realitista

Lemmy is still my favorite, I was never a huge fan of the Twitter model, but I enjoy taking part in the destruction of X.

It was a nice dream at least.

Yeah I'd prefer Mastodon to implement all these features and win, but I understand why it's not winning ATM.

There is at least some (admittedly subpar) federation possible. So if the need is great enough, someone may take up the challenge.

I'm on both and Mastodon is missing (at least in any easy to use way) most of the features that make Bluesky such a good destination:

• instant add subscribe lists
• subscribable block lists
• custom feeds/subscribable algorithms
• keyword/topic blocks
• nuclear block where you never see the blocked person again
• optional discover feed
• DM preferences

All these things (and more I'm sure I'm forgetting), make Bluesky very quick to get started with and very powerful for honing your feeds to be exactly how you want and free of harassment and trolling.

I am still trying with Mastodon, but it's really slow going and I can fully understand why people wouldn't bother. After a year I am way behind where I was in a week with Bluesky.

The gist of it seems to be that they have enough factories around the world that they can just switch to another one to get around the tariffs.

Expect to see a lot more of this from The Fanta Menace's "Peace Plans"

You've produced no evidence to the contrary. Covert Cabal has done the counting. You say it's nonsense but have nothing to counter it with.

I thought this was self explanatory but I guess I need to explain it. $2 trillion times .07=$140 billion, whereas $20 trillion * .02=$400 billion. Some european countries are already at 3% or higher, some plan to get there. They haven't burned through their whole stockpiles like Russia has, and they have 1 million soldiers waiting in addition to the 800k that Ukraine has already.

If Europe can muster even half the resolve that Russia has, they will win for sure. Even at a quarter or less they have a good chance, because Ukraine is already holding the line and their economy is still 10x that of Russia. Russia's not going to grow their economy by 10x.

Yeah well if you build a lot of stuff and blow it up, you will have high GDP growth. But everything you built is sitting as scrap in another country. So it's not helping you much.They won't get anywhere near that of the rest of Europe though. And if they ever stop waging war their GDP will crater and they will have a massive economic collapse.

From your article:

"As conflict drags on, the war is won by economies, not armies."

Making my case for me. Thanks.

I only saw one article which speculated about drone production. If you are interested about Russia's production and drawdown on their stockpile, Covert Cabal produces good videos on YouTube where he uses satellite data to actually count each vehicle.