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Omniraptor ,

Varoufakis (Marxist econ professor and also briefly the Greek finance minister) wrote a book about this called “the adults in the room”. He’s biased of course but I respect him a lot

Omniraptor ,

potentially any of them

Omniraptor , (edited )

might have something to do with being a (former) colonial empire and having a habit of looking down on other cultures. I’m Russian and we have the same problem

Omniraptor ,

iirc some phone keyboards autosuggest emoji when you type a word, op probably just didn’t bother to remove it

Omniraptor ,

We already tried this with something awful and it was still in fact kinda awful

Omniraptor ,

Could you use a slide rule for that kind of multiplication?

Omniraptor , (edited )

Somehow missile flight time to St Petersburg (also happens to be where I’m from) weren’t an existential threat that lead to an invasion back when Finland joined NATO. Maybe there’s some other factor?

Omniraptor ,

Yeah point 1 is why I support a peace deal along current lines, maybe with a dmz with UN peacekeepers or something idk. Ukraine is the one getting invaded, they need time to breathe far more than Russia does.

Even if you think Russia can’t be trusted and will invade again a few years of peace is better than ceaseless war

Omniraptor , (edited )

Why did they still lose, was it like a gerrymandering thing?

Omniraptor ,

afaik they can’t do any business with Russian customers since March 2022 because of the sanctions

Omniraptor ,

It’ll probably be done with an overlay/prompt for the user to click on (Unless the advertiser is paying for exposure and not direct traffic idk). But such a popup would provide a hook for a patched version of yt-dl to detect the ad and trim it out of the final video.

Also, shouldn’t a forum signature at all should be enough to screw with AI scrapers? No need to link to anything specific

Omniraptor , (edited )

Semantic/licensing quibbles aside, these futo guys seem pretty based (affectionate). They even use the word “normies” in their goals/value statement.

Seriously tho, with power/wealth as lopsided as it is in america, we really need capitalist class traitors to get anything done and I’m glad people like this exist

Omniraptor , (edited )

I’m biased but I thought it was pretty clear with portraying Truman as an unambiguously bad guy and Oppenheimer as decent but failing at a critical moment and then regretting it later

Omniraptor ,

That just sounds like a saturnalia

Omniraptor , (edited )

Idk I hear misskey (activitypub micro blogging software, compatible but distinct from mastodon) is really big in Japan, used by lots of artists. lots of Japanese users on bluesky as well

Omniraptor ,

I’ve heard from many ppl that vercel is pretty nasty that way, and to only use them for learning and toy projects.

Omniraptor ,

30 years, no?

Omniraptor , (edited )

That’s not the criteria, the criteria is whoever is the loudest in criticizing the status quo. And the far right is the loudest

The far right would make everyone poorer but wouldn’t change the class structure, so they are allowed to exist while the left gets suppressed. See for example how many of the titans of industry in west germany who supported the Nazis got off scot free (or with much commuted sentences) and got to keep their assets. The system works :)

Omniraptor , (edited )

What do you mean nobody controls the information? We’re sitting here talking on lemmy, but most people (or at least most vooters) get their information from capital intensive sources controlled by the ruling class. Television is captured and subject to manipulation, mainstream “algorithmic” social media is captured and subject to manipulation, independent (local) print media is dead. I get really depressed when I think about it

Omniraptor ,

Well hopefully if you trust the UN about Israel you’ll also trust it the same way about Russia

Omniraptor , (edited )

Not an Israeli but according to some of our neighbors, we (Russia) haven’t had any reasonable moments either, at least not lasting more than a few months. Pic related

https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/be8ca593-c5c1-4d8a-9c59-41174c19b21d.webp

Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they’re what’s colloquially referred to...

Omniraptor ,

They weren’t already surrendering, ok. I’m not an expert but imo it could be argued that the Soviet Union joining the war (as they were about to) might have given Japanese command an excuse to surrender while saving face, or triggered an internal coup or something. They weren’t stupid, surely they could see the writing on the wall.

Omniraptor ,

But do they smoke weed

Omniraptor ,

industrial landscapes need a base of natural resources and less developed regions with high birth rates (as a source of labor) to support them.

Omniraptor ,

Last spring bud light sent trans influencer Dylan mulvaney a personalized beer can as part of a broad marketing push. This drew criticism/calls for a boycott from various prominent transphobes and caused a slight slump in sales. Bud light responded by laying off/“laying off” various senior marketing execs etc, and did not afaict support support mulvaney after it (no loud anti-transphobia pr statement). Very illustrative story of how corporate support of lgbt people under capitalism works

archive.ph/PVQWS

Omniraptor , (edited )

Do you mean that oopsie with the USS Liberty? That kind of thing happens occasionally but cooler heads prevail as long as everyone communicates. There was also an incident when a Turkish f-16 (Turkey being a NATO member) shot down a Russian su-24, but nobody went to war over it.

Omniraptor ,

Yes I’m just saying that if the sides (even if they are enemies like Russia/NATO) are not interested in going to war, they will tolerate isolated incidents. even with casualties. This isn’t something unique to the america-israel relationship

Omniraptor ,

wait what is “social planning” and how is it different from conventional marketing on social media. That seems pretty far removed from search engines

ajsadauskas , to fediverse
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Time for an ICQ for the Fediverse?

Looks like ICQ is finally shutting down, just as interest in retro internet tools is growing.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/25/24164579/icq-shut-down-june

@fediverse

Omniraptor ,

dam that’s awesome, is your code open source? I want this for .ee

Omniraptor ,

RIP :(

Omniraptor ,

I’ve been advocating flywheels as relatively cheap small scale energy storage

Omniraptor ,

Blendo?

Omniraptor ,

knowing how government institutions work I’d also assume they can’t get the libraries to switch to a new program

Omniraptor , (edited )

idk, at this point it feels like saying you’re a Republican because you support Abraham Lincoln’s ideas

Omniraptor ,

did you get banned from Google or something? It’s a common word in political science dating back to the French revolution, not some weird new invention.

I can’t tell if everyone itt is being sarcastic or smth

Omniraptor ,

hmm maybe the topology

Omniraptor ,

Unfortunately in Russia there are a lot of opportunists who call themselves communists

Omniraptor ,

Not defending Stalin but words like opportunist mean things. Remind me when did Stalin support a bourgeois state waging an imperialist war

Omniraptor ,

Ok wtf. How are you supposed to even enforce that, nevermind that there seems to be no enforcement mechanism for anything in the treaty, but economic coercion is just an inherent part of relations under capitalism.

Omniraptor ,

Do what the article says, Make like Russia in LDNR and send in “volunteers on leave” to help out the Ukrainians. The breakaway republics would never have held out this long without Russian volunteers.

Omniraptor ,

hm what’s your opinion on sundown towns i wonder

Ukraine’s troops withdraw from parts of north-east as pressure mounts (www.theguardian.com)

Ukraine’s troops withdrew from several areas of the country’s north-east amid mounting pressure from a new Russian offensive, as the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, postponed all foreign trips underscoring the seriousness of the threat....

Omniraptor ,

The way i remember it, in mid-late 2022 there was bipartisan support in Congress for sending more and more advanced arms but the Biden admin slow-rolled it because of escalation fears.

Omniraptor , (edited )

bringing it up here is completely irrelevant lol. There’s a difference between a property dispute in New York and defending against mass airstrikes in Gaza

Omniraptor ,

If you want to read about how we got into this fucked up situation I’d recommend The Hacker Crackdown by Bruce Sterling (a notorious cyberpunk sf writer among other things) www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/101

Omniraptor ,

Shout out to Alexandra elbakyan. She continues part of aaron’s work by running sci-hub and libgen, but lives safely out of reach of the american criminal “justice” system 💔

Omniraptor , (edited )

This book review (never got around to reading the book itself) made me understand why people think “it’s tradition” is a valid explanation at least sometimes. I disagree still but i couldn’t find any counterarguments.

slatestarcodex.com/…/book-review-the-secret-of-ou…

Omniraptor , (edited )

Germany voluntarily divested from Russian gas for political reasons. If Germany was run by more amoral “rationally greedy” business men I’m sure Russia would have happily kept selling energy to them despite the war.

It’s probably why a certain someone sabotaged the nordstream gas pipelines, to make sure Germany’s moral compass would not falter in the future - as its economy inevitably gets worse without cheap Russian oil and gas.

Omniraptor ,

It’s not centralization if not everyone trusts the same server, which there is no obligation to

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