If Ukraine is able to replace or recover damaged vehicles why is Zelensky still asking for more tanks (in Switzerland right now)? I thought the sanctions were going to trigger massive inflation and unrest in the Russian economy and their desire to support the war would disappear. I thought the Russians were out of ammunition last year and now they’re bombing relentlessly. I though their morale was so low they were going to capitulate when this attack happened, yet their first main line of defensive trenches hasn’t yet been touched. If Ukraine morale is high and Russian morale is low why are Ukrainians surrendering or refusing to fight on the front lines?
Austin told us all that he had high expectations for the counter-offensive two days before the Pentagon leaks revealed there were actually low expectations. Why believe the boy who already cried wolf, especially when his words don’t align with reality? There’s been too much lying. The war is costing too much in terms of tax payer dollars and Ukrainian lives. This Biden administration is stuck is a sunk cost fallacy and needs to stop.
They were on lemmy.ml from the start. Take a guess at what the “ml” stands for.
It stands for Mali?
Well, Yes but not here. The fediverse doesn’t have to follow the same domain extension standards people are used to with websites hosted on centralized servers in various countries. Spin up an instance of your own and you can choose whatever extension you want and they chose one as shorthand for Marxist-Leninist. They’re not shy about it, Dessalines even has essays on communism hosted on their github.
I’m not sure you understand how domain names work. A .com can be hosted in any country on the planet (and even from space if someone wanted to). Similarly for most domain extensions (TLDs). Some TLDs are restricted to geographic location or intent (eg .gov), but even then, it’s tied to the registrant not the server. A company in Brazil can register a .br domain but host their servers in, say, the USA in one of Amazon’s data centers.
This is the thought process for literally any domain for any website or product: you can choose whatever extension you want. As far as the specific choice for .ml, I’m sure the fact that ML commonly stands for Marxism-Leninism is not an unwanted coincidence, but .ml is a free domain registrar (and off the top of my head I don’t know of any others), and as such if that is the stated reason there’s no reason to assume that you’re being lied to. Why would you pay for something you can get for free?
Two things I’d like to say here. One, is that even with Dessaline’s essays on Communism, it is a logical non sequitir to say that due to his ideologies, the domain choice had to be made in the way you suggest; one doesn’t logically follow from the other. Second, people keep mentioning his essays in passing, attempting to frame it as something that’s bad (here you say “not shy about it” which implies that being shy about it would be the good or normal thing; you’re making a value judgement implicitly): do you have a particular issue with the contents of any of the short essays in that repository? From the people I’ve seen say this, their sensibilities are more shocked that someone would have the gall to talk about such a subject in the open; they’re not bothered by the content per se (in fact they haven’t even bothered to read it).
Oh, I see. Thanks, I didn’t make the connection between ml and Marxist-Leninism. Although I was aware that sometimes domains aren’t used for their original purpose like .to, .io or .me who normally aren’t used for Tonga, British Indian Territories or Montenegro respectively.
No, you were actually correct before. They just chose .ml cause it’s free
You’re welcome and I didn’t make the connection at first either, I doubt a lot of us newer people have.
They literally used that domain because it’s free, for fucks sake, could you quit with that conspiracy? The admins are openly Marxist-Leninists and we have an instance for us, there’s no need to “uuhh, lookie how baddy the ml domain can you guess how bad are”.