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[Richard Campbell @richcampbell]

Every event sourcing implementation needs answers to data storage, event response, replay management, and more!

Einar Ingebrigsten talks on DotNetRocks at https://t.co/RtyMrRTUw3 about cratis, his open source toolset for event sourcing!

[MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸 @MAGACult2]

“The United States will not let men steal trophies from women.”

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

Chrome DevTools now supports *individual* network request throttling!

Folks have been asking for this for years! DevTools now allows developers to simulate slow network conditions for specific requests rather than the entire page.

This helps in testing how a web application performs and handles issues when specific resources (like images, scripts, or API calls) are slow to load.

[Political Cartoon @Cartoon4sale]

Martyn Turner @turnercartoons on #Putin #Trump #AyatollahKhamenei #Netanyahu #IranIsraelConflict #iranisraelwar #IranIsrael – political cartoon gallery in London https://t.co/dePcTdovuE

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

I just left the Senate floor, where I laid out Trump's real "Art of the Deal."

For himself.

Here are Donald Trump's 10 most outrageous displays of corruption yet.

🧵

[Bjørn Johan Berger @bjornberger]

Viktige korreksjoner til Aftenpostens artikkel «Sist i Skandinavia på ny støtte-oversikt: – Ser ikke bra ut»

Det er bra at Aftenposten viser at Norge støtte til Ukraina ikke ser bra ut, men avisen kunne med fordel ha gjort følgende: 🧵1/21

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Vladimir Putin announces his new Secretary of State for Propaganda.

[Sølve Heggem 🌻 @SolveHeggem]

@pcnerd37 @mkristensen You might want to check your .editorconfig settings for this. https://t.co/KxGmwduSzs

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Hey Trump voters.

Hate to break it to you - but here’s what actually happened on Tuesday.

Watch. Bernie explained it 20 years ago.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

How sad it must be believing that doctors, scientists, scholars, historians, economists & journalists are all lying to you, but a criminal conman, business cheat, reality TV game show host with a lifelong history of blatant, unapologetic, nonstop lying, is telling you the truth.

[Sølve Heggem 🌻 @SolveHeggem]

@robsmallshire @alexellisuk Even though the price is negative, you still have grid tax. That is about 0.50 NOK. Therefore you should probably consider adjusting the limits for turning off. Depending upon your expected consumption, maybe negative 0.20 to 0.40 makes more sense?

[Bakhti Nishanov @b_nishanov]

These are the kids evacuated from the children’s hospital Russia deliberately hit with a missile.

Russia is a terrorist state. We should treat it as such.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

Russia’s resource base for waging such a large-scale war in Ukraine has its limits.

And Putin knows this. 

Thus all that we-could-have-peace-in-Istanbul bitching, as well as his absurd and inadequate ultimatums to Ukraine & the West that are barely consistent with Putin’s actual situation on the ground. 

Moscow is investing major efforts in pushing this narrative: “Ukraine can’t win; Russia is winning, so Ukraine better sue for peace before it’s too late; this is the last chance.”

They are persistently pushing this tempting thought into the heads of Western leaders and into public opinion, including in Ukraine. Let’s go the easy way and finally “have peace.” Why won’t we? 

Even Putin’s minion, Viktor Orban, who was in Kyiv today, called Zelensky to “take a break, cease fire, and move to negotiations” with Russia. 

But — please come again — if Putin & Russia are winning so brilliantly and so inevitably (so that Ukraine has even collapsed within the next 30 days several times over by this time…), why would they need a ceasefire now?

Why stop now if they can take the entire Ukraine and obtain a complete victory over Ukraine? 

The answer is simple, of course. RUSSIA NEEDS CEASEFIRE in Ukraine. It’s been so for many months already. 

They know they can’t defeat Ukraine as long as Ukraine keeps fighting and the West keeps actively supporting it. That’s the very minimum. 

Also, they are not dumb, and they see that the war is not moving toward the results they want, no matter what, despite gargantuan resources thrown in against Ukraine. 

By early 2024, Russia had already spent over $200 billion on the war on Ukraine, and in 2024, the entire military spending skyrocketed by some 6% of Russia’s GDP.

Moreover, as of now, Russia has lost over 3,100 tanks, over 6,100 IFVs and APCs, over 3,300 trucks, over 1,100 artillery pieces, close to 400 MRLS, over 250 SAM, 119 aircraft, 138 helicopters, and 26 warships and submarines (per Oryx).

I don’t think that I have to say that those are astonishing losses, even by Russian standards.

Any serious observer, let alone a military commander, would have turned gray and then immediately grown bald on the spot if he had been told those would be Russian losses against Ukraine after 2.5 years in a full-scale war with no victory in sight. 

They’ve been fighting a war on Ukraine as if there’s no tomorrow, lavishly burning out their gargantuan Soviet stocks scattered throughout old military depots (yes, say hello to scores of old-ass T-55s, T-62s, and T-62Ms, and other things that belong to museums). 

Moreover, it is more than evident now that, even after two years, Russia’s boosted and enhanced military production sector and the de-mothballing do not keep up with such a wasteful, reckless warfighting style. Per estimates by @CITeam_en, it covers only some 20% (!) of Russia’s everyday losses in Ukraine.

And it’s been many months since Russia’s military production hit its plateau. And the seemingly bottomless stocks of old Soviet vehicles in-store available for de-mothballing is not forever. 

For many months, Russia has been having problems saturating their numerous units with armored vehicles to keep offensive operations running and uphold the large scale of hostilities against Ukraine along the nearly 1,000-kilometer front line (say hello to the Russian infantry trying to storm Ukrainian lines on motorcycles, yeah). 

And Russians keep trying to milk their Iranian, Belarusian, and North Korean friends dry, but their ability to sell Russian artillery shells, missiles, and drones also has its limits. 

Yet — with all this giant mass of resources thrown against Ukraine and even all the troubles with Western aid seen in the previous months, even with all Ukrainian systemic issues, Russia keeps having only limited tactical gains in Ukraine.

The much-hyped Kharkiv offensive bogged down and lost momentum in Vovchansk and advanced near-border areas many weeks ago.

The painful loss of Avdiivka took place almost five months ago and was followed by Russia’s subsequent advances toward important ground lines of communications but still haven’t brought about a tipping point of this war in Russia’s strategic favor. 

In other words, they NEED a break. They need a break to replenish their catastrophic losses that keep impeding Russia’s war effort against Ukraine; they need it to ramp up their military production sector and to get some time off to clear the mess in their defense ministry (which is IMHO why Putin fired very loyal but extremely ineffective and corrupt defense minister Shoigu and opted to appoint a civilian crisis manager instead). 

They know they can’t win and can’t go on fighting a war at such a scale endlessly. 

However abundant, even Soviet depots are not endless.

At some point around 2025, the Russian war machine will hit the bottom of what is still usable from Soviet stocks, and they will have to rely much more on Russia’s own military production, which means gradually narrowing down the scale of hostilities against Ukraine.

And, of course, kissing the idea of taking Kyiv goodbye forever. 

China helping Putin out?

Maybe, but I don’t see why China would want to invite trouble with the West by doing anything more than just saving Putin’s ass from a catastrophic defeat and getting ousted as a result of an idiotic war of his own making.

Given Putin’s increasingly persistent invitations for a “ceasefire,” there need to be two things:

1. It’s vital that the Russian military keep sustaining heavy losses in Ukraine that by far overwhelm their ability to replenish them.
2. Western aid must continue to come in and expand all the time. 
3. Russia mustn’t get a chance to draw in another breath that it needs so much, fix its problems, and attack again in a much better shape. 

There will never be a shortage of smart asses who would gladly buy Putin’s “proposals” to get a minute of here-and-now glory of getting a “peace in our time”.

But in reality, as it always happens, false prophets of “peace at any price” will not be there with us all to suffer the consequences of tempting deals with the devil when the time comes.

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[Robert Reich @RBReich]

34 felony convictions
54 pending criminal charges
2 impeachments
2 popular vote losses
$88M owed to E Jean Carroll
$450M owed for civil fraud
$8T added to nat'l debt
2.9M net loss of jobs

Is this what Trump meant when he promised "numbers like we've never seen"?

[Bjørn Johan Berger @bjornberger]

Tyskland kjøper tre HIMARS-systemer fra det amerikanske forsvaret og gir dem til Ukraina.

Jeg blir nesten sint når jeg tenker på hvor lite Norge gjør. Vi kunne gjort det samme. Det behøvde ikke å ha påvirket resten av statsbudsjettet med en krone.

[X ER ET HØL @Reynolds420]

Canada regulerte i 2018. I 2023 hadde landet høyere inntekt fra avgifter på lovlig cannabis enn de hadde fra øl og vin.

Avgiftsinntektene for øl/vin var på 887,7 millioner dollar (CA$). Særavgifter fra cannabis samme år utgjorde rundt 894,6 millioner CA$.
https://t.co/7jZR202ioR

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

This night, 34 Russian missiles targeted Ukraine. We managed to intercept a portion of them. However, the world has all of the resources to assist us in intercepting every missile and drone fired by Russian terrorists. This is completely doable. All that is required is for the necessary political decisions and agreements to be implemented.

What Ukraine needs is air defense systems, a sufficient quantity and quality of weapons to ensure our frontline actions, as well as prompt delivery and steadfast action. Terror must always fail, and everyone who assists us in combating Russian terror is a true life defender.

Ukraine is grateful to the United States and all of our partners for their decisions to support our country and its people. We must make every effort to ensure that life prevails.

[Bjørn Johan Berger @bjornberger]

Danmark øker sin samlede støtte til ca. 137,6 milliarder norske kroner. Uklar informasjon fra NTB.
Heng med, viktig 🧵- republiser gjerne. 1/11

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

How many Patriot batteries are collecting dust in NATO nations instead of saving Ukrainian lives & infrastructure? It's a disgrace. All these weapons were designed for defending Europe and destroying the Russian military; let them do their job! Send everything!