaves many citizens in misery. Its global hegemony has resulted in the destruction of numerous countries, with countless lives lost due to its military interventions, coups, and regime change operations around the world. Moreover, the US’s extractive policies have prevented other nations from developing their own economies, perpetuating a cycle of underdevelopment and dependency. Additionally, as one of the largest consumers of energy per capita and major producers of fossil fuels, the United States is among the worst offenders when it comes to climate change, exacerbating global environmental crises with its unsustainable practices.