Only that Putin has done a long string of wars like that before. The difference is that Ukraine has been able to fight back quite efficiently. I guess Putin got used to winning and lost contact to reality along the way.

So, no, this claim that Russia was provoked or had no choice is Russian propaganda. It cannot hold water on closer inspection. They just want some of that victim bonus, so they twist reality beyond all recognition to convince some useful idiots.

Probably old training data that implies Slashdot is important. Also probably very cheap to do this type of propaganda, so they just push the mind-rot everywhere they can.

Yes. But the more support Ukraine gets and the less some really evil people with power sabotage Ukraine, the better for everybody. This war has to end. Obviously with Ukraine getting back all of its territory and Russia getting a deal bad enough that they will not try this crap again for a long long time, ideally forever.

Will the stupid and disconnected claims that LLMs are somehow intelligent, have agency and are a bit like people ever stop? Well, probably not before the now inevitable crash.

These LLMs were given tasks and tokens. They did not "play".

Banking regulation is for the banks to comply with. These here are technical regulations, so how much money the customer has does not play a role. Financial regulation is a different area.

Most of the cost is from digging, not from the fiber. If you coordinate that well with other things that need digging the cost goes down. If not, it goes up. If done well, you end up with something like $1000 per home or below in a city.

Your replacement costs are off. Fiber basically lasts forever (Wikipedia says 60-100 years), you typically replace it if you need a different fiber type. That will probably not happen with modern fiber. What you need to replace regularly (every 5 years or so) is the optical components and the switches, but that is a lot cheaper than laying fiber because everything is readily accessible.

Note: If you cannot do it at that price, but several of your competitors can, there is a problem on _your_ side.

There are direct replacements for diesel and gasoline which we know how to make and which we absolutely could use to replace our transportation fuels without switching to EVs. And you can just read about them on the Internet, they are not secret.

If you don't care enough about a subject to learn about it then don't make declarative statements about it.

From what I can see optimum has replaced the coax coming into my home at least twice before I moved in. It was good enough that they didn't have to do it again for me.

Hahahhahahaahahhhaa

Suck harder, comrade. Putin will give you your reward any day now.

Fuck you, orc apologist.

They didn't create NATO because Russians were nice guys.

They did it because Russia has been the aggressor again and again throughout history.

If they would just stop invading neighbors there wouldn't even need to be a NATO.

Yeah no shit it does surprising things, it's using random numbers you fucknut.

Of course, Norway isn't some third world country.