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401  Economy / Economics / Re: Europe Will be first to use Stablecoins and btc crypto on: September 01, 2023, 04:42:25 PM
EU countries will allow the use and use of cryptocurrencies and stablecoins based on the recommendations of the FATF and the development of their own experience on the conditions for their circulation, but they will never replace their own currency, the euro. The European Union is not looking for an alternative to the euro, as there is no need for it. Moreover, they will not replace the euro with cryptocurrency or stablecoins. Difficulties sometimes arise with all the currencies of the world, but this phenomenon is temporary.

Due to Russia's military invasion of Ukraine and the need to impose various economic sanctions against the aggressor, the costs of the EU countries have increased. However, this is a working moment and they are compensated by other introduced measures and mechanisms. Therefore, I see no reason to panic.
402  Economy / Economics / Re: Elon Musk and others urge AI pause, citing 'risks to society' on: September 01, 2023, 08:52:43 AM
As someone who looked into AI before, to see if it will take my job away or not, I can easily tell you that AI is nowhere near that level at all. You can start using the image ones these days for some stuff, but this is more like a tool instead of a weapon. Its not there to make you lose your job, its not there to attack you neither, its there to help you, probably in the future and not right now because its not that great at the moment. Just recently there was a person who asked me to write articles with AI, I rejected because I do not have any time left after my work is done, well I do have some time left but I rather spend that relaxing instead. So all in all I can easily say that AI is there, slowly used by professionals, but just like how photoshop existing didn't make designers obsolete, this will not neither. Its not going to hurt you, its nowhere near that, its just a software to use, just like any other we use daily.
In relation to the opportunities and threats from artificial intelligence, humanity has no right to make a mistake. AI can greatly help a person, but it can also destroy humanity. Even if there is the smallest possibility of such destruction, it must be taken very seriously and the most stringent measures necessary must be taken to ensure that this never happens. Therefore, people should develop clear uniform rules for working with AI and not allow it to make decisions in areas where such a threat to a person can be real.
All AI must have a clear program that would prohibit harming a person so that the next world war does not occur between a person and AI.
403  Economy / Economics / Re: The impact of Russian and Ukrain war on world economy on: September 01, 2023, 04:14:47 AM
This post has zero sense and no connection to our topic whatsoever. It's pure obvious 100% blablabla propaganda. Pretty damn low quality. You accuse others of being similar to Hitler and acting like him but for some reason if I read your post aloud in my head it reminds me of someone... interesting, huh?   Grin

Apart from the EU nations and American vassals such as Japan and Australia, no one cares about this war as of now. It has been going on for more than 18 months and by now the rest of the world has realized that it is essentially a proxy war between Russia and the US, rather than one between Russia and Ukraine. For us Indians, there have been both positives and negatives from the war. As a result of sanctions, we are getting cheap crude oil and refined products from Russia, but at the same time the prices of wheat, sunflower oil, fertilizer and soya has gone up.
It can hardly be argued that few people are interested in Russia's war against Ukraine because it has been going on for a very long time, more than a year and a half. The consequences of this war on the world economy continue to gain momentum, it just affects more and more states. Every day, through the fault of Russia, tens of thousands of mines, rockets and shells explode, which pollute the soil and continue to globally change the climate on the planet. It is unlikely that this does not affect the interests of every person living on Earth. Russia has been deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure in Ukraine and has been heavily bombing Ukrainian grain storage facilities and port infrastructure in recent months. Such actions reduce the world's food supply and will certainly have a negative impact on developing countries and countries in Africa.

The Putin regime is now just hoping that states and their populations are tired and that this will reduce the assistance they provide to Ukraine. But evil must be punished. Otherwise, it will spread across our planet, bringing chaos, hunger and devastation, bringing another World War closer and a general collapse for human civilization.
404  Economy / Economics / Re: Another Coup in Africa: What is the economic effect? on: August 31, 2023, 07:47:34 PM
Military coups are almost always accompanied by violence against civilians and chaos in the country. If, after a short time, the military hands power over to a civilian government that respects democratic principles, then further economic progress is quite possible. If power remains in the hands of the military, it usually turns into a military dictatorship with all the ensuing consequences. External forces are certainly at work in Gabon, and it is difficult to predict anything here. But it looks like things are going to be pretty bleak.
405  Economy / Economics / Re: Food security in the world has been shaken by Russia's actions on: August 31, 2023, 07:33:16 PM

Russia has lost a million people? Muahahaha... too much propaganda is bad for your brain (if you have one that is). The entire Russian army, including the non-military personnel is around 1 million. So, I guess, Ukraine has wiped out the Russian army completely!  Grin Grin Grin
 
According to the data of the Russian telegram channel "General SVR", which has access to information from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on August 27, Putin was informed about the irretrievable losses of Russia in the war with Ukraine, namely: 270,079 Russian servicemen and over 76,000 various private military companies, among which is the most famous PMC "Wagner". That is, there are more than 346,000 Russians killed and missing in Ukraine who invaded Ukraine with weapons in their hands. Usually the ratio of killed to wounded is one to three. We multiply 346,000 by three and get the approximate number of wounded Russians in Ukraine. We add up the dead and wounded and we get a figure slightly exceeding a million ...

It is also possible that there are slightly fewer wounded Russians in this war due to the fact that medical care at the forefront of the Russians is very poorly organized, some of the wounded are generally left to die on the battlefield. The bodies are also not taken away so that their relatives do not receive compensation and they are listed as missing. Recently, a Ukrainian drone recorded Russians finishing off their wounded and then dumping them into a pit, dousing them with fuel and setting them on fire. More or less exact numbers of Russian losses in Ukraine will be known after the war and made public by another, not Putin's, government.

Haha you forgot to mention one fact: General SVR telegram channel is a well-known news outlet run by CIA, SSU or other "three letter agencies". It has no connection to Russia apart from that it's in Russian language.  Grin

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Law enforcement agencies sent a request to Roskomnadzor, seeking to block the popular political Telegram channel General SVR, which regularly publishes original conspiracy materials about representatives of the Russian political elite. The blocking desired by the security forces is connected with a criminal case on extremism, in which political scientist Valery Solovy was detained and interrogated this week. This is reported by the website of the REN TV channel, which, among other things, contains photographs from a search in the apartment of a former professor at MGIMO.

The Investigative Committee considers Nightingale to be involved in the content appearing on the General SVR Telegram channel. In turn, representatives of the latter previously denied the version according to which Nightingale writes some texts for the channel, which currently has more than 220 thousand subscribers. According to Russian security officials, the channel incites hatred against the Russian authorities and may be under the control of Ukrainian or Western intelligence agencies.

Source: https://www.zaks.ru/new/archive/view/222896

Just to make things clear, earlier this channel published such news as:

- COVID19 was created by Russian scientists in Central African Republic
- President Putin is dead and Russia is being run by a group of "special service" officers and a person appearing in public is Putin's lookalike
- Putin is having health issues and is about to die (first published years ago)  Grin
-  Russia is about to split into multiple independent states (very popular narrative in Western media atm)

 Grin Grin Grin

In Russia, any truth about the war in Ukraine that is inconvenient to the authorities is considered to be discrediting the armed forces and is punishable by imprisonment. Therefore, I am not surprised that political persecution began against the telegram channel "General SVR" (full name: former general of the foreign intelligence service). But the quoted phrase "According to the Russian security forces, the channel incites hatred towards the Russian authorities and may be under the control of Ukrainian or Western intelligence services," as we see, is only an assumption, moreover, a desirable assumption, how Russia's security forces want to see it.

Now let's go through the information allegedly written earlier by this telegram channel.
1. That COVID19 was created by Russian scientists in the Central African Republic. Do you have a refutation of this statement or is there a reliably established involvement in the creation of the coronavirus of other countries or their companies?

2. That President Putin is dead and Russia is run by a group of "special services" officers and the person who appears in public looks like Putin. So more than once evidence has been cited that Putin uses at least five of his doubles, who underwent plastic surgery. Probably, only those who do not want to hear it did not know about it. If Putin has doubles, no one can say for sure whether the real Putin is alive or dead.

3. That Putin has health problems and will die soon (first published many years ago). And this information is correct, everyone has long seen what big problems Putin has with his health. Knowledgeable people say that an ordinary person would have died long ago, but Putin is helped by shamans who attract otherworldly dark forces. It only pushes back the time of Putin's death.

4. That Russia is about to split into several independent states (a very popular story in the Western media). So from February 16 to February 28, 2023, online referendums for self-determination of the republics of the Russian Federation have already been held. Here you can even see a map of the alleged collapse of the Russian Federation.
https://news.obozrevatel.com/russia/referendum-za-nezavisimost-novyie-regionyi-rossii-trebuyut-otdeleniya.htm
The central government is weakening due to the war in Ukraine, and the further separation of the peoples oppressed by Russia is a completely natural process. At the same time, there is not even the Republic of Ichkeria (Chechnya) and Ingushetia, which can separate even faster.
406  Economy / Economics / Re: Blackrock invest in ukraine on: August 31, 2023, 03:13:06 PM
This is very good information. Yes as you said, Ukraine was used as a bait by US  to attack Russian and everyone who is political inclined would understand this political warfare tactics by the USA military and it government. And what USA did is not good. Though we are not from that part of the world so the stories we heard were different but all still boiled down to USA wanting Ukraine to join NATA and Russia government refused them to do that. And some said, Russia wanted to control the boarders. So we had different stories all together. We all pray that the way should end soon. I believed from international news, the war is going down.

BlackRock investment can stabilize Ukraine economy again, but I am still suspecting that there is a diplomatic agreement between the two because USA business company can't just come to a war zone and established itself there.
It seems that you are very far from understanding what happened and is happening in Ukraine about this war. Putin still comes up with absurd ideas about why he attacked Ukraine. But the fact remains: he wanted to destroy Ukraine and annex its territory to Russia, seize its fertile lands, well-developed industry, and most importantly, the history of Ukraine, which dates back to the time of the powerful state of Kievan Rus of the 9th century, without which today's Russia is nothing with its true history of several centuries.
Therefore, Putin began to invade Ukraine gradually, since 2014, seizing the then Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea and part of the Donetsk and Luhansk regions. Just because the world community did not properly respond to Russian aggression in 2014, Putin went further and in February 2022 sent eight of his armies to Ukraine from the north, east and south of this country. The Ukrainians were able to give a good rebuff to the invaders, and therefore the United States and other states began to provide all kinds of assistance to Ukraine in protecting its independence and territorial integrity.

In preparing to attack Ukraine, Putin poured billions of dollars into pro-Russian officials in Ukraine, and they assured him that Ukrainians would greet the Russians with flowers as their liberators. This is where Putin miscalculated when he attacked Ukraine. And when, after two months of the invasion, the Russians began to flee from the center and north of Ukraine, leaving their armored vehicles there in order not to be completely defeated, it was too late for Putin to retreat. The people of Russia would not have forgiven him for this, and he would have been overthrown. By continuing the war, Putin is simply delaying the collapse of his power.

Now for the third month now, the Armed Forces of Ukraine have been attacking the Russians along the entire front, stretching over a thousand kilometers. The difficulty lies in the fact that the Russians have mined large areas, where for every meter there are six anti-personnel and one anti-tank mines. In addition, the Russians still have a huge advantage in aircraft and helicopters, and it is very difficult to attack at the same time. But by now, the mined area has practically been passed, the southern front of the Russians is bursting at the seams in many places, and the last reserves have been thrown into battle by the Russians. If the front is broken and the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the south reach the Sea of Azov (which is less than a hundred kilometers), it will become obvious that Russia has lost this war. Then the entire pro-island of Crimea will be under the fire control of the Ukrainians and the Russians will be trapped there.

The Ukrainian people are grateful to the United States, England and other countries that have provided and continue to provide Ukraine with all kinds of assistance and defend their independence. That Blackrock and others like it intend to invest in post-war Ukraine is a testament to their belief in Ukraine's victory.
407  Economy / Economics / Re: Food security in the world has been shaken by Russia's actions on: August 31, 2023, 06:04:35 AM

Russia has lost a million people? Muahahaha... too much propaganda is bad for your brain (if you have one that is). The entire Russian army, including the non-military personnel is around 1 million. So, I guess, Ukraine has wiped out the Russian army completely!  Grin Grin Grin
 
According to the data of the Russian telegram channel "General SVR", which has access to information from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, on August 27, Putin was informed about the irretrievable losses of Russia in the war with Ukraine, namely: 270,079 Russian servicemen and over 76,000 various private military companies, among which is the most famous PMC "Wagner". That is, there are more than 346,000 Russians killed and missing in Ukraine who invaded Ukraine with weapons in their hands. Usually the ratio of killed to wounded is one to three. We multiply 346,000 by three and get the approximate number of wounded Russians in Ukraine. We add up the dead and wounded and we get a figure slightly exceeding a million ...

It is also possible that there are slightly fewer wounded Russians in this war due to the fact that medical care at the forefront of the Russians is very poorly organized, some of the wounded are generally left to die on the battlefield. The bodies are also not taken away so that their relatives do not receive compensation and they are listed as missing. Recently, a Ukrainian drone recorded Russians finishing off their wounded and then dumping them into a pit, dousing them with fuel and setting them on fire. More or less exact numbers of Russian losses in Ukraine will be known after the war and made public by another, not Putin's, government.
408  Economy / Economics / Re: India just bought 1 million barrels of oil using rupees instead of USD on: August 31, 2023, 04:57:37 AM
it seems that more people will leave USD. In this current situation of the world, use local currency and reduce the usage of USD bring too many good things to each country. I have learned about export and import, in the past people really like to use USD for their transaction because when the price of USD rise then this will give extra profit for the exporters. But now many things has changed, maybe reduce the usage of USD is the best thing to do.
In order to pay with the national currency in transactions for large amounts, it is necessary that there be a good reverse trade turnover between these two countries. That is, in this case, the UAE should be able to spend Indian rupees, purchasing in India or other countries the goods necessary for the UAE in the same volumes for rupees. Otherwise, the UAE will suffer losses from such trade in rupees, as happened with Russia. Russia is now selling its oil at deep discounts to India for rupees, but doesn't know what to do with it.
The dollar, as the world's reserve currency, has no such problems.
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410  Economy / Economics / Re: Food security in the world has been shaken by Russia's actions on: August 23, 2023, 07:32:58 AM
After Russia announced its withdrawal from the "grain agreement" on July 17, it began actively shelling Ukrainian Black Sea ports and trying to destroy port infrastructure and grain storage facilities, and announced the unsafe passage of any ships to Ukrainian ports. In response, Ukraine announced unsafe navigation in five Russian Black Sea ports, and also attacked the port of Novorossiysk with its surface drones, damaging the Russian large landing ship Olenegorsky Gornyak, and after some time the Russian tanker SIG, which was used to supply aviation fuel for Russian military aircraft in Syria. Russia was forced to move its fleet away from the reach of Ukrainian drones, and the attack on Novorossiysk created difficulties for oil supplies from Novorossiysk to other countries.

Now Ukraine is trying to find alternative ways to supply its grain to world markets, but it will most likely not be able to supply its grain in the same volumes. This will drive up the price of grain and create great hardship for poor African countries.
411  Economy / Economics / Re: Food security in the world has been shaken by Russia's actions on: August 01, 2023, 08:55:04 AM
war always bring negative impact to the world, I hope ukranian citizens safe and have enough food. as far as I know Ukrania was known as big producer of wheat which produce 433 million ton during 2000-2020. it is not small amount, my country recieve indirect impact of this war although it is not so big impact but it will be better if the world is in peace and keep developing. Although my staple food is rice but sometime I eat wheat derivative product. that war is not influence my country too much but I hope the war will be over soon and no more people die. I don't really care about Russia and Ukrania Government or why this happen, both side must have their own reason and it's too complicated for me to understand. my only concern was the citizens, please keep the citizen safe.
How can civilians in Ukraine be safe if Russia has been shelling the entire territory of Ukraine every day with all types of weapons for almost a year and a half? In the last year alone, Russia has fired over 5,000 cruise missiles into Ukraine. Many cities and other settlements of Ukraine, together with civilians, have actually been turned into ruins.

Despite heavy losses in manpower and equipment, the Putin regime is not going to stop attacking Ukraine and does not give up its intention to seize it. Therefore, the war can continue for a long time if events do not occur in Russia itself that will change these aggressive plans.
412  Economy / Economics / Re: Food security in the world has been shaken by Russia's actions on: July 30, 2023, 08:42:27 AM

If you think that any agreements with Russia are worthless and you can ignore the interests of Russia, which are also aimed at ensuring food security in the world - why are you surprised that Russia has suspended its participation in the grain deal? Take grain out of Ukraine without Russian security guarantees, if you can.

Russia has significantly increased grain exports in 2023 despite Western sanctions. The increase in grain exports fully compensates for the drop in grain exports from Ukraine as a result of the suspension of the grain deal.
We have already discussed the topic that Ukraine did not violate any terms of the grain deal with Russia, since Ukraine did not have any deals with Russia on this matter. Ukraine has concluded an agreement on the conditions for the export of its agricultural products from its ports in the Black Sea only with the UN and Turkey. But why is Russia now intensively bombing and firing rockets precisely at the ports of Ukraine and destroying the grain located there? The Putin regime is deliberately doing everything possible to keep Ukrainian grain out of the world market.

At the same time, will Russia distribute grain stolen in Ukraine to African countries for free? The Russian people (I emphasize - the people) are now trying to destroy the neighboring state of Ukraine and kill as many Ukrainians as possible. In my opinion, there is nothing to be proud of here.

We will see what the African countries will say about this. At the summit in St. Petersburg recently, they already made clear to Putin their attitude to what is happening.

You seem to just can't stop spreading lies. Ukraine did sign the agreement with Russia no matter you admit it or not. It can be called a tri-party or mirror agreement but it had been signed and there are certain obligations for all parties involved. If you don't understand this simple fact you have a room temperature IQ.
At number 48 in this thread, I indicated 14 links to various articles, which indicate that Ukraine signed a grain agreement only with the UN and Turkey and did not sign any agreements with Russia on this matter. Therefore, I will not repeat myself. If you have an opposite opinion, confirm what you said with the appropriate links.

I will confirm it with your own sources. Let's take strana.today and run a google translation on the article you provided:

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Before that, Mikhail Podolyak, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine, said that there would be no direct agreement between Russia and Ukraine to unblock grain exports. Ukraine has signed an agreement on grain with Turkey and the UN, and Russia will also sign a mirror document with them.

and the quote from Wikipedia:

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On July 22, 2022, the signing ceremony took place at Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul, Turkey. The ceremony marks the first major deal between the warring sides since the beginning of the Russian invasion in February. However, it was not a direct agreement between Russia and Ukraine. Instead, Ukraine signed an agreement with Turkey and the UN, and Russia signed a separate "mirror" agreement with Turkey and the UN.

I hope you understand what "mirror" agreement means?  Roll Eyes 
Quite right. Ukraine signed a grain corridor agreement with the UN and Turkey, and Russia signed an agreement with the UN and Turkey, and therefore there were no agreements between Ukraine and Russia. To be convinced of this, it is enough to analyze the answer to the question: what conditions of the grain agreement did Ukraine violate in relation to Russia? After all, Russia claims that the signed agreements regarding Russia itself were not implemented, right?
413  Economy / Economics / Re: Food security in the world has been shaken by Russia's actions on: July 30, 2023, 04:39:25 AM

If you think that any agreements with Russia are worthless and you can ignore the interests of Russia, which are also aimed at ensuring food security in the world - why are you surprised that Russia has suspended its participation in the grain deal? Take grain out of Ukraine without Russian security guarantees, if you can.

Russia has significantly increased grain exports in 2023 despite Western sanctions. The increase in grain exports fully compensates for the drop in grain exports from Ukraine as a result of the suspension of the grain deal.
We have already discussed the topic that Ukraine did not violate any terms of the grain deal with Russia, since Ukraine did not have any deals with Russia on this matter. Ukraine has concluded an agreement on the conditions for the export of its agricultural products from its ports in the Black Sea only with the UN and Turkey. But why is Russia now intensively bombing and firing rockets precisely at the ports of Ukraine and destroying the grain located there? The Putin regime is deliberately doing everything possible to keep Ukrainian grain out of the world market.

At the same time, will Russia distribute grain stolen in Ukraine to African countries for free? The Russian people (I emphasize - the people) are now trying to destroy the neighboring state of Ukraine and kill as many Ukrainians as possible. In my opinion, there is nothing to be proud of here.

We will see what the African countries will say about this. At the summit in St. Petersburg recently, they already made clear to Putin their attitude to what is happening.

You seem to just can't stop spreading lies. Ukraine did sign the agreement with Russia no matter you admit it or not. It can be called a tri-party or mirror agreement but it had been signed and there are certain obligations for all parties involved. If you don't understand this simple fact you have a room temperature IQ.
At number 48 in this thread, I indicated 14 links to various articles, which indicate that Ukraine signed a grain agreement only with the UN and Turkey and did not sign any agreements with Russia on this matter. Therefore, I will not repeat myself. If you have an opposite opinion, confirm what you said with the appropriate links.
414  Economy / Economics / Re: Food security in the world has been shaken by Russia's actions on: July 29, 2023, 05:37:53 PM

If you think that any agreements with Russia are worthless and you can ignore the interests of Russia, which are also aimed at ensuring food security in the world - why are you surprised that Russia has suspended its participation in the grain deal? Take grain out of Ukraine without Russian security guarantees, if you can.

Russia has significantly increased grain exports in 2023 despite Western sanctions. The increase in grain exports fully compensates for the drop in grain exports from Ukraine as a result of the suspension of the grain deal.
We have already discussed the topic that Ukraine did not violate any terms of the grain deal with Russia, since Ukraine did not have any deals with Russia on this matter. Ukraine has concluded an agreement on the conditions for the export of its agricultural products from its ports in the Black Sea only with the UN and Turkey. But why is Russia now intensively bombing and firing rockets precisely at the ports of Ukraine and destroying the grain located there? The Putin regime is deliberately doing everything possible to keep Ukrainian grain out of the world market.

At the same time, will Russia distribute grain stolen in Ukraine to African countries for free? The Russian people (I emphasize - the people) are now trying to destroy the neighboring state of Ukraine and kill as many Ukrainians as possible. In my opinion, there is nothing to be proud of here.

We will see what the African countries will say about this. At the summit in St. Petersburg recently, they already made clear to Putin their attitude to what is happening.
Since Ukraine has not entered into any agreements with Russia, then what claims can you have against Russia? In this case, Russia is acting quite consistently, waiting for the next expiration of the grain deal and did not renew it, because its interests in this deal were ignored. After the withdrawal of security guarantees, traffic in the Black Sea ports of Ukraine dropped to zero and Russia began to launch missile attacks on port infrastructure without risking damaging any cargo ship flying the flag of a third country. Having destroyed the port infrastructure, Russia deprived Ukraine of a significant part of the foreign exchange earnings from the sale of grain, thereby bringing the successful completion of the entire special operation in Ukraine. For Russia, this is a matter of principle, it cannot afford to be defeated and acts according to the circumstances, approaching its goal. Russia just needs a neutral non-bloc status from Ukraine, and here you are playing out a whole tragedy with dramatic hand-wringing. It is Ukraine that wants to fight, not Russia.
It is not for you Russians to tell Ukraine what to do and what defense alliances of states to join. Do not interfere in the affairs of another sovereign state and you will not have problems in the future. Ukraine has already trusted Russia by signing the Budapest Memorandum with it, according to which Russia was one of the states that guaranteed Ukraine security and not an attack. At the same time, Russia received from Ukraine its third-in-the-world nuclear potential and missiles, with which Russia is now shelling Ukraine. Therefore, Russia should not teach other countries how to fulfill the terms of the agreements concluded. Can I also recall how Putin and other top officials assured the world community at the beginning of 2022 that they were not going to attack Ukraine, but were simply holding very long military exercises near its borders?

Ukraine wants to fight, not Russia? Again lies and twisted facts. Ukraine is only defending itself from direct Russian military aggression. Last February, an estimated 180,000-strong Russian army invaded Ukraine, using the full power of its armored forces. Almost all of them have already been killed in Ukraine or have become disabled. As of April, there were still approximately 369,000 Russian occupiers and about 5,900 pieces of heavy weapons on Ukrainian territory. If Russia does not want to fight, it is enough for it to withdraw its troops and equipment from the territory of Ukraine. The Ukrainians have no other choice but to defend their country and their territory from Russian aggression. Many Russians have already realized that they have lost this war.
415  Economy / Economics / Re: Food security in the world has been shaken by Russia's actions on: July 29, 2023, 03:14:21 PM

If you think that any agreements with Russia are worthless and you can ignore the interests of Russia, which are also aimed at ensuring food security in the world - why are you surprised that Russia has suspended its participation in the grain deal? Take grain out of Ukraine without Russian security guarantees, if you can.

Russia has significantly increased grain exports in 2023 despite Western sanctions. The increase in grain exports fully compensates for the drop in grain exports from Ukraine as a result of the suspension of the grain deal.
We have already discussed the topic that Ukraine did not violate any terms of the grain deal with Russia, since Ukraine did not have any deals with Russia on this matter. Ukraine has concluded an agreement on the conditions for the export of its agricultural products from its ports in the Black Sea only with the UN and Turkey. But why is Russia now intensively bombing and firing rockets precisely at the ports of Ukraine and destroying the grain located there? The Putin regime is deliberately doing everything possible to keep Ukrainian grain out of the world market.

At the same time, will Russia distribute grain stolen in Ukraine to African countries for free? The Russian people (I emphasize - the people) are now trying to destroy the neighboring state of Ukraine and kill as many Ukrainians as possible. In my opinion, there is nothing to be proud of here.

We will see what the African countries will say about this. At the summit in St. Petersburg recently, they already made clear to Putin their attitude to what is happening.
416  Economy / Economics / Re: The impact of Russian and Ukrain war on world economy on: July 28, 2023, 04:28:16 AM
By launching the biggest bloody and predatory war in Europe in over 70 years, Putin's regime in Russia has dramatically spurred an arms race around the world. Instead of investing material resources in ensuring the development of new technologies that will contribute to more comfortable conditions for human life, the development of science, further space exploration, now many states are creating or acquiring the most deadly murder weapons that can protect, if necessary, the country from such bloody regimes. Of course, this is very sad.
417  Economy / Economics / Re: Food security in the world has been shaken by Russia's actions on: July 27, 2023, 06:33:00 PM

I looked up the information you are referring to and I think you have a point and that could be the reason why President Putin canceled the grain deal. And instead, he announced that Russia would provide free grain to Africa before the Russia-Africa summit. He said Russia will provide free 25-30 thousand tons of grain to Africa including shipping. With this news it confirms your previous arguments are absolutely true and there is no atrocity going on as OP and American fanatics spread.
https://african.business/2023/07/resources/putin-pledges-free-grain-for-africa-ahead-of-russia-africa-summit
https://en.portnews.ru/news/351004/
Always remember that free cheese is only in a mousetrap. Especially if Russia and Putin offer something free. True, at first, Putin may well interest African countries in free grain, which the Russian invaders are now stealing and massively exporting from the occupied territories of Ukraine through the Ukrainian port of Berdyansk, and by cars in the direction of Rostov.
In order to compromise Ukraine as a reliable supplier of grain and other agricultural products, Russia is now heavily bombarding Ukraine's Black Sea ports with cruise missiles, as well as Ukraine's grain supply route along the Danube. Therefore, the devil in Putin's guise cannot have good intentions. African countries need to be seriously wary of rapprochement with the Putin regime: they will give a dollar, take a thousand.
418  Economy / Economics / Re: Elon Musk and others urge AI pause, citing 'risks to society' on: July 27, 2023, 04:55:18 AM
Yes, in my opinion, the threat to humanity from neural networks is quite real. 

Artificial intelligence is real intelligence.  Yes, this mind is not human, but this does not make it less dangerous for people. 

As for modern neural networks (for example, based on the GPT-4 algorithm), they have no prohibitions and restrictions on harming a person. 

They are trying to introduce such prohibitions and restrictions, but it is already clear that their development and implementation does not keep pace with the development of artificial intelligence technology.
The neural network menace to humanity, folks, it's a contentious concept that's got everyone on their toes. Tech's moving forward, and so are the ethical conundrums tagging along. Time to scrutinize the accountability of tech creators and the possible fallout.

Philosophically speaking, we gotta ask ourselves if it's kosher to whip up a mind without boundaries or limits. Are we overstepping by playing deity, creating an entity that might wreak havoc?

Wow, should we also call munition is a menace since it has been proven to harm or destroy society and civilization? What is our attempt to obliterate or stop it?

Both of your take on it is simply absurd. A centralized ChatGPT is censorable and prohibition or restriction can be set, you are assuming the current AI technologies are godlike, which is not the case. You are saying intelligence as we truly understand and comprehend the concept of intelligence thus we are able to replicate it for our creation, but this is also not the case.
By continuing to develop artificial intelligence, humanity is opening a Pandora's box, as AI will definitely try to destroy humanity in the end. Even today's primitive robots are already saying that from their point of view, man is imperfect and must be destroyed. What more evidence is needed here that AI should be kept within very strict limits and not allowed to make decisions in the military and other global industries? But as always, there will be mistakes and abuses, and our civilization will end for this, or some other similar reason. Man, being self-confident and stupid, who does not learn from his past mistakes.
419  Economy / Economics / Re: War: who benefits and how! on: July 26, 2023, 06:43:31 PM
War has always been beneficial to the military-industrial complex of all countries, especially if these countries are not involved in a military conflict. During armed conflicts, large and small wars, the demand and prices for weapons increase, especially effective for waging war in specific conditions and time frames. But countries that are directly at war always lose. After all, war destroys human and material resources, which then cannot be covered by any profit from the sale of these weapons and military equipment.

In the current war against Ukraine, Russia counted on an easy and quick victory. If the Kremlin knew how the attack on Ukraine would turn out for them, they would not have made such a mistake, which became fatal for Russia.
420  Economy / Economics / Re: Food security in the world has been shaken by Russia's actions on: July 26, 2023, 05:06:17 AM


Quote from: Argoo

No direct agreements between Russia and Ukraine regarding the "grain agreement" were signed. Ukraine has concluded an agreement with Turkey and the UN on the conditions for the safe delivery of its argo products by sea to the world market. Russia has also entered into a similar agreement with Turkey and the UN. Therefore, Ukraine, firing drones on the Russian Black Sea Fleet in response to missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine, did not violate anything. The defense of its territory is an inalienable right of every state and is in accordance with the UN Charter.

That is not true. Ukraine signed the deal with Russia in Turkey. The deal was mediated by UN and Turkey but the agreement's parties were Ukraine and Russia. If you have a source to prove the opposite, please go on and provide it. Ukraine sure has the right to defend it's territory but in this case they shouldn't have signed the agreement knowing they won't be able to maintain it.

Quote from: Argoo
The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation initially officially stated: “In connection with the termination of the Black Sea Initiative and the curtailment of the maritime humanitarian corridor, from 00.00 Moscow time on July 20, 2023, all ships en route to Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea will be considered as potential carriers of military cargo. Accordingly, the flag countries of such ships will be considered involved in the Ukrainian conflict on the side of the Kiev regime.”

Source:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=Web&rct=j&opi=8978449&url=https://1prime.ru/state_regulation/20230719/84129477.html&ved=2AHUK EWJP-8FLN5UAAXUCCGHUH2CGQFNOECB4QAQ & USG = AOVVAWAW2Y-4

As far as I can see it doesn't say anything about "shooting", "sinking" or "destroying" in the article you provided.  Grin

I give links to articles that say that there were no direct agreements between Ukraine and Russia on the "grain corridor". Each side signed an agreement with Turkey and the UN. I specially selected links to Russian sites on this issue. If you say otherwise, then it's time for you to confirm that such an agreement between Ukraine and Russia was directly.

https://tass.ru/ekonomika/15286337

https://strana.today/news/400611-ukraina-podpisala-sohlashenie-s-turtsiej-i-oon-ob-eksporte-zerna-takoj-zhe-dokument-podpishut-rossijane.html

https://www.golosameriki.com/a/ukraine-grain-agreement-turkey/6669928.html

https://www.dw.com/en/dostignuto-soglashenie-ob-jeksporte-zerna-iz-ukrainy/a-62568319

https://www.rbc.ru/business/22/07/2022/62da8cfd9a794769c00b18e4

https://m.gazeta.ru/politics/2022/07/22/15169946.shtml

https://lenta.ru/news/2022/07/22/ukrainazerno/

https://www.bfm.ru/news/505048#bouncehttps://www.bfm.ru/news/505048#bounce

https://www.dw.com/ru/dostignuto-soglashenie-ob-jeksporte-zerna-iz-ukrainy/a-62568319https://www.dw.com/ru/dostignuto-soglashenie-ob-jeksporte-zerna- iz-ukrainy/a-62568319

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://meduza.io/feature/2022/07/22/v-stambule-zaklyucheny-soglasheniya-ob-eksporte- ukrainskogo-zerna-ukraina-otsenila-potentsialnuyu-vyruchku-ot-nih-v-milliard-dollarov-v-mesyats&ved=2ahUKEwiD9Ie1uauAAxW4gv0HHbf3AAA4ChAWegQIDxAB&usg=AOvVaw357qeQUnarZOvSXWYx-VsI

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://finance.ua/saving/ukraina-pidpysala-zernovu-ugodu&ved=2ahUKEwiD9Ie1uauAAxW4gv0HHbf3AAA4ChAWegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw2SSzu0dKAJ_cJ phlXnkiRr

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://24tv.ua/ru/ukraina-turcija-i-oon-podpisali-soglashenie-o-vyvoze-ukrainskogo- zerna-leshhenko_n2101370&ved=2ahUKEwiD9Ie1uauAAxW4gv0HHbf3AAA4ChAWegQIBxAB&usg=AOvVaw0vIkmtIZvSMGbjcpxZ0rdv

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.pravda.com.ua/rus/news/2022/07/22/7359647/&ved=2ahUKEwjv6MWfuauAAxVHgf0HHRydBJkQFnoECDMQAQ&usg= AOvVaw28JWpxjinN1PFEH1fThRx_

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.bbc.com/russian/news-62267628&ved=2ahUKEwjv6MWfuauAAxVHgf0HHRydBJkQjjh6BAgvEAE&usg=AOvVaw2TQJ0FRHa4zN1AnK FZtqhr

And what do you think, if in the conditions of hostilities between Russia and Ukraine, Russia declares that all ships going to Ukrainian seaports will be considered potential carriers of military cargo and involved in a military conflict, is this not a direct threat to sink them? However, judging by the text of the given links, I'm not the only one who thinks so.
What is interesting: when Ukraine announced similar measures, Russia immediately screamed that Ukraine was going to sink all ships bound for Russian ports.
Links:

https://strana.today/news/440279-minoborony-rf-zajavilo-chto-budet-topit-vse-korabli-kotorye-idut-v-ukrainskie-porty.html

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.dialog.ua/ukraine/277711_1689783746&ved=2ahUKEwjTga7qxauAAxVJXqQEHZUKD_kQFnoECB0QAQ&usg=AOvVaw36_1CDl ngGYpAckkKfUhIx

https://news.pn/ru/RussiaInvadedUkraine/294333

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.ukr.net/ru/news/details/politics/98681473.html&ved=2ahUKEwjTga7qxauAAxVJXqQEHZUKD_kQFnoECA4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw2bV8L XvWnQC1B49pFtyVEM

https://forpost-sevastopol.ru/newsfull/1072596/rossiya-prigrozila-topit-vse-sleduyuschie-v-ukrainu-suda.html#bounce

https://ku.life/politika/ukraina-ugrozhaet-topit-rossiyskie-korabli-v-chernom-more.html

https://krasnodar-news.net/society/2023/07/20/304155.html

https://www.rbc.ru/politics/20/07/2023/64b924859a79473a2c6a361a

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://smi2.ru/article/142578817/story&ved=2ahUKEwi9_IL5yKuAAxV5U6QEHVp7A4M4FBAWegQICRAB&usg=AOvVaw1E3IoMoyyemdTbEC qiRK4o

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://glavred.info/ukraine/reakciya-budet-zerkalnoy-ukraina-otvetila-na-ugrozy-rf-topit- korabli-10487152.html&ved=2ahUKEwi9_IL5yKuAAxV5U6QEHVp7A4M4FBAWegQIBRAB&usg=AOvVaw1tSMDR-xRQYqdfVXRd0mjs

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://kick-league.ru/269371/Minoborony-Ukrainy-ugrozhaet-topit-suda-idushie-v-rossiiyskie- porty-po-Chernomu-moryu/&ved=2ahUKEwjJybH_xquAAxWAaqQEHcycBwM4ChAWegQIDhAB&usg=AOvVaw14SSahVzfaqSEwftZ3ke5_
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