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@joeinwynnewood the calls for global expansion are just bluster. It's a desperate attempt at remaining relevant.
What's important here is that these discussions are happening at all. The part you quoted is an admission that the unipolar world centred on the west is now dead.
@joeinwynnewood this is pure and utter nonsense. European members of NATO are not pulling together in any way, in fact they're increasingly bickering with each other in a panic.
The whole purpose of NATO was to act as a US protection racket for Europe. Now that the US is pivoting to Asia, Europe will be left to fend for itself.
There is no conceivable way that Europe could ever replace the US industrial power on its own in the foreseeable future.
@joeinwynnewood just look at the rhetoric between Italy, France, Germany, and Hungary as few examples. There is no consistent policy, and lots of recrimination. The reality is that the EU is in deep economic trouble now, and the demand for increased NATO spending is necessarily creating a lot of tension.
The US can't keep up with the production for Ukraine either, let alone with the war with Iran they started, and their ambitions on China.
@joeinwynnewood I see you're a fan of false dichotomies. Nobody is saying the rest of the world doesn't have its own problems. However, it's pretty clear that BRICS economies are doing far better than G7, and BRICS is already a bigger economic bloc using PPP measure.
Meanwhile, BRICS control majority of resources, manufacturing, and global energy production. China alone has effective monopoly on rare earths.
Europe is very obviously in a far worse position here.
You are ignoring the minor details of India's repeated military exchanges with Pakistan and China. The level of trust required for these members of BRICS to actually form any kind of real alliance is decades away, if its ever possible. BRICS isn't so much an economic block as a collection of countries looking for some kind of leverage in global affairs. But it's really only China that controls a majority of resources, manufacturing and renewables and no one trusts China. That's reality.
@joeinwynnewood I'm not ignoring anything, BRICS does not require trust because it's not a system of vassalage or a military alliance the way NATO is. BRICS is an economic system where countries participate due to mutual benefit.
Meanwhile, the reality is very different your deranged sinophobia.
There is no doubt that The Criminal in the White House has ended the American Century, but that isn't because of anything China has done to garner greater love.
It's ridiculous to claim that trust isn't necessary for economic cooperation.
There is no mutual benefit with China. There is only whether or not China can and will extract more from their economic relationships sooner or later.
The CCP has always had a singular prime directive, to ensure the continued rule of the CCP. /1
@joeinwynnewood I love how you just continue to confidently spew nonsense that the propagandists feed you. Here's what these "extractive" relationships look like in practice.
This doesn't mean China won't dominate the next century, they likely will, Trump is working hard to make sure of that, but they won't threaten Europe, at least not for a very long time, because Europe doesn't threaten their prime directive.
China will continue to build extractive relationships with the developing world where they have the leverage to do so, and they will be sure to not give India or any other BRICS member leverage over them.
Meanwhile, India will have to continue to look to the west for sizable portion of their economic growth opportunities for reasons of who has the money if nothing else.
They will also continue to need to procure a lot of military hardware from places that aren't China, because as per above, China really, really cannot be trusted and yes, trust matters.
@joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social China is an actual democracy unlike the fascist oligarchy you live under. This is what a dictatorship of the working class looks like. You're an ignoramus and you should be deeply ashamed of yourself.
The following article by prominent author, ecologist and anthropologist Jason Hickel addresses the trope, often heard in the West, that China’s political system is “authoritarian” and undemocratic.
My Mac Air M1 shut down this afternoon and won’t reboot. Tried three different cables, checked the power source, followed Apple’s suggested keystrokes to try to cajole it into restarting.
Iranian missile strikes have destroyed numerous military and intelligence facilities in major Israeli cities, consistently evading the unified air defenses of Israel and its allies
Cory Doctorow aka @pluralistic qui raconte son obession pour les Blues Borthers à l'occasion de la lecture d'un nouveau livre sur l'histoire du film et des acteurs mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11472173…
Je me reconnaît tellement dans cette histoire ! j'ai acheté la VHS en VO en voyage scolaire en Angleterre, j'allais voir le film en projo dans un vieux ciné dégueux qui alternait avec des séances porno, je porte littéralement un tattoo en hommage au film !
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Yemen says it will resume targeting US warships in the Red Sea if Washington intervenes militarily in support of Israel against Iran.
In a new statement, the Yemeni Armed Forces warned that any direct US involvement in aggression against Iran would be treated as part of the broader Zionist project to dominate the region—one that has already targeted Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, and Yemen.
Calling Iran a principal obstacle to that plan, the statement reaffirmed Yemen’s readiness to respond to any escalation and declared solidarity with any Arab or Muslim country facing Israeli attacks.
there's no logic. somehow, mossad was genuinely unaware of iran's missile capabilities. i think evidenced by itamar's shouting match with constituents a few days ago.
The absolute Western madness in their attempt to prevent a multipolar world and lose their world domination
- The Pentagon has confirmed 6 B-2s are on their way to Guam and will remain in the Indo-Pacific arena, as no order to continue west has been given yet.
- One US official says that no forward orders have been given yet to move the B-2 bombers beyond Guam - Reuters
There is no contradiction at all. The free world's behaviour is precisely aligned with its values. You live in denial and refuse to believe what they say openly for decades. #Palestine #Gaza #Iran #MiddleEast #FreePalestine #GazaGenocide
The biggest problem with d&d axes is that people try to pick an alignment and then have their character's actions come from it (and the resulting frequently induced cross-table talk with the eye-rolling phrase "a lawful/neutral/chaotic good/neutral/evil character wouldn't do that! You're X/Y, so you wouldn't do that!").
No real person has every action fall within one of the outlying boxes' bounds. Actually 'moving' yourself from the neutral spot is (supposed to be) beyond most mortals.
In quite a few cases across the different editions, this behavior is enforced by class requirements. Though even then it's still dumb to argue about that unless you're at the point that the GM has to seriously consider changing your alignment because your actions are so far beyond your character's on-paper alignment.
je préfère des impacts qui ne seront pas supportés 150 000 ans par l'humanité (si elle existe encore à ce moment là) et qui ne me tue pas tout de suite en cas de problèmes
Abondant dans la croûte terrestre, le Thorium est souvent cité comme l'avenir de la filière nucléaire pour certains... Pourtant la production d'énergie à partir de ce métal radioactif est très loin d'être simple et sans défauts.
@pal oui je connais merci. Argumentaire de merde qui part du principe qu'on peut facilement faire du 100% renouvelable (pas prouvé), et que le 100% renouvelable est moins problématique que d'autres mix (pas prouvé). Sans intérêt.
@pal je ne vois pas le rapport. La vidéo parle d'une startup danoise qui fabrique un réacteur au thorium dans un conteneur 40' standard. L'Indonésie devrait être le premier client (l'Indonésie manifeste depuis longtemps le souhait de s'équiper en nucléaire).
Personnellement je ne le crois pas (et même si je m'en réjouis, comme dans le même temps la France renonce aux renouvelables pour des EPR2 qu'elle ne sait pas construire, je ne peux que m'inquiéter)
@pal je ne sais pas, la politique française sur tous les sujets est chaotique et incohérente de toute façon. Les EPR2 sont un concept merdique. Les surgénérateurs, par contre, c'est l'avenir (en particulier pour fermer le cycle du combustible, et aussi détruire le stock de déchets existants).
Three people were seriously wounded by shrapnel following the Friday midday Iranian missile strike, which saw at least 20 missiles fired toward Israel. Searches are still ongoing in buildings near the impact sites
Ganze Tarifrunde öffentlicher Dienst. Von Verwaltung (Bund+Kommunen) über Landschaftsbau, Sparkasse bis Gesundheitswesen alles dabei. publik.verdi.de/ausgabe-202503…
1 mal 3%, dann 2,8% (mindestens 110€) Forderung war 8%. Laufzeit 27 Monate, und nur 1 von 3-4 geforderten zusätzlichen Urlaubstagen. In der Abstimmung wurde es mit 52,2% nur recht knapp angenommen.
Öffentlicher Dienst — Die Tarifrunde im öffentlichen Dienst von Bund und Kommunen ist abgeschlossen, die ver.di-Mitglieder unter den Beschäftigten stimmten zu
Generell im Sommer immer mehr lüften als sonst, vor allem wenn ihr quer lüften könnt. Frische heiße Luft ist angenehmer als Abgestandene etwas kühlere Luft.
Und macht die Rollladen zu, wenn die Sonne drauf scheint.
LOS ANGELES, CA — The Los Angeles Dodgers were hoping to attract large crowds at tonight's game against the Washington Nationals by offering a limited edition MS-13 bobblehead to commemorate the recent L.A. anti-ICE riots.
one of the problems with having to buy everything on amazon from china now is that for example, when you need 2 replacement motor brushes for an angle grinder, you have to order 20 of them, because there's no profit in warehousing and delivering just 2 of them for you like there would be in an old time hardware store that stocks parts to repair power tools
the big box hardware stores have lots of crap like christmas decorations and lawn furniture and other dumb crap you don't need, while having few repair parts for tools, and a poor selection of bolts and fasteners, and lacking in other stuff that a real hardware store should have
anyway yeah it's not the switch on the angle grinder, it's the carbon motor brushes. looks like i will be using the big nig 3000 grinder for the next few days instead of the ryobi
would be real nice to be able to buzz over to a decent hardware store and have a helpful old timer find the motor brushes i need today, cause he has been working there for 20 years and knows they have some that fit, in their big cabinet full of motor brushes
we took a wrong turn sometime in the 80s thanks to greedy politicians and boomers and wall street corporate types who cared more care about short term profit than preventing everything from being shitty for future generations
of course there are still people who care, and people who are scrambling to get it back, but changes were set in motion a long time ago. there is a lot of inertia against turning the ship around if you feel me
you don't sell out 90% of your industry to a slave system like china, flood yourself with millions of low wage 3rd world immigrants, spend 10s of trillions of dollars on pointless wars, etc, without paying severe consequences for generations to come.
Thomas D. Murphy is running against Lindsey Graham. I think he would be a big upgrade for the people of South Carolina and for America. thomasmurphy4sc.com @tommurphy8485
Next, he will announce the first electric car that never needs charging. See, he plans to attach a generator to the axle, using a 2-to-1 gearbox. That way, the car will produce twice as much energy as it uses. More than enough to keep the battery fully loaded.
@maddad Alt text: social media post on the Naz bar social network by fascist Elon Musk:
We will use Grok 3.5 (maybe we should call it 4), which has advanced reasoning, to rewrite the entire corpus of human knowledge, adding missing information and deleting errors. Then retrain on that. Far too much garbage in any foundation model trained on uncorrected data.
@aral Mastodon has a great alt text tool to extract text from a photo of text. I use it all the time. It does have a 1500 character limit, but you learn quickly how to estimate..😀
Sometimes it's just easier for me to build a room in #Blender and use it as a perspective reference before drawing it in #EGA, especially if there are many openable objects like drawers and cabinets.
We've seen this before: The lies circulating about Iran are just a much dumber, much more obvious version of those that U.S. officials used to push for the invasion of Iraq.
By Caitlin Johnstone
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The position of the dollar as the world’s reserve chief currency has come under question this week from two significant quarters—the European Central Bank and the central bank of China.
Two central bankers foreshadow challenges to US dollar - World Socialist Web Site
European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde has said there are “opportunities” for the euro to play a greater international role while the head of China’s central bank Pan Gongsheng has spoken of a “multi-polar” currency world.
National parks and historic sites, including two prominent Colorado sites whose stories involve darker chapters in American history, have been directed by the Trump administration to post signs asking visitors to report historical information “negative about either past or living Americans,” triggering concerns that difficult narratives could be sanitized.
To this day, Israel has never openly admitted possessing such weaponry and yet has consistently refused to allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to visit the secretive site. Nonetheless, evidence suggests that a “major project” at Dimona was underway in 2021 and that Israel was by then actively expanding its nuclear production facilities. The absence of UN or other inspections at Dimona has resulted in no public acknowledgment from Israel regarding its nuclear warheads, leading to a lack of accountability. This situation renders their illegal bombing of Iran for its alleged nuclear program all the more hypocritical.
Santiago de Cuba, June 20 (Prensa Latina) The organizers of ExpoCaribe 2025 are working to create a top-notch international fair in terms of participation and results, which will strengthen Santiago de Cuba and the country’s Eastern region, focused o…
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#iran is a rogue state that oppresses its population and especially women. I won't shed a single tear if that regime topples even though I detest #israel 's behaviour.
Whether Iran was creating nuclear weapons is irrelevant now. If this regime survives with any of its nuclear capabilities intact it will feel forced to finish whatever steps it may already have taken. And that leaves the rest of the world no choice but to help Israel destroy Iran's nuclear industry.
A federal judge ordered Mahmoud Khalil to be released on bail. The former Columbia University student and Palestinian activist has been held by the Trump administration, in a Louisiana detention facility, since March.
87 years ago. In April 1938, Guy Callendar published the first evidence from thermometer observations that the world’s land areas were warming. He also linked the observed warming to the increase in atmospheric CO₂ from burning coal. 87 years ago. rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Read how we scaled our observability platform from 19PB to 100PB and 500 trillion rows by replacing OpenTelemetry with a native ClickHouse-to-ClickHouse pipeline, embracing wide events and cutting CPU usage by 90%.
Mind you, the pentagon gives no fucks what YOU want, serfs. We should slaughter them to disuade the next warmongering crew from ignoring us... But you heavily armed them in the ignorant and delusional belief they actually protect you.
They do, you know? From enemies they created for you.
"Congressman Thomas Massie asked 100,000 Americans to vote on which war they want to spend their tax dollars on." #Iran #Israel #Ukraine #Russia
Using a notion called integer partitions, mathematicians have discovered a new way to detect prime numbers while also connecting two areas of math in an unexpected way
The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced that the death toll from the war of extermination perpetrated by the Zionist occupation forces has risen to “55,706 martyrs” since October 7, 2023.The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced
After playing/working with computers for more then 25 years I started to appreciate small but handy valuable stuff – like adapters or handlers or … yeah – all kind of stuff. With …
So I'm looking for a distro that I can put on my laptop in addition to kde neon and boot into when I want to save battery. The thing is I'm not even sure if I can expect a noticeable difference or if the display and applications I want to use (mostly just basic office stuff and maybe a browser but I want to use this in the forest so I won't have wifi anyway) already draw so much power that background processes don't really matter. If you think they do then I'd like to hear about especially efficient distros. I'm not a poweruser though so anything that requires extensive setup or maintainance won't work for me sadly. I was thinking maybe something like kanotix that loads to RAM but like I said I'm not sure if that actually saves power.
Le temps est donc venu de remettre en cause un certain nombre de certitudes naïvement forgées pendant la période de paix armée que fut la guerre froide. Téhéran est bombardée aujourd’hui, mais demain ce pourrait être à Paris ou Marseille, Berlin ou Rome, de subir le même sort pour peu qu’un Trump, un Poutine ou même un Netanyahu y voient un intérêt. On se souvient du slogan peint sur un tank américain en réaction à l’opposition de la France à l’invasion de l’Irak : « Today Bagdad, tomorrow Paris ». Si la même situation se produisait aujourd’hui, rien ne nous dit que cela resterait au niveau du slogan. Plus près de nous, de l’autre côté du Rhin, nous avons un dirigeant qui félicite publiquement ceux qui font son « sale boulot ». Qui vous dit que demain ce « sale boulot » ne nous concernera pas ?
This is weird. According to direct reporting from the Minnesota Star Tribune, after his arrest Vance Boelter who went on a murdering rampage targeting key political officials told the FBI that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz hired him to kill U.S.
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At SPIEF 2025, Russia's deputy prime-minister Marat Khusnullin told RT about how cities and civilian infrastructure affected by the Ukrainian conflict are being restored
Unsere Blicke treffen sich, und ich meine, so etwas wie Sehnsucht in ihren Augen lesen zu können, die eigenen Bedürfnisse nicht dauernd hintenanstellen zu müssen. Ich lächele sie mitfühlend an.
Ich weiß nichts mit solchen Artikeln anzufangen.
Ich war als Mann auch lange so drauf, dass ich ohne Kinder wunschlos glücklich war und bloß keine wollte, um meine Ruhe zu haben. Wir haben uns dann aber doch für Kinder entschieden und haben mittlerweile zwei. Ich bin super happy mit der Entscheidung.
Ich kenne also beide Perspektiven und weiß: niemand muss, bzw. sollte keine, Kinder bekommen, wenn er/sie nicht möchte. Wichtig ist ja, dass man glücklich wird. Was aber glaube ich beide Seiten nicht brauchen, sind mitleidige Blicke.
Ich gehe davon aus, dass diese und die ewige Frage nach „Wann bekommst Du denn mal Kinder?“ der Auslöser für den Artikel waren. Dass die Autorin dann meint, den Spieß umdrehen zu wollen, finde ich aber noch schlimmer.
Das Problem ist vor allen der gesellschaftliche und soziale Druck. Ich wurde als Mann zwar auch schon mal seltsam angeschaut wenn ich gesagt habe das ich keine Kinder will. Aber das ist eben gar nichts gegen den sozialen und gesellschaftlichen und sozialen Druck den eine Frau die diese Entscheidung trifft abbekommt.
A debate is reaching a crescendo in Washington D.C. Does America become actively involved to finish off Iran or not. However, this is a false narrative that many are falling for.
Yogthos
Unknown parent • • •@joeinwynnewood the calls for global expansion are just bluster. It's a desperate attempt at remaining relevant.
What's important here is that these discussions are happening at all. The part you quoted is an admission that the unipolar world centred on the west is now dead.
Yogthos
Unknown parent • • •@joeinwynnewood this is pure and utter nonsense. European members of NATO are not pulling together in any way, in fact they're increasingly bickering with each other in a panic.
The whole purpose of NATO was to act as a US protection racket for Europe. Now that the US is pivoting to Asia, Europe will be left to fend for itself.
There is no conceivable way that Europe could ever replace the US industrial power on its own in the foreseeable future.
Yogthos
Unknown parent • • •@joeinwynnewood just look at the rhetoric between Italy, France, Germany, and Hungary as few examples. There is no consistent policy, and lots of recrimination. The reality is that the EU is in deep economic trouble now, and the demand for increased NATO spending is necessarily creating a lot of tension.
The US can't keep up with the production for Ukraine either, let alone with the war with Iran they started, and their ambitions on China.
Yogthos
in reply to Yogthos • • •Yogthos
Unknown parent • • •@joeinwynnewood I see you're a fan of false dichotomies. Nobody is saying the rest of the world doesn't have its own problems. However, it's pretty clear that BRICS economies are doing far better than G7, and BRICS is already a bigger economic bloc using PPP measure.
Meanwhile, BRICS control majority of resources, manufacturing, and global energy production. China alone has effective monopoly on rare earths.
Europe is very obviously in a far worse position here.
Yogthos
in reply to Yogthos • • •Grassroots Joe
in reply to Yogthos • • •BRICS isn't so much an economic block as a collection of countries looking for some kind of leverage in global affairs.
But it's really only China that controls a majority of resources, manufacturing and renewables and no one trusts China.
That's reality.
Yogthos
in reply to Grassroots Joe • • •@joeinwynnewood I'm not ignoring anything, BRICS does not require trust because it's not a system of vassalage or a military alliance the way NATO is. BRICS is an economic system where countries participate due to mutual benefit.
Meanwhile, the reality is very different your deranged sinophobia.
scienceblog.com/for-the-first-…
Life is going to get really hard for people like you because the empire is dying, and the human majority is rising up.
Grassroots Joe
in reply to Yogthos • • •There is no doubt that The Criminal in the White House has ended the American Century, but that isn't because of anything China has done to garner greater love.
It's ridiculous to claim that trust isn't necessary for economic cooperation.
There is no mutual benefit with China. There is only whether or not China can and will extract more from their economic relationships sooner or later.
The CCP has always had a singular prime directive, to ensure the continued rule of the CCP.
/1
Grassroots Joe
in reply to Grassroots Joe • • •The necessary corollary is ensuring that the Chinese population can be kept in line, however that is accomplished.
The long term interests of other countries are relevant only to the extent that those interests impact on the CCP's prime directive.
There can be no trust that China won't screw you over if their prime directive requires it.
This ensures an underlying instability for BRICS that cannot be fixed.
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Yogthos
in reply to Grassroots Joe • • •@joeinwynnewood uh yeah it is because China has been building infrastructure and creating positive win/win relationships with the world.
China builds while burgerland bombs. Everyone who's not a propagandized wasp can see that.
Yogthos
Unknown parent • • •@joeinwynnewood I love how you just continue to confidently spew nonsense that the propagandists feed you. Here's what these "extractive" relationships look like in practice.
eurasiareview.com/01022021-chi…
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
theatlantic.com/international/…
theconversation.com/china-and-…
There Is No Chinese ‘Debt Trap’
Deborah Brautigam (The Atlantic)Grassroots Joe
in reply to Grassroots Joe • • •This doesn't mean China won't dominate the next century, they likely will, Trump is working hard to make sure of that, but they won't threaten Europe, at least not for a very long time, because Europe doesn't threaten their prime directive.
China will continue to build extractive relationships with the developing world where they have the leverage to do so, and they will be sure to not give India or any other BRICS member leverage over them.
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Grassroots Joe
in reply to Grassroots Joe • • •Meanwhile, India will have to continue to look to the west for sizable portion of their economic growth opportunities for reasons of who has the money if nothing else.
They will also continue to need to procure a lot of military hardware from places that aren't China, because as per above, China really, really cannot be trusted and yes, trust matters.
/e
Yogthos
in reply to Grassroots Joe • • •@joeinwynnewood@mstdn.social China is an actual democracy unlike the fascist oligarchy you live under. This is what a dictatorship of the working class looks like. You're an ignoramus and you should be deeply ashamed of yourself.
bloomberg.com/opinion/articles…
jasonhickel.substack.com/p/stu…
socialistchina.org/2025/03/27/…
Studies show strong public support for China’s political system - Friends of Socialist China
Friends of Socialist China