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The point of a directive is that it outlines what kind of law should be written in each member state, but each member state has a lot of leeway regarding how they decide to implement the directive.

Then there are another category of EU laws: Regulations. Regulations must be precisely the same in each member state.
But, if what you say is true and it's indeed in a directive instead of a regulation, then the reason is simply that Germany decided to implement the directive in a way that doesn't require ATMs to give receipts.

A directive defines the rough outlines of a law, a regulation is a ready-to-use law that cannot be altered in any manner whatsoever and is automatically valid without parliamentary interference by the member states.

That goes, however, extremely strongly against the social contract between Moscow and Russians.

If they start doing that, then there's a very serious risk of rebellion in the Russia. They might go for forced conscription, but especially if 80 % of the conscripts die more or less immediately, Putin's head can very soon say "bye bye" to Putin's neck. That will be the end.

Once you go for sending all 18-years to die in Ukraine, things will explode in such a magnificent manner that just retreating from all of Ukraine will cause less backlash than that.

It hurts me that y isn't th like it was in the past, or that x is not sh like it is in in Portuguese and Chinese. Why did they reverse those two in the otherwise excellent proposition?! :(

They only need to stop going to the front. Currently most of soldiers are real volunteers who are in it for the money.

Once the money stops flowing, there won't be many soldiers volunteering.
That's when the Russia will be in serious trouble with its war efforts.

There were people writing "the Russia's economy will collapse very soon", but there were already in 2023 also many who corrected that, saying that "no, it will not happen that soon. It will happen around the end of 2025 or beginning of 2026". Currently it looks like the Economy will survive until around mid to end of 2026, but that's only 6 months of error in a forecast made almost three years in advance.

For example the system where private banks in the Russia have been forced to give the so called "preferential loans" to weapons manufacturers had not been taken into account when calculating how much money the Russia has available.

Why would it not work?

If it fits you operator's SIM card, it will work. Or?

Maybe it's viewable for you through some other instance? Here's one link: https://piefed.ee/post/147630

I'd say the only reason to go for 22.04 is that you already run it and do not want to upgrade to 24.04.

So, in a new installation 22.04 makes no sense. 24.04 is the choice if you want an LTS version. If not, then you can just go for 25.10.

Ubuntu is the distro with the widest userbase, and because of that, it's directly supported by most programs. It's also got a huge community, which means you can find help easily if you run into problems.

I personally prefer Mint over Ubuntu. It is Ubuntu based, so some 95 % of any Ubuntu help you find also directly applies to Linux Mint.

Then, everybody is talking about Arch Linux. Linux Mint and Ubuntu are examples of trying to make everything work out of the box and having a button you can click with your mouse to get almost anything done that you might want.

Arch, then again, seems to take the approach that it is not very user friendly out of the box but has such support materials that it teaches you to understand the innards of your linux installation, so in the long run you will learn more and have it easier than using a dumbed-down distro such as Mint.

Currently I'm running an Ubuntu installation because my Thinkpad came preinstalled with it, and I haven't bothered installing Mint or Arch or anything. This runs all the programs I need and doesn't hiccup, so whatever. "If it works, don't fix it."

Very nice numbers. 20 artillery systems is a good number, as is over 1100 roaches.

My point here is that what Trump will try to do here is find chokepoints to stall processes that help Ukraine, but Trump can only do that in so many places when he is surrounded by a nation of people that are actively working towards the opposite goal.

Well, Trump himself can find no chokepoints. But he can be instructed on what chokepoints to use.

They are likely to have received instructions from Ukrainian railways. They will know precisely which part of each locomotive type must be hit in what manner.