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Bannon vows Trump’s opponents will be prosecuted in a second term | CNN Politics (edition.cnn.com)

Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, vowed investigations and prosecutions of those who have probed the former president and his political allies, declaring at a conservative gathering Saturday that Inauguration Day in 2025 will be “accountability day.”...

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What makes Bannon so sure he would be one to benefit from a second Trump presidency? He could just as well be persecuted. Trump shows no allegiance to anyone and is happy to throw his supporters under the bus when expedient.

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Though your brother’s bound and gagged And they’ve chained him to a chair Won’t you please come to Chicago Just to sing

In a land that’s known as freedom How can such a thing be fair Won’t you plaese come to Chicago For the help we can bring

We can change the world - Re-arrange the world It’s dying - to get better

— Chicago, CSNY

profdc9 ,

If you want to see what that would be like, watch this scene from the movie “Nixon” (1995).

youtu.be/TxCqOw5_4oE

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The only real question left in this war is: if Putin orders a nuclear strike, will he be obeyed?

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Especially if you have a media empire that is useful to discredit those opposing your invasion.

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Yup, this is really maximize shareholder value. I can totally see this teambuilding event doubling dividends. Wait? You said the company never pays dividends and rarely buys back its stock? Wow, I am really seeing those profits!

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Does that mean Germany will have the exotic negative energy that makes constructing a wormhole possible?

Greater Idaho movement: 13 counties in eastern Oregon have voted to secede and join Idaho (ktvz.com)

On Tuesday, voters in Crook County passed measure 7-86, which asked voters if they support negotiations to move the Oregon/Idaho border to include Crook County in Idaho. The measure is passing with 53% of the vote, and makes Crook County the 13th county in eastern Oregon to pass a Greater Idaho measure.

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I don’t get it, I would prefer my own Private Idaho.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXmnmvDl-ao

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Ricky Bobby approves.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/27e0ced5-a3bc-4ad4-8f5b-c757b8229540.jpeg

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Just remember, when it comes to baby Jesus, if you’re not first, you’re last.

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I guess they’ll have to shut down their bootstrap-pulling engines for awhile.

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This is Enron-scale manipulation. Someone’s ripping off the public and making a mint with the help of the regulators.

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As long as the alumni fund gets its share, it’s all good.

Zelensky: 'Our partners fear that Russia will lose this war' (kyivindependent.com)

President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that Ukraine’s partners “are afraid of Russia losing the war” and would like Kyiv “to win in such a way that Russia does not lose,” Zelensky said in a meeting with journalists attended by the Kyiv Independent....

profdc9 ,

The outcome of the war in Ukraine has always been a game of chicken, being which side is willing to escalate to nuclear weapons, and whether the other side may or may not back down. The logic of escalation has always been that no possible gain exceeds the losses caused by a nuclear exchange. The Madman theory ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madman_theory ) is about convincing one’s opponent that is one is not rational, and is willing to use nuclear weapons despite the losses. The threat then, is that Putin, seeing himself politically vulnerable because of his losses, but still powerful enough to command the military to use nuclear weapons, would demonstrate his willingness to use nuclear weapons, even if not directly against a military target, in a demonstration (perhaps in the Black Sea) or an exoatmospheric test.

profdc9 ,

Nuclear war is a very real possibility. If Putin becomes desperate enough, he will try to go to the very edge of brinksmanship. In this situation, with launch on warning, any perceived provocation could rapidly escalate. As the fear of a preemptive strike increases, so does the probability of a preemptive strike. Rationality gives way to fear. This is the logic and danger of brinksmanship: that the more you rely on it, the more likely it is to escalate out of control before one side backs down.

profdc9 ,

The Russians have nuclear submarines. No amount of bellicose bravado will blunt the sting of those.

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How the tables have turned.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4d98b169-9078-4d62-b76f-86a9558953fb.png

Solving CAPTCHA for 'Bicycle' -- Include Rider?

I wish to solve CAPTCHA with bicycles, motorcycles etc. in a manner consistent with chaotic good alignment, benevolence, humanitarianism, etc. Shall I select squares that include riders/passengers but not also their conveyance? Was reminded of my uncertainty about this when reading this recent post by @Wilshire to the Technology...

profdc9 ,

CAPTCHAs are solved by consensus. Whatever the CAPTCHA thinks a bicycle is depends on what people before it selected. Sometimes it doesn’t know and just uses your answer to set up future CAPTCHAs. So you should be thinking: what would other people (or bots) select for the CAPTCHA.

profdc9 ,

Yeah the pigeonhole principle here would seem to dictate that, or some principle involving holes anyways.

profdc9 ,

I thought the calendar was based on the event when Xenu exploded all of the body thetans on volcanoes with hydrogen bombs.

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What a poseur.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=owYClOcZsCg&t=222s

She was accused of faking an incriminating video of teenage cheerleaders. She was arrested, outcast and condemned. The problem? Nothing was fake after all (www.theguardian.com)

Madi Hime is taking a deep drag on a blue vape in the video, her eyes shut, her face flushed with pleasure. The 16-year-old exhales with her head thrown back, collapsing into laughter that causes smoke to billow out of her mouth. The clip is grainy and shaky – as if shot in low light by someone who had zoomed in on Madi’s...

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“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” - Orwell, 1984

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The CCP can artificially depress the value of their currency and subsidize their industries indefinitely. They are doing this on the backs of their workers, who should earn more for their labor. They are doing this because their own workers are too poor to provide sufficient domestic demand for their consumer goods, however, this strategy just makes their workers poorer, exacerbating the problem. Chinese exports should be used to make their economy self-sustaining, but they just perpetuate economic bubbles and malinvestment that cause economic stagnation. Neither domestic nor international commerce has never been free of interference or fair.

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I don’t think whataboutism ever helps anything. American subsidies and bailouts has not resulted in better consumer choice. However, choosing options that are due to dumping isn’t going to produce sustainable industry either in China after the subsidies there end. The only real solution is to actually make practical electric vehicles at an affordable price.

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I just took a Core i5, 6 GB RAM laptop from 2011 and reinstalled Linux Mint and put in a 1 TB SSD. The difference between that and Ubuntu 23.10 and a 750 GB 5400 RPM drive was like night and day.

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“Humanity can not progress without heaps” - Hubert Farnsworth

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I think free will is an illusion that a brain creates to aid in human perception. This illusion is an evolutionary adaptation so that a human acts to preserve its body and its genes by perceiving its person as distinct from other persons and the environment.

profdc9 ,

Not high enough on the Aryan-o-meter for Coulter.

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It’s a big improvement from making them from straw.

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Afghanistan is not the place if you want to see Buddhist monuments.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddhas_of_Bamiyan

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Having children doesn’t make sense in a capitalist society, because children cost money without producing anything. Parents have to compete with non-parents for housing, employment, energy, and transportation, while having less to bid on these items because they are paying to raise children. Extinction is inevitable because the future, neither the environment nor its inhabitants, have value in the marketplace.

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You would think that with all those kids watching, Xi would lean into the whole Winnie the Pooh resemblance.

Creating a self-contained binary (www.github.com)

I have a program (fldigi, pointed to by the github link) that uses dozens of shared libraries. I would like to be able to distribute a pre-compiled version of the program for testers. I could require each tester to install the shared libraries and compile the program for themselves, however, this would be extremely difficult for...

profdc9 OP ,

The problem is that I don’t have static versions of most of the libraries available.

profdc9 ,

Like many southern states, there is much natural beauty in Texas. It doesn’t seem like many of the locals realize what they are blessed with.

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They still have huge ports and oil refineries going for them. Until the Permian Basin is drained.

South Dakota governor, a potential Trump running mate, writes in new book about killing her dog (apnews.com)

The Guardian obtained a copy of Noem’s soon-to-be released book, “No Going Back: The Truth on What’s Wrong with Politics and How We Move America Forward.” In it, she tells the story of the ill-fated Cricket, a 14-month-old wirehaired pointer she was training for pheasant hunting....

profdc9 ,

The point is to show she can intentionally and decisively be cruel and mean, especially to an animal under her custody. This is seen as a desirable character trait to Trump’s followers.

profdc9 ,

This seems so incredibly ill-advised. If students become martyred by trigger-happy snipers, these protests will boil over into open violence. Imagine thousands of videos flooding social media in an instant showing student corpses. I fear that gasoline has been poured and matches are being lit everywhere.

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https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c37cddf6-2eef-4079-a588-a91377a58b0d.png

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It’s glorified gambling, not investing in companies to provide them capital so they can generate profits and reward shareholders. I can’t really sympathize with people to make money gambling or speculating for that reason: they didn’t do anything of value or provide anything of value to someone who needed it or could use it, they just took a risk and happened to win.

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How is it a breach if data was shared intentionally? This is a violation of confidentiality.

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Hydrogen is an electron and proton. I am guessing that most protons have been fully ionized many times since the beginning of the universe, thus not being complete intact atoms. Checkmate scientists!

profdc9 ,

Sounds to me like dolphins need to step up their game.

theweek.com/…/are-dolphins-gangsters-sea

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Damn it feels good to be a dolphin.

profdc9 ,

I wonder what kind of simulators they use to test their code.

profdc9 ,

Are the Dutch the same as the lizard people? Because if not, I don’t get what this is saying.

profdc9 ,

It could be worse. Think of spending your years on a futile effort, one which you sacrificed your youth and health to try to achieve, and having to look back on that.

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

profdc9 ,

I am 50 years old. I thought by becoming a research engineer I could improve the world like others before me who created things like radio, indoor plumbing, and textile factories. I published over a hundred research papers, but I learned that no one reads research papers anymore, and publication has become a complete waste of time. I learned that politics and money trump engineering considerations 100% of the time, and that the sole purpose of technology now seems to draw money from investors’ wallets. I wanted to be a great teacher, but engineers are not paid to do that because it doesn’t make money, so now I just make open source projects that I hope can be used to be examples to learn from. But I don’t think I’ll be remembered, as it seems technology nowadays is largely used as a means of swindling people out of their money so they can buy stuff they don’t need and makes them miserable.

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