thank you!!

you make an interesting point and it reminds me of a counter point: that modern wars might have higher death tolls than historical wars, but modern wars - with modern weapons - end up costing less life overall compared to the populations of the time.

for tribal conflict of humans past, victory could mean wiping out the other tribe - 50% death toll or higher. as weapons advanced and more efficient and more destructive tactics emerged, wars can be more violent and more deadly but shorter and with fewer deaths compared to the overall population. wars became efficient.

all this is to say that if we didn’t have modern weapons there would be more killing - not less. “victory” would necessitate more deaths.

nice! keep up the support!

…but it does make imports and foreign purchases a lot more expensive for regular russians.

an inch larger! lawd…

what a world…

yeah, SEO hits recipe sites hard and requires them to demonstrate expertise by telling you about their family history before giving a brownie recipe

“turns out the ukranians actually liked chernobyl, so much so that they’re probably planning on doing it again!”

free money has dried up, now they need to monetise your habits.

i contribute to patreons of lemmy.world and the developers of lemmy. hopefully there’s makes enough of us to make this financially viable

my follow up question would be, how do insurance owners know when and whether they want to upgrade? like i saw chatter about 0.18 being shunned for an issue but 0.18.1 being well anticipated.

fair enough, it’s an important distinction

savvy!

ohno

my mind is so blown. i didn’t have wagner turning against russia on my bingo card