I agree. They deserved one of two things in returned for giving up their nukes.

NATO membership.

Or a mutual defense treaty of the style seen in South Korea and Japan - i.e. Ukraine should come under the US nuclear umbrella.

No, thank you.

This is a very bad sign.. this guy is a US citizen, right? If even he feels the need to flee, from the seclusion of the ivory tower ...

Dang, by just one vote. Never let it ever be said again that a single vote doesn't make a difference.

I think she's confused the poll with her reflection in the mirror...

So disappointed to discover that BBC updated the headline and the article (and no more than six hours later)...

New headline: Ukraine calls on Mongolia to arrest Putin ahead of visit

An ICC spokesperson told the BBC that Mongolian officials "have the obligation" to abide by ICC regulations, but clarified that this did not necessarily mean an arrest had to take place.

The agreement says in some circumstances, states may be exempted from the obligation to carry out an arrest where they would be forced to "breach a treaty obligation" with another state or where it would violate "diplomatic immunity of a person or property of a third state".

Software engineer here - I make more than this guy did and I have roughly the same amount of experience in the industry that he does (perhaps a smidge more, going off of his linkedin profile).

For folks who are saying that there's something off about this guy - that would not have mattered two or three years ago. At most he would have just been seen as a highly talented dev who was also slightly quirky.

For those who say it's not about AI and more about the economy - well, maybe. We do have a couple of major ongoing wars right now and moves over the last couple of months by the recent administration of the US haven't helped.

But I was around during the crash back in 2008, and this still feels different. Harder. Before, I had recruiters just banging on my door. Now, it's tough to past the automated screenings unless I have a contact at the company who can refer me there.

Meanwhile, I'm hearing from my co-workers about how great AI is - how they ran their code through it and it came up with a bunch of unit tests for them and some boilerplate code. Vibe coding is already a thing. So is using AI to write your resume and cover letters and applying to jobs.

Likewise, I look upon tools like Devin.ai with increasing trepidation. Today, LLMs aren't good enough to replace a single senior dev, despite a lot of investment happening to move things in exactly this direction. It probably won't happen tomorrow, or even next year. But in 25?

Let's just say that this article really hit home for me.

The other point here is - the day that a person with no coding ability can ask an LLM to create and deploy an entire website, write and manage a brand new app from scratch, is going to be a day that's a win for the people. We want to lower the barriers to entry here, to give this highly elite power to others. Actually, there shouldn't be an elite at all - there should just be a democracy where everyone is equally empowered to create and build great things.

Working in tech will not remain this vaulted, lofty place for much longer. If we aren't content creators, or controlling company owners, then ultimately tech workers like myself are in the same position as any other kind of worker - we work for someone else and serve only at their sufferance.

If anything, what's surprising is that only 18 have fled so far...

This is a bit nuanced and complicated. You're right in spirit of course.

Technically, those were the nuclear weapons of the Soviet Union. After it broke up, operational control of these weapons remained in Moscow as per https://nucleardiner.wordpress.com/2022/02/06/could-ukraine-have-retained-soviet-nuclear-weapons/

So Ukraine had physical possession, but they couldn't have turned them on from day 1 of independence. And if Ukraine had refused to return them, it seems it is an open question if they could have circumvented the security measures or not to gain control over them.

Ironically, my understanding from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00396338.2015.1026091 is that part of the reason Ukraine agreed to give up those nukes was in return for having not only security assurances, but to have those assurances extended to Crimea. This can be viewed and exchanging the nukes for retaining Crimea.

Considering what we know now... that might not have been the best deal. This almost has me asking, why not both? (Both NATO membership and nukes)

This is an old article, here's the follow up: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/visa-reinstated-byu-student-japan-fishing-citation-speeding-tickets-rcna202216

TLDR; he got is visa back and is still in the US.

Lemmy doesn't implement Mastodon (which is the fediverse version of Twitter), only their own Lemmy one (Reddit clone). Kbin and Mbin implement both, as does pyfedi/piefed.

Would it be unreasonable to ask to move to another country?

This. Pretty much everyone with a legal degree thinks this case is junk and should be mocked (as per the CNBC article). Alas, it's filled in the one court that would say otherwise. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forum_shopping at it's lowest...

Agree with this - the fan just trying to make the movie poster imitate the older poster.

But I can see where the actress is coming from as well - these feelings are almost certainly part of the reason why the original movie poster from the studio decided to show the full faces of the actresses instead of imitating the 2003 poster in a more direct homage. It's a tricky balance, but at the same time it's hard to blame the fan for wanting to celebrate Wicked in art.

More evidence that the judgement from Southwark is all out of proportion and unreasonable.

Lorrianne G. ... added subsequently that she is also worried by the frequency with which businesses in her hometown north of Toronto have become owned by newcomers.
“All of our Tim Hortons are no longer owned by white people,” she said.

I think this really says it all.

Came here to say that. I wasn't covered by GDPR under spez's site - but luckily their policies treated me like I was anyways.

I moved to kbin.social - which was probably the 2nd largest after lemmy.world. Also, it was Polish.

What I liked about that was - as per my understanding - since these are hosted in the EU, the GDPR applies to my data here even if I'm not the EU myself and am not an EU citizen.

I can't say it comes as a surprise but... so they did move forward with this.

I wonder how Iran will respond.

Let's not forget the sacrifices made to avoid splitting the vote, such as https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/green-party-list-of-candidates-debates-1.7510915

To get to Greenland though he's mostly got to go through Canada's territorial waters first, or else take a very long way around in the Alantic Ocean (giving more time for everyone to prepare a response).

So, he'd be willing to take on both Canada and Denmark (who'd likely be backed up by other members of the EU) ?

More hot air.