Europe’s producing more rounds and providing more artillery than Murica. When the Yanks provide some old junk they appraise it at 50X the value then bemoan doing god’s work while leaking Intel.

Europe and Ukraine are flexing. They’ve decimated Russia’s military without any European boots on the ground (although they should be in the fight imo, it devalues Ukrainians to let them be the only one taking casualties for defending Europe). Then again, in 20 years, Ukraine will be telling Europe where and how to manage their militaries.

Ukraine was the powerhouse for arms manufacturing during the Soviet Era and they’re quickly retaking this position.

The cost of war:

10X-15X the battlefield deaths occur after the war is over. When the well cared for soldiers come home in a proper mental state. 10 times! Sustainable?

Broskys about to stroke out from the stress. His own body will kill him if not someone else. When you’re responsible for a cumulative 1.5-2.5 million deaths, you’re not a person people are sad to let go.

Economy tanking, losing the battle, 1.5 million dead Russians, he’s not the mafia-fluencer he was in his youth. Lavrov is a fat slob, dude can’t even stop his own drooling.

Modern warfare is entirely non beneficial to huge land masses. Try playing air defense swap-a-roo when the next missile or drone is 1k km away.

Also if Europe decides to ram his ass, they will, that will be his excuse to wind down the war, but to get to that tipping point, is so stress inducing, no amount of drugs will help. The drugs induce a spiral.

He probably just shoots himself in the head. Or Mossad 2.o gets him. Or the ulcer. Or the Botox from his fluffy little cheeks seeps into his brain. Or the windows… darn Russian windows

Putler dead within 6 months. You heard it here first.

Can I ask where you host your backup service without paying another cloud provider?

How secure is yuno? Is it actually secure plugging into your Ethernet for remote access to something like immich?

It’s super intimidating when the weight of the weight of the global hacking community is attacking you from the moment you expose a port.

Is their progress on a simple sustainable solution to security? Is this the primary roadblock to self hosting becoming more common place? Or am I way off

When you’re connecting to your local network, say from outside your home, you connect through proton vpn? I’m wanting to self host, but I thought I would have to switch between proton and whatever VPN the local machine is using? Say immich for instance

We’re already at that end of the alphabet again?

It destroys incentive for speculative behavior on land. LVT increases density, reduces infrastructure costs, vastly increases distribution of housing. It increases the incentive to use the property and or improve property on the land. Property, houses, buildings etc are not taxed, the land below it is. It is extremely pro environmental, even pro business. It’s implementation is simple. It’s pro the 99 percent and harms owners of large parking lots in urban dense areas (the poorest use of land and essentially a speculative hold).

Norway used economic concepts from Henry George to utilize their vast carbon resources for the benefit of the many.

It takes the harmful effects of capitalism and turn it on its head. It is probably exactly what the USA craves. A decentralized bottom up movement in the USA pushing for these kinds of pro human, environmental economic policies could easily overwhelm the current political, tech bro corporatism elements in the USA.

Henry George absolutely solved the issue of poverty and inequality from a incentives/ structural economic standpoint. It is only the will of the 99 percent that is lacking. The 1 percent can be overthrown easily, in a quick and bold flick of the hand.

Just read Henry George. Land value taxes, etc. He had it all figured out 100 years ago. The fact that we still try to determine elaborate methods for building equality is absurd. The correct answers, and methodology is a variable that is already a known, and backed by piles of empirical evidence.

He adamantly argued two things:

1. Land value tax above all else.
2. Labor must not be considered capital.

These 2 concepts are core to the economic foundation, of building a extremely dynamic society (huge middle class, open financial systems, urbanism etc.)

https://progressandpoverty.substack.com/p/the-curious-case-of-qingdao-chinas

Or for those very curious…

https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-is-land-really

Donald duck, Pooh bear, and Botox Putler all walk into a bar…

Any short term “forced” cohesion they build internally is now actually sowing the seeds of deeper long term fractures.

The Israelis are building long term insecurities for their nation state. Imagine a world in the which the USA isn’t the global hegemonic power. Imagine American for one reason or another decide they can no longer support Israel?

Building peaceful relations with diverse neighbors is the foundation for long term security. Genocidal mania in an attempt to broaden the borders, is the breeding ground for future terror.

Israel is laying the groundwork, the building blocks, for long term insecurity. Not security.

If one thinks extremism equates to well adjusted humans, economically thriving and flourishing societies I’ve got another populist candidate to sell you.