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by nyolfen 4y ago
one of the leading german publications published a claim about german intelligence and and a diplomatic exchange. you can find it compelling or not, but it is not some kind of dubious rumor
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by nyolfen 4y ago
hmm, maybe someone should tell nato about the assassination attempt on alexander dugin inside russia, the suicide bomb attack on russian infrastructure, the helicopter raids into russian territory, etc
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by nyolfen 4y ago
i don't think this attack is really as sophisticated as you seem to; the pipeline was about 80-100m underwater -- the ukrainians have (or had) oil platforms in the black sea which would require divers capable of operating at such depth
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by nyolfen 4y ago
NS was not on russian territory, it was sabotaged in international waters just a few km outside of danish territory
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by nyolfen 4y ago
it sounds like they turned it on by default in massachusetts
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by nyolfen 4y ago
spiegel posted this a few months ago, claiming that the CIA warned the germans that the russians had intelligence that the ukrainians were planning to sabotage NS: https://archive.ph/v7FL4 >The Germans were warned in sum
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by nyolfen 4y ago
ukraine itself (or perhaps a close intelligence ally like lithuania), with its constant pressuring of the west to escalate the conflict (including calls for direct strikes on russia), seems like the most likely candidate. there were backch
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by nyolfen 4y ago
why not find something that you would find rewarding to work on, even if it's on the side? the things i've done that feel impactful are little tools i've made to help the people i know
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by nyolfen 4y ago
no, i am saying that it does not matter what i believe, because if there is a superior system it will require no belief at all. this conversation reminds me of this essay http://hyperstition.abstractdynamics.org/archives&#x2
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by nyolfen 4y ago
> It's already almost difficult to discuss it criticize growth turning the social meta from positive sum to zero or negative sum is the most disastrous idea conceivable. everything you cherish, including your physical safety, is bui
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by nyolfen 4y ago
“It has gradually become clear to me what every great philosophy up till now has consisted of – namely, the confession of its originator, and a species of involuntary and unconscious autobiography; and moreover that the moral (or immoral) p
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by nyolfen 4y ago
https://docs.linuxserver.io/images/docker-webtop
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by nyolfen 4y ago
a semantic web holdover project that nobody has heard of or uses is tens of millions of dollars per year? it is sad to say, but it is obvious that the general good name of the wikipedia project is parasitized by nonprofit sector careerist
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by nyolfen 4y ago
i urge you to compare this to any presently-existing monetary system or software project
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by nyolfen 4y ago
"too soon to say"
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by nyolfen 4y ago
yes, that is in fact what people mean by 'losing money'
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by nyolfen 4y ago
>It's conspiratorial and misrepresentation to talk about this - to the point of it being a lie. this is false. there is a great deal of direct and circumstantial evidence that has come out in the last two years. this isn't &quo
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by nyolfen 4y ago
spies can find the irl identities of otherwise anonymous dissident accounts, for one. i've read stories about chinese students in the USA being confronted with their post history by govt agents despite impeccable opsec.
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by nyolfen 4y ago
i think you should watch it again. i feel like it has become significantly more relevant since it was released.
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by nyolfen 4y ago
i will leave you with this https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1567290905039708160
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by nyolfen 4y ago
>I would reject the claim that there's an uptick in people who are against free-speech. I don't see anything to substantiate that. it's hard for me to read this and believe you're arguing in good faith either. there i
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by nyolfen 4y ago
>I'd also be careful not to conflate "people who think free speech is a bad idea" and "people who want limitations on speech." sorry, 'free speech except for special pleading for the ideas i don't like&
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by nyolfen 4y ago
eth.link isn't a decentralized service. this is like mistaking archive.org for the internet. ens is still humming along
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by nyolfen 4y ago
it is estimated that 90% of new world natives died of smallpox and viral herpes immediately following contact with europeans -- that is, after initial contact with a small number of europeans on the western fringes, disease swept across t
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by nyolfen 4y ago
> and no one in what you call the "working class" wants these jobs to be in the US if it means they need to pay more for everything. look at a graph of productivity measures since 1990, a graph of real wages, and a graph of US
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by nyolfen 4y ago
> They see it as an obvious weakness in their ideology that companies can just walk away from their labor movement and go elsewhere. it's true! we can't force anybody to use our labor. but we can control access to our markets.
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by nyolfen 4y ago
what is the point of wrapping wireguard with ipsec? bet-hedging?
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by nyolfen 4y ago
alternatively, it was just a real photo from her phone
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by nyolfen 4y ago
> That's really what's missing from web3: the concept of what a reasonable person [1] would believe - not a code-based contract. this is fundamentally a social technology, and can be built on top of what exists. it's nearl
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by nyolfen 4y ago
> and in California when it is discussed it's a worst-case scenario to protect ourselves, not an isolationist fever dream. I am firm, you are obstinate, he is a pig-headed fool. I am righteously indignant, you are annoyed, he is ma

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