Just as everyone knew he would.

These countries have figured out how to easily play Trump, and I doubt he has any clue what they are actually doing, or he may just be enjoying himself.

Remember that an intelligent population is dangerous for fascists, they don’t care about intelligence or knowledge, they only care that you are doing what they say.

This is correct, as I am looking at the situation right now, I don’t see a realistic way for Ukraine to kick out Russia from their land completely, unless something big happens, I believe we are looking forward to a negotiated peace.

As a Swede, who gladly supports all aid packages with supplies, weapons and materiel we send, I wan’t nothing more than for Ukraine to kick Russia to the curb, but I don’t see that happening.

I’d rather prepare for a bad negotiated peace, if ever so short, and be surprised by Ukraine succeeding, than the opposite.

I fully agree, but we are talking about two different things.

I said that currently I don’t see an end to the war that doesn’t include Ukraine having to give up land.

That is all that I said, I actually forgot to add what I wrote in a comment a few days back, where I said that any agreement where Ukraine looses land is bound to lead to a new conflict relatively shortly thereafter.

My earlier comment specifically called out that Ukraine loosing land is unfair.

I truly wish that Ukraine can muster the strength to kick Russia out baldy enough that Russia learn their lesson.

I am a Swede and I smile every time we give more aid, weapons and other related materiels to Ukraine, I gladly pay my taxes for this.

At the same time, if I try to look realistically at the conflict, at this point in time I don’t see Ukraine kicking Russia out, it looks more and more as the end of the current conflict will come in the form of a negotiated peace, if only for a relatively short time.

I commented about this yesterday.

I currently don’t see Ukraine getting out of the war with her borders intact, as it stands now I don’t see a way for Ukraine to retake Crimea, I also doubt that Donbas will fully be liberated again.

As long as there is no restriction put on the size and capability of Ukraine’s military forces in the eventual peace treaty, it should be treated as a win.

This is not fair, it is war.

A keyboard and a camera

Brilliant, thank you!

Oh, I have a few:

Well There’s Your Problem

Kill James Bond

Failure To Launch

This is the reality, I posted years ago that as much as I want Russia to be kicked to the curb and Ukraine get all their land back, including Chrimea, it is unrealistic.

I sadly expect the war to end with Ukraine loosing not only Chrimea, but also Luhansk and possibly even Donbas.

At this point, it kinda feels like the best option they have is a deal that doesn’t limit their military.

I would also expect that there would be another war in a few years should Ukraine accept any land losses.

This seems perfectly logical, IIRC the medicine surpress the feeling of hunger in the patient, taking it without addressing the mental problem of overeating when feeling hungry, will only work as long as you take the medicine.

So you want to get as close to fucking the internet as possible.

Somehow, I don’t think that particular design will have a huge mass market appeal…

Late to the party, but still have suggestions for people in your situation, looking for a decent laptop.

Look at refurbished laptops!

There are plenty of used laptops that can be found for a decent deal, with the only downsides being that the laptop will be slightly out of date (but can often be granted a new lease of life by upgrading the RAM, just make sure to read the specs to see if you can replace the RAM in the first place, and how much RAM you can use.

The power supply of your system looks to be limited to 300W, that will limit your GPU choice severely.

I had a look on Newegg, and it looks like you might be able to squeeze in an RTX3050, which would be a good upgrade, but personally, I would go for more RAM first.

You are limited to only DDR4 memory, but you can max it out with 32GB. I checked on Newegg, and you can get a kit from Crucial with two 16GB modules for less than 150USD:

https://www.newegg.com/crucial-32gb-ddr4-3200-cas-latency-cl22-desktop-memory-green/p/N82E16820156269

If we got back to your PSU, your power supply, here you need to verify if it is a standard PSU, computer manufacturers like Dell and HP will often use non standard power supplies, I don’t know about Acer, so you need to research that before you run out and buy a new PSU and GPU if you want something more powerful.

Finally, a router that doesn’t look like an evil spaceship!

If it wasn’t made by a Chinese tech company I’d gladly get one.

It would be brilliant if say Ubiquiti, Alta Labs or some other western networking company took inspiration and created access points with a similar style to this.

Yeah, but then they raise the price 31 days ahead of black friday, slipping through the cracks.

I get it though, here in Sweden, the best tool is Prisjakt, they have a price chart going back years for every product, and it really helps!

Yeah, this seems very odd…

This is your repeated reminder that the value of a stock is not determined by actual value, but by what other investors are prepared to pay for it.

No I didn’t, I am not the person the previous post replied to

That is not a good reason, that is software built to compensate for a stupid hardware design

That seems like 17 strikes too many.