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6 months agoNothing But Trouble, so they don’t come back
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It’s one of those, you’ve seen enough articles, time to get on the email list, kinda things.
12·7 months ago4 year old article
1064·8 months agoIf a billionaire is in actual trouble, he’s in China. US would have bailed out Evergrande.
The existing auto industry would squash this as quickly and effectively as possible, we’d absolutely need a command economy to put something like this through.
So business as usual?
13·8 months agoAm I reading this right that they’re using existing Starlink satellites? That’s some real fuel for conspiracy theorists, what the hell did he launch in massive numbers all over the world?
3·8 months agoThey say “never shit a shitter”, but apparently it should be “always shit a shitter”.
141·8 months agoI wonder which gym this is.
We made an automaton clerk. It has neither arms nor body, but it works all day translating physician’s documents, so they may be stored with uniformity in a library that has neither shelves nor paper.
62·8 months agoI bet they’d be doing a lot better if the US hadn’t stolen $7B USD from their central bank, or you know, bombed the country into oblivion for two decades, or armed and trained the Mujahideen (including Osama) against the Soviets when they wanted to assist Afghanistan’s socialist development. No, blame it all on the Taliban, an organization that profoundly reflects US involvement. That way Western capitalist press can manufacture consent for more US involvement. I’m sure Afghani people are hoping we’ll “help” more. There is no price too great, if we can raise revenue for US arms manufacturers.
The US foreign policy serves to create a demand for their arms industry. It’s counterproductive to maintaining peace. Drastic changes would need to take place for this to be a possibility. I’m in favor of those changes. The American military industrial complex is a bigger threat to Americans than Putin is. It’s certainly a bigger threat to other countries. The US has had no need to be involved in a conflict it’s been in for almost 80 years. The military has literally done us no good since Arpanet.
Are you implying a country whose economy depends on arms sales wants peace?
Anthony Blinken said “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.”. The US sure lives by the law of the jungle in international relations. Although this has been the case for centuries, this style of foreign policy really got going with WWII. Our country’s war materiel production was behind what was necessary at the time to participate in a 2-front global war. Soldiers were training with cardboard weapons, but because we hadn’t outsourced our production offshore, we created an economy based on war that was so lucrative for business that that economy has lasted to this day. Such is it that a war economy itself can conquer a nation. Eisenhower warned about this in his farewell address.
There’s protecting a country from invasion, and then there’s basing a country’s whole economy on a continuation of arms sales. The latter provides a perverse incentive to destabilize regions in order to maintain demand for the American arms industry. In the case of defense of the US against invasion, are you honestly suggesting that the country with the highest private gun ownership rate in the world has that to fear in any scenario? Even if we did need a military at all, one that could appropriately be called a department of “defense” would be a tenth of its current size.
I don’t game much but I’d try to stay closer to the debian ecosystem, or one of the more well-known distros. There are a lot of cases where there’s a debian and ubuntu installer for something and otherwise you gotta compile or hope for an appimage or flatpak. Ubuntu’s out because snaps are horrible, although you can get rid of those. Personally I install debian on all my boxes. It’s a really minimal distro and things tend to go pretty fast because of that. Debian or I hear Fedora’s great.