Not true. I thought so too, but apparently it was a guarantee to:

• respect Ukraine’s territory (which Russia vialoted, the US didn’t)

• bring any violations to the UN security council (which was done, but with Russia having veto power, useless)

That being said, I agree that any treaty with the US is absolutely worthless, we can ask Greenland about that.

The security guarantees won’t be worth the paper they are written on.

If you are going to swap the GPU, prices should be irrelevant, as you will get more money for your GPU when selling if they go up.

Chuckles in x200s with 8GB of RAM since 2009…

The modules yes, but ram is bought on the chip level. If the modules are never built, the chips can be reused in normal dimms.

Worst case we get a new HBM dimm format :D

Linux uses “free” ram for caching, so it’s not really wasted.

Well, they didn’t do much about guns then and they’re not doing much about anything now.

In the UK, the guy who recommended a guy who appeared on the files, just resigned. In the US the top pedo is president and people just continue to going to work and living their lives.

You see it here on lemmy too, which is even more politically active as the average person. Distance, money, health insurance… any excuses.

See what French people do every time they want to raise their retirement age.

Nobody else was so loud and obnoxious about guns. Kids need to die for the right to have guns. Theater goers need to die. Church attendants, festival dancers, more kids, some more kids, another church, some university students…

Now? Crickets.

I bought my first apartment when interest rates were around 1% (the 2010s were wild). I paid 30% less every month to the bank than a comparable rent, utilities excluded in both.

On top of that, the payment was 40% interest and 60% went towards the principal, so basically investing.

To put it in numbers, imagine the apartment you like is 1000 euros a month in rent. You decide to buy. Now you pay 700 euros to the bank each month, of which 300 is interest and 400 is paying down the loan, so you will probably get it back if/when you sell it. You “lose” 300 euros am month instead of 1000.

Another example, buying a car to go to work (or any other tool). If you don’t have cash but need a car, getting a loan and being able to work is better than not having debt but being unable to work.

I found it funny. In a bizarre, Wtf kind of way, but funny nonetheless.

I honestly think it made me smarter. Not, in like a book smart way. But just having a better sense of reality.

that people don’t just go […] rent a dvd instead.

Superb sense of reality, grandpa.

So potassium AND kompromat, huh?

They can’t even climb mount everest!!1!

Couldn’t be in the Netherlands, any terrorist ebike is preventively thrown into the canal. Every other ebike too, just in case.

I’m guessing they don’t throw the cars into a landfill, they resell them (maybe to other countries) so people who can’t afford a new electric car then buy them and reduce the gas consumed even more.

Land of the free.

Police can walk into your house without a warrant.

Police can sieze any property without a warrant (civil forfeiture)

Police can shoot your dog, or yourself, if they “feel threatened”.

If, despite all they can do, the do something they can’t, they get a few weeks of paid vacation.

Land of the free.

Oil executives are able to get the US government to invade other countries and dismantle functioning public transport, domestic auto sales are a piece of cake.

At least 1.

Don’t let perfection be the enemy of progress.

Also, in Norway some people live 5km from their nearest neighbor. Oslo has pretty good public transport, I guess most other cities do as well.

Because of the implication?