Leo Gura

The alternative is very simple: not waging a war. Build up better defenses. You will need them anyway since more terrorists will be created by your actions.

No more complex than a flying bee. Making an flying bee AI would be much harder than a self-driving car.

Since the Stalin days anyone who looked at you wrong was considered a foreign agent in Russia. Nothing new in this. That paranoia is what resulted in the famous gulags and purges. Putin considers anyone who opposes his rule a foreign Western agent. Including the entire nation of Ukraine. Of course this is silly, since every nation has legit local opposition. That's otherwise known as democracy. Ta-da! But that does not compute in Putin's head.

There is an ancient Chinese saying: Don't use cannon to kill mosquito.

@DefinitelyNotARobot Putin isn't doing what I call conscious leadership, he is doing survival. He is a master at playing the Russian survival game. Russia isn't really developed enough for consciousness leadership to be viable. And the best proof of that is Navalny's murder. What most Russian's need is help meeting basic survival needs. Not Tier 2 fancy stuff.

There simply isn't a way to elimate every rat in a city. That objective fails to understand the nature of the beast. Imagine if you made it your goal to kill every rat in your city? You would drive yourself and everyone insane. Rats must be managed, not eliminated.

We know very well, since he couldn't even keep himself alive without power. The forces that killed him would be 50x stronger if he actually had power in Russia. The problem with Navalny is that he would never compromise with the corruption, which is necessary in a system as corrupt as Russia. You can't be squeaky clean inside such a system. Navalny was too clean. This is the problem with idealism. Your political ideas have to fit with the era and situation on the ground. Not how you hope things should be. Russia is a backwards place that is 50-100 years behind the West in development. Navalny was not sensitive enough to this reality. Putin is sensitive to that, which is why he's still alive and in charge. Putin understands how Russia actually is, not Western liberal fantasies. Western liberal fantasies will get you killed in a place like Russia. And that is not Russia's fault, that is your fault for playing with a hungry bear.

A good analogy here is if I was hunting rats with dynamite. And my goal was to completely elimate all the rats in your city.

If you compare the absolute numbers of civilians killed, the IDF numbers are insane next to Oct 7th. Not to mention the property damage.

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Can't you just buy non-alcoholic wine? The alcohol itself adds nothing of value to your dish.

Not true. A bee has no problem navigating in 3D and it needs no symbolic general intelligence.

It's like if I was hunting for birds with sticks of dynamite and when the bird lands on your house I throw the dynamite through the window of your child's bedroom.

He was too idealistic to actually govern the oligarchs and insane corruption of Russia. What was supposed to happen? He walks into office and the entire corrupt system -- the courts, the billionaires, the military, the KGB, the mafia, the police -- just clean themselves up and play nice? No way. They plot to kill him.

@MAHAVATAR_-_BABAJI Dude, just stop. Your judgment of her is unneeded.

They can't even get cars to drive themselves. Be ware of AI hype.

It's an insignificant amount of alcohol. I don't have any recipes that call for it.

Putin is as real a leader as there is. Just cause you disagree with his agenda and values doesn't make him any less of a leader. Does anyone comprehend how difficult it is to do what Putin does? Navalny could not be president of Russia, he would get overthrown.

What does it say about your government if even with their best intentions they are not more accurate than terrorists?

No

Maybe the lesson here is: don't be reckless with your life and be careful who you go up against.

Brutal but expected. He is a true martyr.

The civilian to combatant ratio on Oct 7th was something like 2:1.

Thanks to the Mods for their good and consistent work. They don't get enough thanks.

@DefinitelyNotARobot It is a deep mystery why you are not a chimpanzee. I don't have an answer. If you ever find out, let us know.