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Used to be years ago, but law changed some time in the last few years

Putin has transparently murdered dozens of people far more important to the West without being toppled.

Russia's newly displayed military impotence shifts the calculus, but Prighozin isn't the guy to cause an international uproar.

That isn't however the argument the article is making (noting I'm rather dubious on it).

They're not arguing that NATO will suddenly invade because Pringles got SAM'd.

They're arguing that a) the Wagner lieutenants are competent and experienced which makes it likely that they are not only capable but likely to be effective at seeking vengeance; and b) that Putin has systematically culled all the competent generals and hence there's a reduced capability.

Now I'm dubious on the likelihood of the first, and while the second is true I'm not as convinced it will be a game changer.

Facebook European headquarters are in Ireland which is part of the EU. If Facebook fails to pay Norway can take them through the European court system to enforce the payment.

Facebook have plenty of assets in the EU which can be seized. More than enough cash given they use Ireland as part of their tax minimisation strategy

Any watch supported by asteroidOS

https://asteroidos.org/

With any luck this was instead of diddling the choir boys, if so then have at it.

Sure, it's been a while since China had to protect its currency from negative pressure, and it's in reuters because it's a clear market signal. However a softening economy isn't unusual generally, just a first in decades for China.

It's as much a sign that as a country they're maturing past the developing country growth wave they've been on, and hitting the cycles that developed nations need to manage. Couple that with a trade war with the US slowing down key parts of the economy and it's notable but not surprising.

Those predicting a wholesale economic collapse will however be just as disappointed as they were 12months ago when predicting a real estate lead crash.

Not that I have ever seen. Very common in the US though.

Fairly standard central bank activity, nothing unusual in and of itself.

Russia also targets civilians, hospitals and pizzerias, there is no safe place in Ukraine.

You can have secureboot on mint. On mobile but I'll search up a link when at desk. It's not terribly hard given Mint is derived from Ubuntu. Should come up in a search if you're impatient

Ok but that reddit mod (it was /r/Linux right ? ) was eventually booted for being an utter arse and I'm 98% sure he didnt run Arch (he had a foss purism thing going and iirc was on debian)

I mean toxicity at reddit is why most of us are now on lemmy right ?

Well I watched the first one. So a TISM knock off band about bogans as opposed to social satire. I've heard worse I guess

don't know if you're aware, but we had our arses handed to us at the Eureka stockade. Anyone who didn't die was hung.

That is utterly untrue. Nobody was hung, they were acquitted. And while they certainly lost the shooting part when they ran out of ammo, they won public opinion and legal changes ( unfair/unjust treatment and taxes was the core issue)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_Rebellion

"The fighting left at least 27 dead and many injured, most of the casualties being rebels"

"Open rebellion broke out on November 29, 1854, as a crowd of some 10,000 swore allegiance to the Eureka Flag."

"A group of 13 captured rebels (not including Lalor, who was in hiding) was put on trial for high treason in Melbourne, but mass public support led to their acquittal."

Noting of the 10,000, only a thousand fronted to fight, and half those deserted to go get drunk during the night

"After the oath swearing ceremony, about 1,000 rebels marched in double file from Bakery Hill to the Eureka"

"Lalor was in charge, but large numbers of the men were constantly going out of the Stockade, and as the majority got drunk, they never came back ... The 500 or 600 from Creswick had nothing to eat, and they, too, went down to the Main Road that night ... Lalor seeing that none would be left if things went on, he gave orders to shoot any man who left."

The actually fighting force was a few hundred in the end.

They did reasonably well until they ran out of ammo given they picked a really shit spot

"For at least 10 minutes, the rebels offered stiff resistance, with ranged fire coming from the Eureka Stockade garrison such that Thomas's best formation, the 40th regiment, wavered and had to be rallied. Blake says this is "stark evidence of the effectiveness of the defender's fire."

Once they ran out of ammo they were quickly over run

You guys eventually won,

Who ? Are you calling me a seppo ? I'm an Aussie mate.

whereas we were trapped into eternal service to the crown, which we still for some reason don't want to step away from.

So campaign for a republic, Johnny Howard may have managed to kick the can down the road but nobody likes wingnut, support is rising.

Time to take it back, they haven't had it very long.

Australia has their own version of that which has also been co-opted by the right.

Take back the Eureka Stockade flag and you have the equivalent

Thanks, appreciated.

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I assume you mean 1.35gb of network data per day ? As opposed to per minute / per second etc

I'm saying that if you make it illegal "lie" then they will say very little in case they are accused of lying.

Why the scare quotes around lie ? The word has a straight forward meaning which is already defined in House of Commons rules.i.e knowingly mislead.

It's not even "negligently mislead" where they say something they should have known was not true, but the much tougher test of proving they knew it wasn't true.

A ridiculously low bar, and yet you think even that is too high. Is this because you support politicians who have been shown regularly to knowingly mislead ?

The majority of parliament arrive carefully well prepared with facts. It's only a small number who deliberately lie, our former PM has been proved to be one of those.

The South African government is aligned to Russia and China despite the general population having strong ties with the West.It's all about the Chinese backhanders.

Corrupt leaders gunna do what corrupt leaders do.

would basically stop any politician from saying anything

So you're saying that it is impossible for a politician to speak without lying ?

I don't care who you normally vote for, would you mind sitting the next election out ? Preferably all the ones after that too.

Much bigger problem than 2 or 3