Does lifting sanctions on a country that you’re at war with the smart thing to do? Literally helps to fund their enemy.

Also:

Energy analysts, including Brent Erickson, a managing principal at Obsidian Risk Advisors, have said the administration’s efforts to control prices would not have a meaningful impact until the strait is opened to vessels.

They even lifted sanctions on Iranian oil

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/20/us-sanctions-iranian-oil

They’re doing great

Every time I see Kagi mentioned I need to remind that they’re using Yandex index, therefore supporting Russia directly. http://kagifeedback.org/d/5445-reconsider-yandex-integration-due-to-the-geopolitical-status-quo

Do what you want with that info. I did not get enough value out of them to pay a monthly fee + support this BS.

Hmm maybe i’ll do something similar. I was thinking recently of using a new alias when doing purchases online but haven’t decided yet. Kinda don’t want to over-complicate things you know?

You mean Lazy

Harpoon 2 — Mark up to 4 files and jump between them instantly. Once you start using this, you can’t go back.

You can replace harpoon with native argslist, if you don’t need any advanced features. Works great for me. Interesting that you feel the need to use both Harpoon and Snipe, though. I max put like 4 different buffers into “Harpoon” and if I need to navigate elsewhere I just use my picker (mini.pick) to search through files or grep for words.

Lazy-load everything. Most plugins don’t need to load until you actually use them.

If you don’t have a lot of heavy plugins IMO you don’t really need to lazy load. Ever since I switched to 0.12 (lazy -> native pack) I don’t lazy load anything and honestly I see absolutely no difference and you avoid a lot of the complexity.

vim-commentary — gcc to comment a line. Classic.

This is native in nvim already.

auto-session — Restores your buffers and layout when you reopen a project.

You can also achieve this with native nvim functionality if you don’t need anything complex.

nvim-ufo — Better code folding with treesitter.

I’m curious why the need for this vs native functionality?

That’s my philosophy. The more unprocessed, whole, plant based, the better.

Exactly why I only use email aliases for newsletters and stuff

EU is going down the same path. The “EU alternative” stuff is just bogus. It’s just a matter of time before EU starts doing the same.

It’s not bogus if you are yourself European or if the alternative is Big Tech. But I feel you. There are lots of shitty European companies that are not that much better. I avoided the switch to Spotify because even though they are “European” they gave a lot of money to Joe Rogan and to Trump on his inauguration.

Also, the EU did recently reject the chat control proposal so at least that’s something…

Konsole from what I recall isn’t GPU accelerated so it’s noticeably slower. https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/performance/ (metrics might be a bit outdated by now) I recommend Kitty.

What a friendly country! And people think i’m crazy when I try to avoid buying Chinese stuff as much as I can.

Satellite communications giant Viasat was also compromised, allowing hackers to gain access to tools used by law enforcement to access the communications of others.

Yeah let’s keep installing surveillance backdoors guys it’s safe surely.

https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116200110686604617 here you go

Because it isn‘t a single state?

Yes. How can you be a superpower when a single country like Hungary can veto important decisions?

It doesn’t even have it’s own army. Only 27 separate militaries with different languages, commanders, equipment and it relies on US-led NATO for security.

For all the recent announcements, Europe has little strategic autonomy. Military capacity is outsourced to Washington, technology platforms are American, energy reliance has shifted from Russian gas to American liquefied natural gas, and the dollar’s reserve role leaves European economies exposed to decisions made in the White House. Europe never built the political architecture to address any of this. The fundamental question remains unanswered: is this economic integration to manage a single market, or political integration with genuine collective agency? Decades of deferring that answer have left Europe divided, dependent, and sidelined.

The EU’s Single Market is still large and wealthy enough that it routinely forces the US and China to adapt to its rules. That is a massive form of global influence.

Also, multilateralism isn’t the EU trying to unilaterally enforce rules against the USA, China, Russia and so on. It’s the EU teaming up with other like-minded middle powers (like Japan, Canada, Australia, Brazil, etc.), and international institutions to create diplomatic and economic costs for rule-breakers. But if EU is inconsistent in this regard (like it was with US Iran situation) no one will take it seriously. Rules cannot apply only when it’s convenient to you. That is what the author was pointing out.

But you’re not wrong. He’s approaching the issue from a Liberal Institutionalist perspective, while you’re viewing it through the lens of Structural Realism. Both valid perspectives. One point that both of you will agree on is that EU needs to get independent from the US ASAP.

EU is not a superpower like US Or China. Mid-sized powers rely on international law and multilateralism to survive and exert influence. If the world devolves into a purely “might makes right” arena (which the author argues Trump is doing), Europe inevitably loses.

Thanks for posting peertube, made me sign up and try the platform out. Way better than I expected huh.

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Would be great to see adjusted to population size

Had no clue you could do this with neovim! Nice.

But MR.PRESIDENT said he and Putin are good friends