Either you give them land from which they can prepare their next attack or you show them that they’re unable to take and hold land. So yeah. Pretty much.

It ends the second russia withdraws its troops or they are beaten out of Ukraine.

Yup. Russia doesn’t understand diplomacy. Only force. It’s sad that russia acts this way, so, unfortunately, beating them is the only way to have lasting peace.

That or leadership change but I don’t think putler fears anything more than losing power and the people are either weak or live in a propaganda bubble.

But then you’d have a myriad of arguably worse problems.

It’s only a matter of time before you the same regarding microsoft. Their services always get worse as time progresses.

not exactly a Hitlerian take-over of Europe.

Only because they lack the ability. Civilian massacres like in Bucha are happening and have been happening throughout the war.

Yeah, pay her. After you pay me for leaving this comment.

Or just charge her for a bunch of stuff you did that night and say you’ve already payed.

Or say you charge the same fee. Or a greater one and she needs to pay up.

The chinese state, as most authoritarian regimes are, is first and foremost concerned with maintaining power. They do this, primarily by suppressing political opposition. In furtherance of this goal, they restrict the flow of information that could encourage political opposition in any conceivable way. That is the main reason it exists.

They do crack down on piracy when economically beneficial, as I understand it. But it’s not the purpose of the firewall and, even then, they do have means to circumvent it.

I wonder if it has anything to do with the person writing the comment being able to choose their username 🤔

By a huuuge mile indeed. Blender devs are great at listening and communicating with the community.

The standardization of hotkeys and features across the software is fantastic. The UI is snappy and filled to the brim with intuitive QoL features I wish were standard for my OS.

I have irreconcilable grievances with a lot of open source software, VLC, VSCode, etc, and find development slow and heading non optimal for others like Sharex and Firefox… but Blender, that’s green on all fronts.