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by pydry 1y ago
>Rare is going to be the person who truly believes we're invading a country, which has the largest oil reserves on the planet, to stop drug smuggling. Theyre all over this thread - both those who think it is genuine and some who thi
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It was quite a bit like Riyadh before Chavez swept to power in a landslide election in 98. The first US backed coup dedicated to overthrowing that pretty clear cut democratic decision came in 2003. That woman who won the nobel prize recen
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Capitalist interests and imperialist interests in the US are distinct and often at odds with one another. Usually the former defers to the latter though. For example, the capitalist interests didn't want to strand their assets in Rus
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The world is filled with poor, authoritarian countries. That has nothing to do with why the US would send a carrier group their way. This is about empire and oil. Venezuela could be an identical country in every respect and if Maduro was a
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by pydry 1y ago
This upcoming war has absolutely nothing to do with drugs whatsoever, just like the 2003 invasion of Iraq had absolutely nothing to do with WMDs whatsoever.
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Either way this isnt a foundry covertly inserting a back door. It is a foundry openly inserting a back door and turning it into a feature . A small country that imports these chips and wanted to protect its national security by providing &
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by pydry 1y ago
>finally get a taste of npm good god no thank you. >cargo more like it.
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I can. Purism and system76 disable the IME. This is also a completely different threat model but whatever.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/10/28/jeff-bezo... He even wrote an editorial saying "the news media isnt trusted, we have to do better". Then he decided he didnt want to do better
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by pydry 1y ago
When has anybody ever been hacked via a foundry? While having your own foundry is undoubtedly a good thing from the perspective of supply chain resiliency, if hacking is what you're worried about there are probably easier ways to mitig
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This just seems like common sense. Anyone remember the Facebook DNS outage when the on call engineers couldnt get into the building to fix it because it took the key card system down too?
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Oh, dont worry if you were actually going to be replaced by AI American oligarchs wouldnt freak out at the prospect of keeping the retirement age exactly where it is because it would be massively deflationary. Instead... https:/&#x2
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Switzerland. America isnt really a democracy it's a plutocracy.
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Exactly, the luddites werent especially anti technology. Smashing stocking frames for them was a tactic to drive up their wages. Just as the fallout of the napoleonic war was used as a means of driving down their wages. The only differ
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The thing I think most arch enemies of dynamic typing miss is the underlying economics of writing software. ~98% of software gets thrown on the trash heap before it reaches the point where it really needs to be maintained. That last 2% of g
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>And just like diverse investments protect you from the failure of a specific asset, diverse countries can protect you from, for example, a collapse in heath care, a housing crisis or a currency crisis. Although, just like certain asset
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No more cheap gas
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>Looking at graphs with clear improvements on many metrics straight after privatisation, you might think the change would be universally acclaimed. High fives all around. Instead, it's one of the UK's most hated things the gove
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by pydry 1y ago
I get that you hate Maduro. Because of that you are voicing support for a woman who allied herself with fascists conducting the world's most recent racism inspired genocide.
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Im perfectly happy that a privileged venezuelan who has never had to live in a slum was insulted by my anti war stance. Im just as happy that pro invasion iraqis in 2003 hated me. Hate away. History will judge who is right.
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What he is being accused of is a tiny fraction of what has been proven to have taken place in Gaza, under the protection of the west. Yet the aircraft carriers are poised in the gulf to enact a third regime change operation in this oil
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The UN mandate which NATO were given to use military force only to protect civilians was used as a figleaf to pursue a regime change operation instead. In the context of that regime change operation they killed many civilians and left a
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by pydry 1y ago
Including from a certain genocidal regime in the middle east which she supports: https://x.com/VenteVenezuela/status/1286346531591852036 Providing her with this award while Trump's naval battle groups stand r
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They certainly wouldnt have given it to Hugo Chavez in 2002 when he overcame the American backed anti democratic coup to overthrow him. Dissidents in countries which are enemies of the west? With enormous oil reserves? With an American fl
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>Most software is its own little monopoly. Yes, you could ditch Teams for Zoom but is it really the same? I worked for a company where people did that en masse because it was genuinely better. Microsoft then complained to their assets
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If it's the article im thinking of it proclaimed that all of Ukraine and all of Belarus were now part of a glorious "greater" Russia. I think if they really wanted the latter they could have made it happen by now. The leade
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Everyone else in this thread is missing that crowdstrike level bug would have taken down the company in the past. I had a friend practically scream at his C level management after the crowdstrike bug that it should be ripped out because it
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the sad part is that it wasnt entirely nonsensical to use AI to improve notion's use as a knowledge base but the way they actually used it was in the most hamfisted ways possible.
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by pydry 1y ago
>He’s not winning on the timelines his military brass originally predicted. Untrue. I remember them being asked for a deadline in a press conference in March 2022 and they said (verbatim) "it will take as long as it takes". The
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by pydry 1y ago
No, they do. They used to shell Donetsk routinely.

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