All I've got to tell her is,

Golly gee whiz, girl, it almost sounds like you MAYBE would have been a lot better off if you STAYED THE FUCK OUT OF UKRAINE.

When (OR IF) you do get out, do yourself the biggest favor in your pathetic loser life and DON'T COME BACK.

Well they can listen to my voice when I say this:

no thanks

I don't want to be blind to it. I want to be able to snipe it from ten kilometers away.

I want that apple even more now.

Gee what a shock.

Color me surprised with a marker that is BONE. FUCKING. DRY.

whether or not code works is not the only factor in determining whether or not the code is actually any good.

it is a critical factor, but not the only.

Not only should code work, but HOW it works and WHY it works must also be understood for those inevitable scenarios when it malfunctions OR when refactors and adjustments must be made to adapt to changing production conditions.

When it comes to "vibed" code, no sapient being was involved with its creation, nor knows its internal mechanics.

And if you simply ask a chatbot to figure it out for you, gods only know what it'll hallucinate without comprehending anything and say, with what sounds like impeccable confidence, that "it works". if it manages to fool you with a one-off 'demo' scenario and you ship that code, only for it to proverbially self destruct on contact with any actual tasking...

...congratulations. you played yourself.

well NOW they are probably just straight up banning you for ban evasion so that's more motive to ban someone than they even usually care to have.

same vibe as arresting someone for resisting arrest

in Israeli Military Parlance, each of those words translate to "Hamas"

Department of defeat.

There is a reason beers have case sizes.

If you buy a standard case of beer, you can both partake of it at your own pace. If there is any left, you may keep it for enjoying later, or invite him to take what remains with him when the visit ends!

i am, it turns out, not male (it was a surprise to me honestly x3 but not THAT much of a surprise in retrospect...) so my example is probably not demonstrative; but when beer is available I will usually happily drink exactly two throughout a given Social Engagement day.

for real, thank you for that, it's honestly reassuring x.x;

corpos are virulently, malignantly predatory and untrustworthy. remember when a music label got sued for literally installing malware on the computers anyone played their discs in?

i suspect they're doing some other shady shit to track you. wonder if it'll still do that if you go to a public library and install it there.

my job uses a vpn too, although i don't know why; for some reason my reported dirtspace location as far as network stuff goes is like 300 miles away from me >.> but for some reason i ain't blocked or banned despite an old account of mine catching a permanent suspension

killing that account was kind of an impulsive act... and i have two other accounts that were both registered from drastically different places, and on different machines. so, i dunno, maybe these are all contributing factors to just not having any traceable meta-data that could establish a pattern sufficient for their automated systems.

... The "leadership" in Russia is so incompetent and malevolent they might just launch nukes out of spite. They'll hide away in their bunkers in siberia and tell each other, "if we can't have the world, then no one can." If Hitler could've caused the entire eastern seaboard of the United States to spontaneously melt into radioactive glass at the push of a button, you must realize that he would push it right before shooting himself.

yeah scalzi friggin rules! :D

the problem with relying on "mutually assured destruction" is that it requires presupposing rational actors on all sides. But when an oligarch starts to accept that their adventurous life of debauchery, decadence, violence, and obscenity in all three realms is no longer going to continue, i don't think they even CARE about how anyone else feels or whatever happens after they're gone.

so, yeah, i think they WOULD in fact nuke europe. Possibly even chuck 'em at every NATO nation because they keep beating the dead horse of claiming that ukraine is being puppeted by NATO.

It would be nice if it turned out that whoever is sitting in the missile silo command centers has better morals than the scum fleshwastes who are in charge, evading armageddon via conscientious objection AGAIN just like that one time a radar malfunction over the northern arctic almost caused russia to preemptive strike the united states back during the cold war but for ONE DUDE who decided he wouldn't make the call that could end the world.

it's lowkey akin to a narcissist's 'extinction burst'. they're losing everything so they blow up and burn it all, shrieking incoherently from their quivering ball of white hot impotent rage "YoU mAdE mE dO tHiS!1!!!11one!1!1!1"

EDIT:

BUT FOR REAL, ALL THAT SAID, I don't even really disagree with you THAT much. Because if it IS a rational actor, they probably WOULD decide as you predict...

... IF a rational actor x.x

cringe.

the only people who make an ideology this much their personality are conservatoids with their trump brand socks and underwear and steaks and watches and phone and framed holographic print of a signed portrait of Trump hanging higher on their wall than the cross they pretend to carry.

Don't steal my food unless you're prepared to taste defeat.
Gonna serve up a knuckle sandwich with a side of just desserts.

...
I feel dumb that it took me so long to comprehend it, but, just in case there's anyone else struggling:

This Mac user is running Linux in a virtual machine within a Windows virtual machine ._.

And something inside me seems to be screaming.

The sound feels as though it's emanating from roughly where I used to think my soul would have been.

Zelenskyy did it. Ukraine would no longer exist as a sovereign nation today if he didn't; it would have been entirely annexed into Russia right now.