Synaesthesia

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by Synaesthesia 4mo ago
The entire rest of the world is not just 3rd world countries.
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by Synaesthesia 4mo ago
Maybe the point of the Iran war was to boost the US economy, relative to East Asia, which is dependent on Middle Eastern oil and gas, while the US is an exporter. I mean look who benefits from this, arms companies and oil/gas companies
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by Synaesthesia 5mo ago
Now I really want to read Middlemarch.
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by Synaesthesia 5mo ago
Buy some other crypto like Litecoin then exchange it for Monero, there are quite a few exchanges around that do it anonymously.
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by Synaesthesia 6mo ago
Africa sadly just gets ignored. But one day it will unite and develop itself, so I hope anyway.
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by Synaesthesia 6mo ago
It's a business selling trinkets, I doubt it's going to make money.
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by Synaesthesia 6mo ago
Guernica shocked the world. It was the start of aerial bombardment of civilians, something which we have sadly normalised since WW2. but which I regard as terrorism. Picasso also painted another great work titled "Korea" in the sa
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by Synaesthesia 6mo ago
It was wrong, and yes would likely be seen as genocidal in the current day, rightly so. You can't just randomly kill innocent civilians, no matter what. It didn't even meaningfully accelerate the end of the war.
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by Synaesthesia 6mo ago
Pentium is a bad processor? It's way faster than 486, especially on FP it's not even close.
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by Synaesthesia 6mo ago
Immediately after the ceasefire Israel attacks hundreds of sites in Lebanon, what the heck is that! We are tired of this bloodshed.
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by Synaesthesia 6mo ago
Land-mines, particularly anti-personnel land minds are just horrible weapons. They should be banned.
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by Synaesthesia 6mo ago
When I was young they talked about a green revolution. Now with low solar panel costs, as well as batteries and inverters we really are living in a green revolution.
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by Synaesthesia 6mo ago
The amount of people still on less than 8gb of memory is really small.
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by Synaesthesia 6mo ago
Ricing = making your linux desktop look pretty. arch = a 'techy' flavour of linux.
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by Synaesthesia 6mo ago
Because as the article explains the US ships cannot even approach the straits due to the threat of anti-ship missiles.
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by Synaesthesia 6mo ago
It counts more! His novels are mind-blowing. Blood Meridian is unsurpassed IMO
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by Synaesthesia 6mo ago
I mean have you seen what US colleges cost?
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by Synaesthesia 6mo ago
Iran was never a threat to NATO. It was posing no threat when the US launched this war. The entire threat is the fault of US aggression.
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by Synaesthesia 6mo ago
5k is almost free. And yes you pay tax to find universities. Makes sense. Paying full tuition in the USA is like paying a tax, only worse, it's a lot more.
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by Synaesthesia 6mo ago
The big loser in this war is Europe and other roil importing nations. The US is a major oil and has producer. It's benefiting from this war of aggression and not even taking any damage. Oil companies and arms manufacturers are having a
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by Synaesthesia 7mo ago
Israel is an arm of the US empire. It's a very useful ally of the US in the region. And when I talk about the US here I mean ruling elites. The US is doing just fine from this war. The US is an oil and gas producer, the largest in the
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by Synaesthesia 7mo ago
The purpose of the war is to destroy the Axis of Resistance, Iran, Hezbollah and its allies, the only force standing in the way of US/Israeli hegemony in the region.
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by Synaesthesia 7mo ago
He writes that the region is not very important to the USA. It's not, but it is a strategically important area, not only in terms of its location, at the nexus of Asia, Africa and Europe, but also because of the oil there. Now the US i
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by Synaesthesia 7mo ago
I don't know, I always see this pattern with iOS or MacOS releases. Everyone piles on at the time. I've actually quite enjoyed some design changes in Tahoe, and looking at older versions of MacOS just looks old fashioned once you&
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by Synaesthesia 7mo ago
Good because damn, there is some AI slop out there.
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by Synaesthesia 7mo ago
And their conduct in Lebanon is just appalling. It constitutes outright terrorism. They have no right to be there.
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by Synaesthesia 7mo ago
It's a very impressive phone and will likely be the case that Apple and Samsung dominate western phone sales. But you can get way better phones from China right now with these new silicon carbide batteries which is just a game changer.
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by Synaesthesia 7mo ago
I still think it has a lot of potential, and is the logical next storage system, because of its performance advantages over NAND flash. Because input costs can come down.
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by Synaesthesia 7mo ago
They definitely did collaborate with the NSA.
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by Synaesthesia 7mo ago
It's all about trust at the end of the day. And given that it was exposed that Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Google etc all collaborated with the US government to provide surveillance (PRISM) by Edward Snowden, how we can trust them ever aga

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