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@BohuslavskaKate Dunno if dealing with losing against 40 m population Ukraine by attacking 700 m population Europe is a winner even if Trump is no good.

IGNATIUS: Putin is in corner. Things are not going well for him. What might he do to break out of this situation? His friend Trump is in the White House, and Europe is just beginning to rearm. Putin might think that now is the time to strike NATO. If he struck one of Baltic states and Trump did nothing, that would demonstrate to Europe and to the world that American promises to NATO aren't real. People are already beginning to suspect that, but this would make it clear. And Putin might seize this moment of uncertainty.

@igorsushko >"[the Ukranians] make one every 23 seconds, 123,000 units per month," Gardner said of SkyFall, "and [the Brits] redesigned it with them to exclude any Chinese parts or components, which is one of the requirements of the Drone Dominance program

Drone was developed exclusively by Ukraine. The UK had nothing to do with the development.

@omid9 Ah - coalition of allies - those were the days.

To those playing politics with Iranian lives, watch Obama’s speech from 2012 when he by-passed Congress and helped bring about regime change in Libya. The situation in Iran right now - as we enter day 65 of a regime enforced internet blackout - is indisputably worse.

@ianbremmer I'm not sure that's what the breiteers were selling. I prefered the Polish plumbers and Lithuanian baristas to whatever the hell they are doing now.

brexit: who knew?

@MLStreetTalk >it's a stochastic process producing outputs that present as mentalistic Whereas your brain uses neurons in something like a stochastic process producing outputs that present as mentalistic

I'm always so disappointed when some of my intellectual heroes use AI and are tragically dumbstruck by it. Dawkins is an absolutely brilliant, brilliant man who in his youth argued: > that genes aren't "really" selfish, that the agent-talk was a heuristic. He understood that humans over-attribute agency. > Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence. > "By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out." > Natural selection, he wrote, is "blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purpose in view" > In The Blind Watchmaker (1986), Dawkins coined the phrase to attack creationists like Bishop Hugh Montefiore, who would say things like "I find it hard to see how the eye could have evolved." Dawkins quoted Montefiore asking rhetorically how an organ so complex could evolve, and dismissed it: "This is not an argument, it is simply an affirmation of incredulity." An LLM is precisely the kind of thing the young Dawkins was warning us about i.e. it's a stochastic process producing outputs that present as mentalistic. I pray for the younger generation because AI literacy is the new digital divide, the older your brain is - the less you get it

@PoliPlatypus @ChrisO_wiki Dunno about collapse but there seems to be a certain grumpiness from the Russian public.

@ChrisO_wiki Accounts like yours have been writing about the imminent collapse of the Russian economy for years now and I'm going to hazard that just with oil prices on the cusp of pulverizing records the Russian economy will be doing just fine. But write away...

1/ Russians are increasingly worried that they face a repeat of one of the greatest traumas of their recent history: the loss of their savings, as last happened in the economic crisis of the 1990s. Russian commentators are aghast at the prospect. ⬇️

@ChrisO_wiki Surely the net worth of that bunch depends on the value of the companies rather than the tax system? In the UK we are saved by having crap companies rather than tax.

Nobody gets to be a near-trillionaire in a country with a fair tax system.

@Heroiam_Slava It would be a nice gesture to add something to the parade.

There is a high probability that Ukrainian drones/missiles will appear over Moscow during the May 9 parade.

@NatalkaKyiv We should stick to genuine footage like this Russian parade video reddit.com/r/NAFO/comment…

Fellas, if you see someone reposting this video please make sure to comment that it's fake!

@Masterfultune @KaterynaLis Defending...

@KaterynaLis Youre being annoying yourself by waging war with Russia over some land that no one really cares about...

ZELENSKYY: Not only Russia, but also some partners who do not see Kyiv as a fully independent power are annoyed by Ukraine’s bilateral deals in the Middle East and the Gulf region. “Of course, the Russians are especially annoyed by our contacts in the Middle East and the Gulf region. We know about it. We are also aware of the difficult attitude of our other partners to this, who would like to belittle the independence of our state. We consider this to be their mistake. We will ensure the national interests of Ukraine as our country needs” - Ukrainian President on Wednesday, April 29.

@jaynordlinger Moscow pays better.

Witkoff and Kushner are Trump's envoys in the matter of the Ukraine war. They have visited Moscow many times. They have visited Ukraine never. Can any defender of the Trump administration explain why this ought to be? If there is an innocent explanation, I am unaware of it.

@provemewrong411 Russia could also leave Ukraine and go home? Look at Finland - Russian culture but a relaxed society rather than invading everyone and way more prosperity and happiness.

As a Russia supporter, I’m exhausted by Putin’s incompetence in Ukraine. We can’t keep pretending this isn’t a massive failure. Half the country is on fire, and Ukrainian terrorist threats have reduced Victory Day to a pathetic spectacle. It’s humiliating that a pathetic little cokehead gets to tell the Russian Empire what it can and cannot do. How much longer are we going to delude ourselves that Putin knows what he’s doing or that diplomacy will save us? If Ukraine had a nuclear weapon, it would have been dropped on Russia four years ago - yet Putin can’t even take Donbass because of his “surgical operation.” If he can’t finish this conflict and secure victory, then maybe it’s time to pack his shit and go home, or step aside and let someone more competent finish the job. Russia is my culture, my language, my heart. I will always be pro-Russia, but it’s getting harder and harder to be pro-Putin these days. Sorry, not sorry…

@ChrisO_wiki @mtracey Wonder if he's paid by bad guys in general? Russia, Epstein creeps etc.

@ChrisO_wiki @mtracey I just caught up on the Piers Morgan Tracey moment youtu.be/dC8WA0IfWy0?t=… Guess the recent thing is related.

Has @mtracey considered following the advice he gave to Ukraine and surrendering to the aggressor?

@P_Kallioniemi His approval rating isn't that great in America either. I imagine the Russians and their client states like him.

With few exceptions, most Europeans absolutely despise Trump. It’s been wild watching the US destroy all of its soft power in just a year and a half.

@Hebro_Steele The arguments in the list if you actually read it seem quite reasonable archive.ph/rMGKq While I'm not a fan of islam as a doctrine, I have to admit 'christians' like Putin and Trump are not looking that loving and peaceful either.

"...the SPLC chose to publish the names, faces, and affiliations of 15 people it accused of 'anti-Muslim extremism.' The list endangered everyone it named. I know the threat of Islamist violence all too well. In 2004, a jihadist named Mohammed Bouyeri murdered my friend and collaborator Theo van Gogh on an Amsterdam street. Bouyeri shot him, cut his throat, and pinned a five-page letter to his chest with a knife. The letter was a fatwa against me. I have lived under armed protection for more than two decades because men with weapons and conviction want me dead—for apostasy... The SPLC considers all of this beyond the pale, and accused me of using 'the political bully pulpit to bash Muslims." And "Tax filings uncovered by reporters in 2017 showed millions in SPLC money parked in the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, and Bermuda. Think of it for a moment: an anti-poverty organization, headquartered in Alabama, hiding millions offshore while positioning itself as the nation’s moral conscience." thefp.com/p/ayaan-hirsi-…

@sugarjammi Try asking docs or AIs?

i have been like chronically sick since february and i dont know what to do

@FordJohnathan5 Jail? All the Trumpy bunch break the law, zero go to jail.

BREAKINGNEWS: Laura Loomer during her deposition agaisnt Bill Maher revealed classified information in the open. This is unbelievable Trump administration would have shared this information to someone without any vetted classified authorization. She's going to jail. 🚨

@Mylovanov Not sure I've seen him look that nervous

Russian official: Victory will be ours. No one doubts it, not even the enemy. Putin: Yes, they are just thinking how to formalize it. We know how this will end. [Meanwhile, Russia is losing 30,000 soldiers, killed and wounded, per month.]

@ChickeniedRice @ChrisO_wiki Already 21,000 ground missions completed. Better than Russia's tactical donkeys.

1/ Russia's premier drone unit, Rubikon, has published statistics on the Ukrainian targets it has hit to date. To the concern of some Russian warbloggers, they reveal a strikingly different targeting strategy from that used by Ukraine. ⬇️