Yeah, he’s still in his 20’s apparently? That’s crazy, “young” in politics usually means ~40.

So will this actually help anything, Or will Bardella just pick up where she left off?

I said 15 months or less to hyperinflation somewhere yesterday. In that case, they could theoretically start conscription and grind Ukraine down that way, or start selling big ticket things like territory in exchange for help, but political capacity to enforce that is a serious question.

Or just literally any of the giant pile of dictators that were overthrown.

Lol, it’s on my socials so it’s real.

Two can play that game. Not to mention I’m not even British.

Yes. Back when analysts used to talk about a war with Russia pre-2022, something you heard pretty often was “they’re not as advanced, but they have so much stockpiled armour”.

This is like America running out of guns or Canada running out of syrup.

Nah, adjust for Russian standards in what “poor technical condition” even means. It’s not going to Ukraine if it can’t drive off the base.

the industry is not covering combat losses

Since it’s not clear from the headline, that’s the restoration industry. We’re not even talking about the production of new tanks (which was never that impressive at any point in the full-scale war).

Eh. Regardless of how careful he is, he’s still just a man. If it’s a coup from within the security he has means nothing, and they will also know where he is at a given time.

It’s still not on the BBC 12 hours on, and I don’t know the website, so this is fake, unfortunately.

I mean, Satoshi mined his ~1000000BTC, but from a functional perspective I don’t see how that’s different from just having it hardcoded in the genesis block (or equivalent in another system). It definitely doesn’t make Ripple BitConnect, or one of those janky “stablecoins”.

The problem with relying on “actual cryptography” for privacy is auditability, like I mentioned above. When there was a bug in Bitcoin that allowed someone to give himself a bazillion BTC, we were able to catch and revert it immediately. If there is a bug like that in Monero, we won’t know until after it’s circulated as much as the premined Bytecoins did.

It’s a problem, sure. If you want auditability at the expense of any guaranteed privacy, again, Ripple. It’s is totally transparent, assuming you keep a backup of all the old closed ledgers. And uses computing power more comparable to an old-fashioned bank account than to Bitcoin.

But thinking that cryptocurrencies are all p2p, and that Bitcoin dominates the market because they don’t know this one simple thing, are both telltale signs of a novice.

It’s never been my main squeeze, but I’ve dabbled since the early days. Do with that what you will.

If you’re thinking of the oligarchs, it was more like they pocketed billions and billions of dollars of existing Soviet stuff. The input required was just politics and personal risk.

Little at this point. That’s bound to change eventually. Just ask Nicole from Toronto.

Cunningham’s law helps. You can make a stand-alone website that’s slop and hope an individual user doesn’t notice the hallucinations, but on Lemmy people can reply and someone’s going to raise the alarm.

Eh, try not to think of it as a collective sin. They have a shit government now and no history of having a government that’s not an autocratic nightmare of some kind. People go along with it, but they would anywhere. Just look at the US now.

As it has to be. What Trump does next and what happens in Europe will play a big role in the details.

No one would just pour money into russia like in the nineties though ofc.

Did that happen? If so, it didn’t work very well, they’re literally called the “hungry nineties” locally.

Europe, because being next to a giant (nuclear?) power vacuum is bad. I guess I have to think it would be less than enthusiastic, though, and there’d be a temptation to do the Morganthau plan even though it’s a crime against humanity.

That said, there will be no conquering, because of that “nuclear” thing.

Hooo! If this is true Russia’s in for it. He’s been very effective at eliminating any possible successors. Hopefully the nukes stay safe.

No, it’s probably worse this time. That wasn’t a vacuum so much as two organised coups in quick succession.