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by rdtsc 2y ago
Pretty much. Person asks "how did Americans allow this?". Someone responds and get downvoted and flagged to hell. Funny enough, that also models the reason why people are in shock? "How could this happen, all the posts, media
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by rdtsc 2y ago
Only if political news media is somehow a neutral, purely unbiased source that just tells plain facts, sure. "They are just not informed", "they are stupid", etc. If the media is partisan or biased, the situation reverse
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> Communist China as opposed to what? The secret non-communist china? The Republic of China? Taiwan is the Republic of China. So yes there is another non-communist China out there in the world. They have a cool company called TSMC that m
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> Why not just accept that maybe there is something to the rhetoric? Yeah, fair enough
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> Just looking at the Meta article: The article cites "pressure from conservative critics and customers" as the reason, not financial performance. The Meta representative was quoted pointing to "legal and policy landscape&
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> The FAA investigated, clearing the NBCFAE and Snow of doing anything wrong in an internal investigation Ah yes, we carefully investigated ourselves and we have not found anything wrong. Thank you for your concern. > Our organization
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> The part that always made this obviously insane for any systems-thinking person is as follows [...] if the problems are indeed as dire as claimed, then instead, proper steps must be taken to solve the root causes of the perceived dispa
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by rdtsc 2y ago
There has been a buzz of having "computerized, automated ATC" since, well, forever. It's like the flying car of the aviation world. I don't know if the government still hopes that is "right around the corner" s
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by rdtsc 2y ago
Both the Soviets and the Western allies worked very hard to look the other way. I'll quote the article again: > "Nor did the Soviets acknowledge the extent of the suffering. State broadcasts told of ‘hardship’ and ‘shortage’ –
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by rdtsc 2y ago
Even with modern instances of those technologies, finding and bombing a moving boat that wants to hide at night on water is not easy, but we're talking about the start of WWII, no smart bombs or other things like that. Some years this
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> Is this a joke? / What did you expect. People in moscow to starve also? "Lashings of caviar"? Give me a break. You didn't read the article, did you?
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by rdtsc 2y ago
A decision like supplying or not supplying, defending or not defending a city like Leningrad is not something that was done without approval or disapproval of Stalin. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_of_Life &gt
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by rdtsc 2y ago
Very much so. And of course, one would expect the enemy to not care about human lives, but it hurts more when your own country doesn't value your and your fellow citizens' lives. Moreover the Soviets and now the Russian propaganda
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by rdtsc 2y ago
None of those technologies: newly developed radar, or even more exotic night vision at that time, would have allowed them to bomb ships at night over lake Ladoga. Dive bombing would have worked but not at night.
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> You're essentially reproducing the nazi propaganda. And you're essentially reproducing Soviet propaganda. Over the years they covered it up extensively. If you read the article it mentions but doesn't go into details: &q
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by rdtsc 2y ago
That goes without saying. But the Soviets chose to abandon it. Brutality from the enemy wouldn't be that surprising, betrayal by your own government is. The article mentions it below even: > The betrayal came from the top. Stalin, n
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by rdtsc 2y ago
And it’s only one “t” away from “misery” ;-)
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> It actually goes 2x faster than the native WIN32 port that the Emacs authors wrote on their own. Cosmo Emacs loads my dotfiles in 1.2 seconds whereas GNU Emacs on Windows loads them in 2.3 seconds. That's very cool. Well done! Sti
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> The comment about an "email chain could have been a 30-second chit chat" is such a straw-man argument. I imagine them hardly holding back laughter when they say it. It's such a bogus straw-man they have to know it makes
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> This is nothing short of a stealth layoff Absolutely. They should just stop pretending. They know they are lying as they say it's all about collaborating closer and communication. The workers know they are lying. They workers know
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by rdtsc 2y ago
The recent news items about them have the "someone please buy us" desperation vibe to them. It was an exciting startup 10 years ago or so, then everything went quiet, then all of the sudden there were some items in the news but no
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> To me it is a predator-prey abusive LARP that got out of scope and feeds on fragile people looking for sense in their lives. Just look at how new comers are hazed and tested when they come on their forums and discords and what not Yeah
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by rdtsc 2y ago
They tried the “hack” on one person and they apparently had a breakdown and killed themselves. Just a reminder not to take tips from “vegan Sith” who ended up rationalizing stabbing people as “double good” or some whacky shit like that.
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by rdtsc 2y ago
Aha, that's the kind of nuance I was missing. Something just didn't add up. One would like to believe these are all just hard-working officers, going above and beyond their "call of duty" to keep the guns out of "ba
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LACSD) committed wholesale abuse of sensitive criminal justice databases in 2023, violating a specific rule against searching the data to run background checks for concealed carry firearm pe
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> I speculate that they did the bare minimum necessary to satisfy CCP controls, and there was no substantial effort within DeepSeek to align the model below the surface. I'd like to think that's what they did -- minimal malici
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> I’m sure the court judge will look further that the funny dichotomy in their brand name Oh sure, and the jury. One can do both - mock murderers and their ridiculous ideology and study it seriously to, perhaps, prevent others from takin
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by rdtsc 2y ago
Since it’s a group so wonder if a group mental illness would make sense. I guess it could work for the court “look how out of touch with reality my client is, sith vegans, clearly they didn’t know what they were doing!”
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> self-described “vegan Sith” ideology Had it not been in a serious article I would have believed it had to a parody or a joke of some sort. “We are just like Darth Maul, but we like salads and drink soy milk instead of regular milk… and
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by rdtsc 2y ago
> Trump asked the Supreme Court to delay the ban I already foresee a Mueller investigation part #2 “Trump is a Chinese puppet” stories.

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