except a million more Ukrainians and Russians would still be alive.

Maybe. I don’t think you can say that for sure. Meybe in that timeline, that peace would have come and gone by now.

Well yeah, did you expect Russia to disarm?

No. I expect both sides to remain armed to the teeth, perhaps even growing their capabilities for years after a peace-deal.

My country neighbours Russia, and unlike some neughbours, we never disarmed. That doesn’t mean we’re out to expand our territories. It is just the reality of being neighbours with Russia, even then for a while there our military expenditure felt like a waste even to me.

Not anymore.

The only security you can have with men like Putin, is to make taking something from you as expensive as possible.

America’s puppets.

That’s a bit of a oversimplification. The only puppet the US could accurately control right now, is a sock pulled onto one of Trumps hands.

Any apprently positive outcome is accidental, and even then half of it is fixing problems they’re themselves causing.

Trump himself is so empty, that anything he has to say that isn’t coming from his ego, is just him parroting the latest person to gift him an airplane.

The 28-point plan was a thinly veiled temporary ceasefire that would have left Ukraine de-armed and Russia free to re-arm and try again in a couple years.

I think agreeing to it would have been like giving the bully your lunch money, then bringing twice the amount the next day thinking you’d then get to keep half.

Reality is more complex than that, of course. Maybe that peace-deal would have been the timeline with less overrall misery. But that is unknowable, and won’t become clear even in hindsight.

You are saying, given the chance, Ukraine would start a war?

That after this one ends, they’d want to continue so badly they’d become the invading side?

I mean… It’s happened before. But my country participating in operation Barbarossa alongside actual fucking nazis probably ranks among the stupidest decisions in all of recorded history.

But hey, if that’s your prediction, maybe take it to polymarket.

https://youtu.be/EVYO0Ax2lz0

I will not elaborate.

“Send them in” where?

Spell it out. Maybe say it out loud. See if it feels like a sane take.

What do you mean?

Any post, on any service, is technically accessible on any other instance, running any service. Actual implementation, varies.

Unless you run into it in the feed, the way to find a given post is to enter the original instance url for it into search on the instance from which you want to interact with it.

To upvote this post, for example, even from an instance that it hasn’t federated to, I can enter the url to this post on its host instance into search, and the other instance will fetch the post, allowing me to vote and/or comment.

Same goes for mastodon toots. Get the url, put into search, upvote, comment, whatever.

Depends.

Items get sent around all the time. In-network, copies are interchangeable, and the system balances them out among the libraries. AFAIK there’s no particular need for a copy to go back to the same shelf, so it doesn’t happen.

If no-one is looking for a certain item, it wont move again unless someone asks, or if the library needs space for something else.

It’s kinda nice. Every time I visit a library it can have an entirely new selection. With recent requests to that location which have been returned again, or just returns, appearing on the shelves.

Damn. Over here we have self-service hours.

Library card holders that sign up for it can get into a library building using their library card, outside normal opening hours, when the staff isn’t even there.

Sure.

Items are grouped by type (games, video, music, tools, devices, fact, fiction, for adults, for kids, comics, audiobooks) etc. Each library may subdivide things in slightly different ways, due to the fact that they vary massively in size. I think some do use DDC for some subset of their inventory. But HelMet has a lot of media and items that do no fit into the DDC system.

You can certainly find something based on how things are sorted, and if you know its there.

But since the collection is region-wide, you don’t necessarily know that. Step one to finding a copy of something is to look up what libraries currently have any. When you look that up, the shelf location is right there as well.

Many locations simply number their shelves, and then further subdivide them by a point value, and then sort alphabetically.

A Harry Potter book for example, could be on shelf 86, section 11063, by “HAR”.

Each entire shelf is usually in alphabetical order overall, too, but the numbers make it really easy to zero in on exactly where a given item can be found.

But since any book might move to any other library, at any time (due to requests or due to borrowers returning books to a different library to where they picked them up), there is the simple problem that a location can run out of space in a given section. Hence they need to be able to put items on any shelf, and still have it trackable by the system.

Otherwise they can end up having to shift hundreds of books over to make space for just a couple more items to go in the right spot in the order.

I suspect that depends.

At least at finnish HelMet libraries, you can just walk in and take any book out of any shelf, and sit down to read it. Once you’re done, you put it back in the exact same spot.

If you don’t remember where that was, then you can hand it to a librarian to re-shelve. They will check the inventory to see where it should go.

You can actually also do that yourself, since the same system is available for finding any given book currently in the library, but it works just as well for putting something back.

All of the above is allowed without signing up for a library card.

If you want to bring a book home, that’s when you go to the checkout, scan your library card, and the barcode on the book. This removes it from current inventory and logs you as the current borrower.

When you bring it back, you scan the book again and leave it on the shelf by the returns scanner. Because the book was removed from the inventory, it wont have a place on a shelf yet. Also, because the inventory of any one library here is everchanging, things may have moved around.

This system also allows you return books to a different library from where you borrowed them. Since the HelMet libraries in the capital city region all interoperate, they share collections, and the location and lending of every individual item is tracked across them all. Across four cities and 66 libraries, and even a couple library buses that visit schools and more remote spots on a schedule.

You can even browse the inventory online. See where copies of what are available, what’s available but currently lent out, request something be moved to a library close to you so you can read it, or reserve a spot in line to borrow something popular.

Kinda just gushing about our libraries. If they don’t have something, HelMet does intralibrary lending. They will get a certain book or item for you from another library network entirely (even from abroad), lend it out to you, and once you’re done, return it back to the providing network.

They do their darndest to make physical media as accessible as the internet, and it’s freaking free (for the most part, some things have a fee).

That’s how it should work everywhere.

Since he didn’t realize it was a different mouse, he would never have tried pairing it without first removing the other mouse.

Since he would have always thought it was the same, already paired, mouse.

I enjoyed Vivaldi for a bit.

But the second time I opened it to find my tabs, browsing history, and literally all other user data, gone… Months apart, with thousands of saved bookmarks and hundreds of tabs lost each time.

I never went back. Deleting everything is just completely unacceptable.

I never found anyone else who’d had it happen, but twice was a pattern I didn’t care to repeat.

Unfortunately the peace plan includes the US blocking Ukraine joining from their end, too.

Refer to my other comment.

It does rely on people putting relevant hashtags on their posts, but do you want to hear from someone who doesn’t do that?

Why wouldn’t I?

Hashtags are not even close to a reliable way to follow a subject. The fact that people can post without them, means a lot of people don’t. Not because they don’t have something interesting to say, but because they are posting it for their followers. The entire culture around how discussion should be conducted is different among users used to the twitter format.

To post on lemmy, your post must be associated with a relevant community. Hence, posts go out to subscribers interested in the subject, rather than to the followers of the user. As such, posts live or die on the merit of their content. Not who posted it.

I don’t like the twitter format.

I’m interested in following subjects, not individual people.

In my very first reply to you:

If there isn’t an overabundance of food (as you yourself admit, housing is insufficient).

This whole time I’ve been trying to tell you, “no, that is actually a problem” because you started off by minimizing the contribution of corporate interests to the housing problem. I guess I should have made the the implied “as well” more obvious, but it was always there.

You didn’t start off with “we need more housing”. You started off with “it’s not the companies and they are good actually”.

So no, I wasn’t gonna reply with “yes, and”. I didn’t have the option because what you started with needed actual refuting, first.

Did I at some point say we don’t need more housing?

Protip: switch to “yes, and”.

You won’t get a positive response by continuing with “no, actually”.

I believe these same corporate forces are a major reason why housing isn’t being built. Hence my focus is on them, not simply “build more homes”.

In my city, homes are being built, but only by the rich for the rich. I’m finnish, btw.

enshrine in its Constitution a commitment never to join the North Atlantic Alliance.

Why?

You planning on invading again?

Several good points among the 28, but sickeningly lined with caveats to feed into US pockets, and huge eyebrow raising ones in terms of Russian dearmament. (In that it is absent)

Well then, we’re back to some people cutting their costs by doing all the things I said above. You dismissed them all as if reasons why they’re not practical are reasons why they’re impossible.

No. I dismissed them as insufficient to show up in the stats. In order to significantly impact the situation, the alternative needs to be valid for any individual. Not just some.

All those landlords have the exact same incentives to charge as much as they can get away with, to subdivide properties and to exploit their renters as corporate landlords do.

Duh. But are you really going to claim single property owners competing with every other single property owner, wouldn’t have different results than duopolistic companies carving up cities and throwing their weight around in legislation?

Have you considered that larger companies are also able to act to maintain the low supply?

Real-estate and construction overlap a great deal, and that influence also grows with consolidation.

And thanks for linking to a study that confirms what I’m trying to say? 3-7% of the largest bill most people have is not nothing.

Does that percentage account for wage stagnation? Which is also exacerbated by mergers.

Everything else is caused by low supply and such.

A few comments ago you were clamining low supply is the only problem.