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Heresy_generator , 1 month ago to world in Revealed: UK military has flown 200 spy missions over Gaza in support of Israel

declassifieduk.org

Gee, I wonder what this site is. Let's just search for "Ukraine" and see what we get:

Polish minister ‘saw UK special forces operating in Ukraine’

Contamination fears after Ukraine loses British tank

Cluster bombs for Ukraine? A warning from Kosovo

UK military figures warn ministers about Ukraine

British warmongering is driving Europe towards catastrophe in Ukraine

Revealed: Russian neo-Nazi leader obtained UK missiles in Ukraine

Pro-ISIS fighter in Ukraine received UK missiles and ‘SAS training’

Oh, it's a Kremlin propaganda outlet. Thanks for sharing.

Heresy_generator , 1 month ago to news in Exclusive: Bernie Sanders worries young people are underestimating the threat from Trump

Trump is just as pro-Israel as Biden

While Trump is also straight-up anti-Muslim and loves Netanyahu.

Heresy_generator , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to news in Poland’s Future F-35s Have Been Officially Named “Husarz” | The War Zone

Artist rendition

Heresy_generator , 2 months ago to technology in Meta spent $4.3 billion on its VR division in three months, and made *checks figures* $440 million in return

You're not really talking about higher taxes, you're talking about reworking the corporate tax system. As things stand now higher taxes would encourage more of this sort of behavior, not less.

Corporations only pay taxes on profits, so money spent on business activities, re-invested back into the company, paid to employees, etc. is not taxed. In this system, taxes are kind of a penalty paid for taking money out of the business; the higher taxes are the less incentivized profit-taking is.

If your company made $100 million in profits at a 20% tax rate you get to take home $80 million as opposed to re-investing $100 million back in the company and not paying any taxes, so the incentive to re-invest isn't very high. But if your company made $100 million in profits at a 40% tax rate now you can only take home $60 million as opposed to re-investing $100 million, which becomes a much better value proposition on re-investment.

Heresy_generator , 2 months ago to news in Takeaways from AP report on how the search for the coronavirus origins turned toxic

It's not a biological warfare lab, it's a research lab and having a coronavirus research lab in the place where coronaviruses originate is the most obvious fucking thing in the world.

I imagine you must think all of the earthquake research labs in California cause earthquakes. And Japan's tsunami research labs cause tsunamis. And the Ebola research labs in Africa cause Ebola.

Heresy_generator , 2 months ago to technology in All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics

They're not specific about that but I would guess not:

https://bostondynamics.com/blog/electric-new-era-for-atlas/

They say it'll be stronger and have a broader range of motion but I would suspect that using electric motors rather than hydraulics means the more explosive leaping and acrobatics are out. The old Atlas was just a test platform but this seems to be intended as an actual product.

Heresy_generator , 2 months ago to technology in So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post

It's completely absurd that he's saying this as an anti-bot measure. The bots exist because they generate revenue for the scumbags behind them, a small fee is just going to be part of doing business for them. He's not trying to stop bots, he's trying to monetize them and use them as an excuse to charge everyone. "The bot problem" will never be fixed and will be used as an excuse for every anti-user measure they put forward.

Heresy_generator , 2 months ago to news in On Fox News, the eclipse is—somehow—about migrants at the border

“The southern border will be directly in the path of totality today when the moon covers the sun for nearly four minutes.” The eclipse, co-anchor Bill Hemmer then added, represents “a real opportunity for smugglers and cartels and migrants to come right in.”

This is how stupid Fox News knows their audience to be.

Heresy_generator , 4 months ago to news in Trump says he strongly supports IVF after Alabama court ruling puts new pressure on Republicans

As usual, it took a few days but the weather vane pretending to be a leader figured out which way the wind was blowing.

Heresy_generator , 4 months ago to news in Trump warns of enemies ‘within our country’ to Christian media gathering

[And the threat is much, much closer than people realize. If fact, many of them are right here in this room. The worst of them is speaking from this stage at this very moment.]

Heresy_generator , 4 months ago to technology in Bluesky federation goes live

Tether Limited.

Heresy_generator , 4 months ago to technology in Bluesky federation goes live

Can you block entire servers, though? Do you have the ability to even tell content apart based on server of origin? It's not clear that you can and the implication seems to be that the only thing you get out of hosting your own server is hosting your own data; it doesn't seem to offer you any sort of control over federation.

Heresy_generator , 4 months ago to technology in Bluesky federation goes live

So... "federation" without control? What's the point?

They stress that a difference between their federation and ActivityPub is that on ActivityPub "your “instance”, or server, determines your community, so your experience depends on which server you join" while for them "On Bluesky, your experience is based on what feeds and accounts you follow, and you can always participate in the global conversation (e.g. breaking news, viral posts, and algorithmic feeds)." and "Moderation on Bluesky is not tied to your server, like it is on Mastodon. Defederation, a way of addressing moderation issues in Mastodon by disconnecting servers, is not as relevant on Bluesky because there are other layers to the system."

The big difference is that I can't choose an instance that blocks/does not interact with the servers loaded with Nazis, terrorists, and/or child abusers? Why the hell is it of such paramount importance to Jack Dorsey that the rest of us are forced to interact with Nazis?

Heresy_generator , 4 months ago to news in Joe Biden Could Send Millions Of Artillery Shells To Ukraine, For Free, Tomorrow. And It’s Perfectly Legal.

Yeah; reading the article it would seem "arguably legal" is probably a lot more accurate than "perfectly legal"

Now, there is a caveat in the EDA law. All weapons must be given away “as is, where is.” In other words, the U.S. government legally can’t pay for shipping.

But another caveat is that any weapons in Germany are excluded from this rule. Biden could ship those DPICMs to Germany aboard a few sealift ships and then declare them as excess to need before having the U.S. Army drop them off somewhere the Ukrainian armed forces would have no trouble retrieving them.

I mean, you can call this legal but when you're paying to ship equipment you've clearly decided is excess before declaring it "excess" in an attempt to get around the clear intent of the law...

Basically this comes down to: [The Executive Branch could use an arguably legal method to send to Ukraine 4 million 25 to 50 year old cluster shells that have been determined to be unreliable and unsafe]

Heresy_generator , 4 months ago to news in Exclusive: ADL pushed BMG to drop Roger Waters by threatening to weaponize company’s Nazi past - The Grayzone

The Grayzone is a Kremlin propaganda outlet that has zero relationship with the truth.