Actually a lot of it is made in the US. Shin Ramen, for example, is from Korea, but all the packages I've seen are made in a factory in California.
If that's how you treat people you shouldn't be surprised when they 'cause a fuss' and kick you out.
What do they gain by continuing the war?
It's hardly in Russia's interest for their sons to die, their equipment to explode, and their economy to crumble. It's self destructive, which it has in common with capitalism, but worse than that it's a genocide of the Ukrainian people.
Plans are in motion. See you at 50501 on Wednesday.
Russia could foil all those plans by simply ceasing the invasion and going home.
By my estimation, of those 126: 80 are a win for X (or whoever goes first), 30 are a win for O (or whoever goes second), and 16 are a stalemate.
So the number of losing positions depends on whether you go first or second.
Good point. There's only 126 filled arrangements that are valid game states.
Britain picked fights with the French, the Spanish, and Austria, then expected their colonies to foot the bill.
There are only like 500 losing tictac toe scenarios max.
Three positions for each square (X, O, or blank), 9 squares: 3^9 = 19,683 possible game states.
Of those there are only 512 combinations where the board is compete: 2^9 = 512
Of those 512, only 16 combinations results in a win for either player. Meaning there are only 8 losing scenarios and 496 stalemate scenarios.
There are people who are categorically opposed to forcefully compelling people, and many of them use the word 'authoritarian'.
It can be a useful term, not all systems are equally authoritarian. It's a spectrum.
I thought that was from David Rovics.
Reminds me of that SNL skit he was in: https://youtu.be/7AWuBh1MbbM?si=UVg016Prcl9WbYYB
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/26702850
Slava Ukraini
Asking for a solution to the question of what to do with a type of person. That's the reason the Nazis built concentration camps too.
Turns out you don't actually need to imprison people in extrajudicial torture camps, you can just treat them with a shred of human decency instead.
Like we've been dealing with immigrants for centuries, practically every nation has, we don't need a 'final solution', we can process them individually and find solutions dynamically based on the needs and situation of the individual. Sometimes that means deportation, sometimes it means granting asylum, and sometimes it means working with our allies to find a suitable destination. Imprisoning them in Guantanamo bay is not a solution, it's a pretense for extermination.