I’m on my eight’s language and the sad realisation I had around the fourth is that I’ve seen people better communicating while speaking one and a half languages.

I guess I don’t have any suggestions. Watch media in the language. At least you’ll understand it better and maybe by parroting, somewhat improve the speaking. But without human feedback, it’s hard to know if you’re saying something wrong.

Yes

They’re not. At the rate of their “winning” they will grind themselves into nothing and quite soon, hopefully.

See, ruzzia is claimed to be big and have lots of people. Big, true, people, not so much. Let’s have a calculation.

Their population is 140 million. Half are women. 70 million. 10% are the right age for war, but let’s count 20%. 14 million potential soldiers. Easily half of those are alcoholics or otherwise sick. 7 million. Then you actually need people to work at factories and what not, you cannot just send everyone to the war. Let’s say half, so we’re down to 3.5 million. Let’s assume they conscripted those. In the military you need cooks, drivers, mechanics, instructors etc. They say that in an army every frontline soldier is backed by 4-6 support personell, this is ruzzia, so let’s assume just one, even if that’s impossible. Now we’re down to 1.5 million soldiers.

They already lost close to a million (dead and wounded), yes some are back after recovering, but they’re close to literally run out of people who can support their “slow winning”. 40k Koreans? Not statistically significant. Weapons? They’re already using vintage shit because they lost the modern ones.

Yes, they’re still grinding but extremely slowly and their replenishment rate is nowhere close to be sustainable.

Pessimistically, Ukraine needs to hold till the end of 2026, optimistically, ruzzian aggression will collapse within the next 6 months.

Btw, it will not be gradual. They will pretend until the end and then it will be fairly quick. WW1 lasted 4 years and was a war of attrition, mostly static with a quick collapse in the last 6 months or so.

So no, they’re not winning. If anything, they already lost.

How do you know a ruzzian is lying? Sound is coming out if their mouth.

Poor, poor ruzzian general. Let’s send him out oh-no’s and anyways.

https://youtu.be/dqDqvKYDv9M

If we were to take over the entire connectivity capacity for Ukraine and all the citizens, — we wouldn’t be able to do that.

Luckily, that’s not needed. Let’s start with covering 50% of the frontline needs.

My version would be “hugs, no high fives and happy to answer meaningful questions”

A hundred dictators is still better than a hundred and one dictator. When one approached a difficult task, it’s better to divide it into smaller tasks.

This difficulty to believe it’s actually quite fundamental to what’s happening.

If you like, I invite you to imagine what would be the explanation if these numbers were true. (Even adjusted for being dead and wounded)

101 artillery pieces is also quite something!

Nope. He just doesn’t care. That’s much worse.

Once I saw a categorisation I liked. There are three kinds of people: those who know what they want or like, those who know what they don’t like and the confused ones.

In other words, it’s totally fine even for neurotypicals not too know if something is better than the other, especially when it comes to subjective reactions based on subconscious or feelings.

Yes, the word is used for both meanings. I doubt ruskies are using it to describe their tactics, though.

If only there were a European country that is investing in the drone technology like their existence depended on it…

I’m not the OG commenter, but for me this is important because I see how gpt is replacing search, I can imagine they will play an increasing role in news. Which has two sides. One is the fact that people will read news summaries dinner by a system with a bias. Second is writing of the news with the same bias.

We’ve seen this before. Machine learning systems that were trained on past human decisions also learned biases from those decisions. Court ruling suggestions stronger for black than white. Job applicant analysis favouring men over women. Etc.

There’s a good book about that, if you’re interested: “Weapons of Math Destruction” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weapons_of_Math_Destruction

Thank you. I’m glad you see it the way I did.

Haven’t you heard about the human autism detectors? Those people who say: “Oh, but you don’t look autistic!”

/s

We’re all sick of the dozens of apps on our phones

That day when I realised I’m not part of “we all”.

Do I really need my calculator to have maps function?

If they’re looking for a good location, Hague is just perfect.