Teaming up to stand against our common toxic ex

US is not by any means as authoritarian as China.

To achieve that, the US would need a government that controls mass media, kills people just for protesting, disappearing enemies of the government in remote prison camps with no oversight or accountability, have mass surveillance everywhere, make books illegal, demonstrably suppress all ethnic minorities, threaten religious leaders for speaking ill of the government…

All run by a hardline government that has a strongman leader that people respect and a cabinet full of loyalists with competence in the task they’re assigned.

Once the US achieves that last bit, THEN they’ll be as authoritarian as China.

The internet is still relatively new. The generations that don’t understand it still govern.

I think the millennials will be its last hope, because they remember the world without it, were young enough to understand it when it became popular and aren’t yet old enough to have forgotten how much more fun it used to be.

If that nostalgia finds its way into meaningful regulations, it’d be nice.

If you think the human race as a collective organism, the internet is the nervous system. Suddenly we have eyes to see and ears to hear, we feel pain through it, we form collective thoughts and organize actions.

We have collective intrusive thoughts and impulses, we store our memories there and we train it to anticipate and predict using prior knowledge and reasoning, as we do.

We need to take care of it and feed it correct information or it’ll become erratic and stagnant.

I predict it’ll be splintered into pieces and from them something new will emerge.

Tech in general is peaking in performance and and so it must differentiate in features to be competitive

Great, now.i have to get a VPN to appear in Germany so that I can use the Firefox VPN

They could do it through each country individually to Ukraine and also withhold Hungary-bound funds equal to their share.

A years-long war of attrition, guerilla warfare and cannon fodder in 4K HDR Dolby Atmos, for every country without nuclear deterrence, either by themselves or an allied nation (France mostly).

Europe needs to put serious money in chip fabs and counter-drone technology cause if Ukraine falls and Russia seizes their drone factories the drones are gonna be flying in by the thousands.

Some of you may die, but that’s a sacrifice I’m willing to make.

Toner is cheaper if you have a laser black only, lots of pages per refill.

At work I’ve installed 10 color inkjet epson L6460 printers 2-3 years ago and most of them I still haven’t refilled.

They come with 2 bottles of black ink and one of everything else, last forever, will print after 4 months unused if you do a print head cleaning (a few times in a row) and the Epson brand bottles are 8 - 12 bucks each.

For home use a cheaper Ecotank would probably serve you just as well.

You are now on a list.

Germany sold some submarines to Greece that were leaning over on one side out the factory

Trump’s “Board of Peace” is intended as basically official world police and several countries have signed up for it because they want to actively enforce “peace” towards anyone they disagree with.

The UN will never succeed in anything useful unless their resolutions carry economic or military weight.

If you want a specific variety of a plant that’s patented by, say, Monsanto, you don’t own the seeds you get but rather their permission to plant them.

If you re-plant seeds in your own field produced by the crops of the previous year on that same field they can sue you and they will win (see Bowman v. Monsanto Co.)

Iran “attacking its neighbors” is one way to phrase the fact they are hitting back towards US bases they are being attacked from and also towards Israel which itself has attacked basically every country it has borders with and several that it hasn’t.

I don’t know anything about Australian laws, but I would assume that would be an easy lawsuit to win, no?

Ghostbusters!

This is only second to that time the cops killed a dude then sent a dry cleaner bill to his family because of all the blood they had to wash from their uniforms

12.3m£ for 20 boats that Ukraine could build in a cave with a bunch of scrap

That’s about 5 weeks in, with most pregnancies being discovered later than that.

Being even a single day late is gonna freak some Wyoming women the fuck out from now on

I assume that’s the same way people felt like in 1980, when IBM released the world’s first >1GB hard drive.

It was as big as a fridge and cost $100k in today’s money to buy, for a whopping 2.5GB of storage.

My astrophotography projects are several GB each, my phone can shoot 4k RAW video that eats up 6GB a minute and it’s all hobby-level.

I wouldn’t mind if those 44TB drives became more affordable in a few years, I’m already saving up for a 24TB NAS.

Most facilities are deep underground, hard to reach for most bombs except those carried by big bombers that are expensive to operate and a logistical nightmare in contested airspace, which Iran is at the moment.

The shaheds are also tiny, cheap and are built mostly from readily available components. As we’ve seen in Ukraine there are literally hundreds of designs, some made literally with cardboard, with new iterations seemingly every day.

Traditional air defense systems can be very easily overwhelmed by sheer number of incoming drones. Combine those with ballistic weapons and the mix is pretty much unstoppable with current means.