No unclarity regarding that, don’t worry :)

What is this the decisive factor you’re talking about? You can have several.

Good luck finding a presidential candidate with good policies in USA.

Uh… If the misogyny was enough to remove enough votes from them to allow the worse candidate to win, then obviously it was a decisive factor. Being a decisive factor does not equal being the only factor.

You’re not supposed to question the victory of a presidential election when done in free and democratic elections. Doing anything like that would be horribly anti-democratic.

It would be horrible if Harris had challenged Trump’s victory. That would just make her another Causescu/Trump/Mussolini.

Were there other problems in Clinton and Harris than the gender, then? (Except them “lying” that Trump would use the army against US civilians, of course)

Breaking anti-bribery laws of a country is illegal, no matter whether they are enforced in some other country or not. Of course Microsoft can break the law and then keep paying large fines until they decide to no longer break the law.

I think this post would do good having a small text telling what it’s point is. It is apparently here to tell that its map shows Crimea as part of the Russia?

They are the locals. They are indigenous New Zealanders and they are doing something that is customary in their culture in the kind of situation they were in during that session.

The New Zealand lawmakers were trying to pass a bill that would have severely reduced the rights of the locals, and this reaction is part of how the local culture demands people to act.

True that. And I understand it was impolite of me to not correct this.

I would still like to remind that the claim “he has Parkinson’s” is not by me. What is known is that he has tremors, and people jump the gun and assume that’s Parkinson’s. No, it is not necessarily Parkinson’s.

It can also be just some other – strong – drugs having tremor as a side effect. And then what those medications might be (partially?) healing is more relevant than whether one can live long with Parkinson’s or not.

I added a bit of text to my comment above, so that people won’t be misled. Thank you for the correction!

Okay, true, technically not Parkinsons. But medicines can cause symptoms that are the same as those of the most visible symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Hands shaking, difficulty in walking, mind not working completely. No idea of the pharmacology behind it. All I know that I’ve seen it happen.

Tabasco’s owners have been supporting the Russia in its war of genocide.

A company doing that is no way “good dudes”.

Uh, the Russia is doing that on every possible platform. Why would ours be an exception? What makes Lemmy so special?

Similar conscription amounts have been inside the current numbers as well.

These 160 000 are not an addition to the troops. They are just an explanation of where the steady recruitment of new soldiers comes from this year. This means that they are no longer able to find enough suitable prisoners to send to the front and must slightly increase the yearly amount of conscripts to keep things in balance.

The 0.7 % considers only Ukrainian territory, and completely ignores everything that happened inside the Russia

In the end of 2024, Ukraine controlled an area in the Kursk province that equaled about 0.2 % of Ukraine’s total territory. If that area was taken into account, the Russia’s net territory gain would be about 0.5 % of Ukraine’s total territory. At the peak of the Kursk province operation , Ukraine controlled about twice as big an area of the Kursk province as in the end, so an area equalling about 0.4 % of Ukraine’s total territory and 4/7 of the area the Russia managed to temporarily gain from Ukraine.

(Edit: and, my understanding is that the 4200 km² does not contain the territories Russia reclaimed, but now I’m getting a bit unsure, as I don’t remember the exact phrasing of the text telling how much area the Russia gained)

I’m not really sure what’s stopping Putin, but at least all the previous times he’s declared how many new soldiers the Russia will recruit, they’ve fallen very short of that number.

What is known is that the Russia’s recruitment capacity is 25 000 to 35 000 new soldiers per month. It is not able to reform during wartime, because that reform would cause a mess for a few years, lowering the capacity for first.

He’s saying he’ll recruit those soldiers within 4 months. That translates to 40 000 per month, which vows over even the pessimistic estimates for its recruitment capacity. And that would mean that they only recruit conscripts and nobody else during those four months. Of they recruit others than conscripts, they have that much less capacity for the conscription.

Nobody is reporting the 0.7 %. What they’re reporting is that the Russia gained about 4200 km² of Ukraine’s territory in 2024. That is reported by several sources, such as this one: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/8/russia-gained-4000sq-km-of-ukraine-in-2024-how-many-soldiers-did-it-lose

Ukraine’s total territory is 603 628 km², and 4200 km² of that translates to 0.7 %.

Some sources talk about just over 2000 km², which would be around 0.3 %, but the rough measurement I made on the map was around 4000 km², so I don’t trust the lower number.

You can search for “how much Ukrainian territory did Russians gain in 2024”, and 4200 and 2000 are numbers you will find.

This 4200 km² does not include the areas inside the Russian Federation around the city of Sudzha. There Russia lost a land area that equals about 0.2 % of Ukraine’s total land area, and if you count that in, then that brings the Russian gains down to 0.5% instead of 0.7 %.

Why do news media have to repeat this kind of weirdness:

Russian forces have slowly made territorial gains in Ukraine over the past but that has come at a cost.

What kind of “territorial gains” is it that during all of year 2024 the Russia managed to gain 0.7 percent of Ukraine’s total area. Less than one percent! That is in no manner significant. Taking over 0.7 of a country’s land means the frontline having frozen in place, not the country gaining territory.

And of course, if we take the events in Kursk province into account, the percentage gets even lower…

Also, this article says “will conscript”, while in reality it is “wants to conscript”. Putin can want whatever. Being able to get what it wants is a whole different question.

But only one really knows how to give commands to Trump. That’s a huge difference!

Mathematics and languages have different rules.

In languages it is possible for one century to be a yewa shorter than all the others. Other centuries begin on a year divisible by hundred, but centuries 1–99 and -1–-99 don’t. They are both missing a year, and outside mathematics that’s just fine.

If almost all native speakers of a language say that a century begins in a year divisible by hundred then that’s how it goes in that language.