#ExUSA = 70 new states when?

Where can I read more about this?

Some units failed to follow cleared paths and ran into mines. When a unit delayed a nighttime attack, an accompanying artillery bombardment to cover its advance went ahead as scheduled, tipping off the Russians.

Isn’t this literally a WW1 strat? Probably even older. Is this the cutting edge doctrine that US teaches and UA fails to implement?

Anyway, hindsight is 20/20, but why did the Americans bother to teach their way of fighting? Ukraine has different constraints and if I had to guess, slightly different army composition. I’ve heard that the US relies heavily on having complete air superiority, which UA doesn’t have. I suppose they know other ways of fighting too, but unless I’m missing something, this seems like a massive oversight from NATO, to the point of hubris.

How is that not a conclusion? Just because capitalism is about having free markets doesn’t mean that price caps have no place in it. To me, it’s the same as saying that regulations have no place in capitalism.

I also don’t see how I was being adversarial.

This doesn’t seem like an unsolvable problem, so I don’t understand why someone would conclude that price caps “never” work just because they can lead to some problems.

Having to wait some time to buy an apt seems like a better choice than being priced out for a much longer period (or forever)

Do you also consider remembering to take your wallet and phone with you a hassle? You’re creating an issue where there isn’t one.

But OK, have a smartphone and use it to take photo-notes, I do that too. But I also try to use libre alternatives for software even if they are not as good as their proprietary counterparts, because that’s the right thing to do for a lot of reasons.

Also funny that you’re mentioning lawnmowers, because tractors have a huge issue with proprietary software, with farmers having to resort to hacking their (bought!) vehicles in order to repair them, to avoid paying thousands of dollars to John Deere for “authorized” (read: extorted) repairs.

You agree that the corpos are “evil” and yet you do nothing to avoid using their software, you’re not willing to be discomforted in the slightest for a good cause. That’s worse than Stallman’s approach, in my book.

Why didn’t you bring a small notepad, easily fitted in a pocket or small bag to take notes of things to remember, instead of a camera? Dumb phones may have had note functionalities too, I’m not sure.

Stallman gives plenty of alternatives instead of just forbidding technology, but you’re gonna brand them ‘non-viable’ so there’s no reason to give you a list.

What’s your point? Monopoly does not imply innovation.

If it’s simple then it has been asked tens of times in SO

What do you mean by socialism? Because the goal of socialism is to gradually arrive at communism. I don’t know a lot of Marxist theory but what you say doesn’t make much sense. No one (except for anarchists and maybe “new leftists”) wants to jump to communism directly.

Unless by socialist you mean social-democrat.

I believe that even in the current state of affairs they’d be hit with an anti-trust lawsuit if they do that – plenty of companies who would enjoy hurting Google.

What they can do, however, is make their services run slower on other browsers, as they’re already doing.

I use the “Bypass Paywalls Clean” extension for Firefox. I’d post a link to it on mozilla’s add-on store, but I found out they had to take it down.

You can still install it manually by downloading the extension file.

You can also achieve the same thing with ublock filters, instructions here (in the “How to bypass paywalled articles using uBlock Origin” section)

Socialism is the step before the communism you describe, and the people who support it are communists. Go read Marxist theory instead of relying on hearsay arguments like that.

I thought BRICS was just an identifier for “the fastest developing economies”, but I looked it up and found they’ve started signing treaties between them. Wikipedia:

The BRICS were originally identified for the purpose of highlighting investment opportunities and had not been a formal intergovernmental organization. Since 2009, they have increasingly formed into a more cohesive geopolitical bloc, with their governments meeting annually at formal summits and coordinating multilateral policies; China hosted the most recent 14th BRICS summit on 24 July 2022. Bilateral relations among the BRICS are conducted mainly on the basis of non-interference, equality, and mutual benefit.

I see your point; seems like there isn’t a contradiction here, then.

The stated reasons are valid both before and after the revolution, no?

The “free people’s state” was a programme demand and a catchword current among the German Social-Democrats in the seventies. This catchword is devoid of all political content except that it describes the concept of democracy in a pompous philistine fashion. Insofar as it hinted in a legally permissible manner at a democratic republic, Engels was prepared to “justify” its use “for a time” from an agitational point of view. But it was an opportunist catchword, for it amounted to nothing more than prettifying bourgeois democracy, and was also a failure to understand the socialist criticism of the state in general. We are in favor of a democratic republic as the best form of state for the proletariat under capitalism. But we have no right to forget that wage slavery is the lot of the people even in the most democratic bourgeois republic. Furthermore, every state is a “special force” for the suppression of the oppressed class. Consequently, every state is not “free” and not a “people’s state". Marx and Engels explained this repeatedly to their party comrades in the seventies.

(emphasis mine)

I use Firefox’s reader view, does the same thing for font size and line length.

He’s not asking if or how he should charge them, but if he’s supposed to return the money (since the guests have paid beforehand)