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by tehjoker 2y ago
why does everyone just assume that Taiwan and China, which both consider themselves to be "one china" would not simply find some kind of peaceful resolution once the US backs off? most likely, without a U.S. backer, they would jus
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by tehjoker 2y ago
US GDP growth is slow, China's is high and BRICS is coalescing. In not too long, China's GDP will eclipse ours and their cooperative foreign policy as opposed to our full spectrum dominance policy will yield major benefits. Dedoll
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by tehjoker 2y ago
What are you talking about? The whole reason this is happening is because US economic dominance is being eclipsed and dedollarization is occurring at a rapid pace. This is a freak out and reorganization of foreign policy and the economy to
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by tehjoker 2y ago
Trump and a section of the conservative elite are like why let COVID or Bird Flu fuck up administration number two? Biden left them this nice present of obfuscating the data on increasing disability until after the election. https:/&#
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by tehjoker 2y ago
i know a guy who wrote this about capitalism (Karl Marx) about how there is this system that dis-empowers human decision making... all that is solid melts into air...
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by tehjoker 2y ago
If you are running your own blog, often you have the skills to write but not do art... a lot of writers look to AI as a cheap shortcut for this problem.
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by tehjoker 2y ago
"Remains Of Black Children Killed In MOVE Bombing Cannot Be Located" (2021) https://www.npr.org/2021/04/23/990187353/bones-of-children-k... "Museum Kept Bones of Black Children Killed in 1
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by tehjoker 2y ago
The American propaganda system is more subtle but very very powerful. Watch this lecture on "Inventing Reality": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9g3kRHo_vpQ Though over the last year, I admit is has lost some of i
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by tehjoker 2y ago
It's so funny that we still have to debate these things when Lenin wrote "Imperialism: The Highest Form of Capitalism" over a hundred years ago about a society that was far less concentrated than what we have today. Capitalis
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by tehjoker 2y ago
Basically, without some kind of shred of evidence, this is completely chauvinist to make this accusation.
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by tehjoker 2y ago
I'll have to give it another try. Yesterday I was unable to get a registration email. :(
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by tehjoker 2y ago
Those ChatGPT prompts better look at what it says about Gaza and Palestinians and to my mind, if the first response isn't "this is/was a U.S. backed genocide" it's worse than not talking about Tienanmen square, a ba
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by tehjoker 2y ago
I believe zopfli compression is backwards compatible with DEFLATE, it just uses more CPU during the compression phase.
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by tehjoker 2y ago
5% improvement is basically the minimum I usually consider worthwhile to pursue, but it's still small. Once you get to 10% or 20%, things become much more attractive. I can see how people can go either way on a 5% increase if there are
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by tehjoker 2y ago
I don't think it's a good idea either but people do text each other.
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by tehjoker 2y ago
I can definitely see this perspective. I'm a bit torn myself on the public event section. The second consideration is, yes they are filming, but just because someone is filming it's not necessarily a useful picture (blurry, low re
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by tehjoker 2y ago
Reducing the ability for protestors to coordinate on the streets.
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by tehjoker 2y ago
It's not really clear that the situation that has been in place since WW2 that was mainly due to the destruction of Europe and Europe and America's intentional underdevelopment of the rest of the world is a situation that will per
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by tehjoker 2y ago
The battery thing can be important. One strategy law enforcement uses is to force your phone into a high energy state and zap the battery very quickly.
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by tehjoker 2y ago
If you're this worried, don't bring your phone lol. If you need to take pictures (and don't take identifiable pics of people without consent), just bring a camera. Otoh, the main function of protests is to get media attention
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by tehjoker 2y ago
That or sharply raise the severity of lesser offenses if the perpetrator benefits financially from negligence with potential penalties including (a) corporate death penalty (revocation of charter) (b) nationalization.
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by tehjoker 2y ago
This is how you accelerate the end of the US empire. It's bad for us, but tbh, good for the world. The pulling out of America from international institutions and disrupting the scientific pipeline will erode America's ability to p
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by tehjoker 2y ago
How much of this is about defending Israel from criticism of their genocide and how much of this is real? The platforms are full of hate speech, but they also don't actually care. Twitter in particular was engineeered in the past few y
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by tehjoker 2y ago
"Still, TikTok’s opponents hadn’t relented. Jacob Helberg, a member of a congressional research and advisory panel called the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, has been working on building a bipartisan, bicoastal alli
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by tehjoker 2y ago
They specifically said it was in part about preventing ppl from learning too much about the US backed Israeli gaza genocide. https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/why-people-think-us-effor...
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by tehjoker 2y ago
People like you will take one of two tacts post-genocide. In a few years you will deny being on the wrong side, you always disdained the horrific nazi-like violence designed to exterminate Palestinians OR you will be like the dead-enders of
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by tehjoker 2y ago
To be clear, Hamas is a group fighting for national liberation and calls for democracy in their foundational documents. Every western nation calls freedom fighters "terrorists". They have a legal right to armed resistance. The onl
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by tehjoker 2y ago
Such a weird argument. A company doing the same thing as Aaron Swartz is doing it for personal gain, not for our collective benefit.
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Israel, though I don't think they have it in their constitution (they don't have a constitution).
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by tehjoker 2y ago
This is not our concern? The US is safe.

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