Honestly mate, I am not a tankie or even politically left in my country, but when looking at the insane results for these enormous companies and the ever increasing greed with ads/price hikes, I’ve just had enough.

I know it’s not morally right to steal, but I refuse to support companies like Alphabet paying their CEO 200+ million a year. If they manage to block me out when skirting their ads, then I’ll find something else to spend my time on.

So you’re right, I just don’t care anymore.

I do pay for Nebula though!

Sure, it was only meant as a way to circumvent ads on the TV

You could also use Chromecast with SmartTube. Works like a charm. Let me know if you need help with it.

Yeah no mate, you don’t get to hide behind the argument that because it doesn’t have a 100% success rate, we might as well execute them. Murder is always unnacceptable

My friend, you are literally arguing that executing hostages is the same as attempting to release them under extremely risky conditions because it has failed in the past.

If that is truly your opinion, then I honestly have no more to say. I can’t reasonably argue with that type of opinion.

I still wish you a great day though and hope the fighting ends soon.

Execution has a kill rate of 100%.

Even if paroling is stupidly risky, the ods of death are still <100%.

It would also be seen positively by everyone and one propaganda piece less for Israel to use.

Let’s argue with reason and not pretend that because it has happened before it will happen every single time. Cock-ups happen everywhere.

It’s literally the reason we went with Polestar 2. It has a big screen, but all buttons on the steeringwheel are actual buttons. Same with audio controls, seat memory and mirror adjustments. And door handles! Screw pop-out handles in a country with proper winters! I’ve seen people piss on their Model 3 to get into it after freezing rain.

Only the AC is done on the screen, which is fine as it’s “set and forget” for the most part.

It was the only EV at the time that still felt like a car.

Nope I literally still don’t get your point. Feel free to spell it out for dumdums like myself…

No I really don’t. What is the point?
That China is highest in property ownership?
So a capitalistic dictatorship has the best metric in one area makes capitalistic dictatorships good?

Surely that can’t be it, as it’s completely moronic, so what is the point?

Not a single one is communist, so what’s your point?

Worth every penny you russian bot

Yeah I mean, they use then in Crimea which the russians still hold, so it doesn’t really make sense.

Looking forward to the policy change

We tried that in Europe. We bought oil and gas en masse from Russia. Companies opened factories there. We thought that by showing them that cooperation is better than the cold war, we can all move forward.

Then they attacked Ukraine.

Honestly mate: your quest not to pick side is sort of understandable. The world feels like a crap place these days with wars, rising prices and political unrest. While I generally dislike painting the world in black and white, it is sometimes necessary to accept that some issues are. This is one of those times.

Russia viciously and brutally invaded and terrorise Ukraine and her people, and that is not right. Appeasing to their moronic demands is not an option anyone should even be considering after all the pain and suffering they have caused.

We don’t reward this kind of behaviour, ever. It only brings more pain down the road.

Thanks for the chat and have a great summer, mate.

Honestly, if another cold war is the outcome of us stepping up for what is right in this world, then I think it’s a better alternative than giving into any dicators demands.

Don’t get me wrong: I don’t want it, but the alternative is everlasting certainty for Putin and future cronies that attacking sovereign countries is totally fine as long as he has nukes.

So to answer your question: the general idea to avoid this is to make sure everybody knows the west wants no war, but we will not sit idly by and watch it unfold right on our doorstep. And we are strong enough to beat you if it comes to that.

You don’t need allways to fight the bully to make him stop. You just need to make sure he knows you will fight and he most likely will lose.

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt then, mostly because I agree with you that the best solution is the one where the fewest amount of people die.

I think where we diverge is how to achieve this. From what we’ve seen so far, Ukraine surrendering would probably not end the war. At least long term. Russia would use the time to re-arm and retry. Even if they don’t, the people in these new russian territories would be poorly treated and potentially murdered, especially those disagreeing with the peace agreement. That is my honest opinion. Therefore, the only other ways are Russia going home or Ukraine beating them.

The first one isn’t happening, so we end up alternative three.

Do you agree or disagree with my assessment?

NATO has been on their doorstep since its inception, so this argument is unreasonable.

Norway is a founding member and share a border with them.

Now why would they fear Ukraine joining a non-confontational alliance?

And how do you rationalize the fear of your neighbour making new friends by physically attacking them?

I don’t know if you are a russian bot or actually conflicted so I’m giving you a chance to explain what you think Ukraine should really do. In my mind, bowing down to a bully is never ever the answer and support any aid they get in their purely defensive war.

Is there any chance this will ever pass?

I don’t really know what it would take to get this done

I fucking love you!

Yeah it costs, depending on quality of course.
My 14 TB disks are filling up faster than I expected and I am not close to Netflix’s catalogue.