I think you’re missing the point. You’re asking for due process rather than a redo. I’m pointing out that an election from 8 years ago with known interference faced no real consequences as once they are in power, the consequences go away.

Minitel it

Yes, it’s a worry. However, look at America where Russian election interference led to Trump. Then he did illegal things was impeached but is now reelected and faces no consequences as he was able to slow walk the courts.

Yes, I agree, but doing nothing is a problem too. I didn’t follow the court case, but I assume the fact that this came from the court means there was due process.

I think the problem is less that he has campaign finance issues, more that there is a foreign government purposely undermining free elections in another country.

True, but also allowing foreign interference in elections is also not confidence inspiring. Especially when it’s unnoticed and surreptitiously done.

Now people will get a closer look at him, he might get votes again, he might not. Either way, Russia won.

The warning is no longer in effect.

Quelle surprise? Israel can’t be trusted? Who knew?

What’s awful is that by supporting Israel with arms and not acting to enforce ICC and ceasefire agreements and stop genocide, it makes it more likely that other rogue nations do the same with impunity.

How can international pressure on China to stop crimes against humanity be effective if western countries support Israel’s repeated breaches and genocide. How can Russian sanctions be taken seriously while Austria still has banking there and Europe buys their gas?

There’s realpolitik and double standards. We’re in the second and it’s deteriorating. Likely, it will accelerate with Trump. Not just in America but in countries going their own way and so more likely to be in conflict, leading to more armed conflict.

Like, what would they do if he broke the contract? He’s likely a huge fan and genuinely loved it. That not to say it’s great, just that a terminally I’ll super fan loved it.

Nanotechnology exists. Not in vaccines, but it’s still a thing.

Shit out of luck

Although it should have ruined his eligibility to be elected.

Failing that, his party should have kept him off the ballot.

Failing that, it should have ruined his ability to campaign.

Failing that it should have meant he was deemed a poor candidate and received few votes.

Yet here we are with rapists, crooks and fearmongers in control of government with the safeguards removed.

I’ve never really used Linux as a daily driver. Back in the same Ubuntu period as you, intrialled it but got sick of software compatibility problems. So much is cloud web based these days, that it’s less of an issue.

What surprised me as a distro hopped looking for my home laptop flavourz was how different it was to install different software, such as docker. Some distros it was a hassle to run well. Some it needed workarounds, whichh surprised me.

So, I’d look at what you plan to run, then decide between opensuse, pop, mint or fedora and how easy they support what you want to do. I dipped back into Ubuntu but they have started to make some m$ style choices where you have to take back control as they try to make your PC act like they want not how you want.

All can be made to support whatever you want but not all do our of the box.

Yes, when China first started supporting Russia, much commentary noted that and made the point that Russia was desperate for allies and products and China anted to increase influence, so could use the increased relationship to their advantage to exert control over Russia, through the use of financial tools.

Yes, nobody wants tariffs, but China is already facing them from USA, so they are more at risk.bthe EU won’t want retaliation from China but they also don’t want Russia to continue to affect their economy and stability. China would have to choose and they would choose Europe as they are not natural allies with Russia anyway, and Russia won’t buy much off them. China needs huge amounts of resources, some of which Russia has, but they are moving away from fossil fuels faster than europe and USA and Russia.

Likely economically. Currently China will be wary of USA sanctions on trump and Russia having favour from trump. They won’t want to be on the outside o while their economy is already slowing down.

My dad was going grey, so my brother bought him ‘just for men’ hair dye, which he opened at the Christmas dinner table with the entire family. He was about 9. We still laugh about it.

Good job on not serving her. Unfortunately in service culture where the customer is always right, there often is no blowback from customers being rude or unreasonable. There needs to be pushback, even small victories are still a win.

Which goes back to the point about France and Germany being able to control the momentum with a third of the population.

Yes, you can choose to lay out your wishes. Many do, just like opt in or opt out organ donation. However, if you don’t lay out your wishes, you will still end up buried or cremated or something similar without consent.

I’m not saying that’s wrong. We can’t just leave dead bodies where they lie. It also provides comfort to families to practice burial rites. My point is that technically you are still making decisions about what to do with somebodies body parts without consent, as they can no longer consent. Is there really a difference? If they care that much, will they just opt out?

I know some countries, they used to let you specify which organs, but then people opted out of eyes. So they removed the option and it was just donor or not. People still consented, without opting out of eyes. Is that better, or is that manipulating consent?

We don’t get their consent to be buried or cremated or whatever else people do with the remaining bodies of their loved ones. It’s just opt out. Why should organ donation, which provides a societal and personal benefit be different?