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davel , 9 months ago to worldnews in U.N. votes to end US embargo on Cuba; US and Israel oppose

By imposing sanctions on more and more Global South countries, the US is effectively embargoing itself.

davel , 9 months ago to worldnews in U.N. votes to end US embargo on Cuba; US and Israel oppose

Wikipedia » Political positions of Noam Chomsky » Views on institutions » Criticism of United States government

His conclusion is that a consistent part of the United States’ foreign policy is based on stemming the “threat of a good example.” This ‘threat’ refers to the possibility that a country could successfully develop outside the US-managed global system, thus presenting a model for other countries, including countries in which the United States has strong economic interests.

davel , 9 months ago to worldnews in Washington’s Willful Blind Spot on China

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davel OP , 10 months ago to worldnews in U.S. Quietly Expands Secret Military Base in Israel

Maybe they’re discussing it in the news because The Intercept broke the story four days ago:

The $35.8 million U.S. troop facility, not publicly announced or previously reported, was obliquely referenced in an August 2 contract announcement by the Pentagon. Though the Defense Department has taken pains to obscure the site’s true nature — describing it in other records merely as a “classified worldwide” project — budget documents reviewed by The Intercept reveal that it is part of Site 512. (The Pentagon did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)

davel , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to worldnews in Israeli Influencers Are Mocking Palestinians Suffering in Gaza

There are plenty of anti-Zionist Jews, despite Zionist attempts to equivalate Judaism, Jewishness, and Zionism. Israel’s use of the Star of David on its flag does a disservice to non-Zionists of faith.

Edit: Also, there are many secular Jewish Zionists, making the Star of David on the flag all the more obfuscatory. Unfortunately it’s a symbol used by 1) an ethnicity 2) a culture 3) a religion and 4) a nation-state.

davel , 10 months ago to fediverse in Meta given 30 days to cease using the name Threads by company that trademarked it 11 years ago

Y tho?

davel , 10 months ago to asklemmy in Help Getting News

I use Reeder on Apple products. It’s a one time price of USD 9.99 for MacOS and USD 4.99 for iOS.

davel OP , 10 months ago to linux in Ackchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linux

Philosophy probably did play a significant role: Google could have chosen BusyBox, which is GPL licensed, if their concern was solely the GNU user space’s comparative bloat.

davel OP , 10 months ago to linux in Ackchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linux

It’s unfortunate that Go has become so popular at the expense of modern system programming languages like Rust and Nim and Zig. Go is such a platypus: a compiled language that isn’t a proper system language.

davel OP , 10 months ago to linux in Ackchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linux

🤞 I’d rather chew glass than deal with C again.

davel OP , 10 months ago to linux in Ackchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linux

After 33 years of development, GNU/Hurd still may not be ready for production use, but it’s not quite dead 💀 🦜

davel OP , 10 months ago to linux in Ackchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linux

Also true. Feel free to make an informational post on the matter.

davel OP , 10 months ago to linux in Ackchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linux

It’s only called UNIX if it comes from the Santa Cruz region of California, otherwise it’s a sparkling POSIX.

davel OP , 10 months ago to linux in Ackchyually, not every Linux is a GNU Linux

And nobody is saying that they do. But there are plenty of people who are unaware that non-GNU Linuxes exist.

davel , 10 months ago to worldnews in Half of Britons can’t name a Black British historical figure, survey finds

It’s Scary that they can’t name one black Spice Girl.