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I wrote a long post about technicalities of becoming a contractor in the UK
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Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?idβ¦
Having the worst support experience, and out of all the companies it's @AppleSupport. After being held for 2 months for a "senior" support specialist, one gets assigned and responds with a generic solution that doesn't help, seems like they didn't ever read what my problem is :(
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Angel investing is just gambling where the guys who get dealt a royal flush start podcasts.
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Enrolling to Apple Developer program has been the most frustrating experience I've had with Apple so far.
I'm getting blocked literally every step of the way, sometimes needing to schedule a call with a "senior support specialist" to get through it.
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This is like one of those audio journals you find on a corpse in a sci-fi horror game
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In the last 100 years, Russia has attacked at least 19 countries, some as many as three or four times. None of those countries has ever attacked Russia.
- Kaja Kallas
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"When I hear that Ukraine is supposed to hold elections, I respond that Russia should also commit to holding free and fair elections, which they haven't had for 25 years. We need to shift the focus to where the real problem lies." - Kaja Kallas.
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk just dropped a truth bomb. Heβs calling out the 'wait-and-see' crowd in Europe. Either we send the money to stop putin in Ukraine today, or our own kids will be bleeding on the frontlines tomorrow. No more excuses.
"Now we have a simple choice: either money today or blood tomorrow. And Iβm not just talking about Ukraine. Iβm talking about Europe, and this is our decision, and only ours. I think that all European leaders must finally rise to this occasion. And thatβs all I can say today." Tusk said in Brussels.
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This shows what it means to be a democracy and part of the European Union: Lithuaniaβs GDP per capita is $29.3K, while Belarusβs is just $8.3K.
Belarus could be where Lithuania is today β if not for dictatorship and the eternal Moscow yoke around its neck.
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βοΈVery important point by Lithuanian National Defence Minister DovilΔ Ε akalienΔ @DSakaliene:
For Russia, strategic dilemmas are its tools, its weapons. Russia is very good at creating strategic dilemmas for us. Are we finally ready to create strategic dilemmas for Russia?
The strategic dilemma is not less reward or more reward. The strategic dilemma is more pain or less pain. Therefore, until Russia feels that it will suffer consequences of its war of aggression that would impair its ability to expand its military power, everything else is just talk.
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The EU is on the verge of becoming a police state without any privacy, and its citizens donβt seem to care.
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EUβs Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe.
signal.org/blog/pdfs/germanyβ¦
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If a Russian jet is shot down in NATO airspace today β historians will say that Russia started the war, in 2022. There is no need to let Putin gaslight us into allowing him into our airspace "to prevent war". But if we fear our own strength, we will become victims of Russia's.
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So google maps updated some satellite footage, hereβs one single Ukrainian village. One out of thousands
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The only way Russian aggression doesnβt happen again is if itβs defeated in Ukraine. Putin has turned Russia into a war economy and cannot and will not reverse it. The only cure is losing militarily in Ukraine and overwhelming sanctions. Anything less is a short pause at best.
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With all due respect to Europeans emphasising that Ukrainians and Europeans βneed to be at the tableβ β yes, I agree. But to achieve what?
As U.S. Secretary of State George P. Shultz famously said: βNegotiations are a euphemism for capitulation if the shadow of power is not cast across the bargaining table.β
What have we achieved in the last six months that would strengthen Ukraine's position? What shadow are we prepared to cast?
Or is this just one more episode in the attempt to lead us into accepting Ukraine's capitulation?