It’s too bad that absolutely nothing will be learned from this experience in the west.

I find DRY often turns into an antipattern because decoupling is far more important than code reuse in practice. Having a function that supports many different code paths can make it very brittle because any changes to it need to consider all the possible use cases. However, if you have two separate functions that are similar, but can evolve independently then you don’t have that problem. As a rule, it’s better to duplicate code first, and then extract parts that turn out to be general purpose functionality once that’s identified through usage, and to put that code into libraries.

you already have

cry ab it

I mean to say that people who can’t see that the west lost the war against Russia and the obvious repercussions of that for the west will be shocked by what Todd is saying and see it as an aberration.

Turns out that the EU cares about a trade war with China a lot more than the environmental crisis. Why could’ve guessed.

fuck the USA

In other words, for those members of the public who are still unable to engage with reality this book is indeed shocking.

For me it’s about pursuing hobbies and having new experiences. I really enjoy developing new skills and seeing myself improve, and doing things I haven’t done before.

go sign up for the foreign legion turd

Even Ukrainians are now starting to understand what western backed regime is doing to them

“Soon, there may be no one left even to use the weapons they give us,” said the volunteer, Yevhen Tuzov, “because all our Western partners want is for us to fight until the last Ukrainian.”

I wonder how we got here.

Russia is winning the war militarily and they will dictate terms. The two options on the table will be WW3 or Ukraine breaks with the west. Also, Europe is in no position to do anything on their own. They don’t have the industrial capacity that comes anywhere close to Russia. Even the US can’t keep up https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/10/politics/russia-artillery-shell-production-us-europe-ukraine/index.html

There is zero chance of Russia allowing western part of Ukraine join NATO. This is literally what the whole war was about.