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Kremlin revives Soviet-style youth indoctrination as it eyes ‘forever war’ with Ukraine and the West (www.themoscowtimes.com)

The Kremlin is working to systematically instill “patriotic” values in children and teenagers through a Soviet-style propaganda campaign as it looks toward preparing the next generation for a life shaped by conflict with Ukraine and the West.

mwguy ,

Because they’ll make a fortune from the next guy too. But they won’t see their entire labor pool decimated.

mwguy ,

Industry requires labor. And an extract based wealth generation scheme requires a large amount of unskilled and semi-skilled labor along with a relatively small amount of highly skilled specialists to operate.

It’s in your interest for the unskilled and semi-skilled labor to be as vast as possible to keep costs down.

mwguy ,

Not a lot of North Korean billionaires living it up in the West though. To extract that level of wealth you need a better class of worker.

mwguy ,

History says that it is. There have opuoentoy wealthy people into Antiquity. But supporting the number of opuoentoy wealthy that modern Russia has requires an organized economy. You can’t have 1,000 Billionaires in an 500B sized economy.

mwguy ,

Some signs. But who knows if it’s just chatter or real talk.

mwguy ,

They also stopped teaching typing in schools. My younger family members never had an computer class or a typing class.

mwguy ,

It works well for casual conversation. But if you’re trying to have a technical conversation it will fail on uncommon or custom words or phrases.

mwguy ,

The goal should be to use whatever is most effective and efficient for yourself,

And if taught as they should be, that will be the keyboard.

Counting out 5*5 on your fingers works and might be the fastest way you’ve been taught to multiply, but that doesn’t mean we should excuse schools not teaching times tables and how to use a caluclator.

In a 65-foot-deep tunnel in Rafah, hostages found executed by captors (www.ynetnews.com)

Forces had no direct confrontation with Hamas terrorists who killed hostages; ‘The IDF and security forces are doing everything possible to bring all hostages home as quickly as possible. This news shakes us all,’ says army spokesperson Hagari...

mwguy ,

“Civilian” hostages. Israel has compulsory military service. And a reasonable chunk of those taken hostage were active or reservist military members.

So no, not all.

mwguy ,

What is the source or evidence the hostages were executed?

They released an autopsy. What the frack do people want?

mwguy ,

Because now they’ll be pursued for the rest of their life. Free a hostage and you have essentially a get out of jail free card.

mwguy ,

Historically you’ve shipped them to a neutral nation (like Switzerland) who negotiated their return to their home country on the condition that they not be allowed to rejoin the war effort either for the duration of the war or for a specific time.

None of these things are solutions that haven’t been seen before.

mwguy ,

But Israel can’t really expect Hamas to follow Geneva conventions when they themselves violate it a hundreds times as often.

This is a massively false statement. And it’s one that should make you reconsider your viewpoint from the ground up.

I don’t know if a more incorrect statement could be made about this conflict.

mwguy ,

Let’s be real, if you had a link to the autopsy you wouldn’t change your mind. You haven’t decided your beliefs based upon evidence; why would you change them based on it?

Reuters

On Sunday, following the return of the bodies, an autopsy revealed he and the other five hostages had been shot at close range within 48 hours before Israeli forces arrived and recovered the bodies in a tunnel under Gaza.

mwguy ,

How would that work? Should they surrender themselves to the IDF while delivering the hostages, just notify them of where they are so they won’t be bombed or how would that all work?

Israel has tip lines set up for Hamas members and members of the Gazan public to call. You call and say, "me and my boys will have an unspecified number of hostages at x location at y time and are looking to surrender. Then you show up at that time with those resources and surrender.

mwguy , (edited )

I’m not dehumanizing the hostages. Hamas has literally clarified that when it agrees to release Civillian hostages it will not release any active or reservist hostage or military-aged males (even if they’re not in the military currently).

During the temporary cease-fire, they were supposed to release all the elderly hostages. But they kept some of the males back who were veterans.

The headline given wasn’t an offer by Hamas to return all the hostages as was claimed earlier in the thread. It was an offer to return some of the hostages and to keep the rest indefinitely.

mwguy ,

To me it sounded like they were specifically pushing against a claim that Hamas offered to free everyone.

You read it correctly.

mwguy ,

A “to be decided deal” isn’t an offered deal.

mwguy ,

I am interested in additional information, but it’s not relevant to my original assessment.

That means you’re not interested in additional information. Did you look at the quote in the Reuter’s article?

mwguy ,

Yes, every so often a news report comes out about individual Hamas members and cells surrendering. www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=indi…

mwguy ,

What is the source or evidence the hostages were executed?

You asked this question. The article directly answers it. Hamas killed those hostages.

mwguy ,

With their countrymen reportedly dying by the thousands in their behalf. They should surrender en-mass anyway. They’ve been defeated. Prolonging the war only prolongs the suffering.

mwguy ,

There wasn’t a “genocide” on Oct 6th.

mwguy ,

Ahh so are you one of those “genocide is what I feel it is” folk or one of those “genocide is when the Jews are still alive” sort of folk?

mwguy ,

Did you know there are Jewish palastinians?

About 50% of Israeli Jews are descendants Arabs, Persians and North Africans who were forcibly relocated to Israel by the leaders of the Arab world or native to the region. Israel is a reservation, agreed to and established by Arabs as part of the agreement between their leaders and European leaders to overthrow the Ottoman Empire.

I’ve seen videos of Israeli settlers kicking palastinians out of their home at gunpoint saying that the state sold them the house. It’s a state doing a genocide.

In the West Bank or the Gaza strip? Because there are no and have been no settlements in the Gaza Strip in a generation.

So again, is it a genocide because you feel like it or because they’re Jews?

mwguy ,

You’re an ignorant person man. Your mistaking a war with a genocide. Hamas can end the conflict tomorrow by surrendering. A conflict they started by murdering, enslaving and raping undeniably innocent people.

If Hamas surrenders and the bombs keep falling nobody will be yelling genocide more than I. But equating incompetence on the part of Hamas’s defense strategy and stubbornness on it’s war goals with a genocide. Hamas’ blind and overconfident aggression is the cause of theses deaths in Gaza. Being blind to that doesn’t make you moral.

mwguy ,

It’s been confirmed multiple times from multiple sources that Gaza’s largest hospitals are connected to Hamas’ tunnel network. The UNWRA, various doctor groups and various media outlets had reported it prior to this most recent conflict.

For someone moderately or more paying attention there should have been no reason to doubt those claims from the IDF; not just because they cane with nominally verifiable audio and video evidence. But also because Hamas has never refuted claims about its use of its tunnel network in and around hospitals, schools and other civilian infrastructure.

mwguy ,

I ain’t even reading it.

Everything you need to know about your position.

mwguy ,

Also, let’s not forget the hilariously bad video they put out as “”“proof”“” from months before.

“They” in this case was a random Twitter account chasing clout.

The IDF invited NBC and other news organizations to tour the tunnels they found. Along with a bunch of other proof of their usage.

Maybe the problem is that you look at random Twitter accounts chasing clout as legitimate sources. There’s a ton of these clout fiends talking shit on both sides sharing false or doctored video.

mwguy ,

Oh yeah, the Other debunked tunnel propaganda .

That article doesn’t debunk it. It simultaneously says the proof of the tunnels under the hospital is unconvincing and then says “but Israel build basement rooms in the 1980s so it doesn’t count.”

mwguy ,

I don’t “hear out” the reasons a Nazi has for justifying genocide. Do you?

Dude dunking on Nazi’s is sort of what I do.

mwguy ,

I’m arguing for a Hamas surrender. Don’t know if you realized but there’s a war on. What your mistaking for a genocide, is a war. A war the side you seem to support started. And a war they can end tomorrow with a surrender.

mwguy ,

Honestly I hope you look at it now and shatter. This support for Hamas (both fiscal and moral) coming from people like you is the #1 thing preventing the rise of a legitimate, independent Palestinian state. And the #1 empowering the poverty of the Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza.

When we in the West defacto tell Gazans, “Kill them Jews we got your back, we’ll help you rebuild, we’ll pressure them to allow themselves to be enslaved. You’ve got it so bad; it can never get worse.” We’re giving Gazans a false sense of security. If Gazans were black they would never receive this level of foreign support. If they weren’t attempting tourser Jews, they’d never have this level of support.

According to the UN there are 195 countries in the world, including Palestine. 194 of them receive less per capita aid and commit less per capita terrorism. Gaza could easily become the Madagascar or Haiti or Chad in 6 months and be 1000x worse off than they are today.

mwguy ,

Your war. The people you support, Hamas, started it.

mwguy ,

The problem is that the quality on Mac has been degrading so It might just be time to consider a switch. Honestly, for that type of user, I recommend Chromebooks.

mwguy ,

Slight tangent. But I’ve recently been pulling old home videos off of MiniDV tapes. And I’ve found that the ffmpeg dv1 decoder can correct several tape issues when re-encoding from dv1 to essentially any modern codec. So I’ve got like 3GB video files that look incredibly poor, but then I re-encode them into h264 files that look better than the original. It’s baffling how well that works.

mwguy ,

lols

mwguy ,

The bot is accurate. Most people getting mad at Times of Israel are just getting mad because Jews. It’s nominally accurate, and most of the political scandals of Israel itself are reported there. It’s clearly not propaganda.

mwguy ,

Link the other comment?

mwguy ,

Honestly, because of the EPA regulations, it’s difficult and expensive to make the small trucks that were so popular in the 1980s and 1990s. Tesla could have cleaned up with a simple single-cab electric truck (especially if it came with fleet purchase options). Because of the economics of the situation if it were priced in the 25-35k range it would fly off the manufacturing lines and become the new standard workhorse for local businesses (think plumbers going out to 5-6 calls a day and then charging overnight), plus it would have the added benefit of a “bring your generator to the worksite” stuff.

They’d just have to be willing to strip a lot of the fancy electronic stuff out for manual things (like manual doors, environmental controls etc…).

mwguy ,

The headline makes it sound like Israel attacked the aid. That’s not the case according to the body of the article. Odd.

mwguy ,

It’s a reasonable question to ask.

mwguy ,

Not just for a sociopath. Anti-air is expensive (table with some options. A patriot cost like $3M/pop. If a missile was going to hit an uninhabited area choosing not to intercept makes sense.

That’s why DARPA keeps working on DEWs.

mwguy ,

Ahh fair enough. Hope you have a great day.

Run Flatpak apps by search filter or through fuzzy finder menu (gist.github.com)

I wrote a simple script in order to help someone in a recent reply from me, to make running Flatpak applications from terminal easier. After that I worked a little bit on it further and now ended up with 2 completely different approaches....

mwguy ,

Can we just have flatpak apps added to the system path by default? Like have a directory /usr/local/flatpak/bin and have links to all the executable show up there. Then users can choose to add that to their path if they wish.

mwguy ,

Well now I feel silly. Brb changing my default path.

mwguy ,

Maybe the home of Wall Street, the world’s largest market, isn’t Communist.

How do we know if there aren't a bunch of more undetected backdoors?

I have been thinking about self-hosting my personal photos on my linux server. After the recent backdoor was detected I’m more hesitant to do so especially because i’m no security expert and don’t have the time and knowledge to audit my server. All I’ve done so far is disabling password logins and changing the ssh port....

mwguy ,

“We don’t” is the short answer. It’s unfortunate, but true.

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