Those claims, regardless if true, half-true or false don't affect the geopolitical strategical reasons for Russia to care about Ukraine, which is what the video analyzes.
Once an empire has decided to care about a region they can always pick a reason for bringing their generous help to it.
I found farside.link/invidious/watch?v⦠very helpful in understanding why Putin would risk so much to get control over all or part of Ukraine.
It was made just before the invasion and covers geographical, political and economic reasons to take at least the south of Ukraine, expanding the Donbas occupation and controlling the Dnieper river north of Crimea.
> After several tense days of unfurling and clicking its various parts into place, the biggest and most sophisticated space telescope ever launched is now complete.
> On 8 January, NASAβs James Webb Space Telescope slowly swung the last 3 of its 18 hexagonal mirror segments into position, locking them together into one 6.5-metre-wide, gold-coated cosmic eye.
Wooohooo, they did it! Deep respect for everyone who made this ridiculously complex mission work as planned. Looking forward to years and years of new space history, both in the sense of history being made and past history being discovered.
> They knew they had two very similar labour markets, but they also realised they had a control group (Pennsylvania) where nothing was going to change, and a treatment group (New Jersey) where nothing was going to change except for one variable: the increase in the minimum wage.
> So, they surveyed 410 fast food restaurants in New Jersey and Pennsylvania before and after the rise in the minimum wage.
> However, their findings weren't welcomed by the establishment. [ . . . ] > American economist James Buchanan, a Nobel Laureate himself (in 1986), was scathing of the suggestion that a core "law" of economics might not be universal after all. [ . . . ] > "Just as no physicist would claim that 'water runs uphill,' no self-respecting economist would claim that increases in the minimum wage increase employment."
> bogbook is a distributed social networking application using TweetNaCl.js to publish signed append-only logs to your browser's IndexedDB using localForage.
> The bogs are then gossiped between your bog client and bog 'pub' servers using websockets. You're responsible for syncing your messages between different bog 'pub' servers. Bog 'pubs' themselves don't talk to each other, instead they only talk to clients.
GNU Social has always been, and will always be, readable and usable without JavaScript.
> The prime directive
>> Modern looking, consistent and accessible UI across all browsers. Non-JS version as the primary focus, JS is optional and should be regarded as such.
People used to say βwhen you donβt pay for a service, youβre the productβ, but now you always are the product and sometimes you even have to pay for the privilege.
@Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] Yeah, I just learned. I thought they had over a billion dollars floating around to fund their ops forever, but just the other week they raised a GUSD in equity instead to pay off 700 MUSD of debt.
Apparently they also pay like 100 MUSD a year in hardware. They're gonna sell their users or go away.
There's bunch of potential fedi posts every month that I restrain myself from posting. I feel like I'm in the 1% that follow the Boy Scout Rule and leave the place better than I found it.
The cause for dropping the app was abusive content on the matrix.org flagship server itself, and it had already been moderated out of existence before Google told Element about it.
The app was suspended for 27 hours for no good reason at all, for no conspiratorial reason at all, and channels have been established for preventing it from happening again.