(Side note: that fermented hay is called Silage and fun fact it's one of the single foulest smelling substances produced by humanity. Smells more like raw sewage than actual raw sewage, and frequently triggers asthma attacks. Cows, inexplicably, go absolutely ape for it. A silage farm near where I grew up had frequent breakins from nearby pastured cows who had figured out the latches so they could sneak in.)
I know it's the whole point of them doing this shit but it's getting so hard to cope with the constant fucking around. What in the fuck are we going to do? At least for now they've realized how spectacularly stupid this move was, I guess.
The "fundamental systemic inequalities" that would help us poor unintelligent rubes are things like hospitals and public transit.
Uh, yeah, I know. Everyone knows, in fact. Thats why healthcare reform and expansions to public transit are two of the absolute cornerstones of liberal policy. You're really all about this victim mindset but it's clear you've just been convinced that's the rational conclusion, you haven't arrived at that conclusion by weighing up the evidence or anything.
I'd argue that education funding and expansion of social services are two more super critical things that have been yanked out from under rural communities, but it's not like it's literally my job to answer questions like "how can we improve food security for underserved communities" or "how specifically is rural healthcare access inadequate" or anything.
But lucky for you, nothing you're saying here really matters! We're going to keep trying to address the systemic problems you've been saddled with no matter how bitter and blind to your own behavior you are! Rejoice, rural person! Venerate urbanism! Celebrate the boons we give you!
Sure but they're still right. Access to education or even basic resources for people in rural communities is a serious problem in pretty much every country, even to the extent that "uneducated hicks" have essentially been weaponized in the US. The rural/urban divide is almost entirely manufactured, but one group sure seems to spend a great deal of their time trying to fix the fundemental systemic inequalities forced onto the other group... and the other group overwhelmingly hates them for it.
iirc this was just an engine that could run on most combustible hydrocarbons, a small gas turbine and some elaborate digestion setup I seem to remember, and the press really stretched a badly worded explanation of how it worked into 'it eats corpses'. Which is fair, humans are mostly made from tasty biomass, but still.
edit: here's a couple sources about it, it sounds like it does indeed run on vegetable biomass.
Yo we don't care when americans shoot american children, why should we care if someone else wants to get in on it? No way to prevent this. ('sides, with a name like Omar Mohammad Rabea the kid had to have been brown)
There's a ton of IT workers on lemmy (go figure). Being aware of the current scams is quite valuable, since it means both that you can warn your users and you know what to look for when they inevitably ignore your warning and do it anyways.
Did we? I guess I'm glad to hear that since it's better than the "absolutely nothing" I was expecting....
I really haven't seen anything claiming we did more than that, or claiming we had an impact at all. Honestly, I've barely seen more than this one article on the topic that even mentions the US's (craven lack of) involvement in this. Does anyone in the current admin even care enough to misrepresent our involvement? Is that as depressing a question as it sounds?
(Side note: that fermented hay is called Silage and fun fact it's one of the single foulest smelling substances produced by humanity. Smells more like raw sewage than actual raw sewage, and frequently triggers asthma attacks. Cows, inexplicably, go absolutely ape for it. A silage farm near where I grew up had frequent breakins from nearby pastured cows who had figured out the latches so they could sneak in.)