Voroxpete @ Voroxpete @sh.itjust.works

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Hard to even be mad about it. It's just someone fucking around. Wikipedia would be a very bad place to be looking for early election results anyway so no harm done.

It's the subtle attempts to skew articles towards a particular agenda that really bother me. Stuff like this is just whatever.

He's setting himself up to be the new leader of the CPC. And it's probably going to work.

Seems like he cares a lot; https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-demands-investigations-negative-approval-rating-polls-2064949

Approval always matters, even in a dictatorship. If it didn't, the most autocratic governments would produce the least amounts of propaganda, and have the freest of free presses

Every leader ultimately rules by consent. Democracy just codifies a much simpler, much less violent process for granting or withholding that consent.

Remember, none of this is restricted to actual gang members.

If they can deport anyone who is a member of a Venezuelan gang to a prison camp without trial then, oops, turns out everyone they don't like is a member of a Venezuelan gang.

You can prove you're not? Too bad. That would require a trial. You don't get one of those, because we say you're a member of a Venezuelan gang.

See how this works?

ICE are Trump's sturmabteilung. If he's allowed to get away with any of this, it will not be long before he starts turning them on anyone who openly disagrees with him.

No. I have zero interest in your apologies. Not you, not any American whose first instinct is to tell us how sorry they are. I'm sure you're all wonderful people, but we're well past the point where that matters.

I never, ever, want to hear the word "Sorry" from any of your lips while I'm living with the reality that people I love might die to American bombs and bullets. I am not obligated to assuage your fucking conscience by dignifying your apologies while you all sit around hanging your heads in worthless shame.

We do not want or need your apologies. We want your rage. Get angry. Get out in the streets. Fucking do something.

And when Trump is gone and every last fascist has been hunted down and your government is run like an actual democracy, and your voters have learned how to value and respect friendships with countries outside of your own.... Then you can come to us and say sorry.

America, this is your five alarm fire. If everything else wasn't enough to get you moving, dear God please let this be it.

Get out and protest. Get talking to the other people at those protests. Build your network. You're going to need it for what is coming.

I've been running Seafile for over ten years. They released version 12.0 just last month. I'm really not sure why people have this impression that it's not maintained.

Seafile updates slowly because it's very much intended as an enterprise product. It has minimal bells and whistles, but the core functionality is reliable and works well. It's more of a BlackBerry than an iPhone.

In the side by side tests I've seen it syncs a lot faster than Nextcloud. I keep my entire documents, downloads and picture folders synced there across three different machines, nearly 300GB of data in total, and I can wipe my laptop and sync all my files back in under and hour. File transfers basically cap out at network speed, even with large numbers of small files. I've used the desktop client, the drive client and the mobile client and never had any complaints with any of them.

Sidenote, if you create an account on their site they'll give you a pro license for up to three users, free forever.

The documentation is a bit of a beast, but worth reading thoroughly. Setup is a little fiddly compared to Nextcloud (that's a major turn off for a lot of people, understandably so). If you have questions message me and I'll try to help. If you go with the free pro license, be sure to enable offline garbage collection, it'll help keep your storage use under control.

Anyway, I really like it, works well for me. Definitely worth trying out.

National pride can be a powerful motivator towards doing good. The belief in a nation as a group of people working towards a common goal is fundamental to collectivism.

When patriotism turns into nationalism, that's where it becomes toxic.

Speaking as a Canadian... Yes, we know.

You guys had the most trustworthy, most reliable ally ever. The faith and trust between Canada and the US was legendary.

That's gone now. It'll be a century or more before you can ever rebuild that trust.

And you threw it away for this drooling moron to play tinpot dictator.

Was it worth it?

Stop, I can only get so erect!

So her war plan is to "be strong" but also "cave to the far right and throw minorities and women under the bus to avoid hurting their few-fees"?

Oh, for sure, it's absolutely possible that Trump does not understand the need for refinement infrastructure, or simply believes that its a simple problem that will solve itself. Given his approach to trying to rehome US manufacturing its clear that he has basically no understanding of industry realities.

I love the assumption that somehow the problem was that he wasn't spending enough time at Tesla, as if the Cybertruck wasn't 100% his baby through and through. Clearly, with more genius ideas like that the company would be doing so much better.

Seconded.

Andor is the best piece of Star Wars media, period.

Yes, even including the original trilogy.

I want to note on the "mineral deal" thing that access to rare earth minerals has nothing to do with China's ability to constrain their supply to the US, because getting rare earth minerals is actually relatively easy. They're found all over the Earth, although some areas do have better naturally occurring concentrations than others. Mostly, though, it's just a matter of finding a nice large swathe of land that you can easily strip-mine.

The problem is refining them. Digging up a bunch of soil and rock is easy, getting the trace amounts of rare (hence why they're called that) earth minerals out of the soil and rock is really hard. While it's true that China does dominate in rare earth extraction, it really wouldn't be all that hard for other countries to catch up to them on that score if they wanted to. But the reason China controls the worlds rare earth supply is because they also dominate in refining, which is extremely difficult, technically complex, and not easy to replicate due to the highly specialised nature of rare earth refineries.

Trump can get access to all the unprocessed rare earth minerals he likes, but it won't solve his current problems. First off, even if Ukraine were at peace tomorrow it would take most of a decade to prospect those mineral deposits and begin extracting them at scale. But even then, it doesn't solve the refining problem. You'd just be selling the raw deposits to China so that they can refine them and sell the refined product back to you at a huge profit.

I tacked it onto your comment because I was chiming in with my agreement on your disagreement, if that makes sense.

The thing about the robotaxi thing is that it only really works as metro level infrastructure. Once you start trying to do that at a level where your vehicles can traverse whole states, the costs balloon like crazy.

Should, but people don't pay attention to those kinds of details.