Yeah but they can lie?
Or if manufacturer of X doesn’t want to take that risk, then middleman Y would be happy to take the risk in exchange for a markup.
All the US has is a paper trail and if china doesn’t share that with the US then the US has nothing.
It seems banks are a particular weak point because of the paper trail that is inherent to banking, which is why it seems odd that this weak point hasn’t been addressed. If there is a specific bank that does business with Russia and only Russia, then the middlemen can use that. The other banks stay clean and the manufacturers have plausible deniability.
Like, Kyrgyzstan is importing an unusual amount of German machine tools right now for example.
Yeah but like a bank that exists for the special purpose of trade between Russia and China.
Let them sanction it.
Like how after 2008 there were those “bad loans” banks. Make a bank to hold the sanctions but it’s invincible because it doesn’t do anything except Sino-Russia settlements.
It’s surprising to me that the Chinese government doesn’t somehow make an institutional settlements bank that would anonymize transactions within BRICS.
Or, failing that, why can’t Russia or China establish a special purpose settlements bank just for trade between those nations?
This seems like it should be an easy enough problem to solve given the two countries share a land border and don’t have to share any information with the US.
If you remove the English Army tomorrow and hoist the green flag over Dublin Castle, unless you set about the organization of the Socialist Republic your efforts will be in vain. England will still rule you. She would rule you through her capitalists, through her landlords, through her financiers, through the whole array of commercial and individualist institutions she has planted in this country and watered with the tears of our mothers and the blood of our martyrs
James Connolly, Socialism and Nationalism 1897
If history is a guide then the next “turtle tank” type innovation we’re going to see is a T90 with a steamroller attachment on the front
Cool message but he’s the one selling the tickets
Yeah but comments per poster?
Per capita word count?
Perhaps but it’s a weird angle.
“Our morale is really bad.”
I’ve seen the codename “Fantomas” used in many of these articles. Either they reuse the name code for many people name for opsec, or this guy is not a recruiter but a PR officer.
If he’s a PR officer, then Ukraine must want to project this information about recruitment struggles. But why?
Enshittify yourself out of existence fucking do it hit that button
It seems plausible enough at face value but if Russia was preparing an offensive here then surely they would be well prepared for a counter offensive but Russia does seem to be scrambling here.
A big part of the collapse of tech is how it used to be extremely engineer driven but now it’s suit driven.
Like the idea of the engineer in his moms garage making billions was always mythologized but there was a kernel of truth to it in that during the 2000s innovation really was much more driven by engineers thinking “this tech is cool and I want to play with it” but over time it became driven by “the analytics say the users want the buy button to be bigger” or “revenue goes up by 0.35% if we make this font bigger.”
Also the “continuous delivery” methodology is favored by suits because “always deliver value” sounds so good to a suit but this also means engineering decisions are short termist.
And the role of enshittification as the core product offering gets betrayed in favor of driving “conversion”.
Eventbrite was pretty cool when you could use it for free and the offering really was pretty simple. But they just had to juice it in a quest to extract value and in the process they ruined it.
How much would it really cost to run an event booking website? Like the core product offering should be peanuts to run and you could probably deliver with a handful of engineering teams. And heck sure add some premium features on top for revenue because this system is still capitalist after all, basic shit like a promoted event or management tools that enhance rather than spoil the core product offering sure why not but drive investment into getting that core product offering of a database of events really fucking cheap to run and you would have a good thing going, a simple but useful service with low margins but massive user base, you could live the dream of coding from Bali sipping daquiris with that.
But no they needed to enshittify, drive design and engineering based on revenue metrics, they discovered the best way to drive revenue was to kneecap their free offering and absolutely cripple the experience if you don’t pay (fucking geniuses, bet that person got a bonus), and whoa whoa whoa now it’s failing wtf how did that happen?
Edit: Craigslist isn’t laying off staff
Recognizing Israel now would be very directly an endorsement of the Palestinian genocide. What’s the feeling among the Saudi people? Would that strip the House of Saud of legitimacy or are the Saudi people so tamed and treat-pilled that it wouldn’t matter?
Like, obviously the House of Saud are imperialist puppets and they have been since about the end of the Ottoman Empire but they’re still the keepers of Mecca. How would the Muslim world react to that?
Don’t mourn that you lost him. Celebrate that you had him.
The 90s. Our protection from pedophiles was learning to yell “stranger danger” and threats of physical violence if we arrived home after sunset.
If you didn’t want Australia to win the most medals per capita then you shouldn’t have made being racist an Olympic sport
German tanks rolling into Russia and nazi soldiers being honored.
It was all totally in the past time to move on…
You’re in something new and exciting. Enjoy it. But try to avoid putting unnecessary pressure on it with the big L which implies something very profound.
Your feelings are real but also they’re new feelings. What comes easily can go easily which is why if you say it too early you’re suggesting you can just as quickly fall out of love.
Enjoy it. Try to take it all as lightly and joyfully as possible while still valuing it the way you do.
Colonizer state, sexual violence, women as a resource to be protected or pillaged.
They won’t send women to the front, except perhaps some tokens.