As a other European,

Being crass, our “leaders” aren’t super-overtly sucking off Trump because right now it’s not good PR. Von der Leyen is barely wiping the orange off her face as it is. Just wait until this simmers down just a little bit and they’ll be deepthroating him again.

Yeah, it was the turning point of the war after all

they opted to stay out of it until it affected them …it goes against the narrative of the USA being a defendor of the world order and a moral authority.

Yup, 100%

Stalingrad was less about Russia, more about Hitlers hubris and general winter

I wouldn’t undervalue the Soviet peoples achievements and sacrifice. Winter affects everyone.

but the USA entering is what turned it around

The turnaround was the Soviet victory at Stalingrad

“See your honour, I’m just training my AI with all these books, comics, movies, music, general software and games. Totally permissible. Go fine Lars retroactively for keeping interfering with our training”.

5. I don’t want an automatic car! I love changing my gear!

This is me. I have a hybrid car and I miss the stick every time I drive it.

I’ll keep them in mind, but I stopped using readarr because the sonarr/radarr approach didn’t work for me for books. I read individual books more than subscribe to everything an author does, and manually downloading them is not really a problem.

What problems did you have? I just put the services I wanted in a compose file, configured sonarr/radarr to use prowlarr and my torrent client and done.

Later I added lidarr and readarr but ended up removing the last one. I found it easy enough, and the modularity makes it easy to use only what you need.

But always voting for the lesser evil means that, as long as there’s a greater evil, the lesser one gets a free pass and does not really need to change nor fight anything the greater evil does. In fact, it’s in the lesser evils best interest to enable and nudge the greater evil into even greater evil, because it will let him do whatever and still be the lesser evil.

In the DDR maybe. In the west they were so on the run that they ran themselves into being NATO’s chief staff officer, working for the US, getting into politics or just dicking around in South America.

This reeks of dark ages pop history talking points