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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Hmm thanks for that, I read some very different messaging over the last year. I'll try to dig it out

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Because they've been told by the US they're not allowed to use their US supplied arms to do so. They've been asking for permission for at least a year. Refer also constraints placed on Ukraine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Timeshift for configs to a locally attached drive. Home partition to cloud with rsync

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ok, you've got me puzzled. What's a US state named after a UK (or English) queen where cannabis is legal ?

The only female named states I can think of are Georgia, Virginia and Louisiana, none of whom have been Regent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

First sentence of the article

"new default Cinnamon theme coming to Linux Mint 22.1 later this year."

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (6 children)

What's DIM ? It's not mentioned in the article

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

Well, I'm with you on Putin can go get fucked. But I think you're misinformed on the "petrodollar empowering Putin".

The dominance of the US dollar as the currency for settlement of international crude oil contracts advantages predominantly the US and secondarily countries with strong currencies in open exchange with the USD. It disadvantages weaker currencies and those with poorer trade terms with the US such as Venezuela and Russia now the latter has been cut off from the western banking system.

Putin being forced to trade his crude in non dollar denominated contracts is one of the (several) reasons the sale price of muscovy crude is now significantly lower than the equivalent from other countries. (TL;DR the sanctions are working).

China has long been lobbying unsuccessfully to break the petrodollar/USD as world reserve currency and failed so far.

The major US banks are just agents of a (very successful) US foreign policy post WW2. They are indeed evil, but not for this reason

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Well I came to say "takes one to know one" but bigger threat than Russia and NK is a big call.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What else woukd you expect from a Lib ? Heart and empathy removal is a pre-requisite to join the party.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

For me this falls in the category of "sit back and eat popcorn". Both sides are arseholes I don't mind which loses, in fact it's a shame they all can't lose

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Nothing. You can only invoke article 7 against a specific country, and with 2 there's insufficient votes to invoke article 7 against either. You can't do a "twofer".

You have to remember this was considered an unthinkable nuclear option when the treaties were draw up. That two countries could both diverge so far from the EUs ethos would horrify the (possibly naive) original founders.

As that worn quip goes

" they did nazi this coming"

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