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by etc-hosts 8mo ago
Federal Gov't only spends its discretionary funds now on funding ICE with 70 billion dollars.
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March for Billionaires(marchforbillionaires.org)
3 points by etc-hosts 8mo ago|1 comments
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by etc-hosts 9mo ago
It's clear that at least a couple of thousands Iranians have died in protests. Khamenei even said so in a speech a few days ago. but its not 36,000.
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by etc-hosts 9mo ago
There is a great UK tv show about the surveillance state, from 2019 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Capture_(TV_series)
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by etc-hosts 9mo ago
I am the local headphone guy. They are usually shocked anyone would give them anything ever. No face punches yet.
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by etc-hosts 9mo ago
I closely follow all of this, to the detriment of my job. I'm amused that the US State Dept's PR is that "Maduro is selling oil to our enemies." We've frozen Venezuela out from buying or selling anything from any ot
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by etc-hosts 9mo ago
I think we should all be more shocked the US kidnapped the leader of another country.
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by etc-hosts 9mo ago
Often when I encounter a person loudly listening to music or videos on their phone in a cafe, it's because they are completely unaware of how loud they are or they obviously have some challenging psychological issues ( I live in SF ).
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by etc-hosts 9mo ago
The Musk suite of companies all exist at least partly to promote Musk's politics and policies.
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by etc-hosts 10mo ago
You mean when Churchill wanted to hire 100,000 "former" Nazis to invade the Soviet Union?
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by etc-hosts 10mo ago
You know the US destroyed nearly 75 percent of all buildings in North Korea during the Korean War, right? NK is paranoid for very valid reasons.
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by etc-hosts 11mo ago
I can't remember the names of all of the parts of the CIA right now, there are two, but Carter ended up having 5 percent of the Clandestine Services fired. that's it.
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by etc-hosts 11mo ago
Main funder of the US Communist Party during the COINTELPRO era was... surprise.. the FBI, they wanted to use the CP to keep tabs on possible spying or agitation efforts by Soviet Union's in the US.
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by etc-hosts 11mo ago
Any former resident of Soviet Union thinks Larry Summers is huge crime
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by etc-hosts 11mo ago
A nice list of Summers' many crimes from over 10 years ago: https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/07/why-larry-summers-sh...
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List of areas where dodgy Firesticks are banned after crackdown goes into effect(metro.co.uk)
10 points by etc-hosts 11mo ago|0 comments
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by etc-hosts 1y ago
Current docker tooling is so much nicer than whatever I was messing around with in jails 16 years ago.
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by etc-hosts 1y ago
I think building stuff is fine. The Chinese foreign policy seems to be building stuff in other countries, and using the new infra as leverage to promote Chinese interests in the future. Lately the US just seems to threaten countries with T
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by etc-hosts 1y ago
I don't think the US gov interfering in the elections of other countries with a massive lake of cash is very 'free market'. The US has a decades long history of promoting neo-liberal policies in Argentina ( though some econo
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by etc-hosts 1y ago
Perhaps Argentinian citizens take the long view and decided Milei's policies are the best route of 'the hole', or maybe they decided the US's offer of 40 billion dollars only if they elected Milei again is the more likel
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by etc-hosts 1y ago
A Socialist would argue the private money spent use to the private charities you just listed should have gone to the government through taxation originally, and that the government should provide services and a safety net for all instead. S
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by etc-hosts 1y ago
I'm sure this is going to be used by anarcho capitalist types and the media to say Milei's program of cutting public services is noble and great and here's the proof. I feel like I must be taking crazy pills though. If the
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by etc-hosts 1y ago
I haven't been able to defeat the paywall here, but what mandate and what revolution, and what is so free market about taking in 20 to 40 billion from the US in exchange for a promise to push Chinese business interests out of the count
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by etc-hosts 1y ago
running Nextcloud AIO has been reliable for me for a couple of years now.
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by etc-hosts 1y ago
I think if you pay attention to French and German politics, it is hard to conclude that the EU is "ultra left-wing".
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by etc-hosts 1y ago
It's not a direct dependency. Route 53 is humming along... DynamoDB decided to edit its DNS records that are propagated by Route 53... they were bogus, but Route 53 happily propagated the toxic change to the rest of the universe. Dyn
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TrueAnon Podcast: The Left Has Its Rabbit Holes(nytimes.com)
4 points by etc-hosts 1y ago|1 comments
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by etc-hosts 1y ago
can Magic Wormhole help me place a directory of a terabyte of files onto multiple hosts in a datacenter ?
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by etc-hosts 1y ago
Several Otzma Yehudit members are ministers in the current government.
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by etc-hosts 1y ago
> And many of the apartment buildings that collapsed were because their foundations failed from the collapse of Hamas tunnels. Come on man.

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