If you are doing web development you can’t really run from javascript.

I suppose if your only concern is whether a bomb is going to drop on you, you are correct. But maybe you should consider if being kidnapped, tortured and killed without your family ever knowing what actually happened to you is “safe”

Costa Rica, Panama, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Venezuela, Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and Brazil and probably more I’ve failed to remember.

If you weren’t living under one of the US sponsored dictatorships, sure.

While Latin America is, overall, a good choice, it’s important to recognize that the mask off fascism we are seeing from the US will only increase the meddling they already do on their “backyard”, so keep that in mind.

I would expect Australia to be important in a conflict with China, so unless you expect it not to happen, it really isn’t that great.

The context will be more telling of if it’s actually rude or not. There’s a lot of chat software nowadays where you can “react” to a message with a thumbs up and people use it to acknowledge what was said.

Moving to my own house. Still need to get some work done over there but we should be there by the end of this month.

If the communists start getting a lot more votes, then maybe you could make a parallel. Otherwise it’s a very different situation.

Then why didn’t they respect the two Minsk agreements?

NATO has been encircling Russia for decades. You just want to justify it as “people choosing democracy” when the fall of USAID and NED just shows that they were regime change operations orchestrated by the US. If peace was the point, the Minsk agreements would have been respected. If saving lives was the point, the UK wouldn’t have told Zelensky to fight a war they couldn’t win. Nothing about this conflict has been about ukrainian interests. It always was and still is about russian and american interests. You want to argue that what Russia is doing is imperialism, but it is the US that wishes to balkanize the country, and THAT is actual imperialism. But of course that wouldn’t bother you.

The Euromaidan was a coup orchestrated by the west, it’snot a matter of opinion, you just think it was a good thing.

They weren’t independent since 2014

Are you arguing that doing everything the US wants, to the point of signing away 50% of every cent made from your natural resources, some sort of freedom? The fact of the matter is that neutrality suited the people of Ukraine very well, but not NATO.

It just goes to show how out of touch I am. It didn’t even cross my mind that there would be an app to file your taxes, even though it makes perfect sense.

I’m not? Also lemmy.ml isn’t an instance about any of that.

They weren’t independent before and will not be after the war. Just the master will change, maybe.

The average non-tech person only has a phone. And maybe a shared family notebook if at any point someone needed a computer for things that you can’t do on the phone (like filing taxes and such).

Matter is made of atoms. Things are only truly rigid in the small scales we deal with usually.

My mother-in-law was super dependent on my wife for everything related to technology. Banking apps, netflix, sending and receiving money, anything related to the government she had her do it. Then we moved a few states away. We came for a visit a few months ago and guess what? She manages to do it all by herself now. Even calling an uber or finding the cat videos she likes she was able to do herself now.

The point being: she doesn’t want to and won’t learn because she has someone to do it for her. Since you can’t make her do it, then you just have to accept it unfortunately.