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MI5 refused to investigate Russian spy’s links to Tories(theguardian.com)
8 points by trasz3 4y ago|0 comments
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by trasz3 4y ago
Why would Google care? Their business is making an appearance of providing useful information, not actually providing useful information.
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by trasz3 4y ago
American culture descended from Christian fundamentalism, not Christianity. It’s a huge difference and it shows all over the place in how bigoted US laws are, compared to most of Europe.
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by trasz3 4y ago
This is not enough. We need to mainstream using fake data whenever possible.
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by trasz3 4y ago
That’s a fascinating take, given that much of what Catholicism actually is is defined by the lies it’s routinely using for all kinds of purposes, from providing a safe heaven to child groomers to spreading the hate speech.
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by trasz3 4y ago
It doesn’t. It just requires them to follow the law, like other countries do. The problem comes from the fact that American companies are used to buying their way around the laws, and in this case they can’t.
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by trasz3 4y ago
Let me guess, it never occurred to you to ask what Chinese say about this. You just trust your own propaganda instead.
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by trasz3 4y ago
>There is precedence of American companies not allowed to operate in China. Not true. They can operate, they just need to obey the law. Same way other companies need to obey American laws to operate in US, eg enforcing copyright or pro
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by trasz3 4y ago
Not true, American companies like Google are still the de facto monopolies in Europe. You might also check out how China is draining Russian economy - instead of focusing on making an appearance of doing so. But yeah, this is one aspect wh
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by trasz3 4y ago
Similar incentives and assumptions lead to similar results.
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by trasz3 4y ago
Twitter hired private spooks to track journalists and Elon is still living off government grants, so yeah, obviously.
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by trasz3 4y ago
We should also shut down all the US-based media in Europe then, for the exact same reason.
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by trasz3 4y ago
You’ll get the exact same snappiness with xterm running on xserver (with no desktop or WM), despite all the Unicode and font rendering support.
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by trasz3 4y ago
Now imagine if those people worked for some Chinese government agency instead.
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by trasz3 4y ago
That’s why everyone should own a Baofeng.
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Epik, the far-right’s favorite hosting service, is now keeping Kiwi Farms alive(dailydot.com)
6 points by trasz3 4y ago|8 comments
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by trasz3 4y ago
Siberia is way more significant than western Russia. That’s one of the pieces we’re commonly missing: Moscow is a hollow parasite.
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by trasz3 4y ago
RedHat business is selling support, not making a usable operating system.
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by trasz3 4y ago
Current Russia has plenty of sub-identities though. It’s the worlds last colonial empire, and the division lines are obvious to everyone there. The only thing keeping it all together is the army and police. (Cf https://threadre
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by trasz3 4y ago
We had USSR split up 30 years ago, and it turned out quite well. Why assume making it happen again would result in something terrible?
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by trasz3 4y ago
Covid moved much of the trade to internet; its easier to use littlebiggy than to find an actual live vendor on a street.
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by trasz3 4y ago
Sure there is - peer to peer. Spotify, and music streaming in general, is useless from technical point of view, thanks to cheap storage.