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@m0xEE @scathach
>Taliban taking over Afghanistan, they are de-facto controlling the country, now what?

Taliban is officially recognised now. That's what.

>> This is literally how it has worked every single time in the history of mankind.
>
>I don't think so.

It's the fact. Communists did this in Russia, China, Vietnam, Korea, etc. Jews did this in Israel. Yankees did this in America. If you take over a country and manage to hold onto your reign, eventually others will recognise your rule.

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@newt@stereophonic.space

Taliban is officially recognised now. That's what.


Recognised by whom, similar outcasts? If you are not recognised by developed economies, you get no foreign investments and you're doomed to remain a shithole country.
* China might recognise you for its own gain, but in the end they will fuck you over and in time own your country.

Communists did this in Russia


No, man, they didn't. Ever heard of this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_…
This is what I'm talking about — without universal legitimacy all you get is a civil war, by the end of it they could suppress most of the resistance, but even that didn't grant them international recognition, it took going through WW2 as an ally to have that.
That is exactly what I'm talking about — without popular support you have to subdue everyone with violence and in case with a big enough country even a foreign invading force is incapable of this, a bunch of fanatics can do nothing of the sort.

eventually others will recognise your rule


Yeah, precisely! If you're lucky enough to remain in power for decades 😏

@snacks@netzsphaere.xyz @scathach@stereophonic.space

No heroes stormed the Capitol on January 6th.

This one owns up to his criminality...and he deserves praise for it...

“This was a horrible thing that happened, and I deserve to go to prison, and so does Donald Trump. He still deserves to go to prison for having caused that. I think maybe one day he will,” Riddle said.

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Dr. cleared me to do 97% of normal activities, nothing that will jar my neck is allowed as the bones are still fusing.

Celebrated by getting a 5 egg omelette with bacon, sausage, ham, peppers, onions, potatoes, and cheese, with a side of watermelon. I'm now stuffed and probably won't eat for the rest of the day, glad that I got my 20 minute bike ride in.
After 45 yrs, and being out of shape a 20 minute ride is something. Slowly getting used to bike riding again.

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@picofarad
I'm 3 months post surgery and spent the first 6 weeks in a neck brace limited to lifting 8lbs, then the brace came off and I was allowed 15lbs, and after today weight restrictions have been removed (within reason). I can now replace the 10lb resistance bands with 30+ and get back to working out, and setting up my massage table so that I can stretch and not have to deal with getting up off the floor.

Welcome to 2022. 😉


I can quote boost my own toot.
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“Sorry, we can’t afford jury trials.”

You can afford warplanes carrying tactical nuclear weapons. You can afford a King. You can afford a Cold War SLBM system. You can afford a subsidised bar for members of Parliament.

Once you get rid of those, come back to me on how you can’t afford to allow people their right to a jury trial.

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🗨️ So ISR drones keep on striking #damascus (16:30) while officials are signing an agreement with #syria in #AbuDhabi to get the #golanheights? 🤪

"Talks between al-Sharaa and Hanegbi were described as an important development in the secret negotiations between Damascus and Tel Aviv"

"Al-Sharaa conceded the ISR-occupied Golan to "Israel" in exchange for support to remain in power"

(Sources to Al Mayadeen JUL-09)

Doesn't look good for #syria, does it?

#us #Abrahamaccords #middleeast

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I think it ultimately hinges on the people.

Is the will of the people to roll over and let indignity after indignity happen?

Or will they reach a point and say enough is enough and depose the western puppets that rule over them?

What I'm saying is that increasingly I'm placing the agency more and more on the people and less on the rulers. As someone said in an interview "there are 2 billion of us, the people of the Islamic world, and about 10 of them, the dictators."

Kamala Harris’ interview on TikTok’s ‘Subway Takes’ was so bizarre, she and host agreed to delete it, he says
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well come on gather round so I can tell you a story.
Adam and JCD decided they were hypocrites, the the free speech they used to promote is too messy and off brand to be associated with them so they killed the OG NAS. Most of us understood that decision but Adam couldn't just let it go. He continued to talk crap about NAS and meme makers. This continued driving respect away from a once loved pod. The last few months have felt like the guys are phoning it in. It's not the same

In my warmup for #OldComputerChallenge 25, I dusted off ol' pal #RaspberryPi model B and burned #NetBSD 10 on an SD card to set it up.

It all went well (slow, but hey) but one thing that I still can't get around (that I didn't experience so much last time I tried it) is the console. Control chars get printed instead of arrow and home/end keys, no colors, etc. Hate to say it, but all in all, it feels backwards compared to a modern, full-fledged console environment of #FreeBSD or Linux. And it's starting to wear me out.

But I have a feeling that this is somehow my fault for not configuring the console properly or using the right output or something. I never had to deal with this before, so anybody knows how I can configure this so I can have a modern env in NetBSD?

#unix #askunix

Anyone know if there's any way to turn this off permanently in mastodon options or something?

I don't want a counter for notifications. It bothers me and it's a pain in the arse to get rid of constantly. I can't find a way to get rid of it - it should be on a setting, in my opinion.

I see the Notifications tab on my view all the time, so I can see my notifications I don't need a counter. But number goes up and I have to click a button to reset it 😖

(using the browser btw)

#mastodon

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🇵🇸Residente renuncia a dos festivales del fondo KKR, FIB de Benicasim y Morriña Fest de A Coruña, tres meses después de que El Salto destapase los vínculos del gigante de inversión con el Estado israelí.
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“Golden Age: Trump Stacks Up MAGA Wins in First Six Months” breitbart.com/politics/2025/07…

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“Marco Rubio: Trump defense deal with NATO is a big, beautiful win for America” usatoday.com/story/opinion/202…

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“¡Muerte a las IDF!”: el polémico grito de la banda Bob Vylan (y su uso en los grandes medios)


No es fácil entrar a analizar el grito de “¡Muerte a las IDF!” de la banda Bob Vylan sin que terminemos con otra cuenta más cerrada, pero creemos haber encontrado una sutil manera de hacerlo 😅
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“You cannot be a leftist while also not seeing working class people, ...


“You cannot be a leftist while also not seeing working class people, regardless of their vote, as propagandized to vote against their self interests. Foundational to leftism is that we've all been programmed to see ourselves not as the worker but as temporarily disenfranchised billionaires. Blame the politicians and businesses that pushed this legislation and these actions, but to blame your fellow man is to hinder the movements progress and humanity.” Comment on my last video from IG by @Axel Olsson

🇵🇸Residente cancela todos sus conciertos en los festivales propiedad del fondo proisraelí KKR.

🎤René Pérez, cantante y rapero que llegó a la fama bajo el paraguas de Calle 13, abandona los carteles del FIB de Benicasim y del Morriña Fest de A Coruña.

✍🏻 @javierhrguez

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Six Months After California Wildfires, Less Than 100 Building Permits Have Been Issued in Los Angeles
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Okay, after much googling (and years of no answers whenever I brought it up to dermatologists) I am diagnosing myself with Solar Urticaria. Unlike the commoner Polymorphous Light Eruption (PLE), SU can be triggered by non-UV wavelengths (including through clothing, like yesterday when I was wearing sun-protective UPF pants, per image) and appears minutes, not hours, after exposure. Also my skin eruptions look just like the pictures.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_ur…

Apparently management includes my favorite antihistamine for sleeping, good ol' Benadryl! I've been avoiding it due to fear of senility, but one makes trade-offs in life, and since I suffer both sun allergy and chronic insomnia, I'm gonna take it every night for a while. Yay! A little further "research" indicates elevated histamine levels can cause insomnia. Elevated histamine is associated with autoimmune disease, which I have up the wazoo. Benadryl, here I come!!!

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@El_Jefe I think it would be impossible. Similarly, Ryan Routh, the guy who attempted to assassinate Trump at the golf course, also offered a $150,000 reward to whomever finished the job. Not going to happen.
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#Immigrants being detained in fed holding rooms in Lower MN have complained of being🚨unable to bathe or change clothes, cramped conds, *just one meal a day, & sometimes sleeping on concrete benches or the flr.

Some: staying at #ICE holding rooms also report stays lasting days at a time.

“ There's no room to sit down -standing room only."

Congressmembers *refused entry -bc FACs aren't #detention CENs but rather off-limits “processing centers" -raised concerns.
#USPol gothamist.com/news/theyre-kill…

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

Elon Musk Grok AI GOES FULL MECHAHITLER, Bot Gets Quickly RESET After Insane Rant | Tim Pool

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((( NO EVIDENCE ))) Nothing to see Move along Bitches. ! Pathetic.

CAUGHT! FBI Deleted FULL MINUTE From Epstein Jail Cell Video! w/Sam Tripoli

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