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1·2 hours agoI wrote a longer reply to this, but my browser ate it. Short version:
- You’re right about the West’s treatment of Ukraine. Read Dan Ellsberg’s writing about “the stalemate machine” for a look at how it works, written by someone who worked inside the places where these decisions get made.
- You keep claiming no one in Ukraine wants to fight, but their military is killing Russians at a pace that far exceeds what militaries where no one wants to fight would be able to accomplish. I keep making this point, and you keep ignoring it and just repeating your talking points.
Here’s your dose of general Ukraine postings:
https://ponder.cat/post/1528372
I can’t decide which Ukraine-specific RSS feed to create and promote. I think it should just be one for now, multiple isn’t necessary. Which one do you think I should pick?
Ah, I got it. Yeah, it makes sense, WP.com is moderately likely to keep working fine probably, it’s just that it would make me nervous at this stage. I just don’t think he can do anything to really “punish” Bluehost if they’re using his software in some way that displeases him. WPEngine’s mistake was getting tangled up into a business relationship where they were depending on listings and APIs and things. Although, it probably seemed like a good idea until their business counterpart went off the deep end.
Yeah but why would the company run by the crazy person be the only safe place?
It’s open source. Just find a different host that isn’t run by a known unstable human. Literally any other. That would be my feeling on it, at least.
Yes yes this is a very good point, stay well clear of Wordpress.com, Automattic, or any similar nonsense. All I meant by “Wordpress hosting” was managed hosting from some third-party place like Bluehost or Hostinger. The software is fine, it’s all open source and the worst that will happen is 6 months from now, it’s not getting a lot of feature updates because the core company that was making it has imploded completely, and someone from the community has taken over security updates.
But yes you need to stay clear of the clusterfuck while it’s going on. Don’t use Wordpress.com or anything adjacent to it.
Edit: Wait, I didn’t even read closely enough. Why would Wordpress.com be safe? I had some vague impression it was connected with Automattic in some way, although I’m not sure, maybe it is just one of the third-party companies. I just feel like anything that’s in any way adjacent to Automattic or anything “official” about Wordpress would be best avoided for a while.
Yeah. I’ve run plenty of services from a computer sitting in someone’s office, or in my living room, while they’re in-production-while-in-development. Sometimes it makes sense. But it’s just not something you want to deliberately aim for as the solution. What if the power goes out? What if your motherboard dies? What if the toilet overflows when you’re not there, and floods the place?
Just get a dedicated service and pay them their $10/month and have them worry about all that crap for you.
It’ll be vastly cheaper and easier to just get hosting somewhere.
Wordpress hosting (edit: THIRD PARTY Wordpress hosting, Bluehost and Hostinger are decent I think, see below) is fine for most small businesses and starts at about $10/mo. You can go fancier and more reliable and go up to $30/mo or something, or if you really need your own VPS you can go with Vultr or Hostinger and get a pretty similar price range for pretty much whatever you want to do.
I think the only reason to self-host is if you have some crazy special hardware or legal issue, or your own dev stuff that you don’t want/need to push to “the cloud” to put it online. Otherwise it’s such a buyer’s-choice market that it’s hard to justify.
1·17 hours agoIn a less off topic place: https://ponder.cat/post/1504920/1735536
Here’s my reply to your comment elsewhere, off topic:
he wished he could live in Russia
I would only ever travel out of there once and never come back. I’m just envy that they can leave freely if they don’t like anything. We don’t have such option.
You said “I said it has open borders which is factually true. Also, last summer they paid their conscripts in Moscow 22k$ for a contract. Regarding “human rights”, well, lets try to count human rights. We don’t have the right to criticise our government and we don’t have the right to leave the country. Russians don’t have the right to criticize their government but they do have the right to leave the country. They also pretty much free to walk their cities and participate in whatever activities present there unlike our conscription-aged men who are only really allowed to participate in war.” Sounds like you envy a lot more about it than just the ability to leave.
paid thugs coming in rough up anyone who opposed it
I never said that.
You said “Apparently a lot of those far-right NGOs who were “the muscles” of Maidan were funded by west.” In general, you seem to think that without “the West”, Maidan would never have succeeded, which given how little the West as a whole cares about Ukraine is pretty laughable. But it’s hard for me to interpret this combination any other way than that the “muscles” were helping it succeed, and it wasn’t a genuine people’s movement.
Ukraine’s military was corrupt and mismanaging the war
Our government admit this and talk about it every day, yet they only fight each other and don’t do anything to fix it.
“Your” government has fended off an enemy which is outspending and outmanning it by more than an order of magnitude. Of course, this kind of thing happens sometimes with empires, but usually if the little country is incompetent, it stops working the instant that US troops leave the country.
I made this point, and you made a weird non sequitur about “caldrons” that didn’t really seem to grasp the core point that I was making.
I’m not really interested in the conversation anymore, I just wanted to respond since you made some specific points accusing me of misrepresenting you. That’s what you said, maybe my summary was sloppy. I’m just mostly not interested in what you have to say anymore, to be honest.
Also:
he wishes he could be in Russia where he could get $22k for signing up with the military
You’re again making things up about what I said. Also, you keep failing to understand the motives even though I explained them. You can just read it again more carefully.
You said, “And payment is laughable anyway. It would be really easy to boost morale if government decided to end forced conscription and paid to volunteers more than russia does. And it also could probably help to stabilize the frontlines. Given how much they steal I’m pretty sure they have more than enough money to pay more than russians 22k$ to volunteers as a single-time payment.”
Maybe you’re right, my summary was pretty inaccurate there. It sounded to me like you were pining for the higher pay, similar to my “envy” quotation above, but it’s true you didn’t explicitly say it.
Like I say, I’m mostly done, just wanted to respond to the accusation that I was lying about what you said.
Actually, that would be an excellent addition. And, for the thumbnail, just include Musk’s salute, with no further explanation or anything other than the straight facts.
Hello again!
For context, this dude wandered into a comments section about a group of female Ukrainian partisans who are doing low-level resistance in occupied parts of Ukraine, obviously at significant personal risk to themselves. You can find some of their propaganda posters, which are spectacular, in my history. Here’s a sample:
This dude’s comment on the partisans was:
I’m sorry girls, that’s all cool and I like the vibe, but I’m not going to fight for you (I would never fight for people I don’t even know personally tbh). Currently I’m not leaving my appartment and waiting for it to be over to be able to leave this country in peace. Those girls though, it’s not like they can’t leave the Crimea. And actually, it’s not like they can’t go to Ukraine-controlled territories and mobilize there and go to the frontlines if they really care for this country so much.
I thought that was hilarious, in a disgusting sort of way, so I started talking with him. It turns out he lives in Kyiv, everyone in Ukraine hates the war and the government, he wishes he could be in Russia where he could get $22k for signing up with the military, which he keeps bringing up from time to time. We’re going around an apparently never ending cycle of various important things I need to understand about the truth of what’s happening in Ukraine.
Of course it would be ever so beastly for me to suggest he isn’t actually posting truth that’s been denied to me, about Ukraine, from his apartment in Kyiv. And continuing the argument here would be off topic, so I won’t do either of those things. I’ll respond to his reply back somewhere in the ever growing labyrinth of conversation under the original post.
Also, a twofer, since I fell behind at posting Ukraine stuff every time you left me a comment:
You didn’t reply again, but I decided to get ahead of it a little bit, in case you decided to:
Very much bullshitting. He kept bringing up the $20k bonus for signing up as a contract soldier for Russia, and said they wished that kind of deal in Ukraine. Euromaidan was a Western psyop, with paid thugs coming in rough up anyone who opposed it, Ukraine’s military was corrupt and mismanaging the war, he wished he could live in Russia and travel freely, lots of exciting stuff.
Eventually, what I told him was that as long as he sent me comment replies filled with bullshit, I was planning on making posts that contradicted his narrative, so the sum total of influence each of his comments would have on the narrative would be against his favored position. I posted the Euromaidan article to !wikipedia@lemmy.world and sent him the link. Weirdly enough, he suddenly hasn’t been interested in talking about it any further since then.
Edit: Typo
It’s just hard to tell man. I was talking with someone who was a real life human person living in Kyiv, and he was filling me in on all kinds of things about what the citizens of Ukraine REALLY think is important to know about the war, that sounded a lot like satire.
It’s got to be, right? With the misspelling of “genocide” as the little nod that lets you know they’re imitating a profoundly stupid point of view.
I can’t even tell if this is satire. If it’s not, you need to dial it back.
Anything specifically targeting women (women in leadership, etc.)
Hooooly fuck.
They’re really not hiding it anymore. Well, I guess that’s not new, but still, holy fuck. This might be some malicious compliance from NASA administrators or something.
Oh yeah, the muscles came with their thick skulls and brutally assaulted the batons of the berkut and titushky.
Get fucked. I think how I’m going to start to deal with it when people start commenting bullshit to me, is to start to make posts about the accurate side of the matter, so that the sum total impact of you talking with me will be the spread of a lot more accurate information, instead of anything achieving your actual goal.
https://ponder.cat/post/1518838
Have fun! Tell me more about these far-right NGOs. Which NGOs, and about how many of their “muscles” were in the protests in 2013?
Either that or go whole-hog the other direction.
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Ukrainian ladies would be very disappointed in you.
The US State Department (more so than USAID, although I’m sure they were in Ukraine) was certainly involved in Maidan. They didn’t create all those people in the streets. Those same crowds of people are out fighting against the Russians right now.
Just give it a rest. Russians can fuck off and go home. That’s peace.
You have to start somewhere.
The people of this country have been, for the most part, just sitting back and letting the politicians run everything, and that definitely isn’t working. If people are going to do something about it, the first step is getting off the couch and going and meeting some other people who want to do something about it.