assaultpotato @ assaultpotato @sh.itjust.works

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Igor Shushko should not be trusted for OSINT. He has claimed repeatedly that the FSB was going to stage a coup, etc. since the beginning of the invasion. He also just makes stuff up pretty frequently.

He's in the "completely ignore" category in the OSINT community.

Revenue was up 4.5% and profit was up 10%... so they cranked up their margin, nice. Greedflation indeed.

Would love to see the same figures for Sobeys/Safeway and others, cause I swear their veg has doubled in price in 3 years.

Yeah, the US military has been built since WW2 explicitly with the intention of being able to fight in Europe and in the Pacific at the same time and win both.

Ukraine has basically just gotten ammunition + existing older US equipment, it's not like we're draining our military capabilities supporting them right now.

I honestly think it's the internet as a whole that's done that to us.

You used to be able to not know things, but now I'm expected to have encyclopedic knowledge of every factor going into any individual choice I make as though I've gotta min/max my life. I think the expectation that everyone needs to have an opinion on everything because "the information is available, just Google it!", combined with the fact that we have a limited rate of knowledge consumption and limited bandwidth has led to people just skimming information. Shortest path to having an "informed" opinion on every topic, because God forbid you don't know something online.

I think in order to increase our media literacy we must return to partial ignorance.

Wait did beehaw fall off? I have two accounts, one here and one on beehaw. I actually made my sh.itjust.works account because beehaw defederated from some instances with communities I wanted to keep and now I use both semi regularly. Mostly lurk though.

Loving that the only dude who posted valid legal precedent in the same jurisdiction is getting down voted.

And then Lemmy users will complain how ass Reddit is for exactly this lmao.

I use ps -aux | grep $EXECUTABLE

Military aid packages are typically reported in USD ("10 billion in military aid") but usually involve the direct transference of equipment (logistical or frontline) to the foreign country. Usually those countries are existing allies of the US (or at least friendly) and are probably already buying NATO/US gear.

I'm relatively confident that the US doesn't typically give USD earmarked for US manufactured weapons systems.

Wut? The US government doesn't pay other countries to buy US weapons. Those countries typically fund those purchases from their domestic defense budget. The US government just approves or denies the exports.

Exceptions are "military aid" which is case-dependent.

Are you under the impression that the US government pays those 100 countries to buy US made weapons? Or directly sells those weapons themselves?

"It's Brittany, bitch"

Can't relate tbh.

Because when the average person hears "the government owes x Billion Dollars" the assumption is "they will be handing over X billion in cash". It's like the Ukraine military support - people hear "3 billion USD in military aid for Ukraine" and think the US is handing over 3 billion dollars, not handing over about 3 billion worth of old soon-to-be-retired equipment.

Which makes conversations about government debt really fun. It's just a lack of understanding.

Yep. Work profile and apps are completely disparate, and it's actually kind of tough to transfer any data across the boundary even if you wanted to. Any time I need to send a picture to my work Slack I have to remind myself to use the work profile camera app.

It's the same tech that powers the Secure Folder thing in Android devices. My older S8 was on Android 8 or 9 and still had this functionality, so I'm not sure how old you'd have to go to have a less secure setup.

I think this mastodon post is inaccurate.

Zizek is based as fuck, even if you don't agree with everything he says his books are really good

I think it's because the meme itself is the wrong way to try to make that argument. Instead of just saying "the US has 22% of the world's aggregate prisoner population and that's a problem", it's making that argument by directly comparing it to a MUCH WORSE regime for that exact violation of rights.

The whataboutisms tend to be bristling at the bad comparisons more than a direct refutation of the underlying point being made. I think complaining about the whataboutisms misses the point of those replies, which is valid.

As the other poster said, why not compare with Scandinavian countries that genuinely do have better justice systems rather than comparing with USSR or CCP which have much worse justice systems?

Based reality

Our ROI in terms of $/patient outcome is insanely bad lol

Yea the US could sacrifice zero dollars in defense budget and still provide adequate service to the population. Healthcare is cheaper when it's not being profiteered by insurance middlemen, and private companies pricing is really hard to influence directly without something like a price fixing lawsuit.

But hey gotta maintain the "democrats are just as bad" image.

These are the "right by accident" people that make it so hard to have meaningful discussions.

You're absolutely correct and we shouldn't ignore genuine acts of antisemitism just because Israel's government is doing terrible things.

That's not true. Tankies love to shit on the US for "meddling" in Africa when a lot of the time its providing funding and weapons for regimes where the opponents are funded by Russia/Wagner/China. Depending on which way the wind blows, the US is either "overthrowing a legitimate regime" or "restoring the democratic process".

It's a no win. Africa is too weak to stabilize by itself after centuries of meddling, and if the US goes hands-off, Russia and China will just economically enslave them via predatory loans, like how neoliberal policies economically enslaved South/Central America to the US. I'd trust the US installed people for their own populace over Chinese/Russia installed people, given the respective human rights records of all involved.

Anyways, while 2003 onwards was a huge fuck up and absolutely abhorrent, Desert Shield/Storm was incredibly justified defending an ally under armed occupation and still gets shit on by Tankies.

One man's humanitarian mission to shut down a warlord is another man's mission to overthrow a regime and install US-friendly government.

You're batting 1 for 4 in sentences there bud.

How the fuck does cheating compare to violence?

Where did I say that?

If women incels talk shit and men incels shoot people, one is clearly worse than the other.

Yeah I agree, but that doesn't mean that either are relevant to the conversation.

I have no stats to back this up because I’m not terribly interested in this topic

Your apathy is apparent.

However, I do defend my position that men are more likely to commit violence based on my own passive observations of news articles / headlines.

Correct, men are more likely to commit acts of violence. Would love to know where I disagreed with this.

Let me give you a quick recap of the thread so far:

1. "incel" was invented by a woman for herself
2. it's safer to say negative things about men
3. men commit more acts of violence, so that's fair
4. those two things (2 and 3) are unrelated, I can cherry pick some immoral statistic where women are worse than men, so using "immorality" as an argument is not material to the discussion
5. yeah but men commit more violence. Also, I don't care about this at all which is why I instantly became disrespectful and started swearing.

You see the problem here? Black people in the US commit more acts of violence than white people in the US. That doesn't mean we should use that as justification for being needlessly derogatory towards Black people. Also, you should probably reflect on that whole "I don't care about this" thing. Have a good one, I'm muting replies.