Verdun is also a small city, but a serious battle broke out there a century ago. Wagner took Bakhmut for 9 and a half months, which is a long time, but there was no goal to take the city quickly, the goal of the "Bakhmut meat grinder" was to deplete the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the conditions imposed by Russia. Now Ukraine says that the position in Bakhmut is unfavorable, but who forced it to defend a disadvantageous position for so long?

Pleases your optimism and faith in magic by the next Western wunderwaffe. Russia also did not sit idle during these 9 and a half months:
- carried out partial mobilization, eliminated the numerical superiority of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, carried out a rotation and gave rest to the most combat-ready units.
- erected many defensive structures, including a 70-kilometer trench in Zaporozhye, in all directions except for Bakhmut, several rows of layered defense with dense mining.
- launched the mass production of planning and control kits that turn ordinary high-explosive bombs into guided bombs - this has become a real headache for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, for which there is still no cure.
- launched the mass production of loitering ammunition Lancet, which became a real headache for the Armed Forces of Ukraine, for which there is still no cure.
- Too lazy to type.

Они и Соледар после сдачи в сводках Генштаба ещё пару недель обороняли. Война - это путь обмана, всё по Сунь Цзы. Пиздотрясы короче, хуле с них взять.

Чё там, опять фейковые пиздострадания? Бахмут взяли зеки-добровольцы Вагнера, никто их насильно с зоны не тянул. Частичной мобилизации была одна волна и закончилась она с полгода назад. С нового года набрали уже 114 тыщ добровольцев по контракту, о чём сегодня в минуту просветления от беспробудного пьянства отчитался Медведев. Собственно об чём я в предположительном ключе говорил чуть выше в теме - за три килобакса денег ежемесячного довольствия недостатка желающих испытать удачу скорее всего не будет, так и вышло. Причём кастинг на пунктах вербовки довольно жёсткий, берут только самых здоровых, боеспособных и хорошо мотивированных. Кто пожиже только через Вагнер. Пока всё идёт к тому, что второго этапа частичной мобилизации попросту не понадобится.

Do you also think that a budget deficit is bad? Your beloved US and every G7 country has been running chronic budget deficits for years. Or is it different?

By itself, the budget deficit is not very good, you have to be able to live within your means. But at the macroeconomic level, the budget deficit is rather the norm. Nobody likes a recession (although there is nothing wrong with a recession, the processes in the economy are usually cyclical) and governments artificially stimulate economic growth by spending more than they earn. And they also stimulate their own citizens, the savings model of behavior again provokes a recession. Therefore, there is no need to dramatize the current budget deficit in Russia, especially since part of it is purely technical in nature (the government now has a trillion rubles of undistributed income - these are still the consequences of the winter transition to a single tax account). But if economic growth indicators matter to you, then the current budget deficit is definitely a success, because it will directly lead to an increase in the percentage of GDP growth in the foreseeable future and right now.

That is why Biden cannot agree on an increase in the debt ceiling - the Republicans are demanding spending cuts, and this will immediately lead to a recession, which is extremely disadvantageous for Biden before the elections. Economic growth is not determined by how much you earn, but by how much you spend.

О как, теперь это стали невыгодные позиции. А чё раньше то не отошли, на выгодные? Поди тыщ писят там своих оставили одними двухсотыми - всё на алтарь нелепых политических амбиций Зеленского. Фортеция Бахмут блять, теперь это снова Артёмовск.
Гомофоб чтоли? Не в ту сторону воюешь.

Давай не отвлекайся, дрочи на контр-наступ, а то чёто пока тяжеловато идёт. Ну щас то позиции выгодные, эх скоро заживёте там. Только бы до осени дотянуть, а там глядишь и самолёты спонсоры подкинут, вобще суровые станете.

Ха-ха, обиделся на эректуса чёли? Не дуйся попусту, зайчонок, как говорится обиженных в жопу ебут. А ты думал в сказку попал? Ссыкливых перебежчиков никто не любит. Хуже ссыкливых перебежчиков только упорные соратники-долбоёбы, но у тебя и в этой номинации есть шанс на призовую медаль. Просто продолжай в том же духе и всё получится!

Meanwhile, Bakhmut is taken.

Меня вообще умиляет глубина долбоебизма этих вхлам упоротых хохлопитеков, которые похоже реально поверили, что типа коварные злые русские долго и тщательно планировали уникальную военную спецоперацию по агрессивному вторжению, усиленно копили бабосы в секретную кубышку на случай всяких внезапных ахтунгов, восемь лет уже прожили под санкциями за "Крымнаш", а потом вдруг взяли и забыли вывести триста миллиардов баксов из западных банков. Поди там до сих пор слюна из уголка рта капает при мысли про контрибуцию. Чёто ржу.

Щас за ссылку на Википедию в приличном обществе сразу канделябрами бьют. Всё потому что особо упоротые украинцы с синдромом потомственных прото-укров решили переписать историю и нахуярили туда мильён тысяч правок со всякой лженаучной ересью и влажными фантазиями своего воспалённого воображения. С такими темпами скоро придётся сдувать пыль с большой советской энциклопедии.

А кто тебе вообще сказал, что триста миллиардов заблокировали? Наебулина? И ты блять поверил этой хитрой татарской роже? Ебать ты лох.

Да она во всей Евразии в этом году аномально тёплая была. Путин же опять климатическое оружие испытывал, ты чё не в курске? Для бескорыстной гуманитарной помощи, чтоб в Европе без нашего газа там не помёрзли. Понаберут блять из деревень недоразвитых тупых имбецылов, поговорить толком не с кем. Есть там кто из более высокоранговых у вас, у кого от фентанила мозги до состояния грецкого ореха в кукиш ещё не скрючились?

Фортеция Бахмут кстати всё.

Разница в том, что у тебя ничего гоксовского за душой нету, поэтому ты вынужден просто надеяться и ждать. А в России застряло всякого западного барахла минимум на пицот миллиардов долларов в виде акций и прочих хозяйственно-имущественных ценностей, с запретом на вывод без одобрения специальной правительственной комиссии. Поэтому ситуация немного сильно разная, учитывая что на западе 280 миллиардов из тех трёхсот до сих пор днём с огнём найти не могут. Ходят слухи, что Наебулина не такая уж и дура, какой обычно прикидывается, и что незадолго до всех этих февральских событий в Москву прилетели несколько чартерных рейсов с полными аэробусами наличных баксов. Дескать успели почти всё обналичить и эвакуироваться в домик. Врут поди.

You seem to underestimate this weird meme economy and the size of the meme community. When Coinbase recently stated that Pepe frogs are “co-opted as a hate symbol by alt-right groups”, it caused such a flurry of indignation that they had to publicly apologize. Or take the same doge, this is initially an absolutely useless coin created as a joke and mined for change from litecoin, however, it has a huge army of fans, a stable place in the top 10 and a capitalization of $ 10 billion. I also find this strange, but I would be careful not to underestimate the power of a mob of idiots. Everyone has different value systems.

I think for 90% the general public, bitcoin is considered a kind of ponzi scheme, for them, bitcoin is garbage, and not just garbage, but environmentally harmful garbage that burns electricity in vain and does nothing useful, so moderate your meme snobbery, for most people lovers of meme tokens and bitcoin-maximalists are the same idiots.

Now I will tell you that the budget deficit in Russia is very good.

It sounds paradoxical, but if you understand economics at least a little deeper than at a primitive philistine level, then you will agree with me. In general, it is not clear how the Russian economy demonstrated GDP growth in past years, given the very tight monetary policy of the Central Bank of Russia and the savings model of the Government's behavior. Now last year’s surge in inflation after the imposition of sanctions has been curbed, the current inflation rate in Russia has been below the Central Bank’s target level of 4% for two months already (and lower than in any of the EU countries and in the United States), and the Central Bank has significantly softened its rhetoric and monetary policy, in other words stopped raising the key rate, began to give signals about its possible reduction and began to increase the money supply. For Russia, which lives in conditions of a chronic shortage of the money supply, this is like life-giving rain after a drought!

The existing global metric for calculating nominal GDP is designed in such a way that GDP growth is possible almost only with a budget deficit. This is a feature of the Western paradigm of the advanced consumption society and the debt-based economy - if you do not have a budget deficit, you have nothing else to grow on. This is a bit exaggerated, but economic indicators fit this paradigm. I mean, there is nothing surprising in the fact that every quarter the world forecasts for the Russian economy are revised upwards. And it will not be surprising if in a year or two the Russian economy makes an impressive jump to double digits precisely against the background of the current anomalously large budget deficit for Russia, which has already become accustomed to a sustained budget surplus.

For reference: The National Wealth Fund of Russia allows you to completely close the budget deficit of 20% within three years without external or internal borrowing.

The function to explicitly export the seed phrase from the monero ledger application has been around for a long time. This means that there are no fundamental restrictions for any ledger application to be able to read the seed phrase.

It is reasonable in my opinion to consider any activated ledger hardware wallet already compromised (and any security model based on a "black box" is inherently weak), in order to avoid unnecessary frustration.

Are you saying that if I want to transfer ownership of a picture of a frog uploaded to the bitcoin blockchain, then I do not have to physically move this picture to the address of the new owner? That the change of ownership will not be reflected in the bitcoin blockchain in any way and the picture with the frog will remain at my address, where I originally uploaded it, and only the entry on some external site will change? If so, then this is really some kind of shit and I need to learn more about the brс-20 token protocol.

Perhaps our common problem and the reason for the misunderstanding is that neither you nor I have uploaded a single picture with frogs to the Bitcoin blockchain (I certainly have not). But if I understand correctly, the main difference from NFT on Ethereum is that it is not links to an external image that are loaded, but the image itself - it gets into the block, it is integrated into the block chain, and from an ordinary digital picture it becomes a unique digital entity, which cannot be copied, but can be transferred to another owner by making a new transaction. In this case, it is no longer garbage, regardless of the content of the picture and your attitude towards it. Well, or all bitcoin is garbage.

I think that I, you, the developers of the core, and any user of the bitcoin network, have the right to have a private opinion whether the pictures of frogs uploaded to the network are useless garbage or malicious spam, and even have the right to express this opinion publicly (but for the developers of the core, it is in their own interests best to be as careful as possible). But we can't ban it just because we don't like it. Because the owner of the picture with the frog will say that bitcoin is a scam, promised to keep its value and did not fulfill the promise - and we will have nothing to object to him. Who in their right mind would entrust their value to a network that, over time, could change the rules of the game and declare that value invalid garbage?

I didn’t understand shit from what you propose to solve this issue, so I’ll ask differently. Suppose a conditional idiot uploaded a picture with his favorite meme to the bitcoin blockchain and paid for this transaction at the market price, it was confirmed. As a result of what you propose to do, will he still be able to transfer this picture to another owner, again paying for the transaction at the market price?

I put the question in this aspect, because the problem that has arisen is not entirely of a technical nature. If the downloaded image has lost its value over time, this is acceptable, a common investment risk. If an evil hacker hacked into a hardware wallet, took possession of private keys and transferred the picture to his address, this is also acceptable, a common information security risk. But if you change the consensus rules to tighten them up and a valid entry in the blockchain becomes invalid, this is unacceptable.

Okay, you're right. The developers of the core have been quite consistent in easing the initially tight restrictions of bitcoin, this has had its consequences, both positive and negative. With this we figured out, to the question "who is to blame?" the correct answer is found, now let's move on to the question "what to do?". Because it's easy and fun to loosen restrictions - it entails promising prospects in terms of scaling and rapid success in terms of breadth of adoption. But there is a nuance, once a weakened restriction can no longer be strengthened back without at least a partial loss of backward compatibility. Someone will inevitably suffer in this case - simply because yesterday it was still possible, but today it has become impossible. What do you propose to do about it, other than pointless grumbling on the forum?