Yeah, this is basically the least offensive thing possible that ensures the lights stay on.

When I switched away from gmail, I found it to overall be pretty straightforward. Whenever I would log into a service, I update the email. Any service I didn’t log into clearly doesn’t matter enough to me. My gmail is now a spam account for old shit I don’t care about.

Yeah, seems to be the carrot and stick approach. Biden provided the carrot a few years ago (subsidies for new US plants) and Trump is providing the stick (tariffs for offshore imports).

The US makes chips. Notably Intel and TSMC have US fabs.

The economic damage continues. :)

It’s a variety of factors. With the biggest one being leaders worried that burdening their own people would just get the entire thing canned. If you talk about cutting social programs or raising taxes, people are going to get pretty pissy real quick. Leaders want to give as much as they can, without having to entertain ideas like that. To not actually enter a war footing economically. Some countries have done more than others, Poland and the Baltics come to mind. They have known the horrors of Russia for a long, long time. And they have given quite a bit to keep those horrors as far away as possible.

There is, of course, the very real threat of nukes. Where if one doesn’t boil the frog, the frog will lash out. Again, I think the pace is much too slow. Though, there is active talk of sending western troops to Ukraine and Trump has threatened to up the arms transfers and sanctions dramatically if Russia does not submit. It’s looking like that might be exactly what happens as I don’t see Putin backing down.

And to the point you directly bring up, there are absolutely people doing exactly that; people who want Russia to step on every caltrop possible instead of decisively forcing them to stop walking, thus inflicting less pain on Russia.

The reason is not singular, the reason is all of the above and many more.

The cool thing about heat pumps are, you already have one. It’s an AC with a reverser valve. Instead of having the cold inside the house and the hot outside, the AC can reverse in winter put the hot inside the house and the cold outside. When your current AC breaks, buy one with a reverser valve, buy a heat pump. They are damn nice.

Edit: The article is apparently talking about geothermal heat. Which is not normally how the term ‘heat pump’ is used. Seems to be why there is so much confusion in this thread, including from my reply. Anyway, I haven’t heard much negative about geothermal heat in the past. I think it’s normally not used just because of the up-front investment costs.

Russia can retreat to their own borders at any moment. Until then, we will continue to support Ukraine to defeat the invader.

Ah, I see we have a job for Tanya the Evil’s lesser soldiers!

You could hit the page via Tor to anonymize your access, then use the Save Page As context menu item to save the page.

So US sanctions can’t starve Russia

They can certainly make things harder and more expensive for Russia though. And combined with Ukraine’s relentless targeting of their oil sector and war outputs, the thousand small cuts continue to build on Russia’s economy.

I wouldn’t be surprised if, after the war, they do just that. Lots of people there with the technical knowledge and supply lines already established and the need to sell a product that the AFU suddenly doesn’t need an infinite supply of.

The good news is, the executive order, is specifically about development assistance. The vast, vast majority of US aid to Ukraine does not fall under this category.

Sec. 3. (a) 90-day pause in United States foreign development assistance…

Ukraine has been building out their drone production heavily. It’s easy to disperse and doesn’t require large facilities that can be destroyed. (A few guys in a garage with a 3d printer and a steady parts supply can pump those suckers out.) And with US, UK, and French authorization to hit targets inside Russia, Russia’s air defense is stretched extra thin. Furthermore, Russia has not kept pace with new construction of equipment, things blow up and just aren’t replaced.

I only see this pace increasing, Russia has lost the ability to defend their airspace.

I just sent some money over to United 24 (Ukraine’s official fundraising platform). If you are able, please do so as well. They could use it.

Use this as an opportunity. Put in more effort to make it happen. Yeah, it isn’t a straightforward path, but not many things in life are.

Good luck man! Life is sometimes hard, but we get through it.

It’s also right at the end of the prior generation. Let’s get Switch 2 release numbers in and compare to Switch 1 release numbers before we draw too many conclusions.

That said, the PC market has been overtaking consoles. Particularly since PC handhelds are a thing. Things like the Steam Deck are directly competing with Switch and (soon) Switch 2 sales.

Vehicles and fuel tanks are booming today!

This seems like a bad idea to start with…

Shooting at it with your rifle seems 100x better, even if that isn’t terribly effective, you at least don’t kill yourself.

O, well. 🌻

It continues to gather interest. If you don’t pay it down, you will have a larger loan in the future.

Pay your debt.