Monero is built as a privacy first crypto. Essentially it’s like cash in many ways. You spend it in the shop and nobody knows where the cash you’re handing over came from. When you get your change at the till you know nothing about who had the cash before you that you just got handed. It’s just money.

This is all handled by a bunch of very complex cryptography. If it comes to it there are ways to prove you sent the money etc but only you have that capability to decide to share.

Ah the UK and EU are inexorably intertwined. Don’t stress too much. We’re still best buds.

Europe has been fucking pumping money into Ukraine. Now we need to start pumping arms in. It is ludicrous to imagine that this hasn’t been prepared for. The only question is whether our arms production capacity will be enough or ramp up quickly enough.

Financially absolutely. We do not have the military industrial complex to replace the armaments that the US has been providing however.

I’m sure Ukraine has been preparing for this eventually but I really fear for them and the medium term consequences for us all if Putin gets his way in this war. :(

Well that’s fucking terrifying. Project 1997.

Jesus Christ that last thought hadn’t even entered my head. I can’t see Poland or the Baltics putting up with that though.

FML.

And don’t forget his impeachment over Ukraine too. He is going to fuck them hard. I really hope Europe can pick up the slack on arms production quickly.

Quite a bump. That was a really good card at the time.

Nvidia Riva 128 AGP with 4 megs of ram. I will never ever forget when they released hardware accelerated opengl drivers and I played Quake GL for the first time. It was hitting 120fps and looked absolutely beautiful compared to the software rendered games I’d played up to that point.

True enough but I feel like English has more quirks than other languages though I acknowledge that may be bias.

I used to have near fluent Irish way back when and I don’t recall any shenanigans like this (again I acknowledge I may not have been presented with them). I feel like most other languages have a more clearly defined set of pronunciation rules too.

Irish looks horrific (Siobhán is shiv-awn for example) but very very closely follows pronunciation rules so that pronunciation would be no surprise to a native reading it for the first time. English sure as fuck does not follow rules like that.

Near. Neat. Book. Boot. Etc.

(Some small subset of Irish folks do say “boo-k” though)

Perhaps. Regardless it’s outlandish abuse of the tongue IMO and definitely would benefit from the comma because nobody’s going to just bang out 4 had’s in a row in speech without a pause without a justifiable slap across the chops and possibly a challenge to a duel.

“But your honour, he said ‘had’ four times on the trot without pause”

“Case dismissed”

You’re welcome. :) Took me a minute tbh. Not sure if the wine I’ve had helped or hindered. It’s 2:30am here.

It needs a comma.

All the good faith I had had, had had no effect.

Essentially “all the food faith I previously had, didn’t have any effect”.

Good God English is an awful language.

A king won’t though. That’s why they’re gone. Another dodge.

There are about two people on here who wouldn’t say “fuck Henry Kissinger”.

What a massive load of shite. The fucking smell of boot polish off your breath is disgusting.

Jog on.

Same. Have mine about 18 months. Never once connected to the internet. Great device.

I really enjoyed it but fuck me the callbacks really took away from it. Like it’s a decent movie, just stand on your own. We’ve all seen Aliens.

Do you mind me asking where you saw that? I’ve a heap of shorts in my watchlist but can never find any of them anywhere.

Very. US troops obviously have lots of experience fighting insurgency style and ridiculously good hardware, logistics etc. but Ukraine have very hard earned experience in near peer conflict with drones and so on.

Soldier for soldier, Ukraine probably has the best troops in the world right now for the kind of conflicts that are unfortunately looming.

I think this is a bug in Lemmy. Saw someone else mention it recently. I believe a fix is coming.