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maynarkh ,

Ammunition for artillery that they don’t use by doctrine.

They have a ton of eg. plane ammo, but they don’t give planes to Ukraine.

maynarkh ,

Oh, they do, they already exempted themselves and the police.

maynarkh ,

Bank spokesman says they are itching to be the sector to fire the most workers, poised to make the economy so much better.

maynarkh ,

I think the main criticism was not that they are bad, but that they are a different genre from 1-2.

I liked 3 and 4, but I like 1-2 as well, with Wasteland 3 abd ATOM being great games to scratch that itch in modern times.

maynarkh ,

Are they independent from the cancerous management though?

maynarkh ,

How do you get the fancy fonts?

maynarkh ,

You see, it’s not apartheid, that would mean they treat them as second class citizens. You don’t put citizens into concentration camps.

maynarkh ,

About military logistics and trains, are you sure you’re right? We aren’t supplying Ukraine by trucks last time I’ve seen a shipment

China Changes Hundreds of Uyghur Village Names as Part of Broader Government Effort to Erase Uyghur Culture in Xinjiang (www.hrw.org)

Chinese authorities in Xinjiang have been systematically changing hundreds of village names with religious, historical, or cultural meaning for Uyghurs into names reflecting recent Chinese Communist Party ideology, Human Rights Watch said....

maynarkh ,

It’s kinda fucked up that each major political camp denies some genocide. Like we could replace who you vote for with which genocide was a shamocide?

maynarkh ,

To be honest, not many Europeans do

maynarkh ,

Say that again after you sit the same IT exams as I did.

maynarkh ,

It’s weird that this has to be explained to Americans - this is how much of Big Tech got to where they are, except they call it “disruption”.

BTW this shows perfectly that free markets are not a be-all-end-all thing. It’s a tool, and if it produces outcomes that you don’t like, you can adjust it for better outcomes. The hypocrisy here is not that they pretend to worship the market then cry foul when China enters it on their terms, but that they do adjust it for their benefit all the time, and only pretend to worship it when people ask for their fair share.

maynarkh ,

hordes of protesters and lines of cops

Wonder which side is being taken here…

“2020 snuck up on us,” Snelling acknowledged in a recent Tribune interview. “Let’s tell the cold, hard truth. We did not have the level of preparedness to deal with something that was that random that popped up on us.”

“We were murdering people so often on the street in broad daylight, we didn’t know it would be that one specific murder that has some repercussions.”

maynarkh ,

Nah, they’ll just sue you if you’re using VGA instead of HDMI since it obviously means you are trying to crack DRM and thus running afoul of DMCA.

maynarkh ,

Nuh-uh, sound has to go over HDMI as well. You may only partake in your own culture through DRM-approved channels.

This got me thinking, could you still get an abortion in the bad parts of the US if you trademarked your DNA, and claimed that the condom breaking violated DMCA?

You know, show up at the doctors with a ton of papers headlined

CEASE AND DESIST

Or at least get child support out of Durex?

maynarkh ,

I sometimes do drink myself to sovereign citizen. Unlike most of those people, I do get sober the next morning.

maynarkh ,

ESL person question here - isn’t “male” used as an adjective more than a noun? If you used “pregnant female” as a counterpart, it would sound weird to me, like we were talking about rabbits, not people.

maynarkh ,

I understand, then male would mean “people with a penis”?

maynarkh ,

Isn’t this just a response to China’s claims? So that they can later compromise to go back to the current status quo and everyone can fuck off peacefully from claiming the entire sea?

maynarkh ,

F-Droid could go through it, the thing that is prohibited is for Google to bar them just because they are a competitor.

maynarkh ,

I wouldn’t be surprised if the US suddely remembered where the 9/11 perpetrators were from if this is true.

maynarkh ,

Reminds me of this vending machine that confused the amount of change it should give me with some error code it displayed in the high thousands, and went jackpot on me, spitting out all its coins.

BREAKING NEWS: EU Commission announces preliminary tariffs up to 38% on Chinese EVs (www.euractiv.com)

The EU will impose additional tariffs of 17.4% to 38.1% on electric cars produced in China, the European Commission announced on Wednesday (12 June), as preliminary results from its anti-subsidy investigation confirmed prices are being distorted by Chinese state support....

maynarkh ,

I think that there was just no good choice in this matter. I mean, look at how great it turned out for Europe to bond together with Russia over cheap gas. I know that cheap gas and electric cars are not the same thing, by far, but still, if we got dumped by electric cars in China, we’d be wide open for economic attacks like it happened just a few years ago.

That said, I’d love if we compensated for this by finally shifting subsidies from flights to rail, or by shifting from 100LL to 100UL in general aviation, or cracking down on ships using bunker fuel.

Or put the screws on BMW and VW to pull their heads out their asses and start being competitive.

maynarkh ,

Selling EVs below the profitable rate to corner a market and destroy competition. You know, the economic term “dumping”.

maynarkh ,

Good for them. The point is not that they are doing “bad things”. “Dumping” is not a curse word, it’s an economic strategy, one that’s practised by a whole bunch of companies, and not just Chinese ones. When Auchan is selling watermelons at a rate where they barely make any money over a single sale - but make a ton of money on other stuff you get while shopping for watermelons, it destroys farmer’s markets, for example.

All I’m saying is that the choice before the EU leadership was either letting Chinese EVs into the market and risk getting into a position where Chinese companies - and by extension the Chinese government - can pull the levers on the EU car market, in exchange for us getting to buy cheaper EVs right now.

The EU - and you can fill in the blank whether they did it because they wanted to protect EU carmakers’ business, or they wanted to prevent another situation similar to the one with Russian gas - decided that the risk is not worth it. My guess is that some voted as they did because of the former, others because of the latter. That said, you can’t really say that the EU would be “crooked” for either of these things, as fighting for the EU car industry against other countries’ car industries is well within their mandate, as is protecting the EU’s strategic political autonomy.

It’s just how things are, like with the great firewall. If someone wants to sell software services to China, they have to conform to their standards. You can say it’s good or bad, but that’s just how things work. As a European, I don’t care about this specific issue either way, we should be buying fewer cars, electric or otherwise. People who live in places in the EU where you need cars because there’s no good public transport also tend to be living in places where you can’t afford to buy new anyway, not even at BYD prices.

maynarkh ,

So Germany wants to go easy on the authoritarian government so that they can reach short term economic gains, which actually won’t trickle down to the common German, but will surely make someone very rich.

And they promise it’s not going to be like it was with Hungary, or Russia, right?

maynarkh ,

I think they were trying to say that Croatia is no longer part of the same dominion as Hungary (Croatia was never part of Hungary, but was a vassal state of the Crown before WWI).

maynarkh ,

As someone who grew up within cycling distance of that very border, no worries, that part of the world is confusing.

When I had elementary school geography, we were taught a different status quo on how the Balkan countries are, and the teachers back then were getting it wrong on instinct and were correcting themselves regularly because they were taught yet another one.

maynarkh ,

At this rate, it’s going to be like the dinosaurs in a few decades. Russians will claim that they were invisible like chameleons, but the real scientists will know they had feathers.

maynarkh ,

Read the whole comment, it’s a they had us in the first half thing

maynarkh ,

The guy was part of the existing team. The team has 12 members who constantly train together, 11 women, and this guy. They all qualified, but the Olympics accepts 8-member teams, so 4 people had to wait it out. May was one of these four on the decision of the coach.

To be honest, there are two equally true readings of the story, one saying that despite the fresh opportunity for inclusion, the female coach decided to exclude the only male member from the selection, or you could say that the 45 year old guy, despite most likely being one of the top artistic swimmers of the world who arguably has done a lot for the sport both as a sportsman and as a coach himself, may not have been in the top 8 of the team where the lowest age is 17.

If all the genders were swapped, there would be one group saying that the male coach excluded the only woman on the team, and another one pointing out that how good you are should matter more than what’s in your pants.

210 Palestinians reportedly killed during Israeli hostage recovery operation (thehill.com)

The bodies of 109 Palestinians including 23 children and 11 women were taken to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, and spokesperson Khalil Degran told the Associated Press that more than 100 wounded also arrived to the hospital. In addition, he said the rest of the 210 Palestinians killed were taken to Al-Awda Hospital after the...

maynarkh ,

The people killed had families, friends, who will be raging for revenge, bolstering the ranks of organizations like Hamas.

Hamas won this one, they don’t care how many Palestinians die, they want more people hating Jews. The people who lost this fight are the dead and their relations, and humanity at large.

maynarkh ,

Not an excuse, what you’re saying is also true.

The objective of both Likud and Hamas are that the situation does not normalise in the region, they want people to die so they stay relevant politically. Each dead civilian - and to a smaller degree, each dead soldier - is a win for both Hamas and Likud, and a loss for the Israeli and the Palestinian people.

maynarkh ,

I do in fact have empathy for them as well. Hamas and Likud are both to blame for this, equally.

maynarkh ,

And Netanyahu let Hamas do this by intentionally weakening their border security before Oct 7, despite there being an anniversary of the last intifada, and despite being told by multiple countries that an attack is in the works. He also had a hand in funding Hamas against the PA. And he is also holding on to power undemocratically, as he is postponing an election he would most likely lose if not for the current “war”.

They have a symbiotic relationship, neither could really exist without the other. Just to be clear, what Hamas does does not justify what Likud does, and what Likud does does not justify what Hamas does.

Also, I don’t think I have the information to really cast either of them “the worse one”. Both organizations have genocidal maniacs leading them, and I agree with the ICC prosecutor who wants to cite the leadership of both for genocide. Saying one is worse would be relativizing the deaths of either the Israeli people murdered by Hamas, or the Palestinian civilians murdered by the IDF.

maynarkh ,

The difference is that the stock market has a very distorted definition of value.

If you say that the value of something is what someone else is willing to pay for it, I could trade my house with a friend and say they paid a billion for it, except they paid me with their own billion-dollar house, and we would both become billionaires. Of course, that would be bullshit, but if my friend and I sat on the board of the FED, it would somehow become actually real.

I see how that works, but the question is, how far can that stretch? Wall Street already tells us there is stuff worth more than 40 years of the US GDP trading around in their pockets, so how much more can that get before they get called on their bullshit like me and my hypothetical friend?

maynarkh ,

In which we all participate whether we like it or not.

maynarkh ,

Except we would grab loans from our banker friends who are also in on the scheme, and use some of that money to pay taxes and buy some congresscritters to avoid further taxes. The banker guys would then grab some loans themselves, preferably also from each other, as they slowly repackage the whole thing and then sell it to retirement funds to make it everyone else’s problem. /s

maynarkh ,

Cheap bait, nobody cares

maynarkh ,

Also, yanking back on the yoke as hard as you can when you hear a terrain alert is a pretty surefire way to crash and die anyways. So yeah, fake and potentially gay.

maynarkh ,

Some countries either lean on the Western side while ignoring Eastern atrocities, some others call out Western neocolonialism while ignoring China’s and Russia’s imperialist crimes, and there are a bunch of countries that are mostly led on the rightful moral principle that genocide is bad whoever does it, so they condemn it back and forth.

Then there is apparently fucking Hungary, who supports the trampling of human rights, genocide and dead children whoever does it. For context, this vote happened while the government was openly fighting with the US ambassador over geopolitics and Hungarian government corruption, and the population is divided on the genocide with no clear lean either way.

maynarkh ,

So the MBAs decided to outsource the work to some shithole where unions don’t exist to bust the WA union, and when the whole thing blew up in their face, they are shipping back the “completed” plane to the union shop to get it fixed up.

Bravo.

If anyone is interested, Al Jazeera was reporting on this whole charade way before the accidents and the whistleblowers started to happen.

maynarkh ,

Why does the UK ambassador to Mexico carry an assault rifle in their vehicle in the first place?

maynarkh ,

Almost as if homosexual people were just people.

maynarkh ,

… the ambulances, the random US warship passing by, their own tanks …

maynarkh ,

Men should all be (the sole) breadwinners.

Biden details a 3-phase hostage deal aimed at winding down the Israel-Hamas war (apnews.com)

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday detailed a three-phase deal proposed by Israel to Hamas militants that he says would lead to the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza and could end the grinding, nearly 8-month-old Mideast war....

maynarkh ,

This seems reasonable, what’s the catch?

maynarkh ,

This is genocide.

And the ICJ agrees.

It does not diminish the genocide Israel is committing, but Russia is definitely committing genocide in Ukraine, insofar as one of the aims of their war of aggression is the erasure of Ukrainian identity.

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