Most likely not. The US track record isn’t great regarding unionization.

I bet the board would rather pay 100 times more than what meeting the workers demands would cost, just to fight this and stop it from spreading.

Maybe it’s time for the board of directors to review the CEO’s strategy the last 10-20 years and reevaluate if just focusing on payout to shareholders and bonuses for your management actually was a great long term strategy…

Yeah… While making users run Linux applications on a system where Google is root might be a wet dream for Google, it’s more of a nightmare for me.

I really hate the fact that the vast majority of consumers are perfectly fine with not being in full control of their appliances and that Google (and others) register everything they do.

Well… India is still a partner so Putin still has that…

TBF because of Europe, Russian earnings per cubic ton of delivered gas have decreased substantially.

So while Europe have been working against Russia being able to finance their aggression against Ukraine, India’s actions this far has strengthened Russia ability to continue to target Ukrainian civilians.

The Russian aggression against Ukraine is less of an European proxy war than a Russian aggression against Europe.

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, prompting western sanctions, India has imported large volumes of discounted Russian oil.

India paid money for Russian oil. Money that they knew would finance bombs killing Ukrainian civilians.

India is a true “friend”…

Did anybody bother to look at the numbers?

I checked the stats for the last 4 years here and it looks really strange. Statistics isn’t my thing… But it looks like it’s wise to be cautious and not to fully trust the numbers.

Around the beginning of last year there was a huge dip in the Windows market share that seemed to be correlating with a peek in “unknown”. Windows then catched up in a somewhat erratic way.

Mac OS also shows a weird behavior. Starts at 16%, up to 21% and the down to 14% between October and November…

It’s not likely that a huge number of people decided to buy a Mac and then trash it one month later. Same but opposite goes for the windows stats.

I think it looks like there is an uncertainty of more than the total market share Linux is shown to have…

Not saying that Linux isn’t increasing on desktop market share. Just saying that numbers seen to have quite a bit error margin and to be cautious if referring to these numbers.

The people of Bucha got a taste of the “Russian spiritual and moral values” and we will not forget!

Ukraine doesn’t have to threaten Russia as a whole.

Ukraine can already reach quite deep into Russia. As Ukraine advances deeper into Russia, the deeper can they strike.

It’s not just cannon fodder that Putin has to redistribute. For example, hw much air defence do you think Ukraine will find the further they advance from the frontline in the contested areas?

Russia has to move air defence closer to important infrastructure in places they didn’t have to protect before. That air defence has to be taken from somewhere. My bets are not on Russia having a shitload of air defence units elsewhere that they can afford moving away from wherever they currently are.

Every unit of Russian air defence moved from Ukraine back home to Russia is making Ukraine closer to attack the Russian supply lines of the front lines. That’s just one of all the things Putin is facing right now because of Ukraine advancing into Russia.

You’re right, Ukraine doesn’t have the luxury of time and men but they are surely hurting Russia badly with what they have. Even if the risk of Ukraine losing more than just the contested areas is big, they do not sell themselves cheaply.

Russia will pay for years and years for the “3-4 days to Kiev”.

Putin will always be in the history books as the only one that has united so many European countries…

While the Ukrainian attack has revealed weaknesses in Russian defences and changed the public narrative of the conflict, Russian officials said Ukraine’s “terrorist invasion” would not change the course of the war.

The tone in official Russian statements the last 2-3 weeks tells us something completely different.

Shit ain’t fun no more when it shows that Ukraine were able to choose allies that are better than China, India and Iran, right?

Things might still end badly for Ukraine but they will not end up selling themselves cheap. Even if Russia were able to gain full control over Ukraine, the cost of keeping the control is way too high compared to what Russia can afford.

The Russian version of Lemmy

…or auto correct 😁

Can we agree on him not being capable of doing anything gracefully? 😁

This is no problem for Russia since their economy is booming! As the tankies on Lenny repeatedly has reminded me, sanctions has no effect att all!

The latest national numbers I saw was Harris 48 / Trump 47. That’s not “Trump looking like he’s going to lose badly”.

Everyone in Russia is so rich that generals don’t need to be generals anymore.

Bodyguard has to take general jobs because the Russian economy is booming!

No, there’s not just two perspectives. There are multiple perspectives and all but one align.

Fake news! The Russian economy is booming!

This is not a sign of recession coming! It’s just a special economy operation!

It’s not an invasion!

It’s a special military operation…

I also heard that it would just take them 3-4 days to secure Kiev…