It’s not the oil fields, but refineries and pump stations for the pipes.

Which ones are next?

All of them. 😋

I had a crisis too some years ago, when Windows 7 was the shit, I heard Windows 7 was very good (for Windows).
So I tried to dual boot Windows 7, goddam a load of crap!! I’ll never believe anyone claiming Windows is good again.
The structure of security is a bloody mess, providing worse security, while taking control away from the owner of the system.
And lack of package manager makes it ask for updates at the most inopportune moments. Just a tiny program like Adobe reader was super invasive, and was a major pain in the ass.

Windows is not in any way user friendly, it’s just what most people are used to.

What an absolutely moronic false equivalence.

She is either suicidal or very weird. I’d ask her if suicide is actually something she sometimes think about.
Problem is she will most likely brush it off if she is, so it’s a tough one.
It might be worth a lot to tell her you appreciate her.

It is not a phobia if the threat is real.

by Maria Tril 09/09/2025

German defense contractor Rheinmetall will deliver mobile anti-drone systems to Ukraine before the end of 2024

What???
Are they to be delivered in the past?

In essence, Tsarism, USSR, modern russia is all the same thing. A genocidal imperialist culture.

You are absolutely right, and it’s insane when 3rd world countries ally with Russia to avoid “western” imperialism, because in that regard Russia is way up there as one of the most imperialistic countries ever.

Opinion piece by me:
Russia think they are strong because they were the political center of the Soviet Union as they are now the political center of the Russian federation.
But the reason the Soviet Union was strong was in large part due to the industry and innovation in Ukraine. Without it they have not been able to make new aircraft carriers, and most of their heavy bombers are also from when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union.

Ukraine has clearly been punching way above their weight since Russia invaded. I know Ukraine has received a lot of help, but remember that first crucial month of the invasion, where Ukraine had not received help yet, they stood their ground against Russia, and inflicted heavy damage on them right from the start.

Now Ukraine has resisted Russia’s invasion for 3½ year, a power of 3-4 times the population, and even bigger economy because of their oil, and finally immense amounts of military equipment and factories inherited from the Soviet Union, and Russia having a huge military complex from being a major supplier to great powers like China and India and many countries around the world.

Despite all those immense advantages for Russia, Ukraine is now gaining the upper hand, and have developed better weapons than Russia has. And while Russia tried to destroy the Ukrainian infrastructure for years, Ukraine is now succeeding in destroying Russia’s instead!

I am honored that my government (Denmark) has been among the biggest supporters of Ukraine right from the start, and that we have pushed from the start to give Ukraine both more and better weapons.
Many countries have helped, and I’m happy to see so many countries are willing to stand up to a bully when it really counts.
But mostly I want to express my respect for Ukraine, for standing up against what was supposed to be an overwhelming opponent.

Slava Ukraini

WELL DONE UKRAINE!!!

This is about 550 km from Ukraine controlled territory.
Notice that Ukraine would NOT be able to hit this target with weapons from the west!

This war could have been over so much sooner, if the west had been willing to give Ukraine the weapons they needed to win it.
Remember for more than 2 years Ukraine wasn’t even allowed to attack into Russian territory! A Biden policy instated because Biden was actually afraid what would happen if Ukraine won!!
Then for another year they weren’t allowed to hit oil resources!

Ukraine being able to do this now with their own drones and missiles is a major game changer, and they have now taken out about 25% of the Russian oil economy!

Chances are the Russian economy will collapse this winter, and with an economic collapse, they will probably not be able to continue the war, because there will be too much internal disruption.

I suspect most people sense it’s “stupid” without really being interested in the subject, but I also think some lighter real economics context is important to understand how and why.

Was there really any need at all for a slower job market?
Usually the reason for wanting that is an overheating job market/economy, but I don’t recall seeing anything indicating either.
A sign for the job market would be quickly increasing wages, due to shortage of workers. But the only shortage of workers I’ve seen is due to Trump policies, and in very specialized areas like top AI developers/researchers, but those are not general expressions of either economy or job market.

For the economy a typical sign is inflation due to shortages, but the inflation is driven by stupid policies like tariffs, and not so much free market economics. The increasing prices are driven by adding more taxes on goods. Not because there is any shortage anywhere!
And if anyone ever thought this was an overheating market, they are probably blind to the fact that wages haven’t covered for the inflation, and although the inflation is a bit higher than the popular target of 2%, it’s far from overheating economy territory, especially when considering the background for the inflation.

The truth is that the American economy is just stupid because the President is illegally overreaching his mandate with extremely stupid policies, causing stupid results for the economy.

Americans will probably get their low interest rates soon, but don’t cheer that just yet, because the reason will probably be that the economy has gone into recession, and with a declining value of the USD, all Americans are getting poorer.

Wikipedia is also backed by the engines of capitalism.

Stupid knee jerk “no you” response that doesn’t make the least bit of sense, where YouTube is obviously a major engine of capitalism, owned by one of the richest most capitalistic companies in the world, and everything in how YouTube operates is governed by their capitalistic principles.

How do you figure in any way the same is true for Wikipedia which is a non profit organization running on donations?!?!

Bullshit!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation

Revenue $185.4 million (2024)
Expenses $178.6 million (2024)
Employees 363 (2024)
Volunteers 277,000 (2024)

How did you ever convince yourself that the 10th most visited website, that doesn’t have any revenue other than donations is rolling in dough? That would be an extremely rare thing if they did.
Apart from smoothly running servers, and administrating almost 300000 volunteers, they need lawyers, both to ensure they stay within local laws in more than a 100 countries, but also to stave off idiotic lawsuits. Just the recent changes to UK law has been a major legal headache.
Without donations Wikipedia would quickly fall apart.

They don’t need donations they have lots of money,

Being a free service with no advertising, I’m guessing the only reason they have money is because people donate.
But for some reason your description quickly skips over the part about where the money comes from?

aggressively begging for donations again.

Aggressively? Showing a banner for about a week once or twice a year?? That’s aggressive???
How the fuck can anyone be so butthurt about a free service? I’m definitely NOT clicking your link to support something so stupid on YouTube.

PS:
We always donate a small amount kr 100 DKK ( about $15 USD ) when they are campaigning. Wikipedia is an amazing service we’d sorely miss if it disappeared.

Good on Denmark for supporting Ukraine from very early on, and being a solid unwavering supporter throughout.
Despite the horrible constant attacks on Ukraine and terrorism against civilians, and Russia having 4 times as many people with an even bigger economy, it actually seems to me Russia is losing steam, and Ukraine is gaining the upper hand.
No doubt Ukraine throughout this war has been more clever than Russia, and attacked targets that are actually important to the war instead of performing terrorism. And the better tactics are absolutely paying off. 👍

Slava Ukraini
And best of luck to you.

You don’t write what market you are describing but:
The PC market has been dwindling for decades, the PC gaming market has also been dwindling with consoles taking bigger share, and the past 5-10 years due to high GPU prices that have been wildly unstable.
Lately prices have returned to more normal levels when accounting for inflation, which could explain a bump this year.
USA is an outlier because of tariffs.

Maybe you are right, but I think they did that because they thought that would help them remain competitive, keeping the profit share that would normally go to board vendors, allowing them to sell cheaper while still making money, and compete better against Nvidia.

Maybe I remember it wrong, but I think Voodoo was already dying with Voodoo 2.

IDK, I think it was because they couldn’t keep up with Nvidia, I bough the Voodoo 2 already at about half price.
After that it was basically lights out for Voodoo.

Intel has somewhat the same problem I think, because their GPU reasonably is good and for the customer it’s a competitive product.
But for intel, the GPU chip probably cost 3 times as much to make as for a comparable Nvidia or AMD, because Intel requires a twice as big GPU to be competitive!
That means that Intel is probably not making any profit from their GPU division.
Same with Voodoo, they simply couldn’t keep up to make a profit, they had to compete with Nvidia that quickly surpassed 3DFX, and since Nvidia were better Voodoo had to be cheaper, but they couldn’t make them cheap enough to make a profit from them.

It’s not that Voodoo got worse, because obviously they didn’t. But Nvidia had a development cycle that was unheard of at the time. It wasn’t just 3DFX that couldn’t keep up. It was also S3, Matrox and ATI. And ATI were by far the biggest GPU maker at the time. ATI however made a strong comeback as the only competitor to Nvidia mainstream performance desktop graphics and gaming, and then ATI was later bought by AMD.

3dfx had market dominance in 90s but then basically committed suicide.

As I remember it, it was Nvidia that killed 3DFX, Nvidia had an absolutely cutthroat development pace, and 3DFX simply couldn’t keep up, and they ended up being bought by Nvivia.
But oh boy Voodoo graphics were cool when they came out! An absolute revolution to PC gaming.