laxam
11mo ago
and there's a very decent chance that they would actually lose the conflict militarily to boot
This is delusional. Obliterating the formal militaries of near peer competitors is the one thing the US military is utterly dominant at. The US loses wars when you go all fourth generational warfare and wait for the American public to get tired of hearing about the steady trickle of dead American soldiers and foreign civilians (who are innocent and mostly women ad children, of course).
laxam
11mo ago
Israel's next elections are scheduled for October, 2026. Once the war is over, Netanyahu has no reason at all to hold them early and his coalition isn't in incredible danger of breaking up.
laxam
11mo ago
This is a place where people pattern match 'leftists are upset about a white on black killing' to 'the whites must be innocent' a little too readily. Is the media often wrong about this sort of thing and only able to enforce consensus through sheer exercise of power? Of course. Were they wrong in that instance? Nope.
laxam
11mo ago
They were civilians who chased someone down in their vehicles and came at him armed. He was justified in trying to get away and then coming at one of them when they made it clear that wasn't an option. They were absolutely guilty.
laxam
11mo ago
In tech, staying at a job for more than 3 years is seen as coasting. Devs are increasingly expected to do everything, because 'everyone should be full stack' and everything that isn't feature development (testing, staging, canaries) get deprioritized. Overworked novices means carelessness, carelessness creates mistakes.
This may be true amongst the Dev Set, but it's very much not once you get outside of that small corner of 'tech' and into the infrastructure side of things. While there are plenty of greenhorns puttering around, there are also the true gray beards who have been in the same position for decades and know literally everything about the systems they administer (and design and build).
I'm a network engineer and there are enough grizzled old men on my team that our collective experience no doubt stretches into the centuries, and several of these guys have gotten a big chunk of it at this one place. We just had a guy retire last year who started in the late 70s...
Russia can't establish reliable air superiority against Ukraine. What makes you think it would require a significant investment of resources to gain air dominance and support the Ukrainians right back to their pre-2014 borders?
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