He’s no longer the CEO. By your statement, I’m guessing he still has a controlling stake?

Ah, just like Trump united most of the world against him.

You know what? That’s actually a really good take

I mean, yes, Putin should have never begun the war to begin with. Those countries aren’t going to leave NATO if Russia leaves Ukraine today.

Man, to drop decorum, I don’t give a shit about the Russians and angering them. I’m just trying not to give Russia a pretext to do something really fucking stupid. Yes, they can perform false flag operations for their own pretext.

Joining an active war without a prior alliance is an escalation. To keep NATO defensive and not to bring them into an active war, there should be a different agreement signed.

Hell, NK joining the war is an escalation by both NK and Russia. Does this justify NATO adding Ukraine just for them to immediately invoke article 5? I don’t think so.

Regardless of ethics and politicking though, someone HAS to be done to show Russia that it can’t just arbitrarily annex parts of other countries.

Right, but if chooses too Ukraine will likely join NATO and Russia ends up with another NATO country against its land border.

The only reason they would withdraw is if they don’t have enough troops - which they are supplementing with North Korean troops. It’s against Russia’s geopolitical interest.

That and Putin is a crazy guy doing crazy things. Putin may not stop even if it IS in his best interests to do so

Yeah…. I didn’t know my friend had a different last name. I thought she put something obscure as her last name so she wouldn’t be tracked

I just delete and report junk

NATO maintains that it is a defensive alliance. If NATO starts adding countries Russia is currently at war with, it becomes an offensive alliance.

That being said, why wasn’t Ukraine added earlier?

That’s probably why NATO doesn’t invite countries at war. What’s stopping Ukraine from invoking article 5 immediately?

I mean, you’re not going to use all of them at once. Maybe you have your everyday carry pistol, and a few more pistols that you like to shoot. Maybe you have a few rifles dedicated to hunting for the family. Maybe you have a few rifles that you shoot at the range for fun. Maybe a machine gun or two just to have one.

Hang on, that’s still less than 20.

Maybe he collects them?

What’s a token ring?

Also I’m pretty sure I still have a box of 3.5” they can have lol

Clearly you have never been to China. It can take extra steps to VPN

Do they expect someone to work at cost for them? Running a company has overhead.

It sounds like they know what the code should do generally, but either didn’t design it to be debuggable or have no idea what they are doing.

Everyone has their own way of doing things and when you commit you need to make sure you deliver a quality product.

Bug hunting sucks, especially with other people’s design.

Ugh. That sounds like government/corporate inefficiency. “Our budget/quota will be reduced if we do not spend the full budget/quota this fiscal year, so let’s purchase new workstations for the team”

Nah fam.

Years ago it was “Don’t be evil”. Now it’s “Dont be evil™(1)(2)”

(1) it is okay to be evil if the profit would be outrageous (2) if it’s questionable, we ignore the evaluation to see how much profit it generates first

Russia should just covert to my local currency and wire it to me. It’ll make no different for their 3 day special military operation.

Oops that’s my fault sorry

I understand the distinction between mainland China and Taiwan. Those are not the entities at war. If, by some miracle, the ROC takes over HK or something, it’s still a civil war between the ROC and the communists.

Also, the capital of the ROC has never been Taipei. It’s Nanjing. It’s just currently controlled by the communists

Hang on, if you’re going to take things that far back and what you’re saying is not technically accurate. China and Taiwan have NEVER been at war. It’s technically a civil war between the Republic of China and the communist uprising. At the same, the Japanese had invaded China. The communists had almost been extinguished. They put aside their differences temporarily to drive out the Japanese. The KMT took more losses, allowing the communists to take over the mainland. The KMT fled to the province of Taiwan - on the island of Formosa.