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Editorial: It is in Israel’s interest to allow humanitarian aid to come into what the UN has called ‘the hungriest place on Earth’. The rest of the world must make Netanyahu see sense
The government yesterday introduced the Strong Border Act (Bill C-2), legislation that was promoted as establishing new border measure provisions presumably designed to address U.S. concerns regarding the border.
#Palestine / IDF promotes officer accused of ordering soldiers to shoot Gazans carrying white flag
An IDF officer was promoted to battalion commander despite a pending decision on whether to investigate reports that he ordered soldiers to shoot two #Gazans carrying a white flag in 2024. Soldiers reported the officer's "shoot-to-kill" order, which was countermanded by another officer.
Haim Har-Zahav, a soldier who wrote an op-ed in #Haaretz about an incident he witnessed in 2024 along the Netzarim corridor, discussed an incident where an officer ordered soldiers to shoot two Gazans carrying a white flag. He highlighted that the order was disregarded because it was recognized as manifestly illegal, which, to him, demonstrated the value of the IDF's ethical code. However, he also emphasized that the lives of Palestinians often depend on the individual ethical standards of the commanders on the ground, leading to inconsistent and potentially deadly outcomes.
[…] "The lives of the Palestinians in Gaza depend first and foremost on the private and personal ethical code of the commanders on the ground... Those who want to kill Arabs, because they are Arabs, will kill Arabs. No one will ask them questions, and no one will investigate or punish them. Those who want to maintain their humanity will do so, but will also know that their replacements in the Gaza Strip might not share the same moral and ethical code. Consequently, the person who survived thanks to a decision made by one officer will die of a command given by the next. If not tomorrow, then the next day"
The IDF stated the incident is under investigation.
An IDF commander was said to have issued a shoot-to-kill order against two Gazans carrying a white flag, which was dismissed by other officers who deemed it illegal.
The Indian governmental incursion must've been part of the original script as all the actors were perfectly lined up and ready to go right at the start.
So per script we're also supposed to be in an entirely different place where novelty injections are now accepted as perfectly normal and fine. Everyone has already come to accept that a deadly invisible pathogen gone 'endemic' so obviously we're going to need plenty of government help going forward willingly or unwilling. vaxpass and digital id been in place for several years and BTC is everyone's favourite novelty currency.
That's the world in which all this was supposed to have happened. But it's not so obviously not an ideal situation for the people running this show. They're essentially just trying out the new arrangement to see how well it goes down. So far not many complaining which means the fluoride supplement is working a treat.
It's likely that Americans who'd want to radically reshape the US (and the same principal will hold in other nations) would make use of foreign and dual nationality individuals because those people will have less misgiving about following radical paths.
For instance, in the UK we've had government ministers who were likely picked up by our security services and selected for power at a young age from abroad. Those people won't care about preserving a way of life.
There's likely political value here in portraying this as an external attack, but is it _only_ that? Could they get away with this if the most powerful local forces did not see this as beneficial to them? I doubt it.
Although much smaller in scale, an analogy here would be the role played by the Israelis in taking down Corbyn for installing Starmer as leader of the UK Labour party. I expect the UK security services approved this on behalf of their backers: co-opting foreign nationals and embassy staff then provides a kind of plausible deniability.
And perhaps that deniability is why the script was written like this.
Once they resort to pulling a race card you'll know that's all they have left. You can then point to their caste system at which point it's all over. Worth keeping that in mind
He's good. I admit to only having listened to a few of his podcasts. I can't say many others have heard of him. I think one other person mentioned him to me at work one time, possibly around 2021.
I read Alford and Secker's National Security Cinema. They totally missed the transhumanism angle on Avatar, regarding it as a pacifist film which slipped through the net.
Films are Not Your Friends, which used to be on Youtube was my eye-opener on the scale of the security state interference in movies and TV.
He did a good podcast on the Manchester / Aria Grande event. Contrasts with the angle taken by Richard D Hall and Iain Davis, though not necessarily contradictory.
i can't believe how close they put these AC compressor bolts to the frame. looks freaking impossible to remove. i usually love honda engineering but this is getting on my nerves
praise the Lord i am going to have to unbolt the engine and raise it a bit cause this bolt is too close to the frame. there is no freaking clearance to remove it
whose crack pot idea was it to make you have to partially remove an engine just to get at the AC compressor. these honda engineers just want me to roast in this all black car
big urge to fediblock fosstodon but some projects are still on it ffs @NetworkManager migrate to floss.social 🥺 (or be.slonk.ing, you are welcome here)
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no, don't tell how to do this. i am ranting. you can't "fix" it.
apple just continues to suck worse and worse. they have apparently fired anyone who has ever had any expertise in UI/UX.
i now have to use the *search* function in the control panel to find the printer. really?
i have used apple since the mac+ finder/system days, unix for years, windows since 3.11. i have suffered through all sorts of system control panels, good and bad.
the current apple OS is amongst the worst.
i can only imagine what will happen as more and more folks with what little UI/UX they still have are replaced with AI.
i truly pity anyone that needs actual accessibility features.
i had to figure out a nortel meridian PBX once, though it's never been on my resume for fear someone might make me do it again.
i do tech support for my mom and she keeps blaming herself for not getting how to use web sites, apps, etc. and i keep telling her it's mostly not her fault at all.
so, the nortel meridian. we were a small company, so we couldn't afford to send anyone to X11 school to learn how to program it. instead, 2 of us did a 40 hour work weekend figuring out how to get 45 phones to ring with the right numbers and mostly have the right buttons and features.
by 11:30pm Sun, we were getting a bit punchy, so we had the full name field for the president/founder's phone just say "God".
by 2am or so, we'd mostly gotten things working and went home and forgot all about this.
well, until about 3 months later when a temp receptionist got totally freaked out that God was calling the front desk...
fortunately, the founder was a geek too and found it kind of amusing. the temp agency a bit less so...
so many schemes. simpsons. south park. tolkien. creatures that fought godzilla (winning name "bambi"). worst was "greek liturgical terms".
one of my first jobs had a test lab and the engineers kept renaming the servers constantly, breaking other engineer scripts, etc.
the reason i now know the nato phonetic alphabet was that the engineering director got tired of this and decreed that we'd name all servers from said alphabet in order, starting with alpha. we got up to tango before i changed jobs.
There are several reasons why I hesitate to identify as a Christian. One of the big ones is because I’m not entirely sure I believe in the existence of God, or any gods. Thus far, my approach has been to take Pascal’s wager, but that’s not a viable long-term solution to the problem.
The other big one is, well, other Christians.
I once saw a bumper sticker that read, “Jesus, save me from your followers.” At the time, I was a far more committed Christian, and I found myself offended at the notion. But now? I watch in horror as white evangelicals and conservative Catholics embrace Donald Trump, MAGA, and the moral rot they represent. Consider Sen. Joni Ernst of Iowa, whose response to the potential Medicare/Medicaid cuts was, “We’re all going to die.” Later, she followed up with, “For those who would like to see eternal and everlasting life, I encourage you to embrace my lord and savior, Jesus Christ.”
With no due respect, senator, that’s not the Jesus I read about in the Gospel. The Jesus I read about in Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John (yes, I read all four in their entirety) repeatedly stressed the importance of loving your neighbor. (And there’s a preponderance of evidence that by neighbor, Jesus meant EVERYONE, not just the people you like/love. See Matthew 5:46-48 for one example.) He even referred to it as the greatest commandment. Evangelicals love to quote John 3:16, but maybe they should spend more time with John 13:34-35: “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this, all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.”
Rev. Dr. William Barber II understood the assignment. That’s why he’s been protesting and praying in the Capitol Rotunda, and why he’s doing everything in his power to stop Trump’s so-called “big, beautiful bill”. He rightly points out that there’s nothing Christian about the bill, which takes from the poor and gives to the rich, in clear violation of Matthew 6:24: “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money.”
So yeah, there are good Christians out there. Quite a few, really! The problem is, their voices are being drowned out by those who invoke Christ, but are nowhere near Christ-like in their beliefs and behavior. As long as that’s true, wearing the label—and indeed, anything that makes that label apparent to others—feels like putting a massive target on my back.
As a Filipina queer woman, I already have several targets on my back from that intersection of marginalized identities. It’s bad enough that I’m catching flak for who I am—things that are inherent parts of me, not things I chose. It’s even worse catching flak for all the terrible choices other so-called Christians have made, even though I bear no responsibility for any of it.
Yet, I can’t deny that my ethics are Christian ethics. I’ve been reflecting on this, and it all comes back to two things: Luke 10:25-37 (The Parable of the Good Samaritan) and Matthew 25:31-46 (The Sheep and the Goats). The former outlines what’s expected of those who follow Christ and his ways. The latter makes it clear that love for others (specifically, “the least of these”) is part and parcel of loving God. Failure to do so is grounds for eternal damnation. Jesus is not subtle about it.
And yet, all these white evangelicals and conservative Catholics conveniently skip over this part. Mind you, I’m aware of the specific prohibition against judging others, as laid out in Matthew 7:1-7 and Luke 6:37-38. But I’d argue that pointing out this significant flaw is itself an act of love. It’s not like I want these people to suffer eternal damnation. (No, really!) But if they continue on the path they laid out for themselves, it’s more or less guaranteed.
(Mind you, I firmly believe that there are other valid sources for learning ethics and morality, both religious and secular. There are multiple roads that lead to the same destination, and I’m not about to sit here and dictate which one people should follow. All I really want is for people to pick whichever ones suits them, because damn, the absolute dearth of ethics and morality is one of the big reasons why we’re facing down all these crises.)
White evangelicals and conservative Catholics would like you to think that Christianity and progressive politics are fundamentally opposed to one another.
To that I say, I adopted progressive political positions not in spite of my Catholic/Christian upbringing, but BECAUSE OF my Catholic/Christian upbringing. Far from being opposed, these parts of me operate hand in hand, in perfect harmony.
I’m not the only one. There are many other Catholics/Christians who arrived at the same place in largely the same manner.
Conservatives may accuse me of picking and choosing only the bits I like. But y’all, so did they.
I have similar feelings, I read a book by Obery M. Hendricks Jr , "Christians Against Christianity: How Right-Wing Evangelicals Are Destroying Our Nation and Our Faith," and it made a lot of sense. The people that have chosen "christian" nationalism don't represent the faith you see in the Bible, or you want to see from Christians.
@BritishKoalaTea It’s funny you mention that! I read the book not too long ago—though it may be more accurate to say I devoured it, since it only took me about a day and a half to finish it.
At best, I’m an amateur when it comes to the Bible and Christian theology in general. It heartened me to know that a man who has devoted his life to deep study of the faith wound up in more or less the same place I did—though yeah, he was definitely better equipped to explain his reasoning.
In any event, it’s comforting to know I’m not alone.
the idea of a god has never made any emotional or logical sense to me. But I don't dislike the teachings of (maybe a real person, maybe a combination of people or not) Jesus or other such "gurus" of the religious world. Ultimately I note that there are mean spirited and good hearted people and that their religion, or lack of it, has nothing to do with how they are and how they behave.
Personally, I think we are all capable of exploring the world and learning as we go along, how to be good humans, where things are not clearly good or bad.
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"There is a big difference between doing something for the children and doing something to the children. What an evil system we have."
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be pregnant. Those that had that possibility were immediately excused from that round of vaccines. This was during the eighties, perhaps pregnancy was far more important in those days. Outraged."
"It makes me sick to my stomach that pregnant and v@cs even go in the same sentence.. just utter horror! What kind of person would stand there and inject to an expecting mother..evil."
I'm still disturbed over that thread on Raddle or something where someone asked what's actually the difference between anarchists and communists and the most popular answer was like "here's a writing that explains it very well!" And it was *fucking Stalin* talking about how anarchists aren't real revolutionaries because we don't like dictators or something
Like y'all have so many good communist writers, any communist whose go-to author to link is Joseph fucking Stalin... Clearly forgot to put the hammer and sickle on their red flag
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D) is threatening to unmask ICE agents, many of whom work undercover operations, saying Democrats will expose their identities “no matter what it takes.”
My fucking book on drawing people: "Here's how you draw a man's nose. Here's how you draw a woman's nose. Here's how you draw a man's mouth. Here's how you draw a woman's mouth."
If you're going to gender everything like this, I dare you to show me the difference between how to draw men's and women's penises, you cowards!
On some level, this is a book about drawing using certain drawing conventions that are a bit outdated. While I'm not crazy about those conventions, if the book would just be more explicit that these are *conventions* of certain styles of art, I'd be somewhat less annoyed.
"These are the tricks we use to indicate a character's gender and make them fit people's expectations" would at least be honest.
I will continue to use this book as a reference, because a) there's lots of useful general info in it about proportions and shapes and all that and b) I do want to *know* those conventions, so that I can bend them.
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It means Lemmy is using a protocol (Activitypub) which makes it possible for all Lemmy servers to interact with each other.
Think of it a bit like email - you send a message from your gmail account to your friend's outlook account. You're on different servers, but all your messages are shared between you both.
You can search and view communities on remote servers from here
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Lemmy.zip is a Lemmy server aimed at welcoming all and providing a space for all types of topics and discussions, with maybe a slant towards technology and all things related. We are one of the many servers hosting the Lemmy software.
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5 anni fa veniva condiviso il primo post in questo nostro Social federato. Un buon traguardo per un progetto autogestito.
Alcuni di voi sono con noi sin dall'inizio: grazie! Ma grazie anche a chi si è aggiunto/a da poco! E grazie pure a chi è stato con noi e poi ci ha salutati.
An Edinburgh-based tour company is making a significant shift this June by replacing its popular Harry Potter-themed walking tours with LGBTQ+ history tours in observance of Pride Month
I don't think fedex actually wants to *deliver* packages. I think they want to move them between cities and have you pick them up yourself.
I currently have a package coming that requires an "indirect signature", which their website states "the recipient can sign for the package electronically through fedex delivery manager". Delivery manager tells me that I simply click on a shipping notification and click on "Sign for a package". The shipping notification says "This package can no longer be signed online... blah blah blah".
Meanwhile, the AI bot in the corner is suggesting I can pick up the package at a fedex location. Fuck you. Bring my shit to my house. That's the fucking job. The nearest location requires a 25 mile round trip drive.
So, fedex sucks for me and the GOP wants to kill my access to the Postal Service. UPS is the "good" option, but I'm not holding my breath on that continuing.
Epilogue: FedEx showed up right in the middle of their delivery window, which is a truly shocking occurrence. Dude handed me my package and, DID NOT ask for a signature, even though everything online seemed to indicate that I would absolutely NEED to be home to provide one. I assume he just scribbled something on his digital pad, but I'm really curious whether he would have done the same if I wasn't home? It's all just fucking random.
this is a v important rant. in some ways i dont think anything will bring this country together like how fucking impossible it is to rely on the usps now, and how expensive and barely-better the private options are.
@benda That's absolutely it. I think that's why they're slow-walking their destruction of the postal service. I think they realize it's one of the live wires where they can't afford to move too quickly, lest the public lose their shit.
I will NEVER forgive Biden for not taking decisive action against DeJoy. I've heard all the explanations why he "couldn't" and... (Gestures vaguely toward the Trump Whitehouse)... Yeah bro, no one would ever let a president get away with firing the people on a supervisory board because they refuse to fire a guy who is there to literally destroy the agency he's been placed in charge of. **That** would be overreach... 🤦♂️
those narratives are verifiable bull shit. biden had the opportunity in the first year and a half of his term to put THREE members on the board of governors. we only needed *two* of those three to vote in favor of getting rid of dejoy. biden, in his infinite incompetence, put one republican, and one "democrat" who was in favor of dejoy's 10 year bankruptcy plan. sorry, this is a topic that pisses me off hugely because the msm reports on it picking and choosing which facts to report in order to construct a narrative that dem leadership isnt exactly the same as the republican party. at this point, biden/dnc are just as much to blame for the impending failure of the usps as trump/republicans.
@benda Oh, absolutely. It was obvious bullshit from the word go. It's painfully apparent that the "money assholes" are salivating at the prospect of stripping several government sectors of every dime. One party is busy crying that they just can't seem to do anything about it, and the other party is trying to convince us that we'll actually be happier without. USPS, medicare, social security, the park service... you fucking name it, they all want to strip mine it and sell us a watered down replacement.
the dam will break. and i think fairly soon. the only question is whether we'll be dumb enough to be at one anothers' throats or go for the assholes that ran this ship into the ground.
Time for our Wednesday tease of Other People's Music! This thread will share JUST the first line of each entry, along with links to the music, the artist's socials, and the full review. Don't need/want a tease? Dive into the full thing here:
A compact epic of a single that starts off somewhere between The Streets & Arctic Monkeys & ends up neck deep in Bowie’s underrated late ‘80s/early ‘90s output.
And, as always, please remember that indie musicians live and die by your clicks and listens, and eventually by your monetary support. Please open your ears for anything that looks intriguing and your wallet for anything that fulfills that promise!
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"What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 7
"Yet most men don't understand computers to even the slightest degree. So, unless they are capable of very great skepticism (the kind we bring to bear while watching a stage magician), they can explain the computer's intellectual feats only by bringing to bear the single analogy available to them, that is, their model of their own capacity to think."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 9-10
🔥🔥🔥 "And so the rationality-is-logicality equation, which the very success of science has drugged us into adopting as virtually an axiom, has led us to deny the very existence of human conflict, hence the very possibility of the collision of genuinely incommensurable human interests and of disparate human values, hence the existence of human values themselves."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 14
"The feeling of hunger was rejected as a stimulus for eating; instead, one ate when an abstract model had achieved a certain state, i.e., when the hands of a clock pointed to certain marks on the clock's face (the anthropomorphism here is highly significant too), and similarly for signals for sleep and rising, and so on."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 25
"Yes, the computer did arrive "just in time." But in time for what? In time to save - and save very nearly intact, indeed, to entrench and stabilize - social and political structures that otherwise might have been either radically renovated or allowed to totter under the demands that were sure to be made on them."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 31
"That was the option man chose to exercise. The arrival of the Computer Revolution and the founding of the Computer Age have been announced many times. But if the triumph of a revolution is to be measured in terms of the profundity of the social revisions it entrained, then there has been no computer revolution. And however the present age is to be characterized, the computer is not eponymic of it."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 32
"If a particular technique requires an enormous amount of computation and if only a limited computational effort can be devoted to it, then a failure of the technique can easily be explained away on the ground that, because of computational limitations, it was never really tested."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 35
"One programs, just as one writes, not because one understands, but in order to come to understand. Programming is an act of design. To write a program is to legislate the laws for a world one first has to create in imagination."
Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 108
"Indeed, many professional programmers believe that their craft is difficult because the languages with which they must deal have rigid syntactical rules. There is therefore a persistent cry for natural-language, e.g., English, programming systems. Programmers who hold to this belief have probably never tackled a truly difficult problem, and have therefore never felt the need for really deep criticism from the computer."
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 109
"A real reason that programming is very hard is that, in most instances, the computer knows nothing of those aspects of the real world that its program is intended to deal with. [...] It is in fact very hard to explain anything in terms of a primitive vocabulary that has nothing whatever to do with that which has to be explained. Yet that is precisely what most programs attempt to do."
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 109
"A computer's successful performance is often taken as evidence that it or its programmer understand a theory of its performance. Such an inference is unnecessary and, more often than not, is quite mistaken."
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 110
"The extreme phenomenon of the compulsive programmer teaches us that computers have the power to sustain megalomaniac fantasies. But that power of the computer is merely an extreme version of a power that is inherent in all self-validating systems of thought." (1/2)
"Perhaps we are beginning to understand that the abstract systems - the games computer people can generate in their infinite freedom from the constraints that delimit the dreams of workers in the real world - may fail catastrophically when their rules are applied in earnest." (2/2)
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 130-131
"If a theory written in natural language is, in fact, a set of patches and patches on patches, its lack of structure will be evident in its very composition. Although a computer program similarly constructed may reveal its impoverished structure to a trained reader, this kind of fault cannot be so easily seen in the program's performance. A program's performance, therefore, does not alone constitute an adequate validation of it as theory."
Computer Power and Human Reason, Weizenbaum, 1976, p152
"The public vaguely understands but is nonetheless firmly convinced that any effective procedure can, in principle, be carried out by a computer. [...] Indeed, on the basis of this unwarranted generalization of the words "effective" and "procedure," the word "understanding" is also redefined. To those fully in the grip of the computer metaphor, to understand X is to be able to write a computer program that realizes X."
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 157
"When the computer is used merely as a numerical tool in psychology (or in any other field), it does not usually create a focusing of vision; i.e., it is not comparable to the microscope. It is therefore unrealistic to expect such use to uncover previously unseen worlds or to render distinct what was earlier seen only in vague outline."
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 160
"That is why, for example, the computer expert who knows nothing but computers (the "Fach Idiot," as the Germans call such a person) can derive no broad intellectual nourishment from his expertise and is therefore doomed to remain forever a hacker. That is also why the computer metaphor is, as George Miller puts it, "most productive in areas where a considerable foundation of theory based on previous research already exists.""
Computer Power and Human Reason, Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 160
The analogy to stage magick seems really apt too me. Reminds me of a Pen and Teller clip and one of Teller in which they explain their magic. Can't find those anymore, but did find this one that shows that even if you know how the trick is done, part of you is still fooled regardgless: youtu.be/UF6p0bH7qPc
Les ouvriers d’une usine de thé autogérée décident d’aller à contre-courant et d’appliquer leurs règles.
En 2010, Unilever a annoncé la fermeture de l'usine rentable de préparation et d'emballage du thé Fralib dans le Sud de la France. Après 1336 jours de résistance, les ouvriers ont célébré leur victoire contre la multinationale géante. Aujourd'hui, avec l'entreprise et la production sous contrôle ouvrier, une nouvelle lutte a commencé dans un marché concurrentiel.
Le Goût de l'espoir Un documentaire de Laura Coppens (Suisse, 2019, 70mn)
Ça fait un moment que je leur commande du thé, et je ne suis pas déçu ! 1336.fr/
Documentaire disponible jusqu'au 19/02/20261336 jours de résistance contre UnileverLes ouvriers d’une usine de thé autogérée décident d’aller à contre-couran...
Seule la lutte aboutit ! Encules la multinationale unilever, fais ta lessive (tes cookies et tes cosmétics etc...) toi-même et échanges les recettes avec ton voisin. Désolée pour mon vocabulaire grossier mais j'ai décidé d'arrêter de m'auto-censurer ! C'est ma réaction à ce monde aseptisé où l'injonction à parler guimauve devient la norme !
Among the many dangerous things the Trump administration is doing ...
... this one's a doozy:
the executive order giving his political appointees the power to determine what are "correct" scientific findings, and "the power to 'discipline' anyone who violates the way the administration views science"
i gave them this little dell pc with a low end nvidia card years ago and it's been mostly trouble free, other than some broken USB ports (kids are rough with comptuers) and this borked upgrade. i went from fedora 39-42 which isn't recommended. they recommend doing no more than 2 versions at a time
China's CSG commissioned the world's first grid-forming sodium-ion battery storage plant, Baochi Energy Storage Station, in Yunnan province.
The plant is a hybrid lithium-sodium battery energy storage facility with an installed capacity of 200MW/400MWh.
The facility, which can power 270,000 households, supports the integration of high shares of renewables into the grid and alleviates the impact of intermittent supply.
"YouTube Permanently Bans Fantasy Author John A. Douglas Without Giving Any Substantive Reason"
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Pippin
in reply to son of sam harris • • •It's likely that Americans who'd want to radically reshape the US (and the same principal will hold in other nations) would make use of foreign and dual nationality individuals because those people will have less misgiving about following radical paths.
For instance, in the UK we've had government ministers who were likely picked up by our security services and selected for power at a young age from abroad. Those people won't care about preserving a way of life.
There's likely political value here in portraying this as an external attack, but is it _only_ that? Could they get away with this if the most powerful local forces did not see this as beneficial to them? I doubt it.
Although much smaller in scale, an analogy here would be the role played by the Israelis in taking down Corbyn for installing Starmer as leader of the UK Labour party. I expect the UK security services approved this on behalf of their backers: co-opting foreign nationals and embassy staff then provides a kind of plausible deniability.
And perhaps that deniability is why the script was written like this.
son of sam harris
in reply to Pippin • • •Pippin
in reply to son of sam harris • • •I don't they'll pull the race card though.
They'd only do that if Americans in prominent positions accuse them of operating an attack as assets of India. Is that even likely to happen?
Pippin
Unknown parent • • •He's good. I admit to only having listened to a few of his podcasts. I can't say many others have heard of him. I think one other person mentioned him to me at work one time, possibly around 2021.
I read Alford and Secker's National Security Cinema. They totally missed the transhumanism angle on Avatar, regarding it as a pacifist film which slipped through the net.
Films are Not Your Friends, which used to be on Youtube was my eye-opener on the scale of the security state interference in movies and TV.
He did a good podcast on the Manchester / Aria Grande event. Contrasts with the angle taken by Richard D Hall and Iain Davis, though not necessarily contradictory.